by Jenae Cohn | Jul 31, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
I spent an hour of my day yesterday alone in a conference room. But I wasn’t really alone: I was on Google Hangouts with a bunch of people from around the world. As the ten of us fumbled with our web cameras and headphones, our audio and video tests (“Can...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 27, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings
Museums are some of the most consistently fascinating and generative spaces for me, for they remind me that we can tell endless stories about the artifacts that define human life. From paintings and sculptures, to everyday objects like kitchen supplies and clothing,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 25, 2018 | AmWriting, Digital Literacy, Personal, Professionalization, Web Culture Musings, Writing
Every day, I tend to fill at least some of my time with reading the latest in education news. I’m a big fan of newsletter subscriptions in particular, so everyday, my e-mail inbox tends to include some message with the latest headlines from Educause, Inside...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 18, 2018 | AmWriting, Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization
I’m nearing the end of my first week back in my office after attending the NEH Institute in Salt Lake City, and, already, I feel myself sliding back into some bad writing habits. For one, I’ve had my browser window open all morning with the Dashboard of...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 15, 2017 | Personal, Professionalization
The silence on this blog is glaring. Crafting yet another introduction to yet another apology for silence fills me with a familiar feeling of fraudulence, a nagging insecurity about my repeated inability to embrace the constant grind that being a writer requires. Yet...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 21, 2015 | Personal, Professionalization
For Ph.D. students, the holidays can be a dreaded time because it means inevitable questions from old family and friends about a lot of stressful topics, from their long-term projects to their future career outcomes. Believe me, Ph.D. students do a great job of...
