HOSTS: Maddi Kartcheske and Colleen Keefe

In this special two-part episode, Maddi Kartcheske and Colleen Keefe interview executive board members of three different sororities/fraternities to discover some of the unseen writing practices that are crucial to Greek Life. The first episode deals with the day-to-day activities of two established chapters, and the bonus episode looks at the writing that goes into colonizing a brand-new chapter!

HOST: Cristina Sánchez-Martín

In this episode, writing instructor Courtney Cox and consultant Demet Yigitbilek talk about how learning outcomes 7 (multimodality and multimedia) and 8 (translingualism and cultural approaches to literate practices) come together in their teaching and consulting sessions. Their unique insights into their own pedagogical practices come from a realization of their own identities as literate individuals in transnational and domestic spaces.

HOSTS: Maddi Kartcheske and Mackenzie Flowers

In this episode Maddie and Mackenzie will sit down with two group leaders from the ISU Alternative Breaks program to learn more about this fun program at ISU that provides opportunities to volunteer and lead community service projects over winter and spring breaks. Read More →

HOSTS: Maddi Kartcheske and Mackenzie Flowers

In this episode Maddie and Mackenzie will sit down with two group leaders from the ISU Alternative Breaks program to learn more about this fun program at ISU that provides opportunities to volunteer and lead community service projects over winter and spring breaks. Read More →

HOST: Cristina Sánchez-Martín

In the second part of the transnational genres series, writing instructors and MA students Su Yin Khor and Karlie Rodriguez tell us about their boundary-crossing genre knowledge and how this might become handy in different studenting and teaching contexts, from Sweden and Puerto Rico to the U.S. Read More →

HOST: Cristina Sánchez-Martín

In the first part of the transnational genres series, writing instructors and PhD students Reda Mohammed, Claudia Sánchez and Hannah Kroonblawd talk about how they utilize their knowledge on writing practices in Egypt, Spain, Ireland and China as they move across different situations. Read More →

HOSTS: Cristina Sánchez-Martín & Shane Combs

In this episode, Karishma Verma and Andrew Del Mastro discuss their experiences moving across the stages of being ENG 101 students, ENG 101 consultants and ENG 101 instructors in our Writing Program. While reflecting on their learning of how to transform their knowledge, they offer practical advice to other MA students who will be writing consults and instructors.

HOST: Cristina Sánchez-Martín

In this episode, Wesley Jacques and Bailey Craig engage in a conversation about how they, as users of mainstream varieties of English, navigate translingual and transcultural genres. As an ENG 101 student, Bailey also discusses some of the ideas she has been taking up in her class and asks Wesley questions pertaining his article “The E-Cat’s Meow: Exploring Activity in Translingual Mobile Gaming”.

HOST: Cristina Sánchez-Martín

In this episode of Let’s CHAT, our guests Danielle Sutton and Jillian Merrifield share peer-assessment activities from their ENG 101 courses. Instructors will better understand what integrating peer-assessment in their course plans entails. Finally, Danielle and Jillian discuss how Learning Outcome 2 (Peer and Self-Assessment: Learning to Assess What’s Working and What Isn’t Working) relates to other Learning Outcomes.

HOSTS: Nathan Schmidt and Annie Hackett

In this food packed episode, our hosts, Annie and Nathan, learn what makes a perfect calzone with the owner of D.P. Dough in uptown Normal, and gain some behind-the-griddle perspectives with the freshman hiring manager of Watterson Dining Center. Read More →