ACCY 199 Leadership

Woods Journalism Course

Fashion Illustration Students

Art and Design Course

BADM 449

Aranoff Neuro Course

Bullock ID Course

Kindall ID Course

French Courses Fall 2019

STAMP Scholars

Tait Johnson ARCH Course

JOUR Course

Nursing VR Presentation

Learning French in VR

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

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    

Biostatistics in VR

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

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.

Making Video Essays Course Visit

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

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.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

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

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.  

MACS 323 Immersive Media Course

MACS 323 Introduction to Immersive Media was offered for the first time in Spring 2018. This course offered 20 undergrads from a variety of disciplines the opportunity to explore immersive technologies and 360º video production. VR Timeline Final projects included: 360º narrative video Google Tilt Brush explorations 360º time lapse videos

MACS 326 Drone Playday

Innovation Spaces staff assisted with drone exploration during Professor’s Baird’s MACS 326 course.

JOUR 215 Course Visit

Charles ‘Stretch’ Ledford brought his journalism students to the Innovation Spaces to investigate multimedia reporting technologies.

ESE 497 Video Editing Support

Innovation Spaces staff assisted Professor Rob Kanter’s ESE 497 course in the creation of video documentaries.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Professor Phillip Anderson brought his BADM 449 students to the TechHub to play Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. “Your team will have two chances to defuse a virtual explosive device. The key to the game is communication.”  

IEI students visit AIS

Professor Anna Kasten brought her students from Japan to visit the AIS spaces.

MACS Course Visit

Professor C.L. Cole visited the ais to show her sports media students how VR is being used in sporting events.

Kathryn Anthony Guest Lecturer

Anshuman Prasad virtually visited Kathryn Anthony’s course at the Innovation Studio on February 8th

iVenture Seminar Course in the Innovation Studio

Once a week the iVenture Seminar course meets in the Armory Studio Classroom. The iVenture Accelerator enables student-led startups to create economic and social value by supporting student entrepreneurs with knowledge, funding, and access to world-class University of Illinois resources and alumni.

Spring 2018 Courses

CITL is partnering with Media & Cinema Studies this Spring to offer four MACS courses in the Innovation Studio. MACS 364 Sports, Interactive Media, and Information Economies taught by C.L. Cole MACS 199 Innovation Illinois taught by Anita Chan MACS 166 Contemporary Media Literacy co-taught by Jenny Oyallon-Koloski and Jim Wentworth MACS 323 Immersive Media […]

Journalism Course Visit

Professor Charles Ledford (Stretch) brought his multimedia journalism students to the Armory Innovation Spaces to experience Virtual Reality and 360 Video. Students had the chance to view 360 video narratives in the TechHub and VR Lab and also try out the Theta S and GoPro Fusion 360 cameras while visiting the Studio.    

Sports Media Course Visit

Professor John Lewis brought his sports media course to the Innovation Spaces to see how virtual reality is being used within a variety of sporting events. AIS staff created a YouTube playlist highlighting 360 videos and students also explored the Vive VR headset to view a variety of experiences.  

Future Freshmen Visit AIS

Professor Anna Kasten’s class of 15 ‘Future Freshman’ here on a STEM scholarship from Saudi Arabia, visited the Armory Innovation Spaces where they experimented with touch screen technology, virtual reality, 360 photography, 3d printing and more. Student teams also had the chance to defuse a virtual bomb playing Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes on the Vive […]

ESL Course Visit

Calen Gutwein, Teaching Assistant from the Intensive English Institute, brought her ESL class of about 20 students to see and experience VR as a class activity.  

Media Course Visit

Professor Veronica Paredes brought her media students to the VR Lab, Innovation Studio and TechHub to investigate the intersection of virtual reality and gaming.

Speech Practice and Office Hours

Professor Grace Georgio held office hours for her Communications 111 in the TechHub where students could either practice their speeches standing in front of a high resolution photo of their actual class audience or step in front of a virtual audience using the Speech Trainer app in the HTC Vive headset.

Education Course Visit

Linquistics Course Visit

Randy Sadler, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, brought his course to visit the TechHub, VR Lab and Innovation Studio to learn more about how emerging technology is being used in higher education.

iVenture Seminar Course

The iVenture Accelerator is the educational accelerator for top student startups at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is a capstone entrepreneurship experience for our campus’ most ambitious student startups – and provides them the knowledge, funding, mentorship, peer support, and resources necessary to grow and scale. Their Wednesday evening seminar course began using the […]

Classes Begin in the Innovation Studio

Three courses were scheduled to use the new Innovation Studio for the Fall 2017. ADV 492 – Tech and Advertising Campaigns with professor Mike Yao CWL 461 – Design & Prog Text Based Games with professor Judith Pintar ISL 351A – Design Info Interfaces with professor Jeff Ginger