Hello! Today, I will reflect on my progress as a Vivero Fellow and report on our project, “Grinnell’s Early Chinese Alumni.”
As a continuing Vivero Fellow, I think I grew a fundamental skill and knowledge to set up various different digital tools, such as WordPress, Omeka, ArcGIS, Storymap, etc. Trainings also inform me about how to make a digital project more accessible for the wider audience using captions, alternative texts, and using the color assessment tool. Implementing more accessible features has been a place is something I become aware and able to practice thanks to the training for me as a Vivero Fellow. So far, I like to think about the presentation methods online to improve the way the knowledge is presented so that the intended audience can engage in the conversation, which is made possible by those training on accessibility and wide-range of digital tools.
With those skills, the areas that I would like to further develop is coding, recording, and mentoring. As an aspiring researcher, I would like to present my study in the most sustainable, accessible form. To think about the sustainability of the website, I would like to learn more about the type of coding that is both sustainable throughout the change in the applications and servers and flexible to the updates. For a similar reason, I need to learn more about how to record the physical/scholarly material, preserve it online to potentially pass it to the other researchers and curiosity-chasers who might be interested in those records. Lastly, I have not had quite a few opportunity to mentor other students and navigate them along using digital tools. I would like to grow my interpersonal skills in the field of Digital Studies! As I am hoping to continue my research and study at graduate school and further, I hope to grow my skills in Omeka and ArcGIS to present the way of understanding the world by more accessible and engaging ways.