Let's Talk Teaching @ Western Technical College

Join us for our conversation with Western's college president. Roger sat down with us to discuss Western's culture, his thoughts on education, past, present and future, and his plans on retirement.

Fayme Evenson is the new Learning Experience Designer, here at Western Technical College. This podcast take some time to get to know her personally and her thoughts on education and the role she hope to play.

This is a recap of the 2025 Ai4 Conference and some of the key takeaways from attending the conference with the focus on AI's impacts on education. Our guest this week are Josh Gamer, Associate Vp Workforce Partnerships & Innovation and Brianne Shane, Director Institutional Research.

AI is here, and it's changing everything in higher education. Cheater or tutor? Threat or opportunity? This podcast dives deep into the debates and practicalities of artificial intelligence in colleges. We'll uncover how AI is being used to personalize learning, develop critical thinking skills, and even reimagine assessment. Are we preparing students for the future, or are we risking the very foundations of education? Tune in to find out.

This is the second in a multi-part series using Notebook LM to generate podcast summaries.

Max Smith is the new Learning Experience Designer here at Western Technical College. This podcast take some time to get to know him personally and his thoughts on education.

This is an AI generate conversation with avatars from an app called NotebookLM. The topic of the conversation addresses the state of AI in education as summarized from a series of source articles referenced.

Jenny and Jordan are new faculty developers here at Western Technical Collage as of Fall of 2024. In this podcast we take some time to get to know them and their thoughts on education.

In this episode, Maria and Adam interview Western Instructors Cindy Prindle and Jennifer Stangl about their not-so-secret secret of classroom success: therapy dogs Murphy and Ruben. We learn about different types of working dogs, their handlers, how they can help in teaching and learning, and ask the important question: should all of us humans get trained to be therapy dogs too?

In this episode, we meet with two members of Western's Project Proven team, Colin Walsh and Dillon Mader. Project Proven is Western's initiative to offer classes to justice-involved people while they are in the La Crosse County jail. We learn the differences between jails and prisons, take a philosophical detour, and how classes work "inside".

You can find more information about Project Proven on Western's website and, as we learn in the episode, they also have really cool merch.

This podcast is a discussion with Cate Hollowitsch, an adjunct instructor at Western, Chief Marketing Officer, Author and Speaker. We discuss with her thoughts on teaching and the use of AI in the classroom and her profession. She presents practical application uses of Generative AI.