by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2019 | AmWriting, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
A glimpse into my weekend writing set-up at home: blanket, tea, laptop, and paper all scattered and at the ready! (This is my desk, by the way; my apartment is not big enough for a separate writing space right now, so this is actually just my coffee table converted...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 3, 2019 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
I’m always buzzing on the first day of a new academic term. The opportunity to start afresh, to see the possibilities of a few weeks of ideas before me activates a mixture of different energies: anxiety, excitement, uncertainty of what to expect as everyone...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 14, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
Our digital footprints may last a bit longer than these footprints in the sand, which may require us to be ever more mindful of what traces of ourselves we make visible. I Googled myself yesterday. This is not unusual; I “Google” myself with regularity, seeing what...
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 | Oct 19, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Writing
It’s been quiet around here! I’m back from taking a vacation for the first time in about a year, and it was a trip unlike any I had taken before. I traveled to South Korea, a place where I didn’t know the language and had only read about the...
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...
