BARBARA SAWHILL

Barbara Sawhill is the Director of the Cooper International Learning Center as well as a Lecturer in the Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. Prior to Oberlin she was a Spanish teacher at the Noble and Greenough School (Dedham, MA ), the Belmont Hill School (Belmont, MA) as well as an ESL instructor at the Tabor Academy Summer Program (Marion, MA)

She co-writes a blog and produces podcasts (skypecasts) related to language-learning, teaching and technology at Language Lab Unleashed!

She teaches with blogs in her Spanish conversation class at Oberlin College.  Those blogs can be viewed here

She also trains  faculty in the use of blogs in (and out!) of the classroom.  Examples of those blogs can be seen here

Barbara also runs a not-for-profit organization that assists and trains other not for profits (many of which work in the field of education) in the use of social software for networking, collaboration, and communication called IdeasUnleashed!

BARBARA GANLEY

Barbara has been a Lecturer in the Writing Program and English Department at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA since 1989. She teaches undergraduate courses in creative writing, composition, arts writing, and contemporary Ireland literature and film. An active implementer of new media and Web 2.0 technologies into college literature and writing classrooms since 2001, her special interests include the multimedia essay as a means of academic discourse and social software as a vehicle for personal expression, community-building, and student-centered learning. Since 2004 she has kept a professional blog to explore the pedagogical, philosophical and theoretical underpinnings to the emergent learning outcomes in her uses of digital and communication technologies in the classroom. Barbara has written and presented widely about the impact of social software and multimedia authoring on education, and she sits on boards and advises educational organizations on 21st century teaching and learning. You can find her blogging at bgblogging.