Provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded digital processing; wired and wireless communications. Emphasis on learning how to use the tools as well as understand how they work.

"Comedy, that most elastic literary and performance mode, skewers artifact, topples authority, and reverses expectations, not with the fatal outcomes of tragedy but with laughter and festivity. This class examines both deep roots and current forms of comedy, with a particular focus on comic insubordination. And food.

We will revel in Greek, Roman, and Shakespearean drama; explore Aphra Behn's eighteenth-century feminist rakes and sexual adventurers in "The Rover," investigate social satire in Jane Austen, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde; peek under the covers of small-town family life in Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home"; and probe the uneasy relationship between farce and romantic love, violence and redemptive humor, satire and festivity in comic art. Discussion will draw on examples of popular and contemporary forms, including film and sketch comedy.

These tutorials demonstrate how to install/access Panopto and create a presentation recording. They include:Installing Panopto Client (Mac)Recording a PowerPoint in Panopto (Mac)Recording a Keynote in Panopto (Mac) Installing Panopto Client (PC)Recording a PowerPoint in Panopto (PC) Accessing Panopto Capture (this is the browser verison and does not require downloading any software)Recording a presentation using Google Slides in Panopto Capture

This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building relational machines through a combination of studio-style design and critique along with lecture, lively discussion of course readings, and assignments. Insights from social psychology, human-computer interaction, and design will be examined, as well as how these ideas are manifest in a broad range of applications for software agents and robots.

Podcasting is a dynamic way to use your smarts and creativity to tell stories about compelling subjects. This handbook provides instruction and tools to produce your own podcast — whether you are a professional in journalism, the arts, sciences, business or law, an activist or just someone who has a story to tell. The tools discussed are focused on keeping costs low for entry-level podcasters and designed to help anyone who wants to record, edit and distribute podcasts.

This is a Panopto playlist created by graduate students at the University of Texas School of Information. Individual video tutorials as well as downloadable and remixable versions will also be put in OERTX.