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Item Master of none : my adventures in the realm of greater academia(2010-05) Gentry, Donovan Lee; Stone, Allucquére Rosanne; Radio-Television-Film; Straubhaar, Joseph D.This report attempts to trace a path through my time in higher education, from an undergraduate degree in English to the completion of my Master's degree in Media studies. The report will focus on examining how school has differed from my expectations, and how my difficulties and struggles therein led me through various class models and modes of learning. In the course of retelling the projects and studies I worked on, I will compare different methods of pedagogy, from the typical grad school class to the free-form space of the ACTLab. I close by reflecting on how a report on my own time here at UT might be useful to others unsure of how grad school is supposed to go, much I was when I started out.Item Technological doodling as a learning and design practice(2015-05) Dixon, Brent Ritchie; Gorman, Carma; Park, JiwonThe work documented in this report is an outgrowth of hands-on, educational science, technology, and art workshops I have run with and for children over the past two years. Blending low-cost, upcycled materials with emerging technology, these workshops encourage kids to tinker, invent, make messes, and explore. In schools, therapy centers, hacker spaces, and hospitals, I've learned about the developmental power of curious, happy hands. In these moments I've observed children "doodling" with technology just like we might with pencil and paper. In this report, I argue that this kind of doodling is a necessary form of practice for designers who work in an era of rapid technological change. The projects presented at the end of this report are my own technological doodles. They are investigative, playful, and rough around the edges. I consider this report, like the projects it describes, a thoughtful and imperfect beginning.