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Your New York Times Academic Pass |
Learn how to activate your New York Times academic pass through Virginia Tech. |
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What is Digital Literacy? |
Learn about the term "digital literacy." Music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert (Storyblocks) Illustrations adapted from Visual Generation. |
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Defining Research | Critical Concepts in Academic Research |
Learn about the term "research" and the variety of ways in which we engage with research on a daily basis. |
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What It Means to Be a Researcher | Introduction to Academic Research |
Learn how to conceptualize your role as an investigator and recognize how context and information need influences your approach to research. |
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How to Curate a Writing Portfolio | Curating a Writing Portfolio |
Learn the basic practices of curating a writing portfolio: collecting, selecting, connecting, and reflecting. |
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Writing Portfolios for Self-Discovery and Self-Presentation | Curating a Writing Portfolio |
Learn about crafting two different kinds of portfolios: learning portfolios and showcase portfolios. |
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Keeping Track of Portfolio Artifacts | Curating a Writing Portfolio |
Learn file management strategies at the file, folder, and drive level. |
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Using the Stases for Rhetorical Analysis | Rhetorical Analysis Using the Stases |
This video introduces an ordered series of questions that must be addressed to resolve a controversy, collectively known as the stases: first-order questions of fact, cause, and definition and second-order questions of action, value, and jurisdiction. |
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Using the Stases for Reflective Practice | Rhetorical Analysis Using the Stases |
The stases are an ordered series of questions used to analyze sticking points in an argument or controversy. In this video, learn how to use the stases for reflective practice. |
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Make a Space Diorama | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a space diorama. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Helmet | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a space helmet. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Game | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a space game. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Dragon | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a “space dragon.” Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Rocket Ship | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a moving spaceship. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Cafe | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a “space cafe” with a working elevator. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Gauntlet | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a cardboard gauntlet with moving parts. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Sheep | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a “space sheep.” Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Make a Space Shield | Maker Challenge Week 2021 |
Learn to make a cardboard shield. Released for Maker Challenge Week 2021. For more information about Maker Challenge Week, visit https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/09/univlib-maker-week-2020.html |
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Database Search Log |
Use this search log to keep a record of your database searches. Keeping a record of searches helps improve your searches over time and reduces the stress of trying to remember what you searched from session to session. |
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3D Projects in Unity | The Studios Series |
Learn about the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds. |
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Basics of Using Unity for Virtual Reality | The Studios Series |
Learn about the basics of virtual reality, create a virtual world and objects, and build your creative and technical skills in the software program Unity version 2019.1. |
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Asset Packages in Unity | The Studios Series |
Learn more about the different items you can receive in Unity asset packages to help take your project to the next level. |
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Colliders in Unity | The Studios Series |
Learn about how using colliders can help with the physics of your world and save computational resources. |
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Lighting in Unity | The Studios Series |
Learn about ways of lighting a world in virtual reality, including directional lights and spotlights. |
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Locomotion in Unity | The Studios Series |
Learn about setting up movements in virtual reality that create dynamic experiences for participants, but helps them avoid motion sickness. |