by Jenae Cohn | Feb 28, 2014 | Digital Literacy, Personal, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
It’s no news that decision-making in academia is slow. Journals, conferences, edited collections, new haircuts – all of these things seem to take a while to happen in academic settings. So far, I’ve had the most experiences with waiting for...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 18, 2014 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
When I take notes on books I’m reading, I’ve got comments and sub-comments. The comments are of the most mundane variety: I flag down quotes, make note of important moments, and process through key concepts. The typical stuff. The sub-comments, however,...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 9, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
“Is anyone going to get this?” Today involved a lot of grumbling over my keyboard at the office, not because I disliked the task at hand so much as I questioned the utility of it. This, of course, is a consequence of that inevitable malaise at the end of a...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 21, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
I am an emoticon abuser. Whenever the situation is appropriate for a smiley face, you bet that I’ll go ahead and include one. This is not something of which I am particularly proud. Granted, the New York Times has justified the existence of our smiling keyboard...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
“You’re going to come running back to academia,” a colleague assured me when I described to her my summer internship working in a Technical Communications department at a company in San Diego. Maybe so. I received a whole packet of documents today...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 21, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal, Uncategorized
“Wait, wait, what is it that you highlighted? Do I click here?” “Do I need to get the YouTube BEFORE I make the post?” “Hold on: what are you doing exactly? What button did you press?” These are questions I hadn’t thought...
