by Jenae Cohn | Feb 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
The experience of reading seems inherently passive. Our eyes skim each line, following the same patterns, taking in information in the order in which an author has arranged it. Of course, the best readers are those who engage in conversations with their readings,...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 4, 2012 | Literature, Web Culture Musings
Around essay-grading time, there’s a beast that rears its ugly head. This beast goes by the terrifying name of: “So what?” The “so what?” beast is a simple creature, certainly not a many-headed hydra or a serpentine monster. Yet the beast...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 3, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270
What do you get when you put a few hundred K-16 instructors, school administrators, UC Davis faculty, and graduate students all in one room? This isn’t much of a riddle. The answer is (hopefully) obvious. What emerged from conversations between all of these...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 1, 2012 | Web Culture Musings
This is more of an artistic statement than anything else, but I love the idea of transplating USB ports into places “offline.’ The vision behind this project – dubbed Dead Drops – is perhaps a touch anarchistic. After all, it seems as though...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 29, 2012 | Code Year
Yikes, I’ve been woefully negligent of my coding lately! Admittedly, it’s a task that I end up avoiding. For whatever reason, thinking about the coding often fills me with anxiety; I know that the work will be a little bit tedious and will often be...
