by Jenae Cohn | Feb 27, 2012 | UWP 270, Web Culture Musings
Scroll it, click it, surf it… Sounds a little bit like the process I was working through this weekend. I made the leap and purchased my own domain to download the WordPress software for my webtext project. I can completely understand why “novice”...
by Jenae Cohn | Feb 15, 2012 | UWP 270
I have a confession to make: computers scare me. Admittedly, this is not ideal. I’m working towards graduate work in digital literacy/media studies. Yet if something goes wrong, I’m the first to call tech support, panicked. What am I thinking? And yes, I...
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 | 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 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 | 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,...
