By Amy Thiessen (BA Hons candidate, UBCO SpokenWeb Project Manager) On May 28th and 29th on SFU’s Burnaby campus I joined a room full of fellow SpokenWeb team members in reflecting on our past year, learning from each other, planning […]
By Lauren St Clair As a new member of the SpokenWeb project at UBCO, I found attending the Sound Institute to be an insightful introduction to the project at large. The Lightning Talks, in particular, were helpful in introducing the […]
By Karis Shearer With one year of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership under our belts, the Sound Institute at Simon Fraser University (May 28-29, 2019) felt like equal part reunion, equal part opportunity to meet many SpokenWeb collaborators in person for […]
By Amy Thiessen (Honours English candidate; SpokenWeb RA). The TEXT/SOUND/PERFORMANCE: Making in Canadian Space conference in Dublin, Ireland in 25-27, April 2019 was an incredibly formative experience for me. I had the chance to participate in a panel presentation and […]
By Megan Butchart For three days at the end of April 2019 I had the unique privilege of attending and presenting at the international conference TEXT/SOUND/PERFORMANCE: Making in Canadian Space in Dublin, Ireland. The conference was hosted by the 2018-19 […]
At the end of April, a team of five UBCO researchers from the AMP Lab travelled to Dublin, Ireland to present work at the TEXT/SOUND/PERFORMANCE: Making in Canadian Space conference (April 25-27, 2019) held at University College Dublin and the […]
A flower bed in Exeter University’s garden. During reading week this February, I had the opportunity to go with the AMP Lab to Exeter in the UK. The purpose of the exchange was to foster development on two training modules […]
Taking a moment on the Exeter Rock on the way to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (left to right Charlotte Tupman, Eva Bodenschatz, Connor Spence, Karis Shearer, Emily Murphy) Over the course of a week, Karis Shearer, Emily Murphy, Miles […]
Yesterday, the lab hosted a pop-up event at Okanagan CoLab which featured two of the lab’s projects: the SpokenWeb project and the Negative Heritage project. In the morning, visitors got to listen to files from the SoundBox collection, handle reel-to-reel […]
We were very fortunate to host Dr. Emily Christina Murphy’s talk today! She gave a presentation about using Twine (a digital storytelling tool) to get students to craft arguments rather than assigning traditional essays. She also offered many resources about […]