Date: Saturday, March 8, 2014 Time: 12.30pm – 1.10pm Location: Austin Convention Center, Ballroom G, 500 E Cesar Chavez St Do you consider yourself a creative individual? Or are you one of those people who dreads brainstorming sessions? Is creativity a genetic trait? David Burkus’ new book The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative […]
Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp spoke on Building Tools for Creativity Sunday at SXSW Interactive. He shared how Tumblr has evolved and taken shape beyond what they could have imagined. Today, the blogging site has tight-knit communities that hold meet-ups in person, and users are finding creative ways to utilize the site outside of […]
Brainstorming Technology First Saturday, March 9 | 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Will Turnage works at advertising agency R/GA, but his panel will cover technology. He admits that a tech panel isn’t what you expect from the Art and Inspiration category at SXSW Interactive. “But that’s kind of the point,” says Turnage. He’s excited about the […]
The most intriguing education panel during SXSWedu (which will also be presented during SXSW Interactive) in March 2012 just might be Supersizing the Classroom: 3000 Students & Beyond with Virginia Tech’s John Boyer and Katie Pritchard. For years Boyer’s highly popular Geography 1014 World Regions class kept outgrowing every classroom space due to student word-of-mouth recommendations. For […]
Mention computer programming and many intelligent and fairly computer-savvy college-bound youngsters and adults metaphorically throw up their hands, assuming it’s too hard and certainly way beyond them. As a result, relatively few study programming in college, a reality that caused enough concern for Microsoft, Intel Foundation, Google,Iomega, and the MIT Media Lab research consortia, not to mention the National Science […]
Stephen Anderson gave an initial disclaimer when beginning his session, “The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions.” His background is in design, so his education in the actual ‘science’ part is minimal. He said he focuses on the art of seductive interactions, but that science does play an integral part (i.e. psychology, linguistics, neuroscience) in […]