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7:30am - 9:00am  Registration & Coffee

9:00am - 9:30am  Introductions
Speaker: Bryan Alexander,
Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC

9:30am - 10:30 am  Presentation: VR technology, the state of the art
Speakers: Emory Craig,
Director of eLearning, College of New Rochelle & Co-founder/Partner at Digital Bodies
 Maya Georgievna, Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Bodies

A dive into VR, exploring multiple platforms, software packages, and examples.  Pedagogical instances.

10:30am - 10:45am  Break

10:45am  - 11:30am  Hands-on exploration and discussion
Speakers: Emory Craig, Director of eLearning, College of New Rochelle & Co-founder/Partner at Digital Bodies
Maya Georgievna, Chief Innovation Officer, Digital Bodies
Demonstrations of sample VR technologies and projects.

11:30am - 12:00pm  Presentation: VR on campus and in class, 1
Speaker: Jordan Tynes,
Manager of Scholarly Innoovations, Wellesley College

Describes several academic projects that generate data to be used in VR/AR applications. Student participation, faculty research, and staff support will be highlighted as crucial components to these projects' workflows. Processes and assignments will be shown to directly impact on-campus VR/AR development, as well as scholarly learning methods.

12:00pm  - 1:00pm     Lunch

1:00pm  - 2:30pm  Integrating VR/AR Data Capture and Post-Processing into Undergrad Coursework and Academic Research, 2
Speakers: Ian Roy
, Assistant Director for Emerging Technology and Innovation, Brandeis University
Jordan Tynes, Manager of Scholarly Innovations, Wellesley College

2:30pm  - 3:00pm  Taking it all Home: concluding discussion
Speaker: Bryan Alexander,
Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
Developing educational VR applications.  Exploration of campus support strategies.

Prereading: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/01/14/microsoft-hololens-review-experience-review/#63ff395e6bd2

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