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Bringing Immersive Storytelling Into Interior Design Education
In February 2026, the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) collaborated with Dr. Jisun Lee’s course, PDC 491 – Special Topics in Planning, Design and Construction: Virtual Reality Application in Interior Design, to integrate immersive storytelling and 360 media production into student learning. This partnership was supported by a Catalyst Grant the DSL received from the Center
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Teaching Highlight: DH 340 Spring 2026 – Digital Studies in Practice with Titi Kou-Herrema
DH 340 introduces students to the fundamentals of large language models and AI through concept‑building, and model testing. The class pairs technical exploration with a site visit to MSU’s own data center to ground discussions about the environmental impact of AI. Students work collaboratively to build a public‑facing GitHub Pages website that explains AI concepts
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Teaching Highlight: Casey Miles WRA 415: Digital Rhetoric
In WRA 415: Digital Rhetoric, the goal is to engage you in the observations of the social, political and ethical conversations and communities that occur online. The class explore multiple mediums such as social media, websites, apps and programs. The three projects consist of identity and community. Each project should enhance your ability to analyze and understand digital environments as well as developing and executing research projects.
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Teaching Highlight: DH285 Introduction to Digital Studies in the Arts and Humanities
Digital studies in the arts and humanities (DSAH) is the study of culture using digital methods and also the study of digital culture. The class analyzes cultural materials and tell stories using digital technologies while maintaining a critical lens. By creating their own projects and learning about digital studies tools, students become more reflective of themselves and the technologies and society around them. Some projects include looking at maps and networks. In addition, the class visits the Digital Scholarship Lab and has guest visits from the head of the Voice Library at MSU, an AR workshop, and guest visits from…
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Teaching Highlight: ISS 210 Course on Social Movements
This semester, Emily Joan Elliott’s ISS 210 course on social movements is partnering with Lab for Education in and Advancement of Digital Research (LEADR), run by Gillian MacDonald. Over the course of the semester, a LEADR assistant, Jada Gannaway, will visit Emily’s 200-student lecture to teach the students how to use Voyant, Timeline JS, andCanva.
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Teaching Highlight: XA 310 Computational Thinking in the Humanities
Taught by Jeff Kurre, a professor in Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures, this class also incorporates aspects of Digital Humanities. The concepts that define “computational thinking” have been around for ages but recently gained prominence in 2006 with an essay by Dr. Jeanette Wing. She argued that the skills of decomposition (breaking large problems into smaller
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Teaching Highlight: LEADR Class
This semester LEADR Associate Director Gillian Macdonald and Graduate Assistant Aubree Marshall trialed the use of the digital tool KnightLab JS StoryMaps in a large ISS course.
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Teaching Highlight: Imari Tetu, Teaching with AI
Imari Tetu discusses teaching with AI in her course, 111: Intro to Accessibility for the Humanities.
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Teaching Highlight: Language and Cultures and LEADR
Students learned about the ethics of data collection, survey design basics, and how to analyze survey results. The hands-on workshops used two free tools, Google Forms and Voyant, to collect and visualize survey data.
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Teaching Highlight: 3D Scanning in Learning and Experience in Museums
This semester, students in the the Arts, Cultural Management and Museum Studies course MUSM 487/887 “Museums, Arts, and Culture in the Digital Future” will be learning about creating museum learning objects by 3D scanning and 3D printing and other digital use.