This is Writing: Episode 1

This Is Writing: Episode 2

This episode answers the question "Why FYE?" for our faculty. Joan Wong, Kirsten Hilbert, and Jolie Goorjian join to discuss the efforts to integrate and emphasize the First Year Experience aspects of our writing courses.

This Is Writing: Episode 4

Listen to the newest episode of This is Writing, where John and Jennifer talk to Amy Latham and Tyler Lacy, two instructors who are teaching the new Grab n' Go curriculum for ENG 216 (previously 214). Learn about the struggles and successes of topic choice, common readings, and more!

This Is Writing, Season 2, Episode 1: The Beast

Description:

For the last episode of the semester, John and Jennifer talk to Andrea Schriner Kellogg about some big picture stuff, including reflective writing, personal narratives, students' voices, the overall arc and pathway of our classes. Also covered, a gem from Andrea: "the quality of my presence" as a teacher and how much it matters.

Timestamps:

01:03: Listening to your students
02:00: Students’ autonomy, big picture questions
09:40: Students erasing themselves
10:31: Spitting out reflections without reflecting
11:20: Making space for student reflections
13:50: Less traumatic entry to college writing
15:00: Assessment and gatekeeping
17:40: Transfer
18:50: Working with a book, Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
20:17: Course pathways and arcs
23:15: Teachers’ influence on attrition

Link to Resources (Halbritter and Lindquist, etc.): https://sfsu.app.box.com/s/l2yy9ljpj1rxnjpgo4wvbb937gfnmh7z

Link to transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k0jNp4xKIYzWuWD-kHLrkc7FJwzRiCVCAMW5W5tfXX0/edit?usp=sharing

This Is Writing: The Last Word

And we’re so excited to launch our second year of this podcast series by talking about the role of reading in our new curriculum.  We’re happy to welcome Sugie Goen-Salter who will be talking with us about digital annotation, Martha Rusk who will talk about how peer response becomes an act of reading in Eli Review and Dan Curtis-Cummins discussing reading in his stretch course and its connection to students’ identity and success.

Year Two Podcast 7

Bridget Gelms and Taylor Fredericks join Jennifer Trainor and John Holland as we focus on our Remix Project. We will try to make the case that writing is multimodal, In other words, we’ll argue that writing involves design thinking -- images, fonts, graphs and charts -- as well as words, sentences and paragraphs.

Podcast 8 Multimodal Design Thinking

Podcast 9 Absolute Hospitality

We can’t just migrate our f2f practices to Zoom. Once we go online, our pedagogies are transformed. What have we learned / how have we changed in ways that will stay with us?

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