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...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 27, 2012 | Literature, Web Culture Musings
I have always been somewhat of a sporadic “diary writer.” Family and friends used to gift me with blank notebooks when they learned that I enjoyed writing, yet I would only write a few entries here and there in each new blank book I received. For whatever...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 24, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270
… in all likelihood, a number of different things, all of which might have something to do with “language acquisition,” “the alphabet,” “writing,” or – simply – “words.” I know that prior to my study of digital scholarship, I thought of literacy as...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 21, 2012 | Code Year
I have a distinct memory of the first day of French 1 in college. I walked in confident that I would succeed. After all, I had been a successful Spanish student in high school; French was a romance language, ergo it wouldn’t be that different. Right? Well, I...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 20, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270
I may have failed to mention that I’m enrolled in this fantastic course on Literacy and Technology through the University Writing Program taught by Professor Rebekka Andersen. This course has been a largely motivating factor for starting this blog and, indeed,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 18, 2012 | Web Culture Musings
http://sopastrike.com/ As I hope you’ve noticed at this point, many of your favorite websites are blacked out today: Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Mozilla, and even WordPress among others. I don’t have much to add to the discussion other than my own concerns...
