I recently visited UT and was amazed not only by the facilities of the schools I visited but also by the hospitality and sympathy of everyone I met in Austin. I visited the Radio, Television and Film and Music schools, and had the great pleasure of doing a couple of lectures on both schools and [...]
I’m excited to announce that we officially have our first Portuguese intern. Antonio Aleixo arrived in Shreveport, LA last week and has already gotten to work in the editing department of the independent feature film Skateland. Aleixo is working under Yusef Svacina, an alumnus of the University of Texas’s Department of Radio-Television-Film. We’re looking forward [...]
Most of the evaluations are in for the Future Places Festival workshops Interface Design for Mobile Devices and Introduction to Arduino, and so far they show a unanimously positive response from workshop participants.
People taking part in the workshops were asked to fill out brief forms which included questions about how the sessions met the participants’ [...]
Millennials at work
While much of the generation-based research seems more likely to produce buzzwords than to actually provide a meaningful framework for thinking about social or cultural trends, a new report from Accenture on the tech habits of Millennials (people born between 1977 and 1997) confirms a broad trend I’ve heard a number of faculty commenting on: [...]