Thirteen home-schooled students took time away from their studies to visit the Innovation Spaces to explore laser cutting, 3D printing and virtual reality.
The Armory Innovation Spaces were happy to help host the second annual Playful be Design on April 5th.
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
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 […]
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
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.
Photos from the Spring 2019 iGet Meeting.
Professor Anna Kasten returned to the Innovation Spaces this time with her class of 16 Saudi students.
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 […]
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.
It was great to have Monika Dressier from the University of Michigan stop by to check out the Armory Innovation Spaces.
We’re pleased to continue hosting MakerGirl workshops in the Innovation Studio. See a list of upcoming workshops here.
Illini eSports started up their open gaming hours for the Fall term. Join them every Thursday from 5 – 9 in the Innovation Studio.
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.
Seven visiting Fulbright scholars from Lebanon visit the Armory Innovation Spaces to explore emerging technologies like 3D scanning and VR.
“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-Seymour High School faculty and administrators visited the Innovation Spaces on July 11th to explore emerging technologies and their educational applications.
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.
Students from the OSMA Upwards Bound Program visited the Innovation Spaces in June.
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
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The TechHub’s own Jamie Nelson presented his Power of Presentation presentation in the Innovation Studio in April.
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.
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
The 1st Annual Playful by Design Spring Symposium, was held on April 5th-7th, 2018 at the Armory Innovation Spaces
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.
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.
Professor Anna Kasten brought her students from Japan to visit the AIS spaces.
Students from the Next Generation School returned to the Innovation Spaces to study the history of castles.
Anshuman Prasad virtually visited Kathryn Anthony’s course at the Innovation Studio on February 8th
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.
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 […]
eSports members return to the Armory Innovation spaces this Spring. Join them Thursday afternoons from 4 – 9 in Armory 172 to learn more about this registered student organization.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
As part of their recent visit to UIUC campus, traveling scholars from Zhejiang University toured the Armory Innovation Spaces to learn more about how digital textbooks, virtual reality and 3d scanning and printing technologies are being used within higher education.
CITL staff offered faculty from the UIUC department of Media and Cinema Studies a brief introduction to Adobe Creative Cloud. Creative Cloud is now available to all campus faculty and staff. We hope to ramp up student use of these great tools with small pilot programs being offered to MACS courses this Fall. View the […]
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.
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 […]
Professor Veronica Paredes brought her media students to the VR Lab, Innovation Studio and TechHub to investigate the intersection of virtual reality and gaming.
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.
Grade schoolers from the Next Generation School visited the Innovation Studio and TechHub to learn more about caves. They spent time in the Vive VR headset touring virtual cave sites, and they research caves using google maps in the Innovation Studio.
Illini Esports began using the Innovation Studio in October 2017. New to esports and want to learn? They’ll teach you. A long-time veteran of your favorite game? They’ll challenge you! eSports has events every month from viewing parties to meet ups, to tournaments. During Fall term 2017, they offer open hours in the Studio from noon […]
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.
Innovation spaces staff have been experimenting with using the Google maps platform to add traditional images and 360 photos to the map database. You can see out contributions here – https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/100744652570239518200/photos/ We hope to eventually be able to view these images on Google Earth using the HTC Vive headset. You can currently search for 505 E. […]
The TechHub has been experimenting with 360 photography using the Theta 360. With this camera you can capture your entire surroundings with the simple press of the shutter button. See this Innovation Studio image in 360 in our Google Photo album We’ve also begun testing the Theta for shooting 360 video. Here is an example […]
Playful by Design is a IPRH supported research cluster that focuses on games, platforms and pedagogies designed to foster empathy, to facilitate the attainment of cultural, digital, and linguistic fluencies, and to promote collaborative authorship and digital inclusion through the Public Humanities. They also hope to generate creativity, energy, and excitement around the possible development of […]
Join the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning as we celebrate the completion of our new open-air office and innovation spaces in the northeast corner of the Armory. Spaces will be open for tours and hands-on activities. Stop by to enjoy free beverages and snacks throughout the day from 10am-4pm on September 12th, 13th and […]
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 […]
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.” […]
CocoaNuts helped to introduce more students to the Innovation Studio offering two workshops to their members at the beginning of the Fall term.
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
The Illini Drone Club doing demonstrations in the Innovation Studio for the open house. They also offered their first club meeting of the Fall semester in the new Innovation Studio on August 28th.
The six-screen video wall was installed and ready for use in the Innovation Studio just in time for the total solar eclipse on August 21st. A TOTAL ECLIPSE happens when the moon completely covers the sun. Here, the observer is standing under the umbral shadow of the moon. In a total solar eclipse, the sun’s outer […]