by vhartman | Mar 23, 2023 | News
My internship at the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) has been a wonderful experience. Over 8 months, I helped to develop a new workshop for Design for Laser cutting and improve existing workshops. This included adding Indigenous centered activities like writing...
by Richard McCue | Oct 26, 2022 | Lecture/Talk, News
Rich had an engaging 30-minute chat about Academic Makerspaces with Donna McLaughlin from Lethbridge College’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation. Here is a link to the podcast episode. Here are some of the topics Rich and Donna covered during their...
by Richard McCue | Mar 22, 2022 | News
Training, tools, & support to help UVic community members pursue their passions & tell their research stories in engaging ways. Please note that this document is available in three different formats: This Web Page is best for reading on a cellphone or computer...
by Richard McCue | Mar 16, 2022 | News
My internship at the Digital Scholarship Commons has given me the chance to work on a range of interesting projects in a healthy and fun environment. I got to create and maintain web-based lesson plans for a variety of workshops, and I even ran some of these workshops...
by Richard McCue | Feb 24, 2022 | Tutorial
The short answer is yes, you can add audio clips to your SurveyMonkey questions and answers by uploading your audio clips to your free SoundCloudSoundCloud account, and then embedding SoundCloud widgets into your Survey. Here is a quick tutorial I put together over...
by Lisa Goddard | Mar 16, 2021 | Event, News
Research Data Management for Digitally-Curious Humanists Monday, June 14, 2021 Join researchers from across the Humanities to discuss and define unique considerations for managing “humanities data”, make connections to data management specialists, and gain hands-on...
by Lisa Goddard | Oct 9, 2020 | News
Thursday, Oct 22, 2020 Learning materials for this session available here. 10-11: Designing for Accessibility: Authoring Effective Alternative Text Descriptions (ARC-BC) 11-12: Wikipedia Accessibility Edit-a-thon Designing for Accessibility: Authoring Effective...
by Lisa Goddard | Sep 14, 2020 | News
Barriers to Diversity in Wikipedia: The Importance of the Worlds We Don’t Know About October 21, 2020 @ 10 am (Pacific) via ZoomClick here to see the slide deck for this talk. We’ve seen monolithic narratives in action: they can form parties, they can create...
by Richard McCue | Apr 30, 2020 | News
Workshops for classes: Would it be helpful to have a digital scholarship expert available to lead a digital skills workshop in your class? If so the Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) offers a wide range of modular introductory hands-on digital skills...
by Richard McCue | Apr 6, 2020 | News
With 2019 now behind us we thought that this would be a good time to review some of the highlights from the Digital Scholarship Commons team’s activities in 2019, accomplished with the help of the UVic community, through our Annual Report (PDF & HTML) and...