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WINTER 2017 CSU A PUBLICATION FOR ALUMNI, STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF AND FRIENDS Chico COLLEGE OF COMMUNI CATION AND EDUCATION Student using HoloLens Technology virtual tour of campus, so each of them will be in Students Craft charge of a portion of the campus. Meaningful Narratives “I like the Oculus Rift more than the HTC vive because it seems more immersive,” Hocker Using the Latest in said. Jafet Serrato, a journalism major, believes the Technology class will be popular going forward because the virtual reality technology has just recently started CONTENTS An exciting new course titled “Augmented to catch on. Reality for Media and Gaming” (CAGD/JOUR/ “I am most excited to try out the HoloLens Students Craft MADT 398) launched this semester. Taught across because they seem to be the most high tech,” Meaningful three departments and two colleges, students Serrato said. Narratives Using use the latest in technology to tell stories using Students enjoyed the course because it is new augmented and virtual reality. Latest Technoloy and different from any other classes. They also According to the course description, this thought the glasses could be useful in training for Dean’s Message professional skills and technology course teaches professions, such as the culinary arts. students in media, entertainment, and technology According to Department of Journalism and APE Sports Day fields how to tell stories interactively using video PR Chair Susan Weisinger, the cross-listing and computer-generated scenes that subjects experiment and PR with students and faculty Blackness in experience through virtual and augmented reality. from three professional skills-based programs was Film The course focuses squarely on storytelling, not a lot of fun and a clear success despite not other uses of virtual and augmented reality such as Autism knowing how the team structure would work in video games. While many of the techniques used in the beginning. Symposium games can also be applied to VR/AR Reality story “We started the semester with our students experiences, an immersive story exists primarily to Four Students basically sitting near students they recognized convey information in a narrative way. This course from their own majors. By the end of the Win Media focuses exclusively on experiential storytelling and Awards semester they were all talking, laughing, and ignores the pure “gaming” aspect except where such working together in their multidisciplinary Student Senator techniques enhance the story experience. teams,” Weisinger said. “They were incredibly Working in teams, students in the Departments collaborative and productive together.” Chico Great of Media Arts, Design (MADT), and Technology, In spring 2018, CAGD, JOUR, and MADT Debate Journalism and Public Relations (JOUR), and will be offering a senior-level special topics course Computer Animation and Game Development that features a semester-long immersive Design Tech and (CAGD) programs tell narrative stories that storytelling project with Sierra Nevada Brewery. Trends require use of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Daydream, In fall 2018, Weisinger said she hopes to and HoloLens devices. Alumni, donors, and again cross-list a multidisciplinary course that Future Educators departments provide the devices that are shared explores emerging technologies for media and Fair amongst the class so each student can experience entertainment. the differing capabilities. Jake Hocker, a communication design major, explained that for their final project they will work in groups of three and are supposed to make a Programs construction and skilled production of From the Dean’s Desk, narratives that take up the meaningful and challenging questions of our time. Adapted Sports Day As we approach the end of the semester and Celebrates All Abilities the calendar year, it seems fitting to reflect As you read this issue of Voices, you will on our accomplishments and anticipate learn more about these two exciting events. One hundred school-aged child athletes from another exciting year in the College of However, these are just two of the many six surrounding counties attended the 17th annual Communication and Education (CME). As Adapted Physical Education (APE) Sports Day on APE professors examples that show how our College is the Chico State campus. Elementary school student traversing the I look back on this past year, I am energized emerging as a campus leader in enabling The Department of Kinesiology hosted the climbing wall Rebecca Lytle and inspired by the work of our outstanding access and equity. There are many untold event in conjunction with the Northern California and Marci faculty and the students with and for whom stories that are quietly making a difference! Adapted Physical Education Consortium. have spent the semester studying African Americans they work. Indeed, I am so very happy to report that APE Sports Day provides an outlet for Pope, with individuals with disabilities including physical and in film and how they are depicted through the an anonymous donor recently provided decades, and how that is reflected in what was their students, Our programs and faculty pursued our sensory disabilities, deaf and hard of hearing, and the School of Education with a $200,000 visual impairments, to interact with other children happening during a specific time in history. organized the guiding commitments in impactful, creative, endowment to provide access, support, and from the six surrounding counties. From silent films in the early part of the 20th ™We hope you century through the decades, students taking the and engaging ways this year. For example, resources for students interested in becoming Fifty activity stations including the climbing ape sports day course watched and discussed the representation enjoy learning CME’s commitment to enabling access and educators but face financial barriers to wall, wheelchair specific sports, skill development of African-Americans in film and society. They equity through programs, practices, and achieving a teaching credential. That gift is games, and many other fun activities make up the event. more about studied cultural representation in media, narrative curricula that embrace and promote diversity creating opportunities and providing access sporting atmosphere for the athletes. APE professors Rebecca Lytle and Marci Pope, conventions and stereotypes, stylistic elements, what's new in was made manifest in many ways this year. for students who wouldn’t otherwise have with their students, organized the event. industrial practices, and cultural events that have In October, the Department of Kinesiology shaped the role and view of African Americans. the college. the financial resources to continue their path “This event provides opportunities for children and their partners, the Northern California toward a career in education. with physical and sensory disabilities to get together “Students get a brief context of what was Of course, we Adapted Physical Education Consortium, with others that have the same disability type to happening at that time and why,” Lecturer Quinn Winchell said. “What is cultural studies? It’s a hosted another successful Adapted Physical With our committed faculty, students, play a game or sport,” Pope said. “This may be one would very much of the only opportunities for them to meet someone chronological order in history about race and how Education Sports Day here on our campus, and donors the year ahead looks bright, it is used.” like to hear who has a similar condition as themselves since we providing students with disabilities from indeed! And from all of us in the College of are surrounded by rural schools. They may have Twenty-seven students, working in groups of what's new in across the North State the opportunity to Communication and Education, we wish you only participated in traditional sports at their school three, created three-to-four participate in a full-range of sports activities. and yours a wonderful holiday season and a sites, so this gives them an introduction to disability minute videos by taking your world.” Adapted Physical Education Sports Day is happy and healthy new year. sport and the sport opportunities that are available.” short segments from films just one way we demonstrate our commitment Students majoring in kinesiology, therapeutic viewed in class to defend a thesis statement. Students to ensuring that all students have access to Angela Trethewey, PhD recreation, and exercise physiology work and play with the athletes as part of their coursework. make an argument to high-quality learning environments. Dean defend and back it up by using sources. They are Last month, we hosted an event designed Blackness in Film: A Video required to use multiple to explore representations of black identity Essay Approach films to create fluidity. in film as rendered by students’ video essays. Winchell encourages students to be objective in Storytelling is an art and is consumed and The event represented a culminating project their essays. presented in multiple forms: Letter writing, poetry, for students in Professor Quinn Winchell’s Groups screened books, photography, audio recording, and several “Media Arts and Identity” course to engage their completed videos other mediums. at an event on campus in both the critical analysis of media Students enrolled in Media Arts, Design, and in November. Blackness representations and the theoretically-grounded Technology course 352, “Media Arts and Identity,” in Film: A Video Essay Approach,
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