by Jenae Cohn | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
This is me in front of a mural in Jeonju, South Korea. I have wings! A symbol for soaring to new heights in 2019! I love the concept of a New Year’s resolution: it’s reflection-in-action, an opportunity to look back on what the year before was like and to aspire...
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 12, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today is the day that our exhibits go up at the Salt Lake City Public Library, an exciting moment for our group to showcase the products of our work to a larger audience. I’m glad that there is a forum to share some of what we’ve been thinking about and to...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
What happens when you get a group of people in a room together who all love to talk about and think about what it means for the book to be a form of technology? An immediate answer is simple: you get a generative collaborative of people who are eager to work together...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 16, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
Let me start with some Obvious Things: Obvious Thing #1: I’m pretty good at starting and abandoning blogs. Why is that? Well, here’s an obvious reason for my obvious fact: writing is hard. I’ve come to accept that (and embrace it on my best days)....
