by Jenae Cohn | Jan 25, 2022 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning, Pedagogy
In 2021, we talked a lot about being “resilient” and “flexible.” We lived through yet another Pandemic Year, this one somehow full of more turbulence than the Pandemic Year that came before. If 2020 was the year of the Emergency Remote Pivot,...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 2, 2018 | Functional Literacy, Professionalization
As an Academic Technology Specialist, I am often asked things I know nothing about. My job title, admittedly, is confusing. Do I work in IT? Do I work in audio-visual engineering? I do neither of these things: I’m an educator who builds curriculum, develops...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 23, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
I remember the first time that someone told me that my work could not “scale” and, as a result, was not going to advance any entrepreneurial interests I harbored. I had just graduated from college, and was working a lot of odd jobs: working for a tutor...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 26, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, Uncategorized
Over lunch today, I got into a conversation with several of my colleagues here at the institute about teaching and improvisation. One person brought up the popular improv game, “yes, and…” where the actors involved never say “no” to any...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Yesterday, I sat at the desk, hunched over a piece of wax thread, and a stack of papers. I was supposed to be making a coptic book, a medieval style of book where the papers are woven together to create an organically coiled binding. The process is strenuous,...
