Become a Storytelling Fellow

Are you a graduate student looking to network across programs? Engaged in academic or professional work that you wish you could communicate to a broader audience? Interested in building your resume while learning how to tell compelling stories about meaningful topics?

 

If YES: the UW Libraries invites you to apply to join the inaugural cohort of Storytelling Fellows, an innovative, hands-on program designed to highlight the interests and accomplishments of UW graduate students using digital-storytelling skills and technologies.

 

Storytelling Fellows

A Free Online Skill-Building Program for Graduate Students

Sponsored by the Research Commons & the Libraries Instructional Design Team

2/1/17 – 2/15/17 with two synchronous online sessions on 2/4 and 2/11 (9:30-11:30am)

 

What is Storytelling Fellows?

It is a totally free two-week online program that will take approximately 10 accepted fellows through the start-to-finish process of envisioning and creating a digital-storytelling video suitable for an online portfolio, professional presentation, or academic project. Fellows will meet for 2 two-hour online Adobe Connect sessions in order to discuss project ideas and gain insight into the art of storytelling, using the cloud-based program WeVideo.

 

Do I need to have any prior experience?

Nope! No previous experience with digital storytelling or WeVideo is required or needed. An online Canvas-based course will be provided to bring you up to speed on the finer points of digital storytelling.

 

When does the Fellows program run?

The online Canvas course opens 2/1 and closes 2/15. The mandatory Adobe Connect sessions (online) are on Saturday, 2/4, from 9:30-11:30am and Saturday, 2/1,1 from 9:30-11:30am.

 

How do I sign up?

Fill out this survey by no later than 1/26. We will cap the workshop at 10 people–and preference will be given to those who can attend two Adobe-Connect meetings–so it’s best to sign up soon.

 

Questions? Contact Elliot Stevens, Assistant Research Commons Librarian (res22@uw.edu).

What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music

“The composer Johann Sebastian Bach left behind an incomplete fugue upon his death, either as an unfinished work or perhaps as a puzzle for future composers to solve.

A classical music dataset released Wednesday by University of Washington researchers — which enables machine learning algorithms to learn the features of classical music from scratch — raises the likelihood that a computer could expertly finish the job.”

Read more at UW Today.

RIPM Online Archive

The UW Music Library is exploring a new article database and we want to hear from you!  RIPM  Online Archives of Periodicals is an international, highly annotated database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950–from Beethoven to Bartok, from Berlioz to Berg, and from Schubert to Shostakovich–all provided by internationally-recognized scholars and editors. RIPM currently indexes the contents of 140 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more. In addition, RIPM offers more than 5,000 English-language translations of articles from journals in other languages.  Try it by November 15th and tell us what you think at musiclib@uw.edu!

How does music relate to equity?

How does your research relate to EQUITY? Tell the UW community at Scholars’ Studio!

Submit a proposal by Friday, October 28th, for a 5-minute lightning talk and join us at the 2016-2017 Scholars’ Studio series. Scholars’ Studio is a fun, informal event featuring 10 presentations (5 minutes each) from an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and postdocs.

Hosted by the UW Libraries Research Commons and the UW Graduate School CORE Programs, Scholars’ Studio gives students the opportunity to share their research across disciplines, make connections and build presentation skills.

Scholars’ Studio: EQUITY

Thursday, November 17th

4:00 – 6:00 pm

Presentation Place, The Research Commons, Allen Library South

Need ideas? Think:  Social justice. Race. Employment. Environmental justice. Oppression & resistance. Gender. Education. Accessibility. Class. Health care. Equal opportunity. Immigration. Law. Housing. Bias. Citizenship. Disparities. Technology. Environment. Connect your research!

Learn more and submit a short 150-word proposal here: http://commons.lib.washington.edu/scholarsstudio

To request disability accommodation as a presenter or attendee, contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu, preferably at least 10 days in advance of the event.
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