The Ally Advantage

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Dr. McClenton, Hannah Kahn, Kristen Slone, and Mariah Burkert for a lively discussion on the writing process! In Part 2 of this episode, the team discusses ways they have made the writing process work for them, hot takes on teaching the writing process, and quick tips for students to take home.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Mariah for a Bible Break on building your house on the rock (Matthew 7:24-27).

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. This workshop, led by Chantelle Patschke, provides practical strategies for mastering focus and maintaining productivity, specifically tailored for adult learners. She explains that focus is an active process managed by the prefrontal cortex (the "traffic controller" of the brain), and that developing focus helps adult learners make better...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Dr. McClenton, Hannah Kahn, Kristen Slone, and Mariah Burkert for a lively discussion on the writing process! In Part 1 of this episode, the team defines the steps of the writing process and discusses how their own writing processes evolved in college. Stay tuned for Part 2!

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Kristen Slone for a Bible Break on the importance of reading the INSPIRED Word of God--before everything else!

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Kristen Slone for her workshop, "From Hot Mess to Masterpiece: Outlines and Annotated Bibliographies 101," so you can turn your scattered notes and research into a clear, confident plan for writing success. Kristen guides how to turn ideas into a polished outline that works and breaks down annotated bibliographies, showing you how to...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In this episode, Hannah Kahn and Mariah Burkert tackle some sticky citations--both Works Cited entries and in-text citations--for MLA 9th Edition. Check out our resources on deciding if your online source is credible (or not! ).

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Hannah for a Bible Break on trusting God!

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. This workshop, led by Professor Hannah Khan, provides a guide to develop an effective thesis statement. She explains that a thesis serves as the backbone, blueprint, and road map for an entire academic paper, providing tips on what to avoid, giving a structure/formula for the thesis, and explaining how the thesis provides organization for...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In this workshop re-release episode, Kristen Slone focuses on effective communication with professors for adult learners in the online academic setting. The workshop covered five key areas: applying workplace communication skills to academia, writing concise and professional emails, advocating for support while maintaining accountability,...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Mariah Burkert for a little "Bible Break" on the topic of sacrifice.

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In this episode, Hannah Kahn, Dr. Rhonda McClenton, Chantelle Patschke, Kristen Slone, and Mariah Burkert discuss how their research process has continued to evolve as they have grown as professionals in education and other areas, as well as providing some quick tips for using the LBC library. For more tips and tricks for how to navigate t...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Dr. McClenton for a little "Bible Break" as Summer Sub-term B gets underway!

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Join Mariah Burkert as she walks through navigating Canvas LMS, Microsoft Word, and Zoom. She covers all the basic steps so you feel equipped to hit the ground running as you start courses! Even if you've been around the block with some courses under your belt, stay tuned for some tips on operating OneDrive.

In this episode, Hannah Kahn, Dr. Rhonda McClenton, Chantelle Patschke, Kristen Slone, and Mariah Burkert describe what they have learned about how to do research--both what worked well, and what didn't--from their days as undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. For more tips and tricks for how to navigate the LBC library, check out Mariah's workshop, " Learning the Library: How to Find Sc...

For our first re-released workshop, this was a workshop on MLA formatting and Works Cited pages led by Mariah Burkert Mariah explained the importance of using Works Cited pages for academic integrity, standardizing formats, and lending credibility to writing, then demonstrated how to set up MLA formatted papers and create entries for different source types including scholarly journal articles, web...

In this episode, meet the podcasting team: Dr. Rhonda McClenton, Mariah Burkert, Hannah Kahn, Kristen Slone, and Chantelle Patschke. We discuss the mission of the Ally Center at Lancaster Bible College and why each of us was drawn to work at LBC/the Ally Center.