‘Welcome Back…’ New Media Students Interactive Media Design & Multimedia Design Technology

1. ‘Welcome Back…’ New Media Students Interactive Media Design & Multimedia Design Technology 2nd & 3rd Years Chance to win a £25 ‘Love2Shop’ voucher… See last slide of this presentation

2. Remember Teaching starts w/b 19th Sept

3. Your Field and the New School Media Communications and ScreenStudies in the new School of Arts and Digital Industries • Programmes • Media Studies • Film and Video • BSc (Hons) Multimedia Design Technology • BA (Hons) Interactive Media Design • Computer Games Design • Communication Studies • MA Programmes • PhDs

4. Welcome Back to the New Media programmes Remember why you are here: The New Media Programmes draw on the research knowledge, experience and expertise of a teaching team located across the School, University and Industry. The focus of both degrees is divided between design, research and technology (production). The New Media degrees have produced award winning graduates. We encourage all of our students to work toward success, producing innovative, conceptually informed research and practice projects.

5. Remember why you are here

6. Where are they now? Links to former students working in the industry User Experience Design Specialist Production & Marketing Director Senior Web Developer - Team Lead at Nokia Head of New Media Productions at Travel Channel International Freelancers See examples of former student’s work on the degree

7. Changes to Your Programme At the end of last year the academic staff (in consultation with our students) made considerable changes to both MMDT and IMD degrees The new structures are here BSc Multimedia Design Technology BA Interactive Media Design

8. Programme Reps/Committees The new programme structures demonstrate the extent to which academic staff value the comments and ideas of our students. Each semester we have a programme committee meeting chaired by the Programme Leader. Your current reps are Level 2 Aaron Bartlett Level 3 Steven Johnson Talk to your reps and have your voice heard. We also welcome all students to these meetings.

9. Your Programme Leader If you wish to discuss your degree programme please email Tony Sampson on t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk for an appointment.

10. You can contact staff directly via email. The Core Team for 2011-12 Dr. Tony D. Sampson is senior lecturer and Programme Leader for the New Media degrees. He leads the core research modules. His current research relates to theories of network contagion, affect and non-cognitive user experience. He received his PhD from UoE and has published widely in the New Media field. Recent publications include: The Spam Book (Hampton Press 2009), Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks (University of Minnesota Press, Due 2012). Office hours: Please email Tony on t.d.sampson@uel.ac.uk for an appointment. Jeff Ellis is a multimedia designer with a background in television and audio production. He teaches web and multimedia design, computer graphics and music technology. Office hours: Please email Jeff on jeff@uel.ac.uk for an appointment. Mary Newman has a background in media and ICT. A senior lecturer, she teaches on core modules on the Interactive Media Design, Multimedia Design Technology and Computer Games Design (Story Development) programmes. She also works with the Rix Centre, a research and development centre based at UEL. Office hours: Please email Mary on  M.Newman@uel.ac.uk for an appointment.

11. Visiting Lecturers in 2011/12 Nick Weldin (MS2309) is a consultant with the Rix Centre, a charity that works with people with intellectual disabilities to support them to use multimedia and computers (based at UEL). Nick is expert in software and hardware development and prototyping. He has a professional background in training and theatre and interactive installation work. He is also theco-author of The Arduino Cookbook (O’Reilly Publishing) Geoff Cruickshank (MS3304) has over ten years experience teaching multimedia and interactive media design and technology at HE level. His work focuses on design coupled with technology. During this time he has also worked as a freelancer on graphics, print, animation, TV and web based productions.

12. Programme Handbook There is a new programme handbook with details about the new structures. Online version here Or ask Tony for a hardcopy

13. UEL’s response to student voice Academic: • New Personal Tutorial System • UEL Plus: Significantly improved connection • New Automatic Attendance Monitoring: Proximity ID Cards www.uel.ac.uk/idcards • Student Peer Mentoring Scheme www.uel.ac.uk/apse/mentoring/index.htm

14. UEL’s response to student voice Library & Learning Services: • Info Skills • Ask a Librarian extended to 7pm on weekends • Increased access to core texts: electronic books/ digitised resources • 100,000 books for rental from E Book Library thus enhancing response to student and staff demand • Open access on Trading Floor now enclosed • New system for faster journal article searches • New Library at Stratford 2013

15. UEL’s response to student voice Social/ Learning Spaces • Aqua East • Plasma TVs & comfortable chairs • Pool table/ table tennis • Space for presentation practice • Internet linked PCs • Wi Fi • The Red Room and Dome at Stratford • BITE at Docklands • Outdoor Gym at Docklands • UEL Radio • New Sport Building in 2012 • DLR link between Campuses

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22. Response to student voice Transport • DLR direct link between Stratford and Docklands

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