By Dr. Sarita Shukla | Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Educational Studies | 2022-2023 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow The Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows (DSFF) award by the UW Bothell Library was one of the best things that happened for my students and my own learning in the 2022-2023 academic year. This award helped me transform a course project vision into reality. My hope was to create a public-facing website with student-generated content evaluating local non-profit organizations. Student contribution to this site would not only promote learning for students within that course but also create a resource useful to…
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Ocean Noise Explorer
By Dr. Shima Abadi | Associate Professor in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math | 2022-2023 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow The overall goal of the Ocean Noise Explorer project was to leverage existing ocean instrumentations and datasets from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) to create a publicly accessible educational website. The OOI is a large-scale project that provides a unique continuous observation of the ocean with recorded data using more than 800 instruments since 2015. In my research group, we have already pre-processed this rich dataset and have created an online platform for easy access to this dataset…
Breathing in a Time of Disaster: an Invitation to the Communal Breaths Archive
By Dr. Ching-In Chen | Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences | 2022-2023 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow My collaborator Cassie Mira and I have been curating Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a community-based writing, performance and installation project which focuses on exploring the unit of breath through the intersection of meditation, health and environmental justice. The project aims to tell an interactive story highlighting individual and collective responses to disaster, disrupting mainstream narratives of our changing climate in favor of witnessing creative strategies of survival used by everyday people. In 2019, we invited Houston-area community…
The Feminist Digital Center: The Launch of YEARS and YEARS of Collaborative Feminist Praxis
By Dr. Julie Shayne | Teaching Professor, IAS Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Global Studies | 2022-2023 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow My Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows (DSFF) grant was a tremendous success for UWB as an institution, the UWB library, and my students. I worked with IAS student Tessa Denton to build and curate a hub for student centered, open-access, feminist research and writing projects called the Feminist Digital Center (FDC). The FDC hosts my three signature digital research projects: The Feminist Community Archive of Washington; The Feminist Archive Exhibits; The Badass Womxn & Enbies Zines; and feminist writing…
The GeoHub: An on-line platform for geo-exploration and learning
Guest post by Dr. Santiago Lopez, Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.
Since 2014, groups of students and faculty have collaborated to develop a geographical database (a.k.a. “Geodatabase project”), with geospatial information about the natural and human-made features that make up the socio-environmental setting of the UWB campus and the Bothell area…
Feminist Archive Exhibits: Highlighting Open Feminist Knowledge through Undergraduate Research
Guest post by Dr. Julie Shayne, teaching professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.
My Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows grant was a tremendous success for the University of Washington Bothell as an institution, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences in general, as well as Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and my students. As outlined in my proposal, I worked with IAS student Jesse Blaire and Digital Scholarship librarian Denise Hattwig to develop Feminist Archive Exhibits, a project related to my class, Histories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality…
Becoming a (WordPress) Learner: Using SPLOTbox as a course website in BCUSP 100
Becoming a Learner at the University of Washington Bothell Guest post by Deborah Hathaway, IAS, and Chelsea Nesvig, UWB/CC Library The academic journey of each student at UW Bothell is unique – depending on their major, previous educational experiences, and overall goals for their time on campus. When students register for BCUSP 100: General Learning Strategies, they are offered the opportunity to reflect on that unique journey in a variety of creative ways. The course’s more specific title is “The Habits of Highly Successful Students” – this means that the syllabus discusses topics such as time management, emotional intelligence, engaged…
New Digital Collection: CCUWBee Native Bee Collection
UW Bothell and Cascadia College’s CCUWBee research team has been studying native bee pollinators on campus for the past several years. Led by Dr. Amy Lambert, IAS Associate Teaching Professor, and Sustainability Coordinator Alexa Russo, students, staff, faculty, and alumni in the Research Initiative have photographed and documented diversity of native bee species over time. These research photographs are now available in the open CCUWBee Native Bee Collection. The CCUWBee Native Bee Collection includes photographs from abundance and diversity surveys on the UW Bothell and Cascadia College Campus. Images show bees of various species throughout several years of surveys and…
Prisoner Newsletters from the WPHP Now on View at the Henry Art Gallery
Prisoner newsletters from the Washington Prison History Project (WPHP) are now on view at the recently re-opened Henry Art Gallery as part of a new exhibit, Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print. Issues of Through the Looking Glass, The Abolitionist, Red Dragon, and more are exhibited alongside prints by 19th century French lithographer Honore’ Daumier and contemporary American photographer Danny Lyon. This exhibition highlights the power of printed material to communicate social and systemic injustices…In dialogue alongside…works by Daumier and Lyon, which are part of the Henry’s permanent collection, are prison newsletters from the Washington Prison History Project. These newsletters…
“Our Favorite Books of 2020” from PressbooksEDU recognizes Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest
PressbookEDU’s first annual “Our Favorite Books of 2020” has recognized UW Bothell’s Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest zine. In the words of Pressbooks staff: “Oh, and also these two student authored books are legit awesome:” China’s Magical Creatures by Tineke D’Haeseleer and student contributors Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest from University of Washington by UWB Zine Queenz – PressbooksEDU, “Our Favorite Books of 2020,” 12/18/2020 Badass Womxn was envisioned, planned, and created by IAS Professor Julie Shayne and her students, with student lead Nicole Carter and librarians Penelope Wood and Denise Hattwig. Want to know more?Project information about…
