The UTSC Library's DSU provides high quality experiential, curricular and co-curricular learning for students at UTSC. We also collaborate with faculty and CTL staff on the creation of assignments in digital scholarship and digital research. Explore this page to learn more about our activities in this area. Instructors, we encourage you to contact your liaison if you are interested in working with the library on digital scholarship related learning outcomes.
The Learning Object Catalogue seeks to collect, catalogue, and preserve a wide range of Learning Objects created at the UTSC Library in order to highlight the pedagogical tools that are being created, while at the same time, sharing resources with internal (UTL) partners and external colleagues in order to share our work and allow for the repurposing of objects for learning and teaching.
This website hosts a website and dataset coming out of the Digital Scholarship Knowledge Base project at the UTSC Library. The project started in mid-July 2020, in response to the difficulty of sharing and updating information about digital tools and resources commonly used in Digital Scholarship. This site is also an experiment in crowdsourcing and data sharing that aims to be useful and accessible to a broad audience who want to explore methodologies and toolsets in digital scholarship.
Videos can be a highly effective way of connecting ideas and expressing concepts in an engaging way. There are four main steps to producing a video: storyboarding, scripting,, recording, and editing. Explore this guide to find resources and learn skills/strategies to create your own video.
A podcast is a form of digital media that consists of an episodic series of audio or digital radio, subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device (Wikipedia). The word is actually a combination of the words iPod and broadcast. Despite the history of the word, podcasts can actually be accessed using any computer or other device that can play digital files.
Explore this guide to find resources and learn skills/strategies to create your own podcast.
Infographics are visual representations of data and other forms of information. They combine text, images, illustrations, and data visualizations like charts and graphs to communicate ideas in ways that are quick and easy to understand. They typically aim to inform the reader about a topic or persuade people about a particular claim or argument.
Explore this guide to find resources and learn skills/strategies to create your own infographics.