by Jenae Cohn | Jan 18, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270
(FYI: If you’re unfamiliar with what a literacy narrative is, check out the following description from W.W. Norton). Of all the Disney cartoon villains, the one who always scared me the most was Ursula, the sea witch from The Little Mermaid. Her voluminous form,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 16, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Web Culture Musings
Sure, I have a Twitter account. I used to follow taco trucks in L.A. via Twitter regularly. Alas, taco trucks are a (sadly) nonexistent entity in the great wilds of Davis and I’ve found little use for it otherwise. Yet understanding Twitter seems to be an...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 15, 2012 | Code Year
I’ve made it through (most of) Lesson1 of my “Getting Started with Programming” Course on Codeacademy and I’m already running into trouble! Nooo! Mind you, the first few exercises within the lesson felt like a breeze. Really, I figured...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 11, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Introduction
Hi! My name is Jenae. This is what I look like: I’m a first-year PhD student in the English Department at UC Davis and I’m going to do something I’ve never done before: I’m going to learn to code in JavaScript. Perhaps the title of this blog is...
