SIGGRAPH 2018 Educator’s Forum

The following activities have been planned for SIGGRAPH 2018 as part of the Educator's Forum.

Overview

Sunday, August 12 – Room 116/117

3:45-5:00 Educator’s Meet and Greet Reception

Monday, August 13 – Room 116/117

8:30 – Morning coffee
8:45 – Education Committee Welcome
9:00-10:30 – Panel – FuturePrep – Industry Views on Education
10:45-12:15 – Groovy Graphics Assignments I
2:00-3:30 – No session – SIGGRAPH Keynote
3:45-5:15 – Groovy Graphics Assignments II

Tuesday, August 14 – Room 116/117

8:30 – Morning coffee
8:45 – Education Committee Welcome
9:00-10:30 – Talks – VR/AR in Education
10:45-12:15 – SIGCSE Reprise
2:00-3:30 – Course: Bringing 3D Printing to the Classroom
3:45-5:15 – Talks: Animation in Education

The Edcator's Program can also be found on the conferene website.

Details

Sunday, August 12 – (BoF – Room 116/117)

3:45-5:00 – Educator's Meet and Greet Reception (Tereza Flaxman, host)
          If you are able to attend, please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/siggrapheducatorsreception
          by Friday, August 10th, so that we can confirm numbers.

Monday, August 13 – Room 116/117

8:30 – Morning coffee

8:45 – Education Committee Welcome
          (Ginger Alford, Andrew Duchowski, Kevin McNulty, Anna Ursyn)
          SPACETime competition winners, Booth intro, and CGEMS intro

9:00-10:30 – Panel – FuturePrep – Industry Views on Education (Erik Brunvand, session chair)
          Glenn Goldman, NJIT, panel lead
          Nathan Carr - Adobe Research

10:45-12:15 – Groovy Graphics Assignments I (Andrew Duchowski, session chair)

• Boids: Learning Vector Arithmetic Through Animation, Neil A. Dodgson, Victoria University of Wellington
• Real-Time Rocks: Shader-Based Labradorite, Eric Patterson, Clemson University
• A Bouncing Ball Game for First-Year Computer Graphics, Neil A. Dodgson, Victoria University of Wellington
• Miscellany Drawer, Richard Lewis, Middle Tennessee State University

2:00-3:30 – No session – SIGGRAPH Keynote

3:45-5:15 – Groovy Graphics Assignments II (Kevin McNulty, session chair)

• Walking through a Maze, Edward Angel, University of New Mexico
• Hybrid Creature Project, Dave Mauriello, Drexel University
• Teapot Rendering Competition, Cem Yuksel, University of Utah
• Ray-Traced Transmission, Andrew T. Duchowski, Clemson University

Tuesday, August 14 – Room 116/117

8:30 – Morning coffee

8:45 – Education Committee Welcome
          (Glenn Goldman, Kathleen Milne, Susan Reiser, Miho Aoki)
          FSSW, Curriculum Working Group

9:00-10:30 – Talks – VR/AR in Education  (Tabitha Peck, session chair)

• Creating Compelling Virtual Reality and Interactive Content for Higher Education, Ralph Vituccio, Carnegie Mellon University, Sarabeth Boak, Jashee Cho, Tsung-Yu (Jack) Tsai, Stichbridge, Inc.
• Storytelling for Volumetric VR, Soenke Kirchhof, reallifefilm international GmbH
• Real-time Motion Capture for Performing Arts and Stage, Serguei Mokhov, Concordia University
• VFX to teach religion? Learning from Immersive Media, Tucker Dansie, Doug Stewart, LDS Motion Picture Studio

10:45-12:15 – SIGCSE Reprise  (Erik Brunvand, session chair)

• Game Development with a Serious Focus, Devorah Kletenik, Deborah Sturm, City University of New York
• Brain-Computer Interface for All, Chris Crawford, University of Alabama, Christina Gardner-McCune, Juan Gilbert ,University of Florida
• Sound Design for Video Games: An Interdisciplinary Course for Computer Science and Art Students, Richert Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara, Vincent Olivieri, University of California, Irvine
• Updating Introductory Computer Science with Creative Computation, Dianna Xu, Bryn Mawr College) Ursula Wolz, Bennington College, Deepak Kumar, Bryn Mawr College, Ira Greenberg, Southern Methodist University

2:00-3:30 – Course (Tereza Flaxman, session chair)

• Bringing 3D Printing to the Classroom, Lance Winkel, University of Southern California

3:45-5:15 – Talks: Animation in Education  (Wobbe Koning, session chair)

• Science Cartooning: The Ideal Couple, Armin Mortazavi, The University of British Columbia
• El Oro: Animating Humanities Research, Sean McComber, Todd Fletcher, Eric Farrar, Phillip Hall, Monica Rankin, Ben Wright, University of Texas at Dallas.
• Massive Collaborative Animation Projects - Changing Paradigms in Animation Education (40min talk), William Joel, Western Connecticut State University, Miho Aoki, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jacob Pollak, Ferris State University, Johannes DeYoung, Yake University, Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, Wei-Chung Chang, National Taiwan University of Arts.