Plugs, Play, Pedagogy

Episodes

1. 12

   Episode 12: Video Didn't Kill the Composition Student

   Composition classes are getting increasingly multimodal. You can't avoid it--and why would you want to? Visuals, sounds, videos--all are modes of composing that match up with the rhetorical principles we use when teaching alphabetic writing. In this episode, co-edited with John Silvestro of Miami...

   Jan 7, 2016

   1h 02m
2. 11

   Episode 11: Composing Creatively

   Many of us have feet in both the rhetoric/composition community and the creative writing community. To figure out why that is and what we can do about it, I focused this episode around the new book Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction. First you'll hear an...

   Sep 30, 2015

   40m
3. 10

   Episode 10: Exploring the Past

   So I made a thing. An audio thing. An audio thing that I wanted to make and loved making, all about history and spaces and the line between being creepy or not creepy--but I was worried that it didn't have much to do with pedagogy. And this is a show about pedagogy. So I did what any sensible...

   Jul 30, 2015

   1h 04m
4. 9

   Episode 9: Podcasting with Students

   We all know that composition classes are becoming increasingly multimodal. One way teacher/scholars have responded to that turn is by asking students to compose in the serial audio format of podcasting. This is a practical episode, with lots of ideas. First we'll hear about Faith Kurtyka's…

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   Jun 13, 2015

   56m
5. 8

   Episode 8: Looking into the Fish Tank: Tiny Encounters at CCCC

   At the 2015 meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), I stuck a mic in people's faces and asked them what they care about. The answers included ideas about specific groups outside our field that we should listen to, specific scholarly directions we could dig…

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   May 1, 2015

   36m
6. 5

   Teaching with the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives

   The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives collects stories of literacy and makes them available online to scholars, students, and anyone else who wants to listen in. To learn more about the DALN, we'll hear in this episode from Cynthia Selfe, one of the DALN's founders; Scott Lloyd DeWitt and…

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   Mar 14, 2015

   47m
7. 4

   Locations of Writing

   In the September 2014 issue of _College Composition and Communication_, editor Kathleen Blake Yancey opened a special issue on locations of writing with ten vignettes--short reflective pieces where authors considered the meanings of the places where they write and teach. Four of those vignettes…

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   Feb 1, 2015

   38m
8. 3

   Grumble, Grumble: The Pitfalls of Gaming Pedagogy

   This is the second in a two-part series of episodes on how games intersect with pedagogies of writing and rhetoric. Its special focus is on the complexities of gaming pedagogies, especially the resistance we can expect from students and gaming communities, the social/political/material realities…

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   Dec 22, 2014

   1h 05m
9. 2

   A New Hope for Games in the Classroom

   This episode's co-editor Stephanie Vie and I went on a quest to learn about the creative ways that teachers of writing and rhetoric are using games in the classroom. We found ourselves discussing gaming identity and how games can intersect the work we do in *any* class, and we got lots and lots…

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   Nov 30, 2014

   52m
10. 1

    Using Creative Commons to Make Stuff

    I went searching online for teaching-related content that you would want to hear--and I fell into a rabbit hole of ideas about copyright, the public domain, and Creative Commons. On this episode, you'll hear a brief introduction to copyright in the U.S.; a narrative of me dealing with complicated...

    Oct 20, 2014

    44m