by Jenae Cohn | Jan 25, 2022 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning, Pedagogy
In 2021, we talked a lot about being “resilient” and “flexible.” We lived through yet another Pandemic Year, this one somehow full of more turbulence than the Pandemic Year that came before. If 2020 was the year of the Emergency Remote Pivot,...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 3, 2019 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
I’m always buzzing on the first day of a new academic term. The opportunity to start afresh, to see the possibilities of a few weeks of ideas before me activates a mixture of different energies: anxiety, excitement, uncertainty of what to expect as everyone...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 14, 2019 | Digital Literacy, information literacy, Pedagogy, Personal
Our digital footprints may last a bit longer than these footprints in the sand, which may require us to be ever more mindful of what traces of ourselves we make visible. I Googled myself yesterday. This is not unusual; I “Google” myself with regularity, seeing what...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 28, 2018 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
It’s Week 9 (of 10) on the quarter system here at Stanford, which means that final projects are well underway for students and the instructors are anticipating the onslaught of final grading. There’s always a palpable nervous energy in the hallways during...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2018 | Pedagogy, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
For two hours on Tuesday morning, the e-mail server on-campus was down. I start my day as I suspect a lot of you do: check my e-mail inbox, respond to urgent messages, and use those very messages – their requests, their latest up-to-date information – to inform the...
