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

This video will help scholars at Virginia Tech understand new regulations on making federally funded work publicly accessible, what these regulations mean for you, and how the University Libraries can help. Public access policy guide: https://guides.lib.vt.edu/PublicAccessToolkit Questions? Contact the Libraries: publicaccess@vt.edu OSTP memo explaining new policy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf

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.

Learn the basics of various approaches to evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

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.

Are digital natives automatically digitally literate? Is digital literacy just about technology? Is digital literacy a replacement for traditional literacy? Discover the truth behind these myths in this video.

How can different modes of communication be used to reach an audience more effectively? This video will help you find out.

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 how to transition a poster designed in Google Slides to PowerPoint.

This handout is a brief guide to the basics of citing sources using the 7th edition of the APA style manual, released in October 2019.

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.