Oct 22, 2019 | Engaging Education, Susan Gleason
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – November 9, 1989 (Pt. 3) On another visit to Berlin, I stood at the Berlin Wall, along with others, chiseling away and collecting souvenirs of what amounted to chunks of mortar with gravel and splashes of paint. Did...
Sep 28, 2019 | Engaging Education, Susan Gleason
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Pt. 2 – November 9, 1989 Even though the Berlin Wall was open, the situation in East Berlin was still extremely tense. Shortly after the Berlin Wall was opened, I visited friends in East Berlin for an extended weekend,...
Sep 10, 2019 | Engaging Education, Susan Gleason
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – November 9, 1989 I was working as an interpreter and translator in Cologne, West Germany, when the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago. On November 9, 1989, I was waiting at a stoplight, two blocks from my apartment. ...
Nov 5, 2018 | Diana Lamolinara, Engaging Education
Some Fascinating Tidbits of Information about Spanish-Speaking Countries Projects are one way to teach culture and language in the foreign language classroom. In my Spanish 1 class, students had to do a Spanish-speaking country wiki project, and one of the things they...
Aug 10, 2018 | Engaging Education, Tom Khazoyan
Telling A Story With Sound – A Student Project A famous film director once said that “…70% of a film is sound.” I don’t know that we can put a number on it, but one of the most important lessons beginning filmmakers can learn is the importance of high quality...
