{"id":6488,"date":"2016-06-23T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:40:38","slug":"first-gen-digital-storytelling-project-free-aug-4th-6th-apply-by-july-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2016\/06\/first-gen-digital-storytelling-project-free-aug-4th-6th-apply-by-july-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"First Gen Digital Storytelling Project \u2013 FREE \u2013 Aug 4th-6th  &#8211; apply by July 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Students,<\/p>\n<p>You are invited to submit an application to participate in a project aimed at centering and amplifying the narratives of first generation<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[<\/sup><\/a><sup>1]<\/sup> students in graduate and professional school at the University of Washington.\u00a0 The<em> First Gen<\/em> <em>Digital Storytelling Project: Narrating Our Lives in Grad School<\/em> workshop is a structured, three-day workshop to be held at the Seattle campus from August 4 \u2013 6, 2016.\u00a0 Facilitators will help you develop the skills to work with images, sound, text, and digital technologies to produce your story of navigating life as a first gen student in grad school (no prior tech experience necessary).\u00a0 Participation in this workshop is free and food and refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>The application deadline is July 1<sup>st<\/sup>, and there are 10 spaces available. \u00a0We anticipate a waiting list.\u00a0 This innovative, UW tri-campus project is in collaboration with the national organization Class Action.<\/p>\n<p>Application Link:<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to share this invitation with graduate or professional student peers whom you know would be eligible and interested in applying to participate.<\/p>\n<p>*If you have questions, please contact Dr. Jane Van Galen (Professor in Educational Studies, UW Bothell) at <a href=\"mailto:vangalen@uw.edu\">vangalen@uw.edu<\/a>.*<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for your time and consideration, and hope to see your applications!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A first generation graduate student is defined as an individual whose parents or guardians completed less than a four-year college degree.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Students, You are invited to submit an application to participate in a project aimed at centering and amplifying the narratives of first generation[1] students in graduate and professional school at the University of Washington.\u00a0 The First Gen Digital Storytelling Project: Narrating Our Lives in Grad School workshop is a structured, three-day workshop to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19830,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/19830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}