Taking the 20,000 foot view on my class A confession: I found myself, in one dark and gloomy moment of the semester, completely fixated on the size of… Posted on: April 19, 2018 By: Barbara With: 3 Comments
El Proyecto Personal: Creating Conversations, Taking Risks, Learning to Prepare for the World Outside the Classroom Each semester I am amazed (and also a little bit terrified) by the personal projects my students choose to define and pursue in… Posted on: July 7, 2015 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Notes I jotted to myself at the end of the term Somewhere in the post surgery end of semester haze, I jotted down some notes to myself about things I… Posted on: June 28, 2013 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Let’s go bowling! The purpose of education, in particular higher education, is to teach creative, intelligent, thoughtful, capable people the skills needed to… Posted on: April 8, 2013 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Cooking with Drag Queens: Teaching Inclusion and Discovering the Limits of the Spanish Language One of the reasons I love to teach is that I get to learn. Be it from my students or… Posted on: March 18, 2013 By: Barbara With: 1 Comment
Tune Up and a Smack down (part 2): The gringa returns to Bogotá Last summer I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel back in time. Okay not really, but in many ways… Posted on: February 4, 2013 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
A tune-up and a smack-down: The gringa returns to Bogotá Readers of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled "Teaching What You Thought You Knew," in… Posted on: August 8, 2012 By: Barbara
Rethinking the role of the language textbook This semester I am teaching the second semester, second year language class for Spanish. You know the class... the… Posted on: August 7, 2012 By: Barbara With: 4 Comments
Our WordPress Class Blogging Tool: Now Yours Too For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good fortune to work with creative and talented people… Posted on: April 26, 2012 By: Barbara With: 4 Comments
A few shout outs and a woof Before the semester comes to a crashing halt, and we all go off to hibernate for a while, I wanted… Posted on: December 14, 2011 By: Barbara