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.

Faculty Summer Institute

Not an Engineer? No Problem! Engaging students with 3D design Presenters: Ashley Mitek, Jamie Nelson, and Jim Wentworth, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Location: Humanities Room Length: Single session (45 minutes) Target Audience: Beginner This session will detail how you can turn students from knowledge consumers to knowledge creators using 3D design projects. We […]

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

Illinois Marathon in 360º

Rollin’ Illini, a sports talk radio show at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will take their show out of the studio and onto streets of Champaign-Urbana this Saturday to run in the Illinois Marathon 10K. They are raising money for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and Illini Media, their parent company. https://youtu.be/gTiG1bB5Djk

LAS Teaching Academy

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences held their Teaching Academy at the Innovation Spaces to explore how Virtual and Augmented Reality are being used within Education.

Rollin’ Illini Radio Broadcast

Virtual Reality to Improve Emotional Well-being

Dr. Rosalba Hernandez, professor of social work, is interested in researching the potential of VR to deliver an immersive psychotherapeutic module in hemodialysis patients. Read about Dr. Hernandez’s research at Forbes    

Counseling Center Reading Day Relaxation Event

Journalism Student Interview on Virtual Reality

Liam Dwyer

Styly Demo

Representatives from Styly visited campus to demonstrate their online application capable of creating experimental VR spaces without any coding. https://styly.cc/  

360 Cameras and Virtual Reality

MACS 326 Drone Playday

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

The Power of Presentation

The TechHub’s own Jamie Nelson presented his Power of Presentation presentation in the Innovation Studio in April.

Hack Culture

HackCulture is sponsored by the University Library, the iSchool, and CITL. 2018 awards trophies were printed at the TechHub on our new Glowforge laser cutter.  

JOUR 215 Course Visit

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

WordPress Downstate MeetUp

A monthly meetup to learn more about WordPress and the community around it. WordPress Downstate serves Springfield, Decatur, Bloomington/Normal, Champaign/Urbana, and anywhere else nearby. This community is open to developers, designers, implementers, users, and those who are curious and want to learn! Check upcoming events at MeetUp.com

ESE 497 Video Editing Support

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

Playful by Design

The 1st Annual Playful by Design Spring Symposium, was held on April 5th-7th, 2018 at the Armory Innovation Spaces

Human Interact Demos Starship Commander

Human Interact Website

Visualizing the Protein Database

This prototype VR experience was created by Kishore Adimulam for demonstration in the VR Lab.

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.”  

Einstein Brothers Opens in the Armory

The Armory Innovation Spaces welcomes a new neighbor. It’s great to have an Einstein’s Bagels location right next door to the TechHub.

Using VR to Acquire Phrasal Verbs

“The main pillars of VR being built on are: immersion, sensory feedback, authenticity, and interaction. The first three features are dependent upon interaction to be able to be properly implemented (Dawley, 2007). These features make VR an ideal tool for second language acquisition as they can enhance immersion, promote interaction, and can provide a more […]

3D printing Terrain Maps

CITL Innovation Spaces is hosting a variety of hands-on emerging technology topics for beginners. Workshops are open to everyone. (Note: workshops can count towards the Certificate in Teaching-Enhanced Technology, but may require a short reflection paper.)

AIS featured in the Daily Illini

Music and visual art belong together

IEI students visit AIS

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

STEAM Students Visit AIS

Students from the Next Generation School returned to the Innovation Spaces to study the history of castles.  

MACS Course Visit

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

VR Featured at Faculty Retreat 2018

Staff from CITL’s Innovation Spaces supported the annual faculty retreat and provided a brief VR demo. Watch the video below to hear Cory Pettijohn discuss his use of VR in the classroom.

Active Teaching and Learning with Virtual Reality

In this short video vignette Professor Cory Pettijohn discusses his use of virtual reality within his courses.

Journalism Documents AR Workshop

Journalism student Zacker Barakat had a blast recording the augmented and virtual reality tech at the TechHub for his Multimedia course!

Kathryn Anthony Guest Lecturer

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

Lithophanes

TechHub staff explore the printing of lithophanes.

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 […]

Build a PC Lan Workshop

Our own Lis Chapa participated in this workshop.

Adobe Spark Workshop

Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning staff offered a hands-on workshop on January 24th for faculty interested in using Adobe Spark for student projects. Spark is a suite of free, cloud-based applications that allow anyone to easily incorporate multimodal assignments within a course. Whether you want students to work with text and imagery, build […]

VR Photo Tour of India

Kishore Adimulam visited India over the winter break and shot a series of 360º photos using the Ricoh Theta. This prototype virtual India tour was created by Kishore using Unity.

Cupix Exploration

created a virtual tour of the CITL Innovation Spaces using the Beta version of Cupix

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 […]