Happy New Year everyone. 2019 was a great year for eTV with lots of projects and operations contributing to teaching and learning excellence at RRC.

2020 comes in with another exciting initiative for eTV and CLPE, most notably the design and construction of an immersion room for teaching, learning, and research at RRC. An immersion room allows for the projection of images on all four walls of an environment (or dome structure) to fully immerse participants in a 360-degree sensory experience. The experience is similar to Virtual Reality but can be conducted in a collaborative environment for presentation or simulation exercises. For example, a Paramedicine student can practice stabilizing a patient in dark allay with sirens and traffic noise blaring or a student who is afraid of public speaking can practice their skills with a simulated audience before having to step in front of a real one. The opportunities for simulation and presentation are endless: safety, onboarding, data analysis, travel, art, architecture, construction, history, anatomy, technology, etc. From the photos below you can see we’re just in the beginning stages of pulling this tech together. The plan is for a room, approximately 9.5 by 9.5 metres (to be housed in Studio B), that will allow for some amazing sensory experiences in a collaborative environment. So, stay tuned or contact us for further details. Cheers!

Also check out the two videos below that show what an Immersion Room can look like and how it can be used for teaching and research (courtesy of CBC The Nature of Things).

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The second 360° interactive campus tour is in production! At the beginning of this month, eTV was at the Stevenson Campus, home of the College’s aviation and aerospace sector, capturing still panoramas of the hangar, workshops, classrooms, and even the inside of a plane. The completed interactive tour will be available on Red River’s site in the coming months. Follow the blog for production updates and to see the completed tour.

This is the second phase of the RRC Interest Area 360° tour project. Developed in partnership with John Conklin of Student Recruitment and the Marketing & Web Presence department, these 360° tours will serve as a recruitment tool for prospective students, allowing them the opportunity to fully explore the diverse campuses and classrooms of Red River College.

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eTV is excited to announce the launch of the first phase of the RRC Interest Area 360° tour project! Developed in partnership with John Conklin of Student Recruitment and the Marketing & Web Presence department, these 360° tours will serve as a recruitment tool for prospective students, allowing them the opportunity to fully explore the diverse campuses and classrooms of Red River College. Hospitality is the first interest area captured, with 360° views of Jane’s and the professional labs and classrooms of the PGI campus.

These tours also showcase eTV’s years of research and development of 360° panoramic photography, with beautiful high-dynamic range (HDR) photos of these locations. In early July, eTV will be capturing the Stevenson Aviation campus, which will be online in the coming months.

Check out the 360° Hospitality tour!

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Over the past two years, eTV in partnership with the Medical Laboratory Sciences department has created immersive and interactive panoramas for three Microbiology Laboratories, showcasing different clinical environments: Red River College (educational), Westman Labs (urban), and Stonewall Diagnostics (rural). The success of these Microbiology panoramas has been recognized by students and professionals on a national scale.

The clinical setting for medical laboratory science students is diverse and unknown. Many of these spaces are restricted access to the public, so familiarizing/orienting someone to these environments is challenging. A student may not understand or comprehend the laboratories function within a rural community, which is drastically different then the tertiary facility. The panoramas allow for the exploration and understanding of these different environments that would otherwise be restricted.

Click on the icons to explore the three Microbiology panoramas:

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Take a virtual tour of Red River College’s Professional Photography Lab! eTV has created an immersive virtual tour of the professional photo studio, which guides you through the studio and classroom spaces, instructor profiles and alumni work. The tour will help potential students (and sponsors) with their decisions to enrol (or fund students) in the Professional Photography program.

Check out the Professional Photography microsite to find out more about the program.

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Wow! We talk about Virtual Reality as an immersive technology and we certainly were immersed in it over the last several weeks. With numerous tours through our studio combined with MADLaT (Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training) and RED Forum presentations that focused on new technology, VR is buzzing around eTV and Red River College. And why not – this technology is brimming with opportunities to enhance the teaching and learning process in a very powerful way. eTV continues to be at the forefront of VR development here at RRC and as always we welcome any interest that will help forward this exciting technology.

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eTV shot a 360° video for the 2017 Get Movin’ Challenge. Over 75 staff and students showed up to participate in their favourite activity in our 360° video shoot.

The Get Movin’ Challenge is a month-long activity hosted by the Staff & Student Wellness Committee, that aims to reduce sedentary behaviour of RRC staff and students during the coldest month of the year.

To get motivated check out the 360° and companion video!

360 Video:

Companion Video:

For more details on the Get Movin’ Challenge and the prizes available visit the Wellness Blog.

Wow – what a turn out for the Get Movin Challenge promotional event. Thanks to all who participated and helped organize this exciting production that will promote RRC’s Get Movin Challenge to be held in February 2017. Stay tuned for our 360 degree video and more information coming in the New Year. In the meantime, Happy Holidays from everyone in eTV. Cheers.

Red River College is required by law to educate and train employees and students on the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), Canada’s hazard communication standard. As a result, a new WHMIS course has been developed and can be accessed by logging into LEARN. The course was created by RRC’s Environmental Health & Safety dept. and The Teaching Learning Technology Centre with some interactive activities courtesy of the British Columbia Institute of Technology – Learning and Teaching Centre, and a pictogram chart from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety /Government of Canada.

eTV is pleased to have contributed to this important initiative with highly engaging, panoramic materials that enhance the learning experience for students taking this course.

Click on the image below to see the WHMIS panoramas.

You’ll find the complete WHMIS course on LEARN.

Manitoba Health’s Office of Disaster Management, in conjunction with the Public Health Agency of Canada (Regional) and the Regional Health Authorities of Manitoba, hosted a full-scale health exercise on September 18th, 2015. This year’s health exercise, entitled Turbulent Sky, focused on the on-site medical triage as well as the provision of psychosocial support to passengers involved in an air crash. Over 50 RRC nursing students also participated in this event. To experience the event please click on the graphic below to for an immersive, self- guided, 360° video experience created by eTV/Learning Technologies.

Note: this 360° video experience works best using the Chrome browser.

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