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Podcasting practice and research.

Alison

  • Academia from the Edges

    I’m honoured to be presenting at the student-organized Humanities Graduate Student Symposium at Brock University. I will be speaking on my experiences doing “academia from the edges” and sharing some of what I have learned in my decade of alt-ac work since completing my MA. Continue reading

  • Workshop: Introduction to Podcasting for Researchers

    Workshop: Introduction to Podcasting for Researchers

    Drawing on my own experience and research as both an independent podcaster and as a university-based podcaster with the Faculty of Humanities, this workshop will explore some of the unique opportunities offered by this medium.   Continue reading

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  • Introduction

    Introduction

    Welcome to my new podcast research website! I am a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program at Brock University, working under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Mauro in the Department of Digital Humanities. My research examines how podcasting as a communication technology works politically, socially, and culturally with both academic and non-academic audiences.… Continue reading

  • Super Simple Recording Set Up

    Do you find yourself suddenly needing to record audio or do a PowerPoint voice over? It’s not as difficult as it may seem! I am in no way a tech person— I started a podcast with zero knowledge about audio recording and editing— so I hope my tips and information will ease some of your… Continue reading

  • Invasion of the Podcasters: Podcasting 101

    Once a fringe medium, podcasting has slowly and steadily grown to become mainstream. While big network names like I Heart Radio and Radiotopia are increasingly familiar to podcast listeners, there’s still room for the indie podcaster. Podcasts are in vogue and the listenership is growing; Apple has over half a million active podcasts in their… Continue reading

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  • Inside Out and Outside In: Public Scholarship in Classics

    Inside Out and Outside In: Public Scholarship in Classics

    CAC/SCEC 2019  McMaster University  9 May 2019 Panelists: Amy Pistone, Darrin Sunstrum, Jeff Wright, Victoria Austen-Perry Chair: Katherine Blouin Organizers: Aven McMaster, Katherine Blouin, Alison Innes When we talk about public outreach or public engagement with Classics, we tend to think of scholars communicating their research and ideas beyond the confines of the classroom or… Continue reading

  • Visualizing Mythology: Using Universal Design for Learning to Teach Greek Mythology 

    By incorporating the idea of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we encouraged students to engage with various methods of organizing information including Cornell notes, annotating text, and sketchnoting. Continue reading

  • Using Social Media for Public Engagement

    I’ll be in Calgary this week talking about academics using social media for public engagement at the Classical Association of Canada Annual Conference Société Canadienne Des Études Classiques Congrès Annuel University of Calgary. Follow along on Twitter at the hashtag #cacscec2018 and #cacscec1b Panel information can be found at https://rfkclassics.blogspot.ca/2018/05/public-facing-scholarship-in-classics.html Continue reading

  • A Note About Note Taking

    Finally got around to replacing my Apple iPencil and what better way to try it out than creating a sketch note– about note taking? This is my attempt to show how visual note taking can be combined with the Cornell Note system. To learn more about sketch notes, try Sketchnote Army by Mark Rohde, Mauro Toselli,… Continue reading

  • More About Cornell Notes

    I’ve been doing some updates and expansions of my note-taking notes and am sharing my Cornell notes here for anyone who would like to use them. All are CC-BY. Download links for PDF versions are listed at the bottom of this post. Download Quick Guide to Cornell Notes PDF Jan. 2018 Download Cornell Notes: A… Continue reading

About Me

-PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities researching podcast ethics and knowledge mobilization under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Mauro at Brock University
-Host and producer of Foreword
-Producer of Eve, Intersected
-Cohost and producer of MythTake
-MA in Classics from Brock University (2013)
-BA in Classics from McMaster University (2009)
-BA in History & Linguistics from Glendon College, York University (2003)

Podcasting and researching from the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in modern-day Canada.  

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