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Scenarios - dScribe interaction at U-M

Workshops
On Tuesday evenings the dScribe 2s hold a workshop where all the student dScribes could come in to the office and get help with their courses. These were fun because Andrea’s friend Tom was dScribing a class as well. It was some history class and he was having a terrible time finding replacement images. I mean, “How do you find a replacement for the Nixon-Kennedy debate?” Anyway, the dScribe 2s were helpful, and it was fun and productive to hang out at the office, get some food, and get your work done. Most of the time at the workshops, Andrea sits with Tom talking about the usual college gossip. They like the atmosphere there and think that it’s really helpful to hear what the other student questions are like. It’s also good to get some one-on-one help from the dScribe 2s.

dScribe Help
Andrea will sometimes get help from Tom when she has a copyright question and her dScribe 2, John, isn't available. Tom has become somewhat of a copyright expert because his history class has so many fair use images. Andrea doesn’t get fair use, but it doesn’t matter because she ends up finding replacements for most of her content. Every now and then she’ll find a good replacement for Tom. She usually sends these in an email.

Other dScribes
She never would have guessed, but Andrea has met some interesting people through the dScribes project. The dScribe Facebook group advertises a lot of interesting things going on around campus that's related to the cause. Andrea now has a small group of dScribe friends that cluster at the workshops, though they never "do" anything outside of the work at the office.