# What is this? This part of the [Janice Waldron Project](https://evantobias.net/janicewaldron) that [Evan Tobias](https://evantobias.net/) created to honor Janice Waldron's work and to make her scholarship and thinking more widely available to people interested in topics such as: - Communities of Musical Practice - How people learn folk music traditions such as Irish Traditional Music and Old Time Music - Convergence of Online and Offline music communities of practice - Social media in relation to music learning and teaching - Youtube, TikTok, and other video platforms and music learning and teaching - Participatory culture, music, and learning It is also an experiment in trying out a new way (at least for me) to do scholarship - i.e. sharing parts of the process as a resource for others. # TLDR - just get me to the notes! You can: - Start with **publications** by - Unfolding the "Janice Waldron Project - Literature Notes" folder on the left - Choose a literature note based on a publication that seems interesting to you. - Start with **concepts or themes** by - Unfolding the "Janice Waldron Project - Concept-Based Notes" folder - Scan through the ideas or themes that are of particular interest to you - Or just click on themes or concept titles that seem interesting to you - **Follow links** across varied notes in a way that is meaningful to you - Interact with the notes **non-linearly by** - Clicking on the graph view in the top right corner, which will visualize each note as a node and will also show interconnections among the notes - Plus - it looks pretty cool # Additional Context and Info ## What is included in this part of the project? This portion of the project includes the majority of notes I created from 25 of Janice Waldron's publications on the topics above and related themes. This set of notes focuses specifically on Janice Waldron's work and while the notes often mention other scholarship, my notes on other publications are not included in this project. There are generally 2 types of notes: - **literature note,** containing: - quotes and references from 1 specific publication - sometimes my own thoughts indicated like this //*one of my own thoughts in relation to the publication - links to related notes on topics from the publication - **Concept-based notes**, containing: - notes on a specific concept from across one or more of Janice Waldron's publications - links to the publications from where the concepts originated - links to related concepts and ideas - sometimes my own thoughts indicated like this //*one of my own thoughts in relation to the publication The main page of the [Janice Waldron Project](https://evantobias.net/janicewaldron) includes additional context, a video presentation from the Mayday Colloquium 2023 from a Panel honoring Janice's life and work, videos sharing my process of preparing the conference video presentation, and related resources ## Why am I sharing these notes with the public? Like for so many other people, [Janice Waldron was a wonderful friend and fellow scholar in music education](http://www.maydaygroup.org/2022/11/mdg-remembers-janice-waldron/) whose life and work was (and still is) important to me. I felt that sharing these notes was a way of honoring Janice and her work, continuing to be in dialogue with her scholarship and thinking, and making her ideas and scholarship more widely available to people. Many music educators or other folks do not have access to the journals or books that contain Janice's work, so this is one way of broadening access to her work. I also see it as a way of embodying the spirit of Janice's work and embodying concepts important to Janice's scholarship such as participatory culture, remix culture, user generated content, collective and networked learning, gift giving, and paying it forward. This is also an experiment for me inspired by and building on my collaboration with Alex Laing on our [Liquid Weber Project](https://evantobias.net/liquidwebermain), which explores the idea of our process preparing music and scholarship being composted or regenerative and the phenomenon of people "learning in public." It's also an encouragement for other music education scholars and educators to engage in similar sharing practices or at least to start related dialogue and figure out what that even means in relation to scholarship, publishing, ethics, etc. ## What are in the notes? The "notes" on this site mostly contain quotes from the publications organized by theme or concept. Think of it as a sort of remix of Janice's publications. Though, the notes sometimes include some of my own perspectives, **these notes are largely incomplete** as they only contain quotes and notes from the specific publications by Janice included in the literature notes folder rather than notes from related literature (with the occasional exception.) I process and make meaning of these notes in other notes in: - my main vault that is not public - the Obsidian "canvas" visualizations that I created (which Obsidian does not currently support in online published vaults like this) - in the [panel presentation (see video recording)](https://youtu.be/r83iI4GW9KM) - and in future work or notes in my main vault. These are stand alone barebones notes from the articles of Janice's that I read and processed as part of the first phase of the project ## Are these notes being updated? Most likely not. I may occasionally update some of the notes. But I have a separate Obsidian vault that I use for my primary work that I keep updated. This vault that you are seeing is project-specific. I figured I would share this part of the work I did for the panel presentation in case it is useful for other people to get started on their own related work. ## Can I use this resource for my own work? This work (the set of notes as a resource) is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). ![[CCLicense 1.png|120]] Check out the Creative Commons License link above. The non-commercial aspect of it is to avoid situations where someone or some entity scrapes the content and then repackages it and sells it for profit (believe it or not this happens!) I see this resource as a starting point for exploring Janice's work. So, if you use any specific content of Janice's, please make sure to read and cite the original articles by Janice. Similarly, if you are using any quotes from other publications, you should read and cite that primary source. If you use **this resource** to support your own work or scholarship, please cite it as a resource - similarly if there are some of my own thoughts or notes that are not quotes of Janice's that you use, you can cite those as well. That, I believe, will help support people in doing this type of work in general (i.e. sharing notes and resources) and normalizing the idea of sharing parts of our process as resources for others. # How are the notes organized? The notes are organized in 2 folders, each with a "start here" note AKA Map of Content (MOC) ## The publications - A folder on the left contains a set of literature notes, each note focused on a specific publication of Janice's. - You can access a list of all the literature notes here. ## The concept-based notes - A folder on the left contains all of the notes focusing on specific ideas, concepts, or themes in Janice's scholarship. - These notes are consolidated and synthesized from across Janice's scholarship. - There may be a couple of themes or concepts that I added as well that relate closely to Janice's work. # How should I navigate across all of these notes? You can: - Start with **publications** by - Unfolding the "Janice Waldron Project - Literature Notes" folder on the left - Choose a literature note based on a publication that seems interesting to you. - Start with **concepts or themes** by - Unfolding the "Janice Waldron Project - Concept-Based Notes" folder - Scan through the ideas or themes that are of particular interest to you - Or just click on themes or concept titles that seem interesting to you - **Follow links** across varied notes in a way that is meaningful to you - Interact with the notes **non-linearly by** - Clicking on the graph view in the top right corner, which will visualize each note as a node and will also show interconnections among the notes - Plus - it looks pretty cool # Background on Janice For more information on Janice Waldron see [this dedication to her from the MayDay group](http://www.maydaygroup.org/2022/11/mdg-remembers-janice-waldron) and go to the main [Janice Waldron Project Page here](https://evantobias.net/janicewaldron). # How did you do this? - I created all of my notes in the free application [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/). - I created a vault specifically for notes I will share online - I copied the files from my main Obsidian Vault into this vault in a set of folders dedicated to this project - I shared all of the notes that I chose to share by using the Obsidian Publish feature ## What's Obsidian? [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/)is an application that supports the creation of notes and then the connection among notes with links. From my perspective, it is as absolutely wonderful for academic work. Obsidian is free. To sync notes across devices and to publish notes online, there are monthly or annual charges. Obsidian provides an [education discount to students and faculty](https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Education+and+non-profit+discount). You can find a lot of tutorials and information online. Here are some [videos I created on how I use Obsidian in my work](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DWeO9vvj1ZplnXsBXciYCa41xBOzwUr) if you are interested. Thank you! [Evan Tobias](https://evantobias.net/)