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

Croatian student extraordinaire reads his story, "The Dream." Take Off 80

Sounds and voices from the University of Pécs Roundtable Conference in Applied Linguistics. Take Off 79

Some results of a study on originality in students' writing that I conducted with my colleague at the University of Zagreb. The full paper is available here: http://books.google.hu/books?id=VnR3DZsHG6UC Take Off 78, the first in 2013!

Episode 77: Listen to a story written, performed and produced by Éliás Zoltán, a student at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Music composed by the author.

Episode 75: Adán Reyes talks about his work as a chemist at the National Autonomous University of México, that special tool, the glovebox, and those amazing volcanoes, Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl. Music credit: from the Mahahual Music podcast. Please note that the first 20 episodes are available from me directly from now on as I had to delete them from Podomatic to make space for the new episodes. Send me email at [email protected] if you need some of those episodes.

Episode 74: Two students, Barna and Tibi, managers at the Power Plant in Pécs, discussed views about ebooks in a recent class with me. A segment from that session.