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 | Jun 29, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
As a student, I often dreaded group projects. The idea of giving up my own individual control over something that I turned into my instructor made me uncomfortable because I didn’t necessarily have faith that everyone would do the project the way that I would...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 29, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
At one point in our conversation during our seminar today, we were invited to share a digital work that we had composed ourselves. The room fell silent. Eventually, participants voiced amazing projects they had worked on, from videos to websites and interactive,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 28, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Mid-way through week 2 of this institute, I finally feel comfortable in my routines, moving through each day in a kind of steady rhythm of breakfast, discussion/lecture time, workshop time, exercise, dinner, writing, reading, sleep. It’s a simple routine, one...
