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Telling Stories with Data: Digital Skills & Knowledge Mobilization<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"\"We had a busy 2022 in the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) as we continued to help students, faculty and staff learn to tell stories about their research <\/span>in ways beyond text<\/span><\/i> to further their public scholarship and knowledge mobilization efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The number of digital fluency workshop participants was up 1% over 2021, and we taught a total of 5,905 individuals. Website Creation with WordPress was our most popular workshop by participants, followed by Excel, Video Editing, and Infographics. The DSC collaborated with professors in 20 disciplines to integrate DSC workshops into their curriculums. Professors in Education, Indigenous Education, Business, Health Informatics, and Anthropology were our most frequent collaborators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Digital Scholarship Commons is my favourite place in the library! DSC staff developed custom video editing workshops to help my students create their own short adaptations of the Chinese-language movies and literature that they have studied in class.\u201d – Dr. Angie Chau<\/a>, Pacific and Asian Studies<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"In<\/span>A significant majority of DSC drop-in workshop participants prefer Zoom workshops over face-to-face workshops after returning to campus after the COVID campus closure ended. This preference was first noticed in the fall of 2021 when in-person DSC workshops were offered in a \u201chyflex\u201d format. DSC instructors learned that it was significantly more difficult to pay attention to the needs of face-to-face participants during active learning times when there were only one or two face-to-face participants and six or more Zoom participants. This was reinforced by unsolicited feedback from face-to-face workshop participants about the difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DSC workshop instructors decided to schedule the majority of their drop-in workshops as Zoom-only starting in the fall of 2022. Workshops that required physical access to hardware or specialized equipment continue to be held face-to-face in the library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Workshops held in for-credit classes at the invitation of professors are approximately 90% face-to-face in classrooms across campus, with the remaining 10% conducted over Zoom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI have never felt more welcome at a Zoom workshop than how I felt at this event. Their efforts to greet and chat with me really helped to reduce how intimidated I felt since I didn’t have any experience with the topic. I was also so impressed with how generous the hosts were with their time and expertise. I was attending remotely and they took the time to answer my questions in detail. Thank you so much to your staff!\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 – Humanities Undergraduate Student, 3D Design & Print workshop<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Select Collaborations with Faculty & Community Organizations<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"IEDIndigenous Education Student Candidate Training in the DSC: <\/b>A cohort of Indigenous Education – Language Revitalization teacher candidates participated in an intensive two-and-a-half weeks of hands-on training for educational technology and pedagogy in the DSC in June (<\/span>IED 336<\/span><\/a>). The class was led by Rich McCue and was fortunate to have <\/span>Ry Moran<\/span><\/a> as a guest speaker to share his podcasting experience and expertise that he has developed over the years. Other guest speakers included <\/span>SX\u0331ED\u0166ELISIYE<\/span><\/a> (Renee J. Sampson), from the WS\u00c1NE\u0106 First Nation, <\/span>Joanna Lake<\/span><\/a> from School District 61, and Jesse Miller from <\/span>Mediated Reality<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The curriculum for the intensive class is all Creative Commons licensed (CC-BY), incorporated 12 DSC workshops into the curriculum and uses an open pedagogical approach: <\/span>edtechuvic.ca\/ied336\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI am partial to the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC). The workshops are helpful to faculty and students alike. There is also a wonderful view! I often encourage students to take workshops with the terrific library staff at the DSC.\u201d<\/span><\/i> – Dr. Sara Humphreys, English Department<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Indigenous<\/a>Indigenizing DSC Workshop Curriculum:<\/b><\/p>\n

The DSC is continuing the process of Indigenizing its information fluency workshops. This ongoing process so far has included incorporating more holistic, experiential learning, and place-based learning into a handful of workshops.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

To begin with, we have created a handful of new workshop activities which incorporate positive Indigenous themes and subjects so that Indigenous learners can see themselves in the curriculum. For example, the new Indigenous Learning Design infographic activity and the SEN\u0106O\u0166EN language-themed sketchnote activity for language learning are two examples of new activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feedback from a School District 61 Teacher-Librarian<\/b> after a presentation on Hyflex instruction for library workshops at the 2022 VILSC conference:<\/span> \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cI can’t tell you how much I appreciate the DSC\u2019s leadership and support with Hyflex pedagogy and equipment.\u00a0 It has been a real game-changer and it will only get bigger and better. The staff and the Parent Advisory Committee have fully embraced the idea of Hyflex learning opportunities and are fully behind the pedagogy.\u00a0 I approached the Parent Advisory Committee and asked for $600 to get a camera and wireless microphone.\u00a0 Their response was to set aside $5000 and to encourage me to get multiple set-ups in the school.\u00a0 They are overjoyed with how this technology can benefit students who are unable to come into the building for various reasons. This never happens in K-12!<\/em>\u201d – School District 61 Teacher-Librarian<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Digital Badges & Informal Credentialing<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"Badges<\/a>The DSC <\/span>informal credentialing pilot project<\/span><\/a> continued in 2022; a total of <\/span>487<\/b> badges were issued for the successful completion of digital fluency workshops over the course of the year. Students had to explicitly opt-in to receive a badge, at which point the workshop instructor reviewed the work to make sure it met the requirements for earning a badge. By far our most popular badge is for our Data Analysis with Excel workshop, as it seems to be a skill in high demand by many co-op employers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSome of the most interesting experiences I\u2019ve had in a library are attending workshops in the Digital Scholarship Commons. I appreciate that this space has been set up to organically evolve with the needs of users \u2013 a great model for UVic services.\u201d<\/span><\/i> – Dr. Tom Gleeson, Faculty of Engineering<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Digital<\/a>The \u201c3D Design & Print,\u201d \u201cInfographics\u201d and \u201cDesign and Layout with Canva\u201d workshop badges are the three next most popular informal credentials the DSC offers. These badges communicate to employers extracurricular skills in which learners have demonstrated training and competency.
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As part of a UVic Human Ethics Research Board approved project, the DSC gathered mixed-methods data to evaluate the perceived value of badges by students who received them. Of particular interest is how students perceived the DSC badges as being valuable in helping them obtain co-op or post-graduation employment. For more information about this study, and to see the qualitative and qualitative results, here is a link to the paper: <\/span>Makerspace Workshop Badges: Student Perceptions & Uses of Informal Credentialing<\/span><\/a> (McCue & Johnson, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThank you so much for a wonderful Infographics workshop today. It was very informative and I have had students let me know how useful it was. Thanks again and I will definitely be looking for more workshops to incorporate into my courses!\u201d <\/span><\/i>– Dr. Ren\u00e9e Monchalin, School of Public Health & Social Policy<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Graduate Student Experts & Young Canada Works Interns<\/b><\/h3>\n

In September we welcomed Victoria Hartman as our DSC Intern. Victoria is a recent UVic Biomedical Engineering graduate and has experience with BioPrinting (using Biomedical Engineering\u2019s specialized Bio 3D printers); as well as 3D design and printing, microcontrollers, and scientific research tools. Victoria’s diverse skill set and willingness to learn new tools and teaching techniques made her an excellent fit for the DSC. She managed 3D print jobs, assisted in indigenizing our curriculum, and taught DSC workshops from September 2022 to the end of March 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThank you so much for coming to work with my students last week. The HTML\/CSS workshop was really fun and we all enjoyed learning from you and being able to call on your expertise.\u201d<\/span><\/i> – English Department Professor<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Farewells<\/b><\/h4>\n

In March, we bid farewell to Nathaniel Loman who was our Young Canada Works (YCW) intern. Nathaniel graduated from the Math and Computer Science department at UVic and did an excellent job migrating many of our workshops from Google Docs to GitHub while also keeping up with the constant flow of new 3D-print jobs. Nathaniel is now working at Codename Entertainment in Victoria, BC<\/span><\/p>\n

In April, both of our wonderful Graduate Data Analysis experts\u2013Alex Gavrilov and Viet Dao\u2013successfully defended their theses and graduated. While they worked in the DSC, they were in constant demand for workshops and consultations, and they taught many workshops on RStudio, Tableau, Excel, and LaTex. Our new Graduate Data Analysis expert has some large shoes to fill. Alex is now working at the Coast Health Authority as a Healthcare Analyst.<\/span><\/p>\n

In November our YCW Summer Assistant Oscar Morrison finished his time with us after doing significant work testing our new Laser Cutter and updating our 3D Print web application to handle Laser Cutting jobs. We wish Oscar all the best in his new job!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWorking with Nathaniel and the Digital Scholarship Commons was a fabulous experience.\u00a0 The props team at the Phoenix Theatre had the unique challenge of building a breakaway prop for our Fall 2021 production of \u201cDead Man\u2019s Cellphone\u201d by Sarah Ruhl.\u00a0 With Nathaniel\u2019s help, we were able to print the necessary parts of a 90s-era cellphone and construct an effective prop that broke reliably for each performance. Many thanks!\u201d<\/span><\/i> – Carolyn, Fine Arts Graduate Student <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

New & Upgraded Workshops for 2022<\/b><\/h3>\n