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#DLFteach Toolkit Volume 2: Lesson Plans on Immersive Pedagogy
The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy group (aka #DLFteach) is a grassroots community of practice within the Digital Library Federation that empowers digital library practitioners to see themselves as teachers and equip them to engage learners in how digital library technologies shape knowledge infrastructures. In 2019, the group published the #DLFteach Toolkit 1.0: Lesson Plans for Digital Library Instruction with guides for a wide-range of methods and tools.
The #DLFteach Toolkit Volume 2 focuses on lesson plans to facilitate disciplinary and interdisciplinary work engaged with 3D technology. As 3D technology becomes relevant to a wide range of scholarly disciplines and teaching context, libraries are proving well-suited to coordinating the dissemination and integration of this technology across the curriculum. For our purposes, 3D technology includes, but is not limited to, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, 3D modeling and scanning software, 3D game engines and WebGL platforms, as well as 3D printers and extruders. While 3D/VR/AR technologies demonstrate real possibilities for collaborative, multidisciplinary learning, they are also fraught with broader concerns prevalent today about digital technologies.
To develop instructional resources that recognize and reflect the diversity of context and practice within this broad, emerging field, the DLF Toolkit Volume 2 is based on a decolonial, anti-ableist, and feminist pedagogical framework for collaboratively developing and curating humanities content for this emerging technology. Lesson plans cover a wide range of disciplines and stages of the 3D data life cycle, guiding educators through the complex process of integrating emerging 3D technologies into various pedagogical settings by illustrating the possibilities of using 3D/VR/AR to extend critical thinking.
Introductory Materials
Published: Mar 09, 2022
This Glossary provides information on the foundational terminology and concepts used in the DLF Toolkit Volume 2 on Immersive Pedagogy.
Published: Oct 08, 2021
An Equally Effective Alternative Action Plan (EEAAP) is a document that is used when there is an accessibility barrier in a technology (technology that is not able to be used by an individual or group with a disability).
Published: Oct 08, 2021
The purpose of this checklist is to identify and document challenges to making immersive technology accessible, for the purpose of easing the creation of appropriate accessibility documentation, alternative access plans, and easing the purchasing decision process.
Published: Oct 08, 2021
The materials provided here seek to guide educators on incorporating immersive technologies into their teaching while providing equitable access for disabled learners.
Creating 3D Worlds
Published: Oct 29, 2021
The lesson covers the basics of planning for and carrying out 3D digitization of physical objects for libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural heritage organizations.
Published: Nov 01, 2021
This lesson uses SketchUp to introduce participants to 3D modeling, particularly for the reconstruction of historical objects and spaces. The lesson plan includes two variations so that it can be taught as part of a semester-long course or as a one-shot workshop.
Published: Oct 13, 2021
Students will learn how to apply the basics of decolonial theory to the walkthrough method in examining the colonial structures of knowledge and hierarchies of power within cross-reality (XR) and 3D applications, such as 3D assets and games.
Published: Nov 02, 2021
The objective of this assignment is to create an augmented reality cookbook to describe the history of food, food preparation, and consumption.
Published: Nov 02, 2021
Students will choose a monument on their campus and conduct research on its historical significance and how the monument upholds systems of power. Each student will rename one campus space and collectively create an Augmented Reality (AR) gallery of a new, reimagined campus.
Published: Oct 28, 2021
This session covers an introduction to game design and making, and an overview of critical game making and how to use it in pedagogical settings.
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Published: Jul 21, 2021
This lesson is an interdisciplinary approach to introducing Virtual Reality (VR) immersions through the lens of disability studies.
Published: Oct 28, 2021
This session plan introduces students to the experience of learning about language, culture and identity in virtual spaces, through the use of Head Mounted Displays.
Published: Jul 21, 2021
This lesson introduces how 360 video can enhance the education of undergraduate students in fieldwork research in urban places using a critical lens.
Published: Jul 21, 2021
This lesson employs a 360-degree immersive visualization room to encourage students to engage human relationships to the natural world in monumental nineteenth-century American landscape paintings and a 360-video presentation of data on contemporary human movement.
Published: Jul 21, 2021
This lesson employs 360 and satellite images in a planetarium to encourage college-level students to understand and experience Chaco Canyon (850-1150CE) and its monumental architecture as a relational landscape.
Published: Dec 01, 2021
The goal of the interactive VR module described below is to do something that is hard to do in large lecture classes: bring some of the more targeted instructional opportunities of small classrooms to a large lecture class.
