Digital Scholarship Summer Research Fellows 2018

Author: Abby Dolan

  • Facing challenges

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    One challenge of any idea, is figuring out how to get those ideas out of your head, and into a format that presents that idea the best way possible. One of the biggest challenges I have faced is finding technology that helps me accomplish specifically what I hoped to accomplish, and finding ways to apply…

  • Tools to make Gamelan cool for school

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    My project is applying digital tools to traditional learning styles of Balinese Gamelan. This of course lends itself to the question, “What tools?” and now I have an answer beyond “You know, uh virtual ones…”   The main tool I will be using, is actually the tool I am using right now, WordPress. I need…

  • What digital scholarship means to me

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    I did not expect a digital scholarship project to make me cry, but there I was, 7:30 on a Wednesday night wrapped in a blanket crying about a bear I had never met after I watched bear 71. Bear 71 is an interactive short film that uses real data from tracked wild animals in Alaska…

  • Abby Dolan week 1

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    I’m interested in the Digital Scholarship Student Research Fellowship because digital scholarship has the potential to become the mainstream way we carry out and present research. Many types of scholarship are developing in ways that rely heavily on digital tools, so knowing how to use these tools effectively would put me on the forefront in…

  • Abby Dolan ’19

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    Abby is from North Kingstown, Rhode Island. She will graduate in May 2019 with a B.A. in  Music with a concentration in Cultural and Critical Studies. Her work this summer is focused on online education, and other digital education tools for American students of Gamelan. She plays in the Bucknell Symphonic Band, and the Bucknell…