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. […]
The Daily Illini and Amanda Rhee creates a video feature on one of the TechHub workshops about augmented reality. Click HERE for the video!
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
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 […]
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
Andy Wilson discusses how he has introduced VR in his freshman World History class at Uni High. Read more here.
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.
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The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning opened the newly renovated Armory Innovation Spaces in the Fall of 2017. Stop by to see the TechHub, Innovation Classroom, VR Lab, and Innovation Studio.
Music and visual art belong together
Journalism student Zacker Barakat had a blast recording the augmented and virtual reality tech at the TechHub for his Multimedia course!
The i-STEM education initiative featured an article on the Armory Spaces supporting an after-school STEM program with the Next Generation School. “The Illinois VR Lab they visited is part of CITL’s (Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning)iFLEX initiative to build active learning classrooms around campus. In the case of the cave unit, the technology allowed the kids […]
The Technology Entrepreneur Center was kind enough to include the new Armory Innovation Spaces in their review of labs to love at UIUC. “The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning has now opened their new Armory Innovation Spaces! These high-tech, interactive hubs are designed to give students AND faculty a place to foster their […]
The Daily Illini published an article titled Armory Innovation Spaces reimagine the classroom experience. “The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning worked with different disciplines across campus to help develop these innovative classrooms that focus on enabling faculty to teach more effectively, and to give students an outlet to engage in more productive learning.” […]
The News Gazette mentions the coming improvements to the Armory in their July 17, article titled UI constructions: New everything for a golden oldie. Local TV Station WCIA also picked up the story.