ACTLab Pedagogy and Product Development:

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ACTLab Pedagogy and Product Development

• A look at how New Media programs address product
  development from the classroom to the real world.

Joseph Lopez, Dustin Younse, Brandon Wiley
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The ACTLab
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What is the ACTLab?

• A special program at the University of Texas at
  Austin
• In the ACTLab we encourage you to
• Make Stuff
• Take Risks
• Be Awesome!

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Similar Programs

• Academic World
• MIT Media Lab
• ETC at CMU
• Non-Academic
• Monochrom Collective
• Resistor (NYC, NY)

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ACTLab Projects and Initiatives

• ACTLab TV
• BitDepth
• Copyleft media hosting and advocacy
• Opensource media tool development
• Co-Working Space (Summer 2008)
• The ACTLab office is open this summer as a
  co-working space allowing for collaboration
  between the private sector and academia.

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ACTLab Projects and Initiatives Pics
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ACTLab Projects and Initiatives (Part 2)

• Computing/Network Development
• Community Mesh Wireless Network
• Beowolf Cluster Research Initiative
• Opensource Software Development in various fields
• Community Geek Outreach
• Learn Something Awesome
• Monkey Wrench Books Tech Night
• New Media Talk Series (Spring 2008)

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ACTLab Projects and Initiatives (Part 3)

• Virtual World Research
• P2P
• MUDs
• Traveler

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Projects and Initiatives from the ACTLab

• Drew Davidson- Director of the ETC
• Rich McKinnon
• Alluvium (opensource p2p video streamer)
• SnakeBite (automated bittorrent server)
• Brandon Wileys Ringlight

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How to get involved

• Come to the ACTLab office and visit us! (CMA
  6.124)
• Courses for Fall 2008
• Extreme Freestyle Hacking
• The Uncanny

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