Student Reflections
At the end of the COVID-19 Spring 2020 Term, DREAM Lab student workers were asked to reflect on the 10 weeks building digital translation while working remotely.
Students Reflected Using These Questions
- If you had to describe your experience working through the process of reconstructing a digital scholarship project, how would you explain it to someone who has never encountered a digital project translation?
- What is 1 major takeaway from this term’s work that you plan to apply to your daily practice as a UO student?
- How do you think this term’s work experience has prepared you for employment after graduation?
How This Term’s Work Experience Has Prepared Marcus For Employment After Graduation
This term has been a very special term for me. As everything was shut down due to pandemics, I’m grateful that I was still able to work during this difficult time. This remote working opportunity and the project that I worked on has taught me a lot of essential things...
Marcus’ Takeaway From This Term’s Work
After working on the digital project translation this term, I have a lot of things that are beneficial for my future works and life. One thing I consider the most important takeaway from this term’s project is data management. Data management is a critical...
Marcus’ Experience Constructing the Untold Stories:the Hidden History of the University of Oregon Digital Translation Project
My project this term was to translate the Untold Stories: The Hidden History of the University of Oregon website, which was built on Omeka to a WordPress site. Before starting my work on this project, I was quite intimidated by all the things that I’m not familiar...
How This Term’s Work Experience Has Prepared Lizzy For Employment After Graduation
This term’s work experience has prepared me for employment after graduation in the sense that I have a better appreciation for my abilities as an employee. A lot of the time, I am quick to doubt my abilities as an employee and feel insecure in my work environment. It...
Lizzy’s Takeaway From This Term’s Work
One major takeaway from this term’s work that I plan to apply to my daily practice as a student is to work effectively as an at home employee. Because of Covid-19, DREAM Lab employees, as well as everyone else in the world who had the luxury, were all forced to change...
Lizzy’s Experience Constructing the March Digital Translation Project
If I had to describe my experience working through the digital scholarship project reconstruction, I would explain it as reformatting information to be condensed into a more straight-forward, accessible format. While the original format of The March digital project...
How This Term’s Work Experience Has Prepared Victoria For Employment After Graduation
This term’s work experience has prepared me for employment after graduation by enabling me to develop new skills such as be more organized, be more committed, be more independent, and work remotely at home. Since I have to organize the project in different ways, I...
Victoria’s Takeaway From This Term’s Work
One major takeaway I got from this term is planning skill. In this project, there were several steps I needed to do before I reached the final product. These intermediate steps can sometimes overlap with one another. At first, I did not plan out the steps that could...
Victoria’s Experience Constructing the Architecture of the University of Oregon Digital Translation Project
Digital project translation is working on a project that needs to be versatile with the new platform. It is to translate the metadata from one platform into another platform based on the language that the other platform required. Digital project translation is more...
How This Term’s Work Experience Has Prepared Ishani For Employment After Graduation
As a business student with a marketing concentration, this term’s work was very beneficial for my future career. Website design and development is a huge aspect in the marketing field and I will put this project on my resume because I think employers will find this...
Ishani’s Takeaway From This Term’s Work
This term taught me the importance of asking questions and reaching out to people for help. From the beginning of the term, working remotely, I learned how to use Teams for video conferencing, sharing my screen, opening the chat during the video conference, and other...
Ishani’s Experience Constructing the Red Thread Digital Translation Project
I translated the Red Thread Project from Omeka to Wordpress. Website translation is the process of taking the content of one website and adapting it to another site.My first step was to explore the Red Thread page and I learned that the site was inspired by a course...
How This Term’s Work Experience Has Prepared Blake For Employment After Graduation
Votive Slip folio 38 verso 1This term’s work experience was incredibly valuable for my future employment because it challenged me to work under circumstances that I had never had to work under before. The projects each of the DREAM lab employees completed this term...
Blake’s Takeaway From This Term’s Work
I think for me, the biggest takeaway from this term is knowing when to “pivot.” With the added stressors from Covid-19, working from home, adjusting to remote learning, and the social issues surrounding the US, things haven’t always gone according to plan. As part of...
How This Term’s Work Experience Has Prepared Sabrina For Employment After Graduation
This term’s work experience has prepared me for employment after graduation in a variety of different ways that will impact me both in a matter of advancing my skills in web development and in a matter of life skills. The idea of being employed during a pandemic that...
Sabrina’s Takeaway From This Term’s Work
A major takeaway from this term’s work that I plan to apply to my daily practice as a UO student is the fact that you can make the best out of any scenario and can always find ways to keep on learning when resources are limited. When it was first announced that Spring...
Sabrina’s Experience Constructing the Digital Translation Project Site
If you had to describe your experience working through the process of reconstructing a digital scholarship project, how would you explain it to someone who has never encountered a digital project translation? My experience working through the process of developing a...
Blake’s Experience Constructing the Yōkai Senjafuda Digital Translation Project
If you had to describe your experience working through the process of reconstructing a digital scholarship project, how would you explain it to someone who has never encountered a digital project translation? This term I completed a digital translation of the Yōkai...