Welcome to Tool Review Tuesdays, a blog post series that explores how we can hack our classrooms and our research with composing, editing, networking, and other writing-related EdTech tools! This is an extension of our Hack n’ Yack series, where the DRC fellows offer up some quick tips and perspective on tools they’ve found especially useful. Writing students commonly create portfolios by the end of their courses, and increasingly, instructors are giving students opportunities to digitize their portfolios, using blogging platforms and other e-portfolio tools. Encouraging students to revise work for a portfolio while thinking more carefully about digital composition…
Author: Jenae Cohn
Jenae Cohn
Jenae Cohn is a PhD candidate in English and Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies at UC Davis. Her research explores how materialities of reading and writing technologies affect established and emerging writers' perceptions of reading and writing experiences. She works in her university's WAC program as a graduate writing fellow and also serves as a HASTAC Scholar. She blogs irregularly at www.jenaecohn.net and to get herself writing, she lights candles and dons the fuzziest of socks.
I have a challenge for you: pick three words you’d use to describe yourself. These could be words like “mother,” “son,” “teacher,” or “scholar.” These could also be words like “Muslim,” “bisexual,” or “Californian.” These words are basically any three self-identifiers you can think of instantly. Don’t over-think this. This should only take a few seconds of your time. I’d like to know how you self-identified (in a comment at the end of the post perhaps?), but since I’m not in a synchronous conversation with you, I can’t find that out yet. At least in the meantime, I can tell…