Schedule

Quick Look

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Deep Dive (content in-progress)

9:30-9:45 Sign-In

Prior registration is not required for attendees, but please include time to sign-in and orient yourself to the venue before the welcome begins.

Presenters can check-in and meet up with their roundtable colleagues in the Banquet Hall.

9:45-10:00 Welcome & Introductions

The symposium will be called to begin at the Technology Square Research Building Auditorium. Co-chairs Jill Fennell and Eric A. Lewis will welcome attendees and introduce participants.

10:00-10:30 Keynote, Mo Ivory

Mo Ivory of Georgia State University will deliver her keynote address.

“Podcasts: A Tool for Entertainment and Education”

11:15-12:00 Roundtable 3 | Podcasting Start-Up: Technology, Pre-Requisites, & Accessibility

Jill Fennell, “Documentation Podcasts Need”
Fennell will discuss some documentation podcasters should create in the process of starting a podcast such as charters and consent and release forms. She will also note how these resources document the creating process.

Charlie Bennett, “Skills You’ll Wish You Learned Before Starting Your Podcast”
What does producing a podcast on a regular schedule force you to learn? Interview skills, show production, microphone discipline, and sound design, to name a few.

Brian Reiff-Amsden, “Helping Podcasting Students Fail Fast and Often”

Eric A. Lewis, “”Effective Podcast Planning”

Molly Slavin, “Using Podcasts as a Way to Teach Note-Taking in the College Classroom”

Ryan Weber, “Creating a Sustainable Podcast”

2:00-2:45 Roundtable 2 | Podcasting Identity: Understanding Identity in the Podcasting Community & Beyond

Emani Rashad Saucier, “The Power of ‘I Don’t Know'”
The More Conversations Podcast is centered around student conversations with subject matter experts. The idea is that the student will aim to learn something while guiding the conversation, allowing for other students and the general audience to learn as well. I believe that being open to new information and willing to change opinions based on new intel is key to intellectual growth. We must learn to admit when we’re not knowledgeable.

Calvin Bell III, “Podcasting During an Age of Gen-Z Movements”

Kelly Vines, “Community, Culture, and Crayfish”

3:30-4:15 Roundtable 3 | Podcasting Pedagogy: Teaching Podcasting in the Classroom

Joseph W. Robertshaw, “Made With More Than Words”
Robertshaw will talk about weaving accessibility, richness, and excellence into the fabric of society through podcasting.  I am recasting podcasting as an outlet of rhetorical agency, a venue for activism, and even an income stream for the lucky (or talented) few. 

J. Laurence Cohen, “Podcasting and Hyper Particularity”

Eric Detweiler, “Breaking the Ira Glass Ceiling: Character, Voice, and Inclusivity in Podcasting Assignments”
Detweiler will discuss the importance of and strategies for getting beyond narrow approaches to genre and voice in podcasting assignments, emphasizing how attention to character can support such work.

David Morgen, “Rhetorical Situation: Podcasting in the First-Year Writing Classroom”
I assign podcasting to students to get them to think differently about their own rhetorical situations.

Kevin Lucas, “Balancing Course Content with Skill Development”
Augusta University has reimagined its Humanities Program to combine traditional inquiry with twenty-first century skills. In the sections I piloted, students produced semester-long collaborative podcasts rather than writing academic essays. In this talk, I will discuss how my approach to balancing humanistic learning with skill development evolved over two academic years.