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 14, 2012 | Pedagogy, Personal
For the first time in my life, I have a punch card. That’s right: my hours inside an office are tracked. Punch in. Punch out. Present. Absent. Working. Not working. Shifting from a life of complete flexibility and fluidity to one with rules and set hours is...
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...
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...