This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Open Educational Resources   LLU is a big fan of the creative work that happens at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT) at The University of Mary Washington.  So much so in fact that in a matter of days one of us here...

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Open Educational Resources   LLU is a big fan of the creative work that happens at the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT) at The University of Mary Washington.  So much so in fact that in a matter of days one of us here...

Like I said before, I love a challenge, and after my last post here it was: @sfern If you can find one of dancing Yaz, I can git-r-dun 🙂 — Barbara Sawhill (@BSawhill) March 29, 2013 So thanks to Ryan, I was gifted (heh) a lovely animated image of Carl Yastrzemski doing (something close to a) dance.  Add to the...

Like I said before, I love a challenge, and after my last post here it was: @sfern If you can find one of dancing Yaz, I can git-r-dun — Barbara Sawhill (@BSawhill) March 29, 2013 So thanks to Ryan, I was gifted (heh) a lovely animated image of Carl Yastrzemski doing (something close to a) dance.  Add to the mix...

  Opening Day at Fenway Park is almost here!  Even the Bava is dancing with joy! Here is a link to  John Johnston’s ds106 assignment that I followed.  While I should have been commenting on my students’ blogs,  ever the procrastinatrix, I spent an hour or so with Ryan‘s encouragement via Google Hangout  (read: “Be patient!” “No, don’t...

  Opening Day at Fenway Park is almost here!  Even the Bava is dancing with joy! Here is a link to  John Johnston’s ds106 assignment that I followed.  While I should have been commenting on my students’ blogs,  ever the procrastinatrix, I spent an hour or so with Ryan‘s encouragement via Google Hangout  (read: “Be patient!” “No, don’t...

This entry is part 6 of 46 in the series Teaching TransparentlyReaders of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled “Teaching What You Thought You Knew,” in which I chronicled my struggles with the realization that I was teaching my students what I knew about Colombia, a place that  I had...

After four years of somehow not being able to find a way to get back to UMW’s Faculty Academy, I made the trek this past week with a colleague from work, Ma’ayan. Faculty Academy has had a huge warm spot in my heart…Prior to attending in 2008 I had never been to a meet up...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neb31/6604485775 It is that wonderful time at the end of the calendar year when businesses and schools are closed and family members are home, together.  Here at our house,  in between the Scrabble  board game smack downs and the Sudoku marathons, interspersed  between the hours of sleeping, cooking and eating, I have been trying to...

The semester has begun and now, three weeks into it, I feel as if I can finally catch my breath and get back to writing about teaching. I had tried, and flailed, to keep up with Jim Groom and his band of merry pranksters and the #ds106 online storytelling course. I did what I could...

This is what an afternoon of playing around with the ds106 jukebox has done to me, and my profile in YouTube. This is almost as messy as what our family’s Netflix queue (a veritable  mashup of Nazi Zombie movies, Showtime and HBO series and Spanish language films).

‘Twas a long week here at the ranch (can’t you tell by looking at the bags under Flaubert’s little eyes?)  but here (finally) is my self introduction as well as some stuff I am thinking about re: ds106 A confession: I -hate-watching myself on film. Gives me the creeps. And while yes I could have […]

‘Twas a long week here at the ranch (can’t you tell by looking at the bags under Flaubert’s little eyes?)  but here (finally) is my self introduction as well as some stuff I am thinking about re: ds106 A confession: … Continue reading →

It may seem odd, but one of my favorite movies is Memento(2000), the story of a man, Leonard, who has short term memory loss and how he sets out to avenge the murder of his wife. Leonard’s condition makes it impossible for him to hold on to information for long, so as he acquires information […]

For a week between Christmas and New Year’s the college where I work shuts down. Everyone is sent home (okay well almost everyone), the heat is turned down (okay well not in all of the buildings) and people are given an extra few days of paid vacation time to spend as they wish. My goals […]