tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86156886401639085242024-03-14T01:21:13.995-07:00Academia de Cruz MedinaThis online writing environment digitally archives the embodied rhetoric, issues and projects that relate to me as Associate Professor at Santa Clara University and Bread Loaf School of English faculty. E-mail me at: cnmedina AT SCU DOT edu.Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.comBlogger448125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-9133122939776557392024-02-16T13:30:00.000-08:002024-02-16T13:30:30.223-08:00Refreshing Multimodal Literacies<h3 style="text-align: left;"> Recent Learning Glass Video</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/It4gLAm-Nh8" width="320" youtube-src-id="It4gLAm-Nh8"></iframe></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's been a minute since I made a Learning Glass video (ahem, a few years actually), so I was glad to get a new video recorded on the topic of Scholarly vs. Popular sources. I'm teaching research at the moment to my first year students in the first-generation college student program here, and this topic seems like a perennial concern that I'm always explaining, which is always a good reason to make a video on the topic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What I of course found was how rusty I was at not just keeping my mini-lecture concise, but also how much more editing I found necessary because of some changes to the recording equipment since the last time I made some of these. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For more, visit my YouTube page: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Cruz858/featured">https://www.youtube.com/user/Cruz858/featured </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Or my Learning Glass site: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/cruzphd/learning-glass-videos?authuser=1">https://sites.google.com/view/cruzphd/learning-glass-videos?authuser=1</a> </span></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-36760466080313206052024-02-02T12:29:00.000-08:002024-02-02T12:29:15.710-08:002024 Shakespeare in San Quentin Workshop<h4 style="text-align: left;"> SCU First Gen and English Majors Have "Transformative" Experience</h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjNtH4biXdx8r7O88ZB63exf7qwx-_fDxN_XUfZp44W-dhyphenhyphenxm2_TauB9lOqqlkqDe9Qi8jEbwQK8FtoaNIIxM2Y5uozc2Iec0E6A6HEHpH7M8k18__IZKEMMATjw7KasCi1OFd0gc-4K4mvAxh_UlkAPdXzjk6xnJGQ6Wq9BGtXLHpAoOCt4mhN7WGzY/s1170/san%20quentin.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1170" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjNtH4biXdx8r7O88ZB63exf7qwx-_fDxN_XUfZp44W-dhyphenhyphenxm2_TauB9lOqqlkqDe9Qi8jEbwQK8FtoaNIIxM2Y5uozc2Iec0E6A6HEHpH7M8k18__IZKEMMATjw7KasCi1OFd0gc-4K4mvAxh_UlkAPdXzjk6xnJGQ6Wq9BGtXLHpAoOCt4mhN7WGzY/s320/san%20quentin.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Grateful teaching moment: this past Sunday, I had the amazing experience of attending a Shakespeare workshop at San Quentin with SCU LEAD Scholars students, faculty, and staff. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">LEAD Scholars is a program for first-generation students and this workshop has been described by students as transformational because of how it helps to make the issue of mass incarceration personal and the social justice of the university meaningful.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Shakespeare in prison program is organized by the San Marin Shakespeare company 🎠and puts on a production of a play each year. The men we spent time with were dedicated and committed to overcoming the obstacles they’ve faced and wrong turns they’ve made. Thanks to </span>Maura Tarnoff<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for organizing and my students who attended.</span></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-48398525061510136062024-01-25T10:01:00.000-08:002024-01-25T10:01:25.133-08:00SCU First-Gen Discussion of "Solito" Memoir<h3 style="text-align: left;"><b> LEAD First Gen Scholars Discuss Immigration and Reasons for Leaving Home</b></h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbWd35I-V0VVQ1MHCZJUk3dIX3Snu29YWueZcv4Kl7hX6Xo2n5AuSTNtFPrig_0r1S2nYQZojwp1oFZGUer2bJOcw-a4Docd_KOkvNcKo4TH-sOeFGkWVYrUCcSADcBw3F5PCnzu9Onid137brkwLvWIAo_wv0vqxTx1P-G1P1AsAgJG8Aafi7yRS8vY/s800/LEAD%20SCU%20Reads.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbWd35I-V0VVQ1MHCZJUk3dIX3Snu29YWueZcv4Kl7hX6Xo2n5AuSTNtFPrig_0r1S2nYQZojwp1oFZGUer2bJOcw-a4Docd_KOkvNcKo4TH-sOeFGkWVYrUCcSADcBw3F5PCnzu9Onid137brkwLvWIAo_wv0vqxTx1P-G1P1AsAgJG8Aafi7yRS8vY/s320/LEAD%20SCU%20Reads.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(LEAD staff Jessica, faculty Prof. Tarnoff, students Natalia and Michelle and myself)</span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to meet with SCU LEAD Scholars, staff and faculty to discuss this year’s SCU Reads selection <a href="<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Solito-Memoir-Javier-Zamora/dp/0593498089/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GPBY9F5TJMI7&amp;keywords=solito+book&amp;qid=1706205419&amp;sprefix=solito+book%252Caps%252C128&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mywritexpe-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=6f04fd099683d580f999e58dbb5047e3&camp=1789&creative=9325">solito book</a>">“Solito” by Javier Zamora</a>. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: helvetica;">“Solito” is a memoir about Zamora’s journey to the US from El Salvador as a nine year old traveling without his family (or “solito”) to the US as an unaccompanied, undocumented minor.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: helvetica;"> The historical context of the book resonates with my forthcoming book’s research in that “civil wars” in Central America were the reason that many like Zamora have migrated. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: helvetica;">We discussed issues like the American Dream and the desire of migrants for “a better life” and how these definitions can vary depending on the situations and circumstances facing each person in their home countries.</span></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-20757569143772839022023-03-15T13:45:00.003-07:002023-03-15T13:45:49.476-07:00CCCC 2023<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"> Community Literacy Counterstory and Expectations of White Supremacy</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Got to speak at a roundtable, serve as a respondent to a packed room, and present with other folks from the Latinx Caucus. Made a reel that I'm embedding below. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF4n_GFlU1srp5auQniCsrmQ0mzmsnHJ2VXdaC6Xnh1ZEIs1Z4zPIiaGiX4qnpdBgBmgCa_BzmnYxMJi56Ztawx48ZNwFvIzmsHNlIMWbWbBL2tD-5IxnKF16i0hvZzZF_5lVLdySgdvncpcib70a_qvRZRHWMO4cJ1h3hzlpZwv5C9ElBhrlRHhpr/s968/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-03%20at%2010.17.59%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="678" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF4n_GFlU1srp5auQniCsrmQ0mzmsnHJ2VXdaC6Xnh1ZEIs1Z4zPIiaGiX4qnpdBgBmgCa_BzmnYxMJi56Ztawx48ZNwFvIzmsHNlIMWbWbBL2tD-5IxnKF16i0hvZzZF_5lVLdySgdvncpcib70a_qvRZRHWMO4cJ1h3hzlpZwv5C9ElBhrlRHhpr/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-03%20at%2010.17.59%20AM.png" width="224" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>
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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co5LBC1sRTB/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Cruz Medina (@academiadecruz)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-64926019126719625472023-03-15T11:54:00.003-07:002023-03-15T11:55:10.567-07:00Talking with Great Folks at SJSU<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Really enjoyed having the opportunity to speak with the great folks at San José State University, where I talked about the use of story in my scholarship, as well as my teaching practices. Prof. Ryan Skinnel has some great colleagues and students who asked really thoughtful questions and came up with really insightful stories about their own experiences negotiating identity. </span></div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7fdRwNnVKIPR694zPO7jtDnBDawMZRta3ZJHY1JVW8EsLU8bQW2985v2sHqn5UD6DHAN0IAF6vzv1Rw776UZ3_LkjYIViamLvTScaTCkCQUAsA6R9-Zvi9vsYD9ZOCm9NnD8Xcr72vG3ZGlz7iPQqGcgWFrHSYj3A7vqPKqoyoQ57Krl9UtiXJJ_n/s1674/SJSU%20talk.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1674" data-original-width="1672" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7fdRwNnVKIPR694zPO7jtDnBDawMZRta3ZJHY1JVW8EsLU8bQW2985v2sHqn5UD6DHAN0IAF6vzv1Rw776UZ3_LkjYIViamLvTScaTCkCQUAsA6R9-Zvi9vsYD9ZOCm9NnD8Xcr72vG3ZGlz7iPQqGcgWFrHSYj3A7vqPKqoyoQ57Krl9UtiXJJ_n/w411-h411/SJSU%20talk.jpeg" width="411" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-88251104299078421652022-11-07T08:00:00.001-08:002022-11-07T08:00:00.171-08:00COLEGAS CONFERENCE<p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"> California Community College Organizacion de Latina/o/x, Guidance, Empowerment and Advocacy Conference in Long Beach, Nov 2-4, 2022</h3><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYn-IaVyDO4vE_BTeGLbBNaZ25-Sx1CW3B-FIdjW-GoinAZjC9ivBwW8K5mtMeRILh3qJqE10ld6wZglgRUZUEN0BSb4kUOfUpalW3Pn6Czx17euQq-pe4be_OneM4o9nn_UVPnN-DnlM6MRTB5BdwS21xSqNVQAWnlYlh8I_YflG93tibfcRpHR90/s753/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-26%20at%2011.16.22%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="644" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYn-IaVyDO4vE_BTeGLbBNaZ25-Sx1CW3B-FIdjW-GoinAZjC9ivBwW8K5mtMeRILh3qJqE10ld6wZglgRUZUEN0BSb4kUOfUpalW3Pn6Czx17euQq-pe4be_OneM4o9nn_UVPnN-DnlM6MRTB5BdwS21xSqNVQAWnlYlh8I_YflG93tibfcRpHR90/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-26%20at%2011.16.22%20AM.png" width="274" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Was excited to present my research from my article and book chapter on Ozomatli at the COLEGAS conference, where I had the opportunity after the Welcome and Keynote speakers to preview the presentation I gave the following day. The organization is an amazing group of Latinx leaders in higher education and I felt honored to speak about Ozomatli, who performed at the event. Thanks to Dr. Cynthia Olivo, Michelle Y. Batista, and the rest of the executive committee for hosting an empowering event. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Information on COLEGAS: </span><a href="https://cccolegas.org/" style="font-family: helvetica;">https://cccolegas.org/</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Resources about Ozomatli related to my talk: <a href="https://cruzmedina.com/research/presentations/collegas-ozomatli-resources/">https://cruzmedina.com/research/presentations/collegas-ozomatli-resources/</a> </span></p><p><br /></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-2988662748856814922022-08-24T12:34:00.001-07:002022-08-24T12:34:22.609-07:00Composition Studies 50th Anniversary Issue<h3 style="text-align: left;">My Piece "Composing in the Discomfort of Institutional Violence"</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKRfbj9oD930Nma1MLYumztdYxyw8S2eK0-_2ZmNrEQCIH8JwEYztPvirK-zjlcK22rP23L2z6IMiXkPs6wrc2XJFdepr3f4WDNW6T_yvhIXk0ZQn0eM5-22ecXXoOm95AX-4KaOEr8gjc99uxnIfWuh5ZDjqT9W0wXzjDIgx8HLgIjPDGhwGzhtMU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="698" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKRfbj9oD930Nma1MLYumztdYxyw8S2eK0-_2ZmNrEQCIH8JwEYztPvirK-zjlcK22rP23L2z6IMiXkPs6wrc2XJFdepr3f4WDNW6T_yvhIXk0ZQn0eM5-22ecXXoOm95AX-4KaOEr8gjc99uxnIfWuh5ZDjqT9W0wXzjDIgx8HLgIjPDGhwGzhtMU=w355-h400" width="355" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><i>Composition Studies</i> journal is celebrating their 50th anniversary with this special issue. From publishing a book review a dozen years ago to currently serving on the advisory board, I’m honored to be included in this special issue with many scholars whose work I admire.</span></span></h3><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="50Anniversary_Cover" class=" wp-image-2071 alignleft" data-attachment-id="2071" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="50Anniversary_Cover" data-large-file="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg?w=625" data-medium-file="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg?w=200" data-orig-file="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg" data-orig-size="1440,2160" data-permalink="https://compstudiesjournal.com/history/50anniversary_cover/" height="400" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px" src="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg" srcset="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg?w=172&h=258 172w, https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg?w=344&h=516 344w, https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg?w=100&h=150 100w, https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/50anniversary_cover.jpeg?w=200&h=300 200w" width="267" /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Composition Studies </i>journal link</span>: <a href="https://compstudiesjournal.com/current-issue-spring-2022-50-1/">https://compstudiesjournal.com/current-issue-spring-2022-50-1/</a> </p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-58939210992569196922022-06-09T09:21:00.002-07:002022-06-09T09:21:15.394-07:00Co-Authored NCTE Position Statement on Media in English Language Arts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRcYvOpW3gTRZSjTdZTlNQjfNUHD6mgT_oYnwewc5OJwfmhOYce4-p9U2eMSOMGAhAgI9Em3rixB3lTlKcoX6-sexKcn6kvGgRG3j7kKQQz2z70zP57mkl8w7xKM41Jlbaki22ED4XFm4Mdats6-fMGldE18N5YR9Xc-dCE0s0MCVRiy19KVpyrmi/s1922/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%209.09.39%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1922" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRcYvOpW3gTRZSjTdZTlNQjfNUHD6mgT_oYnwewc5OJwfmhOYce4-p9U2eMSOMGAhAgI9Em3rixB3lTlKcoX6-sexKcn6kvGgRG3j7kKQQz2z70zP57mkl8w7xKM41Jlbaki22ED4XFm4Mdats6-fMGldE18N5YR9Xc-dCE0s0MCVRiy19KVpyrmi/w400-h165/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%209.09.39%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was honored to be a contributor to a position statement for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) on Media Education in English Language Arts. The statement provides support on behalf of the national organization and its members for educators whose institutions do not recognize how technology, media, and multimodal composing parallel traditional English Language Arts curricula while offering culturally and technologically relevant skills and literacies to students who read and write in these digital spaces. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuGSoaMPF4T4cPIiC69cOjlDw0zcyTwGDKDuyEBGr4lmnc1kGBIJPnYM8JT2iFv0gaOD6-dR2Tc7jqOBPHSG3JfuFUCZfVo7mJhbwts0DfEXbjHgWFeq8ibp1Bxim1DkyewVG5WYrgZXLaE-ahbTF7jfZvDQ-w-ZmUSUxjQUqt19ZL8pGnCY9b_Qha/s1308/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%209.09.08%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1308" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuGSoaMPF4T4cPIiC69cOjlDw0zcyTwGDKDuyEBGr4lmnc1kGBIJPnYM8JT2iFv0gaOD6-dR2Tc7jqOBPHSG3JfuFUCZfVo7mJhbwts0DfEXbjHgWFeq8ibp1Bxim1DkyewVG5WYrgZXLaE-ahbTF7jfZvDQ-w-ZmUSUxjQUqt19ZL8pGnCY9b_Qha/w400-h224/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%209.09.08%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> The statement can be read on NCTE's website: <a href="https://ncte.org/statement/media_education/">https://ncte.org/statement/media_education/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/01/national-council-english-teachers-change-position/">Washington Post columnist</a> took umbrage with a lack of practical suggestions in the statement, but the intended audience for the statement is English educators who know how to suitably incorporate media texts into their class, though may lack the institutional support to do so. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0nxuvvrGCi5HDLTAbBkhr1h8PDBYT5280MsAdzIc8Q2sKcCNYDyyD4j5t2rYQt8en5PTCTrELGmliszK0uCCw-Xadzmcs7gj046N4PIu7nEICe-ojKMEskDuDJo0x-PHq_YLMvq0c9C16X_8wGtOfi1nL8XDqex2PWyZZfkfzi1KaQA-jUsiD2JjD/s2128/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%209.20.41%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="2128" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0nxuvvrGCi5HDLTAbBkhr1h8PDBYT5280MsAdzIc8Q2sKcCNYDyyD4j5t2rYQt8en5PTCTrELGmliszK0uCCw-Xadzmcs7gj046N4PIu7nEICe-ojKMEskDuDJo0x-PHq_YLMvq0c9C16X_8wGtOfi1nL8XDqex2PWyZZfkfzi1KaQA-jUsiD2JjD/w400-h155/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%209.20.41%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This statement affirms the innovative practices of educators who seek to address the literacy rates that the authors points to in the introduction as the problem that he feels is not being addressed in this statement that tells administrators and school board officials that they should trust their educators to engage their students in new ways that will positively impact their literacy scores.</span></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-32475071489637834392021-10-19T10:03:00.000-07:002021-10-19T10:03:19.889-07:00Diversity is not Inclusion: special issue<h4 style="text-align: left;"> A Piece on my Rhetoric of Storytelling Course in Composition Studies</h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Feeling really grateful to the editors of this special collection, Christina Cedillo, Ersula Ore, and Kim Wieser, for including my work with so many great contributions. What's even more humbling is how something I said in conversation ended up in a Sonia Arellano, José Cortez, and Romeo Garcia's piece on shadow work with academia, and a reference to my digital testmonio chapter was included in Christine Garcia, Genevieve de Mueller Garcia, Christina Cedillo and Les Hutchinson Campos' piece on mentorship. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://compstudiesjournal.com/current-issue-summer-2021-49-2/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="679" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q-4waDl6G04/YW75dEtzSiI/AAAAAAAAbGs/Lg9Clh0sZ_4EKiTixLPa4sbrSyp6X7g3QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-10-19%2Bat%2B9.53.22%2BAM.png" width="290" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My piece</span>: <a href="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/medina.pdf">https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/medina.pdf</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sonia Arellano et al</span>.: <a href="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/arellano-cortez-garcia.pdf">https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/arellano-cortez-garcia.pdf</a><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Christine Garcia et al.</span>: <a href="https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/garcia-campos-de-mueller-cedillo.pdf">https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/garcia-campos-de-mueller-cedillo.pdf </a></p>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-31411810349969761482021-10-06T09:46:00.002-07:002021-10-06T09:49:36.909-07:00Bulletin of Latin American Research book review<h2 style="text-align: left;"> <b>My Never-ending Fandom for Frederick Aldama and Tex{t}-Mex Nericcio</b></h2><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A book review I wrote for the <i>Bulletin of Latin American Research </i>on Frederick Luis Aldama and William Nericcio's new book <i>Talking #BrownTV </i>was just published. The image below is the journal's website and I add a link to the book on Amazon.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A_4a2yoTOHY/YV3RvSHRS4I/AAAAAAAAav8/ZerZDe3v3F4YqYyp_P7TLV5Bl0HumvVRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1424/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-10-06%2Bat%2B9.36.28%2BAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1424" height="203" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A_4a2yoTOHY/YV3RvSHRS4I/AAAAAAAAav8/ZerZDe3v3F4YqYyp_P7TLV5Bl0HumvVRwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h203/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-10-06%2Bat%2B9.36.28%2BAM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a quote:</div><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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The program has: received <b>16,000 requests</b> for help with false convictions & <b>helped free 32</b> wrongfully convicted people that account for <b>468 years lost in prison</b> to false convictions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Stone made us aware that this week, the Racial Justice Act is on the floor for vote this week, allowing for claims of racial discrimination against judges, jurors & lawyers. This bill is an important step towards dismantling a justice system that's designed to imprison people of color. #rja4all</span></div>Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-12149466134199440272021-04-15T09:20:00.004-07:002021-04-15T11:09:55.481-07:00<p></p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My Article in Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020</h3><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Super proud that my <i>Composition Studies</i> article "Decolonial Potential in a Multilingual FYC" was selected by the Parlor Press editors to be included in this collection. I feel really honored that Laura Micciche, then editor at <i>Composition Studies</i>, nominated my article "Decolonial Potential in a Multilingual FYC" for the collection *Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020*. I was also proud that it was selected by the editors for the inclusion in the collection of really excellent scholarship that the editors described as "transformative." Thank you to Laura and the Parlor Press editors. 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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pedagogue​ is a podcast hosted by Shane A. Wood and sustained by the voices of others. Pedagogue is a podcast about teachers talking writing, dedicated to building a supportive community, committed to facilitating conversations that move across institutions and positions, and designed to help celebrate the labor teachers do inside and outside the classroom.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">​</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The purpose of Pedagogue is to promote diverse voices at various institutions and help foster community and collaboration among teachers of writing. Each episode is a conversation with a teacher (or multiple teachers) about their experiences teaching writing, their work, inspirations, assignments, assessments, successes, and challenges. Episodes include voices from secondary and post-secondary teachers, graduate students, emeriti, distinguished teacher-scholars, and emerging teacher-scholars from high schools, community colleges, four-year universities, private universities, research universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).</span></blockquote>
Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-63955884591244877762020-02-07T14:09:00.001-08:002020-02-07T14:09:38.039-08:00<h3>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past evening at SCU, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with members of the Music department, English and Ethnic Studies to discuss the themes of genre-bending, political music as a part of the Roots and Routes Music Festival. </span><br />
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There's a Lyle Lovett song "That's Right, You're Not From Texas" with the line that Texas wants you anyway, and I felt the love from Texas as I skyped into Octavio Pimentel's graduate course on multilingualism in teaching writing on 10/21. I had the opportunity to speak about my spring 2019 <i>Composition Studies</i> article <a href="https://works.bepress.com/cruz-medina/18/">"Decolonial Potential in a Multilingual FYC" </a>and teaching a course with multilingual students in Silicon Valley.</span></div>
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My Article "Decolonial Potential in a Multilingual FYC"</h3>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Spring 2019 issue of Composition Studies, I have an article that came about from a first year writing course here at Santa Clara University that was conducted in Spanish during the first quarter and then in English during the quarter that I taught. The student writing included in my article is wonderful and critically engages with the notions of translingualism and monolingual ideology. I am extremely forturnate that my article was available through open access on the journal's website. Now it is available through my university's scholar commons:</span> <a href="https://works.bepress.com/cruz-medina/18/">https://works.bepress.com/cruz-medina/18/</a><br />
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Cruz Nicholas Medinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04404131952417779670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615688640163908524.post-48759010326706327342019-04-18T14:00:00.000-07:002019-04-18T21:28:00.533-07:002019 CCCC Pittsburgh<b>CCCC 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA</b><br />
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