Fireside Stories Podcast Series

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Fireside Stories is a documentation of the work which members of the Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing (CAMPP) produced at the end of a three year cycle in the ASSETT Innovation Incubator at the University of Colorado, Boulder. CAMPP’s mission promoted faculty and student curation, cultivation, co-creation, and publication of knowledge. Under this umbrella, members developed and published various projects that meet academic standards and are open and accessible to the community at large. These audio recordings contain first hand accounts from CAMPP and its project partners about their experiences throughout this period of development.


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In this episode, we will hear from Nicole Jobin and Suzanne Magnanini on their projects involving student contribution to sustainable education resources. Nicole Jobin is a Teaching Associate Professor (Senior Instructor) at CU Boulder’s Stories and Societies Residential Academic program (SRAP), with over 20 years of teaching experience and particular expertise in first-year education. She teaches European history courses for both SRAP and the Department of History and is passionate about making the past come alive through access to documents, artifacts, and archives that encourage students to make meaning of the past and their present. A CU Boulder 2021 Open Educator Award winner, she is also a participant in the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Initiative as a member of the Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing (CAMPP). Suzanne Magnanini is an Associate Professor and President’s Teaching Scholar in the Department of French and Italian at CU Boulder. As a member of CAMPP, Suzanne has been experimenting with experiential learning and student publishing in her classroom, in part by building a Digital Annotated Bibliography of the exceptional fairy tale holdings in Norlin Library’s Special Collections. This work has been conducted in collaboration with Librarian Sean Babbs, graduate students in French, an undergraduate research team supported by UROP, and students enrolled in her classes.


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In this episode, we will hear from Rachael Deagman Simonetta and Melanie Lo on Their work on the Shakespeare CoLab, an open online database of fully annotated Shakespearian texts. Dr. Melanie Lo is a cofounder and former Pedagogy Director of the Shakespeare CoLab. She received her PhD from the Department of English at CU Boulder, where she subsequently served as an instructor teaching literature, writing, and gender studies. Dr. Lo currently works as a curriculum developer and higher-ed learning design specialist for Wix.com. Rachael Deagman Simonetta is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Division of Continuing Education at CU Boulder. She oversees the Shakespeare CoLab: a digital learning environment for Shakespeare Studies.


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In this episode, we hear from Jay Ellis and Charlotte Whitney on Their work on student-run creative nonfiction literary journal, Hindsight. Jay Ellis is the Program for Writing and Rhetoric’s Faculty Advisor for Hindsight Creative Nonfiction, and the forthcoming new title from the Journal staff, Changing Skies: Writing on the Climate Crisis. Charlotte Whitney is a sophomore studying English Literature with minors in Political Science and German. She’s been on the staff of Hindsight since Spring of 2021 and is this semester’s Editor in Chief.

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In this episode, we will hear from Blair Young and Alexis Harris on Their work throughout CAMPP, Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing. Blair Young is ASSETT’s Innovation Catalyst. As the Catalyst, Blair guides the development of our emergent Innovation Incubator — a safe, resourced space where the College of Arts & Sciences community can grow their active learning ideas. Alexis Harris is currently a senior at CU Boulder. She is majoring in English Literature, while also getting a Secondary Education Licensure and a Minor in Creative Technology and Design. Alexis has been an intern with CAMPP since its inception.

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On this episode, we will hear from Amanda McAndrew and Sara Myers on The impact that open educational resources and the work of CAMPP can have and has had on students and communities. Amanda McAndrew is the faculty services portfolio manager for ASSETT, Arts and Sciences Support of Education through Technology. Her approach to teaching and learning is firmly grounded in critical digital pedagogy, open education, and learner-centered theories and practices. She considers herself a teacher first and then a technologist. As an instructional designer and technologist at a large university, she has learned the importance of developing interdisciplinary faculty learning communities. Providing the right tools and building comfortable environments, both face-to-face and online, creates strong social learning opportunities and connections that allow true innovative thinking to happen. Sara Myers is a former ASSETT Graduate Assistant and Teaching, Learning, and Technology Initiatives Coordinator. She received an MA in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is now the Digital Learning Manager for History Colorado.

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In this episode we hear from Amanda McAndrew and Caroline Sinkinson on Projects on open educational resources about Authentic and Alternative assessments, with emphasis on the concept of open pedagogy. Amanda McAndrew is the faculty services portfolio manager for ASSETT, Arts and Sciences Support of Education through Technology. Her approach to teaching and learning is firmly grounded in critical digital pedagogy, open education, and learner-centered theories and practices. She considers herself a teacher first and then a technologist. As an instructional designer and technologist at a large university, she has learned the importance of developing interdisciplinary faculty learning communities. Providing the right tools and building comfortable environments, both face-to-face and online, creates strong social learning opportunities and connections that allow true innovative thinking to happen. Associate Professor Caroline Sinkinson is the head of the Learning & Engagement Team at the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. She is responsible for leading the Learning & Engagement Team in the design and implementation of opportunities that invite student learning, literacies, and engagement. In collaboration with fellow teaching librarians and campus partners, the Learning & Engagement Team sparks exploration of pedagogy, information literacy, and learner agency to build a participatory and holistic community of learning.

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Fireside Stories Interviewers

Olivia Maresse was a graduate assistant with ASSETT in the 2021-2022 academic year as the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Initiatives Coordinator. She received her PhD rom the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder and now turns linguistic research findings into actionable insights for companies, whether that is data curation for automatic speech recognition, localization and translation of user commands, or chatbot design.

Catherine Garvin

Catherine Garvin was a student intern with the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing (CAMPP) Team in the 2021-2022 academic year. Catherine is a senior majoring in English and minoring in Religious Students. She enjoys playing video games, reading, and trivia. Catherine hopes to go on to learn about library science and have a career as a librarian. One of her biggest passions is making literature and education more accessible to everyone.