Teaching outside of the textbook and inside of the museum The lesson: Understand how to form and use comparisons of equality and comparisons of inequality. Figure out the superlative and… Posted on: December 8, 2009 By: Barbara With: 8 Comments
Digital Storytelling and Language Learning Just a note to sing the praises of two wonderful and simple tools for digital storytelling and to explain how… Posted on: November 30, 2009 By: Barbara With: 4 Comments
Blogging their scholarship In our shop we have WordPress MU installed and available for anyone (in the languages and elsewhere) who would like… Posted on: November 29, 2009 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Why I teach. My job is a language center director first and foremost, but the opportunity to teach language classes gives me a… Posted on: October 18, 2009 By: Barbara With: 2 Comments
Professional development: Simple, small-scale, and cost-effective As I mentioned here, I am a center director first and a teacher second. As a center director I teach… Posted on: November 4, 2009 By: Barbara With: 2 Comments
Teaching Transparently: Scuba diving in 2nd year college Spanish www.flickr.com This fall we had an overabundance of enrollments in the first semester of 2nd year Spanish class. And with… Posted on: October 18, 2009 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Ending the semester, Lessons Learned (Part 4: Assessment) I have thought a lot about HISP 205 since the semester ended last May. I think (often) about how I… Posted on: July 26, 2009 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 3) Lesson #3: Marc Prensky got it all wrong Marc Prensky's famous and yet false binary that says our students are… Posted on: June 23, 2009 By: Barbara With: 3 Comments
Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 2) Lesson # 2: It's not about you: actually, it's always been about them I believe that before you apply any… Posted on: June 23, 2009 By: Barbara With: 0 Comments
Ending the semester, lessons learned (Part 1) … (of what will be many) I am laying far too wide awake here in timezone limbo in my hotel room at the nmc conference (with… Posted on: June 12, 2009 By: Barbara With: 3 Comments