‘Welcome Back…’New Media Students

Interactive Media Design & Multimedia Design Technology2nd & 3rd Years

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Remember

Teaching starts w/b 19th Sept

Your Field and the New School

Programmes • Media Studies • Film and Video • BSc (Hons) Multimedia Design

Technology• BA (Hons) Interactive Media Design• Computer Games Design• Communication Studies• MA Programmes • PhDs

Media Communications and ScreenStudies in the new School of Arts and Digital Industries

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.

Remember why you are here

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 the co-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.

Programme Handbook

• There is a new programme handbook with details about the new structures.

• Online version here

• Or ask Tony for a hardcopy

Academic:ØNew Personal Tutorial System ØUEL Plus: Significantly improved connectionØNew Automatic Attendance Monitoring: Proximity ID Cards www.uel.ac.uk/idcards ØStudent Peer Mentoring Schemewww.uel.ac.uk/apse/mentoring/index.htm

UEL’s response to student voice

Library & Learning Services:ØInfo Skills ØAsk a Librarian extended to 7pm on weekendsØIncreased access to core texts: electronic books/ digitised resourcesØ100,000 books for rental from E Book Library thusenhancing response to student and staff demandØOpen access on Trading Floor now enclosedØNew system for faster journal article searchesØNew Library at Stratford 2013

UEL’s response to student voice

UEL’s response to student voice

Social/ Learning Spaces

Ø Aqua East• Plasma TVs & comfortable chairs• Pool table/ table tennis• Space for presentation practice• Internet linked PCs• Wi Fi

Ø The Red Room and Dome at StratfordØ BITE at DocklandsØ Outdoor Gym at DocklandsØ UEL RadioØ New Sport Building in 2012Ø DLR link between Campuses

Sport…

Response to student voice

Transport

ØDLR direct link between Stratford and Docklands

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