by Jenae Cohn | Jul 25, 2018 | AmWriting, Digital Literacy, Personal, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings, Writing
Every day, I tend to fill at least some of my time with reading the latest in education news. I’m a big fan of newsletter subscriptions in particular, so everyday, my e-mail inbox tends to include some message with the latest headlines from Educause, Inside...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 18, 2018 | AmWriting, Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization
I’m nearing the end of my first week back in my office after attending the NEH Institute in Salt Lake City, and, already, I feel myself sliding back into some bad writing habits. For one, I’ve had my browser window open all morning with the Dashboard of...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 15, 2017 | Personal, Professionalization
The silence on this blog is glaring. Crafting yet another introduction to yet another apology for silence fills me with a familiar feeling of fraudulence, a nagging insecurity about my repeated inability to embrace the constant grind that being a writer requires. Yet...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 21, 2015 | Personal, Professionalization
For Ph.D. students, the holidays can be a dreaded time because it means inevitable questions from old family and friends about a lot of stressful topics, from their long-term projects to their future career outcomes. Believe me, Ph.D. students do a great job of...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 16, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
Let me start with some Obvious Things: Obvious Thing #1: I’m pretty good at starting and abandoning blogs. Why is that? Well, here’s an obvious reason for my obvious fact: writing is hard. I’ve come to accept that (and embrace it on my best days)....
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 11, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
My poor, almost four-year-old laptop is on the brink of collapse. She moans and churns and thinks really hard about loading webpages now. Awakening her from digital slumber takes a few pushes and prods at her buttons. It’s not her fault; this is exactly...
