The CTL Podcast Network
Welcome to the CTL Podcast Network (formerly ASSETT), where we feature a variety of voices from the University of Colorado’s teaching and learning community. Here you can access mini-series focused on topics ranging from student success, to technology share outs, to insights from faculty, staff, and students for improving the undergraduate learning experience, and more.
Ongoing Podcasts
EMERGE Podcast Series
Brought to you by the CTL Innovation Incubator (formerly ASSETT), EMERGE shares insight from participants in the Innovation Incubator, including faculty, staff, and students faculty, staff, and student collaborations that improve the undergraduate learning experience in the college of arts & sciences. Learn about projects focused in metacognition and wellbeing, student success, multimodal participatory publishing, and inclusive data science that employ innovative uses of technology to get students engaged in active learning.
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Guest interviewer, Alexis Harris, a Junior majoring in English at the University of Colorado Boulder, talks with members of the Innovation Incubator CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) team to discuss how to design renewable, or non-disposable, assignments that make the intellectual labor of students visible. A focus of their conversation is on Open Educational Resources (OERs), a foundation of non-disposable assignments. They also provide examples of actual non-disposable assignments currently being implemented in the classroom at CU Boulder.
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In this podcast, members of the Student Success Innovation Incubator Team and undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder discuss their experiences with the Reacting to the Past (RTTP) pedagogy. RTTP is an active learning pedagogy of role-playing games designed for higher education. Learn about these role-playing games in the classroom, the benefits it could have for your students, and resources available for you though CU Boulder.
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In this podcast, members of the CTL Innovation Incubator discuss how metacognitive practices or “thinking about thinking” can increase student success. They share tested practices that are easy to implement in the classroom or for students to adopt independently or with a study partner.
A Buff's Life Podcast Series
A Buff’s Life wants to hear from the students! Our goal as a podcast is to talk with students about their experiences at the University of Colorado Boulder and discuss what has been successful and not so successful and what could be improved in their academic careers. Ultimately, we want to have an open discussion where students can express their opinions while also providing the wider CU Boulder community with insights into what being a college student is like!
Completed Podcasts
Student Tech Share Podcast Series
A student conversation on life-hacking tech. The STC’s Student Tech Share is an on-going, collaborative conversation with students across the CU campus about how technology can help them accomplish their goals. We discuss individual tech tools within a given category, methods of use, and how these technologies might be better applied on campus. We aim for these conversations to be honest and organic, so they are in large part completely unscripted.
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Discord…Hinge…Omegle? In a time when we’re forced to isolate, technology can provide us with opportunities to connect and form relationships. What makes apps are worth the download?
Tune in to hear an excerpt from a conversation we had with students on the CU Boulder campus on this very topic.
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As end-of-semester deadlines approach, we want to get as much as we can out of our study time. How can technology help us "work smarter?"
Tune in to hear an excerpt from a conversation we had with students on the CU Boulder campus on this very topic.
Fireside Stories Podcast Series
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 CTL 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 CTL 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 (formerly) 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 CTL 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 (former) 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.
Overloaded Podcast Series
In the Student Technology Consultant's (STC) Overloaded Mini-Series, Cameron Fragoso asks her fellow CU students how the transition to remote learning affected them physically, mentally, and emotionally during the pandemic, and how they’ve learned to compensate. How has the relationship between students and technology changed? Fragoso dives deep into finding out just how broad of an influence screen time has during remote learning at CU and gives students the platform to tell their stories and share their experiences.
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"I never suspected over half my time at college in Boulder would be spent at a computer screen, and I am confident I was not alone in this supposition. Nevertheless, college students all around the world were snatched from classrooms and isolated from ‘normal’ thanks to the pandemic sweeping the globe. In this podcast, I’ll share conversations I’ve had with other college students. In these discussions it was my goal to learn not only about the effects of increased screen time, but also how student’s have managed them. Online schooling forces me to be on my laptop approximately ten hours a day, and when I’ve finished my online requirements, the last thing I want to do is look at my screen longer. However, instead of picking up any new hobbies like becoming a runner, pulling out my bike, walking for a coffee, I move from my chair to my bed and open netflix on my phone. I often read, and I enjoy puzzles, but the enjoyment of these activities does not detract from the joy of watching a movie with a friend after a long day with friends, online schooling does." - Cameron Fragoso, Overloaded Host
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How has the relationship between students and technology changed? Cameron Fragoso dives deep into finding out just how broad of an influence screen time has during remote learning at CU and gives students the platform to tell their stories and share their experiences. In this episode Fragoso has a conversation with a freshman majoring in international affairs.
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How has the relationship between students and technology changed? Cameron Fragoso dives deep into finding out just how broad of an influence screen time has during remote learning at CU and gives students the platform to tell their stories and share their experiences. In this episode Fragoso speaks with two students, a freshman and a sophomore, about how their college experience is living up to their expectations.
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How has the relationship between students and technology changed? Cameron Fragoso dives deep into finding out just how broad of an influence screen time has during remote learning at CU and gives students the platform to tell their stories and share their experiences. In this episode, Fragoso speaks with a second-year student about comparing their experience this year to their experience last year.
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How has the relationship between students and technology changed? Cameron Fragoso dives deep into finding out just how broad of an influence screen time has during remote learning at CU and gives students the platform to tell their stories and share their experiences. In this episode, Fragoso speaks with a freshman student about how their habits changed when the pandemic began.
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How has the relationship between students and technology changed? Cameron Fragoso dives deep into finding out just how broad of an influence screen time has during remote learning at CU and gives students the platform to tell their stories and share their experiences. In the final edition of this podcast, Fragoso I speaks with one more student about how their educational experience has been impacted this past year.
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No one could have predicted that the world would face what it has faced this past year, and no one could begin to understand how this would affect our lives. Speaking with students, all with different majors, grades, and experiences, I sought to look at how they all adapted and adjusted their expectations with regard to school and technology. Everyone faced increased technology use, and though some of us tried to limit this, it wasn’t easy. As the semester wraps up, and we all prepare to return to a semi-normal life as a student, it seems that everyone will be ready to set aside the challenges of constant technology use, and begin living as we did before.
Pedagogy Now! Podcast Series
A student-run podcast about helping students succeed in the classroom. Episodes share content relevant to the student experience and provide a platform for students to use their voices to help their peers succeed in and out of the classroom. Pedagogy Now! is for proactive students, for faculty who are interested in the student perspective, and for higher-ed professionals who are working to rethink the institution.
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In Episode 1: Productivity Tech Review, Student Technology Consultant Zhouming (MingMing) Sun reviews three productivity apps: Time Warp is a Google extension that lets you block distracting websites, Trello is a Kanban-style task manager, and Forest is a phone app (and browser extension) that incentivizes you to not use your phone while doing other tasks.