Sophomore Journeys Digital Scholarship Fellows
"Investigate and gain proficiency with a variety of digital platforms and critically reflect on the related impacts on our culture and society.”
We are pleased to present the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, offered by the Libraries' Digital Scholarship Group in partnership with the Sophomore Journeys Grant.
The program is designed to enable sophomores to investigate and gain proficiency with a variety of digital platforms, while also critically reflecting on the related impacts on our culture and society.
2019-2020 Sophomore Journeys Digital Scholarship Fellows
Program Overview
Students are engaged in a series of workshops, led by Judith DeGroat, Avery Olearczyk, Corey McGrath, and Eric Williams-Bergen. The workshops and related tasks are designed to progressively increase the students' skills in the use of digital technologies for scholarly research and to acquaint them with the debates about the role and challenges of technology in our society.
Mary Jane Smith, Sophomore Journeys Coordinator and Associate Professor of History notes,
"The Sophomore Journeys Digital Fellows Scholarship offers students mentored, hands-on, experiential learning that they will be able to transfer to their classroom assignments, SYE mentored research projects, and/or internships, fellowships, and post-graduation employment. After working one-on-one with LIT digital learning experts, the Digital Fellows will employ their newly learned expertise in digital technology platforms to advise faculty and/or students working on digital scholarship projects while continuing to enhance their own digital technologies research skills."
The Opportunity
Fellows are paid for 5-6 hours of work per week. Activities include monthly DSF collaboration meetings and digital skills workshops. Meetings and workshops are relaxed and productive to help guide progress through the program.
Developing digital skills from workshops enhance scholarly research used in a variety of collaborative digital scholarship projects on and off campus. Upon completion of the program, fellows have a foundation of various digital skills and project experience. This experience enhances future college and professional work at St. Lawrence and beyond!
Learn Digital Skills in Workshops
Fellows attend workshops to increase their repertoire of computer skills and technical knowledge, while simultaneously deepening their understanding of the digital humanities.
Web Design
With hands-on experience, fellows learn the basics of HTML and CSS, building blocks of every webpage and ubiquitous tools for presenting digital information. Fellows learn how to arrange and stylize web content manually by building a simple but attractive personal homepage. Students also gain experience building WordPress & Drupal-based websites.
VR/AR
Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies are changing the world from entertainment to scientific research, but they have scholarly and pedagogical applications as well. In this workshop, students experience various Augmented Reality tools for smartphone and tablet, before embarking on virtual journeys to ancient Rome, African savannah, and the depths of solitary confinement.
Data & Society
Working with Images
Geospatial Web
Contribute to Digital Scholarship Projects
Fellows work with university faculty and library staff on research that incorporates digital technology. This unique opportunity prepares students for future academic and career opportunities.
Featured Projects
The Digital Scholarship Group supports a wide range of projects from across the spectrum of the digital humanities. Below are a few featured projects.
Testimonials
Read what DSF alumni have to say about the program!
Brittanie Gordon
Class of 2021
A few months ago, I was given the opportunity to expand my knowledge of the digital field throughout the Digital Scholarship Fellows program. Over that time, I have learned a great amount that I am able to confidently incorporate in my other courses such as some basic coding skills, exploring Microsoft Excel and making timelines. The fellowship has helped me to understand what goes on” behind the scenes” in the digital world and this brought me to appreciate the work done in this field. Aside from building my technological skills, I had the opportunity to work with and form relationships with five other sophomore fellows and four members the St. Lawrence University staff, who facilitated meetings. My favorite part about this program is how interactive meetings are and the fact that we are all able to learn from each other and build on each other’s ideas.
A complete list of past and present undergraduate digital scholars can be found here.
Questions?
Contact one of our team members to learn more about this opportunity!
- Judith DeGroat (Associate Professor of History)
- Avery Olearczyk (Academic Library Fellow)
- Nicole Roché (Project Support Assistant for Digital Scholarship)
- Eric Williams-Bergen (Director of Research & Digital Scholarship)