Adobe Discovery Day

Zhejiang University Visit

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!

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

iGet Meeting

Photos from the Spring 2019 iGet Meeting.

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.

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 […]

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.        

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.                  

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 […]

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.

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.

Counseling Center Reading Day Relaxation Event

TV B Gone at the Innovation Studio

The Illinois MakerLab offered a workshop at the Innovation Spaces in March. Participants of all ages came to learn the basics of electronics, and how to make cool things! But most importantly, Mitch Altman showed how to use his invention: the TV-B-Gone universal remote control. Read more at the Makerlab Website.

Counseling Center Relaxation Event on Reading Day

Paraprofessionals from the Counseling Center joined forces with the TechHub to host a relaxation event right before finals. Students could get some freebies and resources from the Counseling Center, as well as, make monogrammed ornaments, 360 scanned ornaments of themselves, or relax in virtual reality.

This Learning Life Photo Judging

Judges for the campus-wide This Learning Life photography contest met at the Innovation Studio to select final winners in each of five categories. Winners were announced and displayed at the Courtyard Cafe in the Union on December 8th. Attendees had the chance to vote on their favorite photo to earn the public choice award. The […]

Fusion 360 Workshop

Autodesk is an industry-leader in design software, and Fusion 360 is their premiere Computer-Aided Design product. It is cloud-based, and free for all educational purposes! Get hands-on experience designing in Fusion 360 and learn how it can help you collaborate on design projects of all kinds. Autodesk representatives offered a series of Fusion 360 workshops […]

MakerGirl Workshops Come to the Armory

The MakerGirl RSO began using the Innovation Studio for some of their events in the Fall of 2017. They offer workshops to teach young girls the basics of 3D printing. Due to our strong partnership with Makergirl, we are lucky to house 9 of their Ultimaker printers in the TechHub and Innovation Studio.

Mersive Solstice Demo

Representatives from Mersive demonstrated their wireless presentation technology to Tech Services, CITL and other UIUC tech support personal in the TechHub. The Solstice application runs on many of the new displays within the Armory Innovation Spaces. Solstice enables multiple users to connect simultaneously to a shared display using a range of devices over a WiFi […]

Augmented Reality Exhibit with Mew

Lingjun Jiang aka “Mew” worked with the us at the TechHub to create an Augmented reality exhibit ultimately entitled “The Hidden Friends and the Hidden Places”. This is going on it’s second semester on display. Here’s her Artist’s Statement: TechHub Aurasma Exhibit MEW3 Presents With Mew ~My Imaginary Friends~ Armory 151A CITL TechHub 11am, September […]

Volition Speaker Series

  The local game development company, Volition, partnered with the Innovation Spaces to offer a series of lectures in the Fall of 2017. Meet the Minds Behind the Mayhem features the following events: VOLITION PANEL DISCUSSION & GAMEPLAY September 12th, 4:30 – 7:30pm @ The Armory Building room 101 GAME ENGINEERING October 12th, 5 – […]

LCM Photographers On Site

LCM, the architectural firm from Chicago responsible for the design of the new Armory spaces sent had their photographer on site to capture professional photos of our new rooms.