by Jenae Cohn | Sep 20, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
This morning, I saw sedans filled to the brim with pillows and blankets stalled on side streets. Mini-vans poured into campus parking lots. A few stray students toted their suitcases, lanyards already draped around their necks, with their nervous parents trotting...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 25, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
I remember making papier mache for the first time in elementary school and marveling at how ingredients like delicate paper could be turned into something as sturdy as a mask. The mask I created – a purple and yellow parrot’s face – took a...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 5, 2017 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Web Culture Musings
As a child, I had a recurring bodysnatching nightmare. In the nightmare, I would be safely tucked into my bed, but I would then sense a glowing presence moving down the hallway that separated the front door to the house from my bedroom door. I would stay frozen under...
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)....
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 1, 2014 | Personal, Professionalization
The greatest treat in the world for me is getting up and working in my pajamas. To roll straight from bed to computer and dig into a project is a fantastic luxury for me and it is one of the prevailing parts of an academic (and I suppose freelance) lifestyle that...