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Welcome to the #DLFteach Toolkit: Lesson Plans for Digital Library Instruction!
This openly available, peer-reviewed collection of lesson plans and concrete instructional strategies is the result of a project led by the professional development and resource sharing subgroup.
This publication emerged from #DLFteach workshops, office hours, Twitter chats, and open meetings. Community members and digital pedagogy practitioners expressed interest in lesson plans and session outlines which they could use as a jumping-off point for their own instruction and adapt for local contexts.
All lessons include learning goals, preparation, and a session outline. Additional materials — including slides, handouts, assessments, and datasets — are hosted in the DLF OSF repository as well as linked from each lesson. Download slides to see notes for presenters, and data that is too large to render in preview. There you will also find markdown versions of each lesson plan for you to use.
Published: Sep 19, 2019
Critical Information Literacy & Digital Publishing
This lesson plan introduces scholarship as conversation by asking students to compare the creative process we call “the scholarly conversation” to that involved in the phenomenon of meme communication.
This lesson plan introduces the process of digital publication using the EPUB format, which can be generated using Microsoft Word, and includes links to demonstration videos and slides.
This lesson introduces undergraduates to online hosting options for portfolios, websites, designing a personal brand, and digital privacy.
Data & Maps
This lesson plan teaches students to collaboratively input data on a Google sheet, geo-code it with latitude and longitude, and then add it into an AGOL map layer. It includes slides and handouts.
This lesson plan uses ArcGIS Online to introduce students to quantitive sociological concepts and spatial research and includes a handout.
This lesson plan introduces data visualization using Tableau and RAWGraphs and includes data, slides, and an activity guide handout.
Project Development & Management
This lesson plan outlines a workshop for practitioners who offer instruction on digital humanities tools that will allow them to reflect on, critique, and revise past instructional sessions to foreground digital pedagogy and information literacy rather than a specific platform.
This lesson plan introduces web content accessibility using Universal Design concepts to evaluate web-based projects.
This lesson plan introduces metadata principles, standards, and practices to undergraduates using Dublin Core and includes slides.
This lesson plan teaches students how to collect, derive, and organize data for computational analysis in formats that enable use in a variety of tools and includes slides.
Text Analysis & (En)coding
This lesson plan introduces advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to EBBO-TCP (Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership) and includes a handout.
This lesson plan introduces the Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines using a range of open source and proprietary tools for editing XML and includes example data and files.
This lesson plan introduces the computational tool named entity recognition (NER) using the freely available HathiTrust Research Center’s NER tool and includes slides and sample data.
This lesson plan introduces digital humanities concepts through an exploration of the process of preparing and analyzing textual data.
This lesson plan introduces faculty, graduate students, and librarians to web scraping using hands-on activities with command line and the Python library Beautiful Soup.
This lesson introduces textual analysis and visualization using Voyant to explore hip hop lyrics.
Digital Exhibits & Archives
This lesson plan introduces digital archives to an audience of students, faculty, and cultural heritage professionals through a locally-adaptable lesson kit that includes glossaries, links to sources, individual lessons, and a sample archive.
This lesson plan introduces the curation of digital exhibits for art using Omeka S and includes assessment materials.
This lesson introduces students to metadata development and reuse, using the DPLA digital collections and the DPLA API to harvest metadata. It includes handouts.
This lesson plan introduces undergraduate students to ways that local primary source materials can be collected and presented using WordPress as a digital component in humanities classes.
