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Explore data visualizations created by Bin Software that use the HTC Vive room-scale virtual reality (VR) system on Monday, January 25 in 3051 Trent Semans Center for Health Education in conjunction with the Duke research computing symposium. Register to be able to put on a VR headset and walk (literally!) through a visual representation of data and see how that data can be manipulated in 3D. There are other ways to participate, too! See the link for more information below. Refreshments will be available.
Stop by the RENCI Conference Room, OIT Telecommunications Bldg. on Tuesday, January 26 any time between 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to check out VR tools like the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, the Samsung Gear VR, and more. Discuss how VR can be used for teaching and learning at Duke. No registration required. Refreshments will be available.
Join David Hemly, Sr. Manager World Wide Technical Field Team Pro Video at Adobe on Wednesday, January 27 from 9:30-11:30 in 119 Telcommunications Bldg. for a discussion of tools and initiatives Adobe is working on for VR. Registration is limited. Register online at: training.oit.duke.edu/reg.
For more information and to register, visit https://dukedigitalinitiative.duke.edu/virtual-reality-events-january-2016/.
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These events are sponsored by the Duke Digital Initiative (DDI), a collaboration between OIT and CIT to explore new and emerging technologies to support teaching & learning.
What happens when you introduce virtual reality (VR) into schools? Mike McArdle, co-founder of The Virtual Reality Learning Experience, will describe VRLE’s experiences over the last year and a half as they have taken VR into local schools to help students understand the scale of outer space. As part of the process, VRLE has developed a better understanding of how kids, teachers, and administrators react to VR and what other kinds of content might be useful. During the second half of this event, we’ll have an open discussion about how the lessons VRLE has learned can be applied in higher education as we continue to examine the potential for VR in teaching and learning at Duke.
Date: Thursday, October 1
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Location: Sociology Psychology 128 (map)
No registration required. This event is open to all. See the Duke Events Calendar for complete details.
For questions, email Elizabeth Evans e.a.evans@duke.edu.
Missed yesterday’s panel discussion “Teaching & Learning with Virtual Reality: Learn About It & Experience It!”? Watch the recording online. Note: You may be prompted to update your MS Silverlight Plug-in to be able to view the recording.
Join us for September’s Learn IT @ Lunch session:
Teaching & Learning with Virtual Reality: Learn About It & Experience It!
What is virtual reality? Imagine being able to travel underwater, into space, on the Amazon River, through a rainforest—all without leaving your desk. Look up, look down, look behind you and the illusion of being immersed in the environment persists. See a humpback whale approach and hear her song as she approaches and swims away. Jump, startled, as a boa constrictor moves across your path through the forest. If you are interested in learning more about virtual reality (VR) and contributing to a growing conversation about how it might be applied to teaching and learning at Duke, join us for this lunch and learn. Learn about the current state of the technology and hear about some ways VR is already being used at Duke. After the panel presentations (noon-1:15), stay and try out some VR devices (1:15-2:00). Attendees will be eligible to win a Google Cardboard VR viewer that can be used with many smartphones. Devices available to try will include the Oculus Rift and, for smartphone apps, the Samsung Gear VR, the Wearality, and Google Cardboard.
Panelists: Elizabeth Evans (DDI), Hannah Jacobs (Wired! Lab & Art, Art History & Visual Studies), Mark McCahill (OIT), Mark McGill (OIT), Regis Kopper (DiVE), Todd Berreth (Visualization & Interactive Systems), Chris Lorch (CIT)
Date: Wednesday, September 9
Time: noon – 1:15 p.m. (optional hands on session to follow 1:15-2:00 p.m)
Location: Bostock Library – The Edge Workshop Room (first floor)
No registration required. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
Also, The DiVE will have a special Open House for us that same day from 4-5 in case you want to check it out. (Their normal weekly Open Houses are held Tuesdays).
Complete information about the Learn IT @ Lunch series including descriptions for each of these sessions is available online at: http://oit.duke.edu/comp-print/training/learn_it_lunch/
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Learn IT @ Lunch is designed to be an opportunity to learn about technology in a relaxed lunch environment. Each session includes a presentation followed by Q & A. No pre-registration is required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. NOTE: Lunch is not provided. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
The OIT Learn IT @ Lunch series has been announced for the fall 2015 semester. Topics include: Virtual Reality, File Collaboration & Storage, IT Security and User Experience Design.
To see the schedule, visit: http://oit.duke.edu/comp-print/training/learn_it_lunch/
Save the dates on your calendar!
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Learn IT @ Lunch is designed to be an opportunity to learn about technology in a relaxed lunch environment. Each session includes a presentation followed by Q & A. No pre-registration is required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. NOTE: Lunch is not provided. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
If you are interested in how VR might be used for teaching and learning at Duke, join the new vr2learn@duke.edu mailing list. Go here to subscribe: https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/vr2learn.
Join the Duke Digital Initiative in the Office of Information Technology (OIT) for the next Videos in Teaching & Learning (ViTaL) interest group session:
“Discussion: ViTaL”
ViTaL was born in September 2013 as an experimental program of the Duke Digital Initiative to support self-service, peer-supported video production for teaching and learning. At the end of its second academic year, we’d like to take a look back at what we’ve tried and get your feedback on what would be useful going forward.
Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: noon – 1:00 pm
Location: RENCI Conference Room, OIT Telecommunications Building (directions)
No registration is required. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
A complete schedule is available here: http://vital.oit.duke.edu/peer-support/ Meetings are open to faculty, staff, and students, although topics will focus on faculty interests. In addition to attending the meetings, you can join the mailing list, vital@duke.edu, by going to https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/vital.
What is virtual reality? “Virtual Reality (VR), sometimes referred to as immersive multimedia, is a computer-simulated environment that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds.” (wikipedia.com) What is the current state of the technology to enable VR? And what role, if any, can it or should it have in teaching and learning at Duke? You are invited to a brief introduction to VR followed by an open discussion about the benefits, concerns, and possibilities VR might bring to Duke’s educational experiences hosted by Duke Digital Initiative. For details, visit the Duke Events Calendar.
Join the Duke Digital Initiative in the Office of Information Technology (OIT) for the next Videos in Teaching & Learning (ViTaL) interest group session:
“Adaptation: Taking Your Lecture from the Classroom to the Camera”
presented by Mich Donovan, Media Technology Services, Office of Information Technology and Andrea Novicki, Senior Academic Technology Consultant, Center for Instructional Technology
While a camera in the back of a classroom is one way to produce educational video it is far from the most effective. In this ViTaL session we will take a lecture that was previously only taught in the classroom and walk through the steps to transform it into a format more suitable for online learning. From modulating content, to script-writing, to graphic design, this pre-production process will walk through everything you should consider before pressing “record.”
Date: Thursday, April 16
Time: noon – 1:00 pm
Location: RENCI Conference Room, OIT Telecommunications Building (directions)
No registration is required. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
A complete schedule is available here: http://vital.oit.duke.edu/peer-support/ Meetings are open to faculty, staff, and students, although topics will focus on faculty interests. In addition to attending the meetings, you can join the mailing list, vital@duke.edu, by going to https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/vital.
Join the Duke Digital Initiative in the Office of Information Technology (OIT) for the next Videos in Teaching & Learning (ViTaL) interest group session:
“Recording and Editing in Panopto”
presented by Paul Zizzo, Multimedia and User Services Analyst, Nicholas School
By now you should know that there are many ways to create and edit video. Panopto, freely available to the Duke community and already used by many faculty to record lectures in classrooms, is another option available to you. Paul Zizzo, multimedia and user services analyst in the Nicholas School, will help you learn what you need to get started with Panopto when you want to create video lectures outside a classroom. Just as with Screenflow and Camtasia, you can record from a webcam, capture your computer screen, and then edit your results. At the end of this session, you will better understand whether Panopto can meet your needs for creating and editing educational video!
Date: Thursday, March 19
Time: noon – 1:00 pm
Location: RENCI Conference Room, OIT Telecommunications Building (directions)
No registration is required. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.
A complete schedule is available here: http://vital.oit.duke.edu/peer-support/ Meetings are open to faculty, staff, and students, although topics will focus on faculty interests. In addition to attending the meetings, you can join the mailing list, vital@duke.edu, by going to https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/vital.
