Gestures for Remembering

When you are trying to learn something, it helps to use gestures for key words to help you remember. In this video, beginning ESL students use gestures to remember "Fog" by Carl Sandburg.

Bouldin Oaks Class Is Growing!

Good Things Come in Small Packages

Introducing my Bouldin Oaks beginning ESL students — all of them! This is the smallest class I've ever had, but what they lack in number, they make up in dedication and determination to learn English.

Civil Rights Protest Songs of the 1950s and 1960s

Selma-to-Montgomery Alabama March:
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march#

We Shall Not Be Moved

10 Best Civil Rights Protest Songs

US Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s

The 1960s in the US were years marked by protest against the unfair and cruel treatment of black Americans by the white establishment. These were times of civil disobedience, sit-ins, stand-ins, and unthinkable police brutality. This video was made as a class project by two high school students. I think they did a great job. We are not yet a perfect society, but we have made progress.

EVC class

Here's most of the Saturday Eastview Campus class.
What a beautiful group of people!

ACC Library Orientation

The Saturday advanced class enjoyed an orientation to the Eastview Library today.

Librarian Steve Self gave a thorough orientation to searching for materials in the library (http://library.austincc.edu) followed by a hands-on visit.