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Professor Maggie Sokolik teaches writing at UC Berkeley as well as worldwide. Her massive open online course, or MOOC, was launched in November. In this episode, you can listen to her ideas about writing and the MOOC itself. Also featured: Bence Lissák, a third-year student at the University of Pécs. Take a listen. If you would like to find out more about the college writing MOOC, please visit https://courses.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/ColWri2.1x/3T2013/info Shorter versions of this episode are posted on the MOOC podcast page at https://audioboo.fm/CollegeWritingMOOC and at my new Take Off podcast page at https://audioboo.fm/boos/1772792-free-from-anxiety Take Off 85

Barbara and Kinga are two students in my Print and electronic media class, where an optional project is producing a podcast. So the other day we made this episode together. Enjoy! Take Off 84

An übershort shout-out to all my friends out there listening to Take Off. And for the record, this is episode 83, not 82 as I say at the beginning. More to come soon!

A Skype chat with Catherine Fisher Carr, Haiku Deck vice president for marketing. To see one of her Haiku decks, visit http://www.haikudeck.com/p/kvovrxeXoI/about-me Take Off 82

Visiting professor Gabriel Loiacono from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh speaks about his work in progress. Take Off 81