by Jenae Cohn | Dec 6, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
It’s the last week of classes here at Stanford, so students are lingering in the hallways outside their instructors’ offices. Almost every student I see here has a smartphone out, perusing, scanning, skimming, and waiting until they can wrap up their...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 28, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
It’s Week 9 (of 10) on the quarter system here at Stanford, which means that final projects are well underway for students and the instructors are anticipating the onslaught of final grading. There’s always a palpable nervous energy in the hallways during...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
For two hours on Tuesday morning, the e-mail server on-campus was down. I start my day as I suspect a lot of you do: check my e-mail inbox, respond to urgent messages, and use those very messages – their requests, their latest up-to-date information – to inform the...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 2, 2018 | Functional Literacy, Professionalization
As an Academic Technology Specialist, I am often asked things I know nothing about. My job title, admittedly, is confusing. Do I work in IT? Do I work in audio-visual engineering? I do neither of these things: I’m an educator who builds curriculum, develops...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
I awakened yesterday morning to the news about the shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. I felt mostly numb. Anti-semitism is not new. It is part of living life as a Jewish-American. I still remember that Jewish synagogues in my hometown of Sacramento...
