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School Is In For Summer
This summer, we’re breaking records with more classes and students than ever before! In the last few years, we’ve steadily expanded our summer offerings so the trek to becoming technowledgable never has to stop. It all started with the first online section of New Media Production where students mastered the art of web dev from…
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Emerging Media Online
At the NMI, we’re always striving to make our courses, events, and programs work better and better, and the Emerging Media Masters is no exception. From Double Dawgs integration to Innovation District collaboration, our faculty have made some impressive changes since the Emerging Media Masters launched in 2016, and we’re not done yet! Grady College recently featured the Emerging Media Masters…
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Home Depot Happenings
We’re always looking for opportunities to collaborate with and learn from industry innovators, and a group of NMI Capstone students recently took a trip to Atlanta to do just that. The team traveled alongside NMI faculty members John Weatherford and Kyla Sterling to The Home Depot headquarters, where they met with top innovators and learned exclusive industry…
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Athens Access to Justice Initiative
One of our Fall 2019 Capstone teams recently earned a well-deserved moment in the spotlight. Many of our projects are dedicated to tackling real-world problems for clients, but it’s always a particularly sweet success story when a team can make a local impact. Last semester, a team of five students collaborated with the nonprofit, Athens…
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Making It Work (From Home)
While our classroom doors are closed and the fourth floor is quiet, the NMI hustle and bustle is powering forward as usual! Creating tech solutions for real-world problems is the name of the game here at the NMI, and we’re not letting social distancing slow us down! Over the past several years, the NMI has…
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Tech Travels
New Media Capstone is all about creating a tech-based solution for an IRL problem. When working with a client, students gain invaluable hands-on project experience, expand their professional network, and get an inside look at the inner-workings of an industry partner. This semester, one team is doing just this as they team up with Moxie , an Atlanta-based marketing…
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Collaborating Across Campus
John Weatherford is well-known for his techspertise around the NMI, but recently he’s had a few opportunities to collaborate and innovate elsewhere on campus. First up, John joined forces with other UGA faculty to compete for a national new media spotlight. Comprised of Grady College Dean Charles Davis, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence‘s Ping Ma, and Mr. Weatherford…
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Major Matcher Making Moves
Each New Media Capstone project applies innovative tech, design, and development to solve a real-world problem. After the semester wraps up, some of these solutions get a chance to shine and tackle that problem IRL. That was the case with Major Matcher, an interactive quiz designed to help students “find their fit” at UGA. The quiz…
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Putting the “New” in New Media
Over the last several years, residential development guru, Emuel Aldridge, has spent many hours mastering the art of iOS app development for NMIX 4310/6310: Rich Media Production. While “rich media” has evolved quite a bit over the years, Apple’s most recent Swift iteration drastically changed the game for iOS app development. Last year at WWDC, Apple…
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New Year, New Faculty
Just when you thought the halls of the NMI couldn’t contain any more tech wizardry, we added another code champion to our ranks. Our newest faculty addition, Kyla Sterling, will help the NMI tackle new initiatives and certificate operations in 2020 and beyond. Kyla began her NMI journey in 2018 as an Emerging Media Masters…