Teaching

Educating with 360 Workshop

I pitched and put together a workshop for Pitt faculty exploring different ways to use XR as an educational tool. The live workshop was tailored to participants' specific interests, while the recorded workshop was suited for a diverse audience with various levels of familiarity with immersive media. This workshop was added to a departmental repository of educational resources for future use.

DNID Showcase Website

As an adjunct professor teaching Narrative and Technology, I wanted to create a digital space to show my students' work, as well as the work of other students in Digital Narrative and Interactive Design classes. After proposing the website, I designed and created it, as well as accompanying documentation, in line with the ideas I'd put forth and those put forth by DNID faculty.

A&SC Collaboration

In my Narrative and Technology class, my students are given the opportunity to take advantage of Pitt's Archives and Special Collections — a valuable and unique resource. Students examine curated micro-collections focused on topics covered in the class. They must then craft an essay using two of the primary sources presented to them in these micro-collections. This assignment is also somewhat of a writing competition, as the top five essays go on to be published on the A&SC's Tumblr.

Vibrant Media Lab Faculty

As an affiliated faculty member of the Vibrant Media Lab at Pitt, I have access to the VML's resources to work on my own immersive media projects.

Immersive Media Curriculum Working Group

As a graduate student, I served on the immersive media curriculum working group to help develop a suite of courses students could take to earn an immersive media certificate. This working group was interdepartmental and included faculty, the dean of the College of Art, Media, and Design, and me.

Guest Lecturing

As a guest lecturer, I focus on the potential of immersive media for various purposes. I also try to ground my lectures with some of the basic concepts of immersive media, e.g. basic terminology, history, previous and current uses, social contexts, etc. Where possible, I like to add practical elements to these lectures as well.