by Jenae Cohn | Jun 18, 2012 | Personal, Web Culture Musings
I’m not used to waiting for things. I would wager to say that most of us who grew up in the digital age are not used to waiting for things either. Information is rapid, instant, and instantly gratifying. Given this fact, it is easy to forget how much labor goes...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 4, 2012 | Literature, Pedagogy, Personal, Web Culture Musings
I had the enormous pleasure of spending the past week (i.e. my spring break) in San Diego and Los Angeles, taking plenty of time away from the computer and gazing at beaches (and even seals!) Alas, a new quarter has begun and I’m back to reality and gazing...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 5, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
I know I’m already three posts into discussion of DML and, for those of you looking for other things on this blog (like, erm, Codeacademy, which I will duly resume at the end of this month), this may not be that exciting. But! The DML experience was really...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 3, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
Over the past two days at DML, I’ve come to realize just how perfect it is that we’re in San Francisco. A city committed to openness and liberal thinking with progressiveness at its ideological core, even its city streets reflect a kind of hybrid...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 2, 2012 | Web Culture Musings
OK, I’m writing this quickly during a break at the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco. There is A LOT to write about here (one only has to look to Twitter to see), but let’s just say that: – “Play” is a big...
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”...