Susan Raybuck

As a non-traditional student, I bring 3 decades of public teaching experience and political activism to my graduate studies in journalism and mass communication.

What would inspire bright, creative, entrepreneurial developers and designers volunteer a year of their time to help American cities solve problems they otherwise couldn’t with the massive funding crisis faced by the majority of cities? That question led Jennifer Pahlka to found Code for America.

The UK’s Mark Channon, one of the world’s foremost experts on memory and mind  mapping, presented at SXSW Interactive 2012 Monday, for one of the mini-sessions. Originally an actor, in 1995 he became the eighth person to win the title of Grand Master of Memory. To judge by the size of the crowd and the close […]

Games have a bad reputation for some of us. Media speculation about violent content inspiring violent behavior when random, senseless violence occurs and tales of gaming addicts color perceptions. So gaming evangelist and game designer Jane McGonigal’s presentation challenged some preconceptions.

John Baird

Waltrip High School math teacher John Baird first began using sequential art comics while he taught literacy soon after leaving college. Students who otherwise resisted writing liked to imagine dialogue and a storyline to go with the pictures and speech balloons and seemed eager to write. It wasn’t long, however, before John was exploring other […]