ACCY 199 Leadership

SOC 396

Parkland College Visitors

Woods Journalism Course

Fashion Illustration Students

VR@Illinois

Academy High Visit

Unity Workshop

TechHub Memories

Step Into VR Workshop

Psychology Faculty Visit

Low and High-Tech VR Workshop

Art and Design Course

Digital Humanities Fellows

ISchool Grad Students

Dansk Visitors

VR Grant Kick-off

La Casa Visit

Illini Esports & The Innovation Studio

Sadler Course Visit

Power of Presentation

Adobe Discovery Day

ATLAS VR Classroom

Heartland Maker Fest

BADM 449

CEF Club

Aranoff Neuro Course

EbertFest Symposium

Pygmalion Tech Demo 2019

Foundation Visit

Law Expo 2019

Bullock ID Course

Kindall ID Course

Konan University

French Courses Fall 2019

French Courses Fall 2019

STAMP Scholars

Tait Johnson ARCH Course

Steam Studio

VR Club

VR Demo Day

JOUR Course

Nursing VR Presentation

Zhejiang University Visit

TheatreFest 2019

Academy High School Visit

Second Grade Field Trip

Recently, we hosted a class of second graders from Barkstall Elementary School to visit our innovation spaces and try out our technology. It was a great time for everyone!

International Guests

During Summer 2019, CITL’s Innovation Spaces have been happy to host many guests from universities around the world who are interested in using technology to enhance learning. Here are some photos from these visits that highlight our relationship with other educational institutions across the globe!

Faculty Summer Institute 2019

This Summer, CITL team members gave a talk on virtual reality capabilities at the Faculty Summer Institute in the iHotel. They were joined by Andrew Wilson, a University High School teacher who is using Virtual Reality to engage his history students.  

Illinois Esports Summit

Competitive video gaming has become big business and is the fastest growing sport world-wide. The purpose of this summit is to highlight educational and research opportunities around e-sports, and to explore opportunities for making e-sports a varsity sport on our campus. There will be research focused panels, discussion on the business of esports, and interactive […]

Cornerstone Home Schoolers

Thirteen home-schooled students took time away from their studies to visit the Innovation Spaces to explore laser cutting, 3D printing and virtual reality.    

VR Lab Open Hours

The newly formed UIUC Virtual Reality Club held their first VR Open Lab Hours in April.  If you’re interested in joining the VR Club contact the club president Siwen at siwenw2@illinois.edu  

Ebertfest Film Festival

Staff from CITL’s Innovation Spaces demonstrated Virtual Reality to festival goers at the 2019 Ebertfest Film Festival. An added feature of this year’s festival will be virtual reality demonstrations on the plaza outside the Virginia Theatre in between films on April 12, hosted by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at the U. […]

Playful by Design Symposium 2019

The Armory Innovation Spaces were happy to help host the second annual Playful be Design on April 5th.

ATLAS VR Classroom Designs

CITL staff was asked to consult on the design of a new virtual reality classroom in the Foreign Language Building. This new space is scheduled to open to support a number of vr-related courses in the Fall of 2019.  When completed the room will host ANTH 399 – Virtual Archeology as well as the Beginning […]

David Hoptman Visit

Artist and photographer David Hoptman visited campus to consult on a Nature and VR Lab research project. Read more about David’s work on LinkedIn

VR@Illinois Whitepaper

Working collaboratively with Technology Services and University Library staff, we developed a virtual reality white paper to help our campus think strategically about VR for education. read the draft version of the VR white paper here

HKPU Visit

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Visit to the Innovation Spaces during Spring 2019.

National Taipei University of Technology Visit

The Affiliated Tao-Yuan Agricultural & Industrial Senior High School of National Taipei University of Technology visited the TechHub on March 14th.

Affiliated Tao-Yuan Agricultural and Industrial Senior High School of National Taipei University of Technology

VR Flight Simulator Up and Running

CITL has successfully worked with AFROTC Detachment 190 to establish a VR flight simulator program to help cadets gain basic aviation understanding without having to pay for expensive flight hours. Last week, the program opened to cadets to sign up and come in for their first flights. The program requires cadets to take a quiz […]

TechHub Daily Illini Video Feature

The Daily Illini and Amanda Rhee creates a video feature on one of the TechHub workshops about augmented reality.       Click HERE for the video!

University of Illinois Adobe Creative Jam LIVE

Register to compete in the University of Illinois Adobe Creative Jam LIVE online tournament with your classmates held on Thursday March 14 from 3:00pm to 8:00pm CST! Get a crash course in Adobe XD, a user experience design application, to help you quickly and easily create simple interactive prototypes! You and your five-person team will use Adobe XD […]

Gadget Garage Pop-Up Clinic

The Innovation Studio held a series of Pop-Up Repair Clinics during Spring semester in conjunction with the Illini Gadget Garage.  Read more about the Gadget Garage. Letter to the Editor – Help is Needed at the Gadget Garage

Urbana Middle School Visit

Photos from the Spring 2019 Urbana Middle School Field Trip to the CITL Innovation Spaces.

Agora Days

VR Lab representatives offered an Immersive Media mini course during Uni High School Agora days.  

ATLAS Partnerships

Beginning in the Spring of 2019 CITL’s VR Lab partnered with ATLAS to experiment with providing 20 Oculus GO headsets to support Beginning and Intermediate French courses.  French students visit the Innovation Studio to use the headsets to experience Mondly and Wander to explore the potential of these technologies to support immersive language learning.

Learning French in VR

A collection of photos from a Spring 2019 French class where students used VR to enhance language learning.

UIUC Virtual Reality Club

The UIUC Virtual Reality Club emerged on campus in the Spring of 2019.  To join the VR Club visit http://go.illinois.edu/vrclub

iGet Meeting

Photos from the Spring 2019 iGet Meeting.

VR in Journalism by Ramiro Ferrando

Ramiro Ferrando, a Journalism student at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, created a website about virtual reality in journalism. The website features a video where Jamie and Jim talk about virtual reality. Journalism & Virtual Reality Website

CITL/ROTC VR Flight Simulator

CITL is proud to announce the creation of a Flight  Simulator Lab as part of the Virtual Reality Lab. In partnership with UIUC’s AFROTC Detachment 190, the lab will soon be available for cadets and midshipmen to practice flying aircraft in immersive Virtual Reality. The new simulator experience utilizes an Oculus Rift headset running on […]

Kent Seminar Series and The Power of Presentation

Senior eLearning Specialist Jamie Nelson presented “The Power of Presentation: Making an Impact on your Audience through Intentional Design and Engagement”at the Kent Seminar Thursday, Nov. 29. Watch the video, below. Interested in having Jamie present to you own group? Contact him through the TechHub website.

VR Review: The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience

The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience (SOAE) is a VR program from Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. SOAE is a Steam-based VR experience aimed at creating awareness and education about how climate change is effecting the world’s oceans. Throughout the experience, users participate in different roles, first learning about the chemistry of ocean acidification, then transitioning […]

Daily Illini Features VR Workshop

Daily Illini staff writer Shreya Goel focused her recent story on an upcoming virtual reality workshop offered through the TechHub on November 27th. “The purpose of this workshop is to expose visitors to the basics of virtual reality and how to dive into it in different ways,” Chapa said. “This relates to our series in […]

Virtual Archaeology in the News

CITL and the VR Lab are excited to be partnering to support alpha testing of a virtual cave dig experience with Laura Shackelford, Anthropology. Her course, Virtual Archaeology, is scheduled to debut in Spring 2019. More information about this project from the University of Illinois News Bureau is linked below. https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/717299    

U of I Extension Conference

CITL’s VR Lab participated in the conference imaginarium session that provided a space for 375 conference attendees to experience a place where their minds can expand and soar, where innovation, curiosity, and creativity are encouraged and where learning and problem solving can occur.

360° Rio Pollution Video Review

In this video, I talk about why TIME’s 360° Rio Pollution Video wasn’t effective, and what they could have done to make the experience more enjoyable and educational overall.   Link to the Experience (YouTube)

Professor Kasten’s Course Visit

Professor Anna Kasten returned to the Innovation Spaces this time with her class of 16 Saudi students.

CalcFlow

CalcFlow is an immersive environment that puts you front and center with tough topics such as 3D calculus and electromagnetism. This tool can help to teach and visualize topics from surface integrals to electron orbitals to vector fields. CalcFlow is a valuable resource for anyone working with 3D phenomena. https://nanome.ai/calcflow/

Biostatistics in VR

Professor Charles Linville sent students studying biostatistics to the VR Lab to explore Sharecare VR and Google Earth.    

Big Ten Student Design Challenge 2018

Students of all majors are invited to compete in the Big Ten Student Design Challenge. Win $2000, network with industry professionals, and remake a space on your very own campus. Here’s how it works: each school has chosen an informal space to be re-furnished, and are now accepting designs from student teams. The best proposal from […]

360° Battle of Waterloo Video Review

The 360° Battle of Waterloo experience proves how informative and captivating VR videos can be. In these 2 minutes, you are taken through a reenactment of this historical battle, all through an up close and personal view, and you can see first hand what war looked like 200 years ago. The 360° footage enabled a wider […]

1943 Berlin Blitz

1943 Berlin Blitz is an immersive VR experience narrated by an original BBC recording of a bombing run on Berlin in 1943. This experience puts you front and center in one of the tensest times in recent history as you witness the dramatic reality that was aerial warfare in World War II. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/berlin-blitz-vr

Teaching Archaeology through Virtual Reality – LAS Teaching Academy

Digitally-empowered Learning: Teaching Archaeology through Virtual Reality and Game-Based Learning Professor Laura Shackelford discusses her NSF-sponsored project to develop an immersive, interactive, room-scale virtual reality (VR) archaeological site. The technology and curriculum enable faculty to teach the physical methods of archaeological excavation by providing the setting and tools for a student to actively engage in […]

The Protectors, Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes 360° Video Review

Link to the Experience (YouTube)

Uni High Students Explore 3D Modeling & Virtual Reality

Andy Wilson discusses how he has introduced VR in his freshman World History class at Uni High. Read more here.        

VR Demo at Law Library Resource Fair

Law students explore the legal applications of virtual reality during the Law Library Research Expo on October 30th at the College of Law.

Lincoln Land Community College Visit

Sharecare|VR Immersive Human Biology

 Sharecare|VR lets you explore human anatomy in an immersive environment. Here, you can interact with the different organ systems and examine their internal structures and operations. This application even shows the effects of different health conditions on the body and can put you up close as you get a first person view from inside […]

Career Center Visit

Representatives from the Career Center visit the TechHub and VR Lab to learn about 3D printing and explore VR.

Waymo 360° Video Review

Link to the experience (YouTube)

Aaron Brakke Architecture Class Visit

Professor Brakke brought his architecture students to tour the TechHub and VR Lab as part of this studio course called Museum of Future Pasts. His students are working on a cultural center that incorporates tradional notions of a museum program, but also new media with technologies like VR and AR.

Research Presentation: Video Production Style and Learning Outcomes

Student Sustainability Committee Grant Proposal

CITL’s VR Lab staff is involved in a grant proposal with faculty members Cory Pettijohn and Matt Browning to tell the story of climate change using 360-video.  If awarded, we will provide student teams the opportunity to create a 360-video project focused on issues of sustainability pertinent to the midwest. We’ll also make GoPro Fusion […]

Making Video Essays Course Visit

Professor Oyallon-Koloski brought her Media and Cinema Studies students to the VR Lab to explore 360 video.

Gadget Garage Visits the TechHub

Funded by the UI Student Sustainability Commitee (SSC), the Gadget Garage is a collaborative repair center for student and staff owned electronic devices, in order to: extend the useful life of products provide experiential learning for student through associated classes, volunteering, and participation in the iFixit Technical Writing Project; and empower people to see do-it-yourself […]

Michigan State Visitor

It was great to have Monika Dressier from the University of Michigan stop by to check out the Armory Innovation Spaces.

Heartland MakerFest

The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning sponsored the 2018 Heartland Maker Fest, an annual event celebrating the amazing makers in Urbana-Champaign and the surrounding communities. Heartland Maker Fest strives to: Inspire By searching for creative and unique makers to exhibit at the festival we hope attendees are inspired by the creative projects of others. Empower By focusing on […]

Education 101 Visitors

80 freshman education students in EDUC 101 toured the Innovation Spaces to explore how emerging technologies are being used in education.

Professor Sadler Course Visit

Professor Randy Sadler and his students visited the VR Lab to explore applications for language learning in virtual reality ImmerseMe – https://immerseme.co/ Mondly Languages – https://www.oculus.com/experiences/gear-vr/1272636489423125/ VirtualSpeech – https://virtualspeech.com/language . . . and play some Kitty Rescue.

Illinois Business Council RSO

Members of the Illinois Business Council RSO stopped by to take a look at the technologies available at the TechHub and VR Lab.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Student teams from Phil Anderson’s business administration course stop by to play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.                  

Undergrad Admissions Staff Experience VR

Visitors from the Data Analysis and Systems Services team stopped by the VR Lab to try out a variety of VR Experiences.

Testing the Virtual Cave

The VR Lab is currently assisting in early testing of a virtual cave dig for Professor Laura Shackelford. Students are encouraged to sign up for a 30 minute session to complete a short VR lesson and respond to survey questions. Sign up here to participate.

MakerGirl Returns to the Innovation Studio

We’re pleased to continue hosting MakerGirl workshops in the Innovation Studio.  See a list of upcoming workshops here.  

Pygmalion Learn Demo

CITL Innovation Spaces took part in Pygmalion’s Learn Demo for the second year.                  

Zhe Jiang Tour

Guests from Zhe Jiang University visit the Innovation Spaces to explore the use of emerging technologies and virtual reality in higher education.  

Supporting Graduate Researcher Haley Cabaniss

CITL’s VR Lab assisted with the rendering of 360º videos taken by grad student Haley Cabaniss several hundred miles on the coast of Oregon at the Axial Seamount.

KN 494 Experiences Embodied Labs

Kinesiology professor Susan Aquinaga is using CITL’s VR Lab to give her students the opportunity to see firsthand what it’s like to have Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration, and other age-related health conditions. Learn more about Embodied Labs here.  

eSports in the Innovation Studio

Illini eSports started up their open gaming hours for the Fall term.  Join them every Thursday from 5 – 9 in the Innovation Studio.

Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Power of Presentation

Jamie spoke to graduate students about the various methods of creating more engaging presentation as a part of the NUTR 500 Seminar Series held by the Division of Nutritional Sciences.  The Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana is one of the top graduate nutrition programs in the United States. Not only are […]

Exotic Feline Rescue Center in 360º

Staff from CITL’s VR Lab accompanied the Vet Med Anesthesia team to the Exotic Feline Rescue center in southern Indiana. We shot several 360º videos that allow viewers to experience these procedures first hand. See the entire YouTube playlist here

Rick Langlois brings Anaglyph 3D to the TechHub

Rick Langlois, retired longtime University Media Professional, returned to the TechHub to learn about the latest media technologies including virtual reality, augmented reality, 360 photography, 3D scanning, etc. While he was here he introduced us to anaglyph 3D photography – think 1950’s blue and red cardboard glasses. For artistic effect, we had him take an […]

Saudi Arabia Visitors

Students from Saudi Arabia visit the TechHub in August to explore emerging technologies like Sony VR.  

New Faculty Orientation

CITL Staff met with new faculty at the campus-wide new faculty orientation held at the iHotel each semester. It was great to meet the new faculty interested in using emerging technologies within their courses.

Women’s Resource Center: iPads for FYCARE

CITL Innovation Spaces has partnered with the Women’s Resource Center to loan 12 iPads for the FYCARE program. What is FYCARE? The First Year Campus Acquaintance Rape Education (FYCARE) workshop is an interactive discussion on campus sexual assault, required for all first-year undergraduates. National studies have shown that 1 in 5 women and 1 in […]

Archeology VR Experience

Professor Laura Shackelford, working with campus colleagues, has developed an educational VR experience for students. CITL’s VR Lab will support alpha testing of this experience during the Fall 2018 term.  

JUMP Simulation Lab Open on Campus

CITL Director Michel Bellini joins the Armory Innovation Staff members and Tech Services representatives for a tour of the new JUMP Simulation Center recently built at the Everett Lab on campus. Read more about JUMP here.

CITL Innovation Spaces Year 01

More than 2000 visitors came through the Innovation Spaces in our first year of operation.  Take a look at our annual report at Infogram for details.

Pettijohn 360º Video Project

CITL was happy to consult with Professor Cory Pettijohn to help prepare for his filming of a 360º video aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer  to use in both his GEOL 117 – The Oceans course and also for recruiting students into this study abroad opportunity.

Lebanese Fulbright Scholars

Seven visiting Fulbright scholars from Lebanon visit the Armory Innovation Spaces to explore emerging technologies like 3D scanning and VR.

College of Media – 360° Media & Entertainment Camp

“Thank you so much for kicking off what turned out to be a transformative week for the students attending the 360° Media & Entertainment Camp at the College of Media.The students found your session engaging and eye-opening. You got them thinking about production and storytelling in a whole new way. This contributed to  9 out […]

Mahomet High School Faculty

Mahomet-Seymour High School faculty and administrators visited the Innovation Spaces on July 11th to explore emerging technologies and their educational applications.

iSTEAM Summer Program

Young students interested in architecture, on campus for the Summer iSteam program, visited the Innovation Spaces to investigate the intersection of architect and virtual reality.    

Next Generation School – Studying The Moon

A group of 14 students from the Next Generation School visited CITL’s Innovation Spaces to explore the moon and the moon surface using VR and the Video Wall.

Upward Bound Visit

Students from the OSMA Upwards Bound Program visited the Innovation Spaces in June.