Roadrunner Island Success Stories
Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Media Production, Lisa Ortiz has been awarded a Virtual Learning Prize from the New Media Consortium (NMC) for developing an inworld exhibit that helps students experience life with a disability. Second Life avatars can experience disabilities virtually; what life is like being blind or deaf. Four disabilities: vision, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments, can be experienced. Check out the image gallery here.
Diversity Tolerance Footprints is an art exhibition that reflects how one deals with Diversity, and Tolerance in today’s society.
Humanity, we all have qualities within us, but can we tolerates each other’s personal qualities without judgment? Every human leaves some kind of footprint somewhere on a daily basis. Examples of Diversity Tolerance: age, economical background, ethnicity, gender, disabled/able, inclusion/exclusion, multicultural, political, physical appearance, race, religion, and sexual orientation. The diversity and tolerance list keeps getting more inclusive year after year.
What do you want your footprint to reflect in life? Do you wear high heel, loafers, sneakers, or walk barefoot. Be creative with your footprint and have fun. Inspire the world with your footprint through Art, and the art is open-ended and can include art installations, performance art (dance, music, theatrical), paintings, photography, poetry, sculpture, video, and writings. For the performance artists, take your souls to the street, record and upload video. Check out the image gallery here.
