The Digital Scholarship Fellowship Program invites sophomores to gain proficiency with digital platforms and critically reflect on the related impacts on our culture and society.
We are pleased to present the Digital Scholarship Fellowship Program, offered by the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Group as part of the Sophomore Success Initiative.
The Digital Scholarship Fellowship Program invites our sophomore scholars to gain proficiency with a variety of digital platforms and critically reflect on the related impacts on our culture and society.
2024-2025 DSF Program!
Questions? Contact our Digital Scholarship team at digital@stlawu.edu.
Program Overview
Students are engaged in a series of workshops led by Nicole Roché, Digital Scholarship Specialist, and Eric Williams-Bergen, Director of Digital Initiatives. The workshops and related tasks are designed to progressively increase the students’ skills in the use of digital technologies for media production and scholarly research and to facilitate vital conversations about the ever-changing roles 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.”
The Opportunity
Fellows receive a stipend for their participation in the program. The program consists of weekly digital skills workshops throughout the fall and spring semesters. Workshops are relaxed and productive to help guide progress through the program. Each session includes a short technical demo; hands-on engagement with the featured equipment, software, or technique; and a follow-up discussion focused on the implications of the featured technology on both student work and society at large.
Developing digital skills from workshops enhance scholarly research used in a variety of digital scholarship projects on and off campus. Upon completion of the program, fellows have a solid foundation of various digital skills and platforms. This experience enhances future college and professional work at St. Lawrence and beyond!
Learn Digital Skills in Workshops
Student fellows attend workshops to increase their digital competencies while simultaneously deepening their understanding of digital scholarship.
Digital Scholarship Fellows attend workshops on a range of topics like these:
Web Design
With hands-on experience, fellows learn the basics of web design and tools for presenting digital information. Fellows learn how to arrange and stylize web content by building a simple but attractive digital portfolio using WordPress.
Digital Media Production
Our fellows learn how to use professional media production equipment and editing software. They also learn how to apply the foundations of effective digital storytelling to any digital media project. Our workshops take place in our newly renovated Digital Scholarship Suite, which includes two recording studios—one geared for audio and one for video—and a post-production lab with access to the latest editing software and AI-powered tools.
Generative AI
Generative AI technologies, along with Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies, are rapidly changing our world and daily lives, but they have scholarly and pedagogical applications as well. Throughout the program our fellows will have the opportunity to engage with the latest GenAI tools used in digital photography, audio and video production, and more. Fellows will also have access to many of the most popular GenAI subscriptions via our grant-funded AI Collaboration Space. We believe exposure to these popular tools is essential as our fellows consider the practical and ethical implications of GenAI on their work and today’s world.
History of the DSF Program
The Digital Scholarship Program has been running for more than 5 years and continues to be a popular opportunity for sophomores.