Nukhet Kardam on MIIS Radio!

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Welcome back Pro Bytes on MIIS Radio, and welcome to the program Nukhet Kardam, one of my favorite professors on campus! She’s fun, dynamic, interesting, friendly, inviting, and brilliantly insightful. All of these awesome qualities made for a very free-flowing interview, wherein we were able to talk about the fluidity of identity, gender mainstreaming, and conveying messages via varying mediums.

Nukhet and I first met last term when I dropped into her office to ask about contacts in my field of interest, but that was just the tip our iceberg together. I had the pleasure of taking the Communicating Social Change workshop this spring with Nukhet and two of her colleagues from Middlebury – John Elder and Andrea Olsen. By the time we had finished the two-weekend workshop I had confidently found my radio voice and had had plenty of practice with both public and recorded conversations. I could even go so far as to say that the course helped to give me a fresh start here at MIIS Radio. The interview was long and beautiful, making it difficult to cut, so enjoy the extended version.

Emily and friends on the TESOL Conference

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Welcome back to MIIS Tales! This week on MIIS Radio we are featuring our 3rd MIIS Tales spotlight in anticipation for tonight’s DLC storytelling event – details can be found here. To give a little background, MATESOL students Emily Durst (May ’15), Anita Krishnan (Dec ’14), and Danny McCarthy (May ’15) attended the national 2014 TESOL conference in Portland, Oregon March 26-29.

In this seven minute podcast, these first-time conference attendees reflect on what they learned, what they liked, and what surprised them. Listen in closely, post a comment, then check out another TESOL Conference podcast by our very own Daurie Mangan-Dimuzio in the feed.

Inspired by the clip? Reach out to us with your own project and we’ll see what we can do!

MIIS Tales with Lucas Brader

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For our first interview segment of MIIS Tales, we’ve invited Lucas Brader, a Terrorism Certificate student, to talk about his time here at MIIS, some of his favorite things to do in Monterey, and his experience traveling to Morocco earlier this year. Listen as he recaps his journey through the Moroccan streets and talks about his research projects at both the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Project.

 

Flashback to TESOL 2014

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Special Delivery!

The DLC’s very own Daurie Mangan-Dimuzio created a podcast for the International TESOL Convention held in Portland this past March, and it’s awesome! From the sounds of it the convention was fascinating, like academic theater, but then again I’m easily engaged by innovative educational approaches. Basically, TESOL and foreign language professionals came together to share their struggles and insights into the field, but with flavor, and Daurie teases out the highlights from her classmates.

Impassioned by the gathering of language enthusiasts, she interviews three MIIS students who attended the conference – asking them questions about why they attended and what they learned from the experience. Escaping Monterey on a quick plane trip to Portland was amongst the highlights, but listen in to hear about the use of music and music videos to teach writing skills!

To learn more about the convention please find the link to the webpage below:

2014 TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo

Listen to the podcast by pressing play below!

Pro Bytes: Jeff Dayton-Johnson

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On Tuesday, April 1st I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Program Chair for the IPS department and IPS/MPA professor. Jeff is a MIIS gem! Well known not just in his department, but around campus as well for comfortably stopping on the street to have a chat with a colleague or to arrange coffee with a student. He worked formerly as a university professor in Canada and then at the OECD, where the bulk of his economics knowledge derives from. But it’s Jeff’s well rounded personality that made him such a pleasure to interview. His dry wit and respectful demeanor turned our fall semester Policy Analysis classroom into an engaging place to work learn and it transferred seamlessly into our podcast.

To be honest though, it’s Jeff’s hobbies and skills that make him really interesting and impressive. Jeff runs a radio station in the midnight hours out of Santa Cruz called All About Jazz and his love for music extends into much of who he is on campus. In addition to the radio show, Jeff is infamous for his podcast lecture series, wherein each segment is produced using sampled clips from his favorite musics, of which there are many, and they feature some of the most eclectic pieces you’ve ever heard, ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Dave Brubeck. Jeff’s even guest deejays for MIIS events, including the Open Mic Nights hosted in the DLC occasionally! Give the man credit for being involved in student life.

Enjoy the clip!

 

Pro Bytes: Dayton Hughes

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“Your professors, byte sized.”

Please welcome Dayton Hughes to Pro Bytes, provided to you by MIIS Radio. Though not a professor per se, Dayton is critically involved in the ebb and flow of MIIS, and his outlook on life is one worth sharing in all capacities. Dayton is officially our Director of Outreach and Employer Relations, and unofficially the go-to “DOER” on campus (derived from the acronym). He’s also an avid hiker and dedicated maximizer of student potential through his work at The Center for Advising and Career Services (CACS), combining practical career training with practical advice. But what makes Dayton unique and his opinion worth consulting is his advocacy for connecting to one’s environment to learn and experience self-reflection in a more meaningful way.

Let’s listen in to what he had to say…