by Jenae Cohn | Jul 11, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Fold the paper in half. Fold the paper along the diagonal. Do it twice. Square the four corners. Turn the paper inside out. Tuck in the flaps. Repeat. I followed these steps, repetition upon repetition, until I reached a point where I finally felt satisfied with what...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 9, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
I have to confess that this post is a little bit of a “cheat” for today because I’m sharing a document that is going to be a part of the final exhibit for the book projects as part of this NEH Institute. See, all of the institute participants have to...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 8, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
This last weekend here in SLC has involved a lot of hiking and outdoors time. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Since the day I arrived here and saw the mountain ranges immediately on the horizon, seemingly within close reach of the city’s freeways,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 7, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
It’s my last Saturday here in SLC, and it’s starting to hit me how fast the last week here is going to feel! I took another day off here, especially since my husband is in town visiting, and wound up making a very full day out of a long hike up in the...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
After losing all of my work to a technical glitch yesterday, I felt a bit reluctant to write today. That is a silly reason not to write, to be sure, but I continue to amaze myself with the excuses I can develop not to sit still with an idea and try to explain what’s...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Well, folks, here’s the inevitable post where I explain how I wrote a really long post about the intersections between loss, nostalgia, and the printed book, but then… it accidentally got deleted, only to become unrecoverable to the sands of time. I just...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 5, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
It’s the 4th of July, so we got a day off from the institute to spend time however we wished. A group of us decided to take the day as a holiday, and we drove up to Park City, UT, a ski resort neighborhood north of downtown Salt Lake City. Pretty much every Lyft...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 4, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
As someone working in online education for a while now, I’ve always been aware of the importance of writing alt text for photos and generally trying to adhere to accessibility guidelines. It is important, after all, for anything we publish online to be as...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 3, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
A question we’ve been asking since this institute began is, “What is a book?” This question has been almost impossible to answer since Day 1. The thing most of us think of when we think of a book are pages bound together by glue inside of a hard...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
As I titled this post, I wondered what day it was. “Is this Day 13 or 14?” I actually asked aloud as I had to click back to my archives to double check. To my astonishment, I find myself on Day 14, halfway through this journey of an NEH institute. Halfway...
