ISU Writing

ISU Writing

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ISU Writing episodes

  • Beyond 101 – Fall 2017 – Episode 7: Greek Life Pt. 1
    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!
    29 min
  • Let’s CHAT – Fall 2017 – Episode 18: Pairing Multimodality and Multimedia with Translingualism and Cultural Approaches to Literate Practices
    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.
    22 min
  • Beyond 101 – Spring 2017 – Episode 6: Alternative Breaks
    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 →
    39 min
  • Beyond 101 – Fall 2016 – Episode 5: Resident Assistants
    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 →
    31 min
  • Let’s CHAT – Spring 2017 – Episode 17: Transnational Genres Pt. 2
    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 →
    25 min
  • Let’s CHAT – Spring 2017 – Episode 16: Transnational Genres Pt. 1
    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 →
    32 min
  • Let’s CHAT – Spring 2017 – Episode 15: The MA Edition
    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.
    21 min
  • Let’s CHAT – Fall 2016 – Episode 14: Navigating Translingual and Transcultural Writing
    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”.
    30 min
  • Let’s CHAT – Fall 2016 – Episode 13: Peer Assessment
    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.
    18 min
  • Beyond 101 – Spring 2016 – Episode 4: Food Writing
    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 →
    30 min

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ISU Writing features three podcast series from the Writing Program at Illinois State University, “Let’s CHAT,” and “Beyond 101,” and "ENG 145 Podcast for Instructors."