Hi, I'm Jason
& I teach stuff.
I work at USC.
I'm a creative technologist.
I love how AI, design, & tech collide for smarter, stranger communication.
Wanna connect? jasonporter@sc.edu
I work at USC.
I'm a creative technologist.
I love how AI, design, & tech collide for smarter, stranger communication.
Wanna connect? jasonporter@sc.edu
This semester, I’m starting a new fellowship through the college as the AI for Creative Practice Teaching Fellow. The official goal is to explore the use of AI within the creative production process and bring those findings back into teaching and curriculum development in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
The less official version: I now have dedicated time to play around in the AI sandbox I was already spending my nights and weekends in anyway. Pretty good deal.
My focus this semester is on how AI can support creative work without taking the creativity out of it. That means testing tools, building small custom apps, making games, developing class activities, rethinking assignments, and figuring out where AI is actually useful in a visual communications curriculum. Sometimes that means image generation or video tools. Sometimes it means using AI to organize course materials, make grading workflows less painful, or build a weird little classroom tool that solves one specific problem.
I’m also taking part in the AI in Media, Advertising & Public Relations conference on October 9, where I’ll be leading a workshop called Beyond the Prompt: Directing AI with Intention.
Lastly, I’m documenting the process in a running blog called Assisted Intention. It’s part teaching journal, part experiment log, and part archive of what I’m learning as I test these tools in real time.
Fall Semester - 2026
Office Hours
This is a running blog of what I'm doing with AI at the moment.
An AI-generated study podcast used to reinforce core concepts in a 200-level visual communication course. Developed using NotebookLM and NoteGPT, this accessible tool boosted student comprehension and engagement, with measurable test score increases. Winner of AEJMC Best Practices in Teaching Award.
GenAI Workshop Series
A five-part teaching framework for prompt engineering, visual influence, and image-to-video pipelines. Features the GenAI Triangle of Influence model. Accepted as a peer-reviewed AEJMC conference paper, Innovations in Teaching awards, and featured in an academic book chapter. I'll post a link to this once it's published!
Jeopardy: Interview Question Edition!
A customizable, interactive game to engage students in developing and practicing their interview skills to help land their first jobs. You can download the source files here.
Part multi-player videogame, part art-history lesson, and part wearable museum, Piranesi’s Worlds offers a unique use-case for how VR technologies can accelerate unique and experiential learning. The experience represents an innovative approach to historic site interpretation as well as traditional methods of art history while rendering the rare, immersive work of 18th century Italian artist, Giovanni Piranesi, in an accessible virtual experience.
Getting that first job is difficulty; let's do it together. Jason, a seasoned creative turned educator, talks with creative professionals about how they got their first job and the things they wish they knew when they did. Let's Get A Job! is a deep dive into the "how and why" of creative industries as told by the folks in them. More than practical career advice, it’s a look behind the curtain revealing a story of shared journeys, spectacular failures, horrible clients and fulfilled dreams.
An Augmented Reality enhanced children's picturebook that visually describes imaginative narratives between the verbal-visual lines of bed-time stories.
I used to work in Advertising, VFX, and Video Games