by Jenae Cohn | Apr 24, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Web Culture Musings
A rock face from Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Markings upon rocks often served as warnings between indigenous peoples on New Mexican lands. I speak to warnings and otherwise in this post (Photo taken by me). Over the past 24 hours,...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 3, 2019 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
I’m always buzzing on the first day of a new academic term. The opportunity to start afresh, to see the possibilities of a few weeks of ideas before me activates a mixture of different energies: anxiety, excitement, uncertainty of what to expect as everyone...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 22, 2019 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
No matter what work we do in the university, maintaining our roots in whatever discipline(s) we came from can help us deepen our empathy and our ability to communicate well with our colleagues. Last week, I attended the Conference on College Composition and...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 14, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
Our digital footprints may last a bit longer than these footprints in the sand, which may require us to be ever more mindful of what traces of ourselves we make visible. I Googled myself yesterday. This is not unusual; I “Google” myself with regularity, seeing what...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 28, 2019 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
My conference badge and swag from ELI 2019. I got pretty into all of the stickers, identifying my pronouns, my role at my institution, and the fact that I was a first-time attendee! Last week, I attended the EDUCUASE Learning Initiative (ELI) conference for the first...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 16, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
Starting a digital literacy initiative can be a real gift… but it can also be an unwanted one if we don’t properly frame or scaffold it in ways that don’t make sense to our students. My heart froze as I saw the woman in the audience’s neutral...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 28, 2019 | Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
Teaching an effective technical training is a knotty problem (sorry, I couldn’t resist). You sit at the front of a lecture hall. A presenter is at the front of the room, a computer projected on to the wall. The presenter clicks through a dozen workflows,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
This is me in front of a mural in Jeonju, South Korea. I have wings! A symbol for soaring to new heights in 2019! I love the concept of a New Year’s resolution: it’s reflection-in-action, an opportunity to look back on what the year before was like and to aspire...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
A year of learning, I look back on 2018 and my favorite reads (many of which I accessed while visiting and spending time in the Salt Lake City Public Library, pictured here). End-of-year lists are one of my favorite things to read in December. From year-end books to...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
At a place like Stanford, a lot of people (and this includes both people outside of and inside the university) believe that the students are naturally gifted tech whizzes. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Stanford is located in the heart of Silicon Valley and...
