The Office Hour, “Building Stuff”
Students in first-year writing courses at Georgia Tech are sometimes asked to build things. Based on the comic strip that currently hangs in the WCP interns’ office, those students react to these...
View ArticleThe Office Hour: MetaPod
In this episode of the Office Hour, Tobias Wilson-Bates and Jonathan Shelley discuss their experiences of integrating podcasting inside and outside of the classroom. Has the revolutionary energy of...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “Veronica Mars”
In the pilot episode of our new podcast, Technically Pop, I am joined by co-hosts and fellow Britts, Molly Slavin and Alexandra Edwards to discuss what we did with our summer vacation–namely, we...
View ArticleWhat Do You See?—Making Podcasts About Visual Art
Students viewing “Meadow” by Alex Katz at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, February 2018. Making podcasts about visual art presents a challenging multimodal question: How can a podcast, an entirely...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “Succession”
We are back for episode two of Technically Pop! This time, Molly Slavin, Josh Cohen, and I discuss Succession, which recently ended its second season on HBO. Join us as we discuss the Roy family’s...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “Holiday Evergreen Extravaganza”
It’s grading season, but at Technically Pop, we are already dreaming of winter break. Join us as we explore holiday content from Charles Dickens to Mariah Carey. Alexandra Edwards ponders the role of...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “Star Wars”
The first Technically Pop of 2020 goes so long that we split it in two. In Part 1, Josh Cohen, Alexandra Edwards, and I discuss the nine Star Wars films that make up what is now known as “the...
View ArticleNine Questions on Identity, Multimodality, and Poetry with Caroline...
Excerpt from a draft of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art.” This article is supported by a 2020 Poetry@Tech Pedagogy Grant. In my introductory writing and communication course “On Becoming a Writer,”...
View ArticleFeminist Computational Poetics and Experimental User Interface Design: An...
The team (L-R: Jeffrey Zhang, Josh Terry, Ryan Power, Alex Yang, Alayna Panlilio) presents The Infinite Woman web app at Georgia Tech’s Junior Design Capstone Expo in December 2019. Introduction The...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “Bridgerton”
Technically Pop is back at the tail end of the semester with a 4-episode miniseries! For our premiere episode, Eric Lewis and Corey Goergen welcome special guest Courtney Hoffman, a Brittain Fellow...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “Disney+”
This week, Alex Edwards, Eric Lewis, Josh Cohen, and Corey Goergen talk WandaVision, the second season of The Mandalorian, and Disney+. What do we want from televised depictions of our favorite...
View ArticleTechnically Pop, “2020 in Film”
This week on Technically Pop, we prep for the Oscars by discussing the movies that came out in 2020 and the movies we watched in 2020. Alexandra Edwards tells us why she was so disappointed by David...
View ArticleTechnically Pop: “Normal People and Ireland in Film and TV”
This week, Molly Slavin, Eric Lewis, and Corey Goergen discuss depictions of Ireland in two 2020 properties: the film Wild Mountain Thyme and the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal...
View ArticleTeaching STEM Students Communication through the Lens of Science Fiction
Science Fiction’s Potential in the Communications-Classroom As an instructor who teaches introductory English communication courses (ENGL 1101 and 1102) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a...
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