LibGuides: Digital Scholarship: Lesson Plans & Instruction

Lesson Plans

The Scholars Lab offers lesson plans to help you bring digital scholarship tools and methods to your classes and workshops. Below, you will find plans prepared under the Creative Commons Share Alike license which you are free to use, adapt and share with proper attribution.

If you are interested in making a lesson plan for a tool or method that isn't featured in one of these existing plans, please schedule a consultation with the Scholars Lab to get help and advice from an expert.

Twine Lesson Plan
Twine is a free online platform for creating nonlinear, interactive stories. It can be used to create works of fiction, or digitally exhibit research.
Twine Lesson Companion
A supplemental document to guide students in the Twine Lesson Plan
Introduction to Voyant Tools
Voyant Tools is a web platform for creating visualizations from a data set. This tool is perfect for introducing beginners to data visualizations.
TimelineJS Lesson Plan
TimelineJS is a tools for creating interactive timelines using a specially formatted Google Sheet. These timelines can then be embedded in other web platforms.
AI Ethics and Use in the Classroom
This lesson plan is aimed at teaching instructors about the uses and ethical arguments for AI tools in the classroom, demonstrating these issues using Research Rabbit and Microsoft Copilot.
Scalar Lesson Plan
Scalar is a digital exhibition platform that is free for academic use. Digital exhibits like Scalar are great for creating a web presence for research outcomes or showcasing a collection.
ArcGIS StoryMaps Lesson Plan
ArcGIS StoryMaps, this web-based platform allows users and researchers to combine maps with narrative, images, and multimedia to create location-based stories. We use them to visualize data geographically, revealing patterns, relationships, and context that traditional text or charts often miss.

Digital Scholarship Pedagogy Institute

The Digital Scholarship Pedagogy Institute (DSPI) is an annual 2-day workshop that helps instructors incorporate digital scholarship tools and methods into their syllabi. View the schedules of past years, learn about the upcoming DSPI, and register for attendance on the Digital Scholarship Pedagogy Institute page.

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