New Media Network

Research Development Project Archive

Past Projects

Crowd-Funding Toolkit Workshop

While in Medellin, Colombia, Project House ran a workshop that worked on creating a crowdfunding campaign for a local Ultimate Frisbee group that was doing outreach to at-risk youth in a town 6 hours away.

From this workshop a crowd-funding toolkit was made to be used by other grassroots group hoping to gain support through crowd-funding platforms.

Language Immersion App - LIA

One problem that arises when learning a new language is that native speakings speak too quickly for the learner to understand. LIA is a simple app that works with a smartphone and headphones with a microphone. The user can slow down

Using the hardware buttons on the phone users don't need to look at their phone to operate the app. They can start, replay, and slow down snippets of audio to help them understand the conversation around them.