by Jenae Cohn | Aug 14, 2018 | Functional Literacy, information literacy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
Something I spend roughly 90% of my time doing for work is deciding when it’s worth it to share a new digital learning solution with the instructors I work with and when it’s not going to be worthwhile at all. There are some tools that instructors need to...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 7, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization
It’s the start of August which, for schools on the semester system, means that instructors are starting to construct their fall syllabi, anticipating the start of yet another academic year. Here at Stanford, we’re on the quarter system, so we’ve got...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 31, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
I spent an hour of my day yesterday alone in a conference room. But I wasn’t really alone: I was on Google Hangouts with a bunch of people from around the world. As the ten of us fumbled with our web cameras and headphones, our audio and video tests (“Can...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 27, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
Museums are some of the most consistently fascinating and generative spaces for me, for they remind me that we can tell endless stories about the artifacts that define human life. From paintings and sculptures, to everyday objects like kitchen supplies and clothing,...
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 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve been at my current job for two years now, and I still find that I’m explaining it a lot to people. The job title itself – “Academic Technology Specialist” – is not particularly clear on the surface and, for anyone outside of a...
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 | Jul 13, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Four weeks of discussion, creation, and camaraderie have temporally ended, but the work that is yet to be done has just begun. Last night, my fellow institute colleagues and I celebrated our projects with a display at the Salt Lake City Public Library, where our...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 12, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today is the day that our exhibits go up at the Salt Lake City Public Library, an exciting moment for our group to showcase the products of our work to a larger audience. I’m glad that there is a forum to share some of what we’ve been thinking about and to...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 11, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
I have to admit that I almost shed tears at the thought of sewing pages together today. It’s the last full day for us here to complete the projects that we’ll be exhibiting at the Salt Lake City Public Library and I had only a few steps left for the project I had...
