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A handout to help you develop a simple research poster or research slide.

A handout to help students evaluate sources for inclusion in their work.

Learn about the term "digital literacy." Music: "This is My Jam" by Will Van De Crommert (Storyblocks) Illustrations adapted from Visual Generation.

Learn about the term "research" and the variety of ways in which we engage with research on a daily basis.

Learn about the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds.

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.

Learn more about the different items you can receive in Unity asset packages to help take your project to the next level.

Learn about how using colliders can help with the physics of your world and save computational resources.

Learn about ways of lighting a world in virtual reality, including directional lights and spotlights.

Learn about setting up movements in virtual reality that create dynamic experiences for participants, but helps them avoid motion sickness.

Learn more about the language and structure of how objects and worlds are created in virtual reality.

Learn about adding physics to objects in your world so they act and move realistically.

Learn about prefabs and how they can save time and energy in creating virtual worlds and objects.

Learn about scripts (C# code) in Unity.

Learn about about the pros and cons of jargon, including how it can help us understand and communicate complex ideas.

This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of 3D printing and design, including how 3D printing works, important terminology, and basic design principles. We will also walk through designing 3D models in the computer-aided design program, TinkerCad. Software recordings were captured in June 2019. This content is not sponsored by Autodesk.

This toolkit is intended to help you put the digital literacy framework from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech into action. Use this toolkit to align your work with digital literacy learning outcomes, get inspired when revising or creating a workshop, curriculum, program, or other learning experience, and learn more about the digital literacy framework.

Learn about various search tools available through the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and when you should consider using each one. Download the second file linked above to access a screenreader-friendly version.

Join therapy dogs Moose, Derek, and Wagner as they explore the studios at Newman Library and make their virtual reality dreams come true.

This document is intended to help users who are interested in setting up a virtual reality service for a school, library, museum, or other space understand the resources needed and better plan for the challenges of running a VR service for the public. Planning pages and links to resources are included.

This handout summarizes Williams' Design Principles (1994) and can be used to help students designing posters or other types of visual projects. It was created for the Advanced Research Skills Program and included in the module Sharing Your Research.

This video covers Williams' Design Principles, which include proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast, and balance (1994). It was created for the Advanced Research Skills Program and included in the module Sharing Your Research.

This video covers how to start planning your poster by thinking about who might be in your audience, what they might need to know from your presentation, and how to organize your poster to best showcase your work. It was created for the Advanced Research Skills Program and included in the module Sharing Your Research.

This video addresses data ethics in relation to data misconduct. Plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification are defined alongside data collection, data usage, and data storage. It was created for the Advanced Research Skills Program and included in the module Using Data Ethically.