by Jenae Cohn | Aug 27, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Professionalization
For many years, I supported students in writing and editing their college application essays. I worked primarily with students transitioning immediately from high school to college, and when they would write about developing their “personal brand,” I often...
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 | Aug 14, 2018 | Functional Literacy, information literacy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
Something I spend roughly 90% of my time doing for work is deciding when it’s worth it to share a new digital learning solution with the instructors I work with and when it’s not going to be worthwhile at all. There are some tools that instructors need to...
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...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 27, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
Museums are some of the most consistently fascinating and generative spaces for me, for they remind me that we can tell endless stories about the artifacts that define human life. From paintings and sculptures, to everyday objects like kitchen supplies and clothing,...
