ACTFL recognizes the members of the foreign language education community who were killed at Virginia Tech The Board of Directors, members and staff of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) join the… Posted on: April 19, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
More news from the classroom My students have begun their final 4 weeks of the term, and with that comes the choice of a final… Posted on: April 18, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
New tools for finding Skype partners In addition to Todd Bryant's brilliant Mixxer tool, there are some new (okay well new to me) additions to the… Posted on: April 17, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
LLU #19: the Great Wikipedia Debate (podcast now available!) Middlebury College's Department of History made headlines at the end of January when they announced a ban on the use… Posted on: April 1, 2007 By: Ryan Brazell With: 4 Comments
Motivation, Social Mapping, and more The world may or may not be flat ... but from my perspective it's becoming very small, very quickly. A… Posted on: March 26, 2007 By: Ryan Brazell With: 2 Comments
"did -you- have anything to do with this?" www.flickr.com Each of my students this semester has been asked to think about a final project that they would like… Posted on: March 23, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Teaching cultural literacies with social software Making my way through the dozens of emails I get in a day (GeekyMom you win...I think if I got… Posted on: March 22, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Even the New York Times Ethicist (Randy Cohen) gets it… An interesting post in the Ethicist Column from the March 11 2007 Sunday Times magazine section (yes I know it… Posted on: March 15, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 6 Comments
Social Software '08 Howard Dean showed during his '04 presidential campaign just how much influence grassroots networking can have on national politics, and… Posted on: March 14, 2007 By: Ryan Brazell With: 5 Comments
What's wrong with this picture? This foto was taken at a lovely bookstore/cafĂ© in Denver...lots of books, lots of comfy chairs where one could get… Posted on: March 10, 2007 By: bsawhill With: 5 Comments