Writing | Jenae Cohn

How I Wrote a Book While Working a 9-to-5 Job

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...

Finding the Ethical Center in Ubiquitous Writing Technology

by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Web Culture Musings, Writing

What does it mean to “center ethical challenges” in the work of teaching writing to college students? This is part of the provocation at this year’s Computers and Writing Conference, where the theme is “Mission Critical: Centering Ethical Challenges in...

First Impressions: Starting a New Quarter with Performances in the Classroom and Online

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...

Why Educational Developers Need to Think Proactively, Not Reactively: What I Learned From a Server Outage

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...

What Taking a Vacation Taught Me About Learning

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...

How Do We Make the Labor of Instructional Design Visible? Write About It.

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...