{"id":65,"date":"2019-02-28T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2019-03-20T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:33:11","slug":"360-vr-walk-through-southerns-promenade-click-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/360-vr-walk-through-southerns-promenade-click-and-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"360\u00b0 VR Walk Through Southern\u2019s Promenade. Click and learn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/mediacard\/1151984951533502467?autoplay=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>By Paola Mora Zepeda<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Southern is a bustling school, and it happens often that life becomes too busy. If you don\u2019t have a class with someone, it\u2019s sometimes difficult to intentionally see them during the week.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s unless you\u2019re taking a stroll on the Promenade, of course.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with that legendary stretch of campus, the Promenade is more than just a walkway. It is the location of most of Southern\u2019s academic and administrative buildings.<\/p>\n<p>It has become the location to meet all kinds of people\u00a0 \u2014 art majors, biology majors and history majors, for example. You also will find students from every background \u2014 white, black, Hispanic and Asian students \u2014 all gathered in one one place.<\/p>\n<p>I recently used information from Southern\u2019s fact book to document ethnicities represented in each area of study.\u00a0 To report those findings, I\u00a0decided to use a 360-degree camera to show what the Promenade is like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/media\/1151984951533502467\">The video captures<\/a>, from end to end, the walkway students take almost every day.\u00a0Buildings are labeled with their names and departments.\u00a0 Additionally, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/media\/1151984951533502467\">tags show the distribution of ethnicity by\u00a0<\/a>department.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Adventist University (Southern) is a school whose history traces back to 1892. Growing from 23 to 3009 students, it has not only increased in number but also in diversity. According to U.S. News and World Report, Southern is the third most diverse university in the South.<\/p>\n<p>The demographic breakdown according to the area of study is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-512\" src=\"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot-1-300x125.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot-1-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot-1-768x321.png 768w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot-1-1024x428.png 1024w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screenshot-1.png 1485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff By Paola Mora Zepeda Southern is a bustling school, and it happens often that life becomes too busy. If you don\u2019t have a class with someone, it\u2019s sometimes difficult to intentionally see them during the week. That\u2019s unless you\u2019re taking a stroll on the Promenade, of course. For those unfamiliar with that legendary stretch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/360-vr-walk-through-southerns-promenade-click-and-learn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;360\u00b0 VR Walk Through Southern\u2019s Promenade. Click and learn.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}