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Training Across Campus
The TEDxUGA team has gained quite a reputation for knowing the secrets to powerful presentations. Earlier this month, Licensee Megan and Producer Brady spilled some of those secrets in a class for UGA Training and Development. Faculty and staff from across campus came together to learn what makes a great TED-style talk and how to…
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New Additions to the EM Family
This summer, the Emerging Media Masters program ushered its fourth cohort into the fold. Ten new innovators started the journey—or, some might say, the sprint—to a master’s degree. We’ll happily sing the praises of EM any day, but we wanted some of our new students to speak for themselves about why they decided EM was…
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Taking On TEDxUGA
TEDxUGA’s incredible success is two fold: idea-driven presenters delivering empowering talks and a hard working set of amazing humans behind the scenes. One key role ties these two worlds together — the Curator. After gracefully managing curation through her participation in NMIX 4200: New Media & TED, we are thrilled to welcome to the team…
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John Weatherford Strikes Again
Summer might have sizzled, but John Weatherford kept it cool as one of 12 faculty participants in the 2019 UGA Active Learning Summer Institute. The three-week intensive program helped John reimagine NMIX 2020: Introduction to New Media, creating new ways to involve the class with active learning techniques. As the summer came to a close,…
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Fantastic New Faculty
While the NMI’s crazy initiatives and bold undertakings increase each and every year, the faculty team, bursting at the seams, has not. Until now [drumroll please]… Ladies and gentlemen, we’re beyond excited to officially welcome the NMI’s latest and greatest addition to the squad, Leah Moss! No stranger to the NMI, Leah pioneered the EM…
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From High School to Hi-Tech
The semester we’re welcoming the NMI’s youngest team member yet, Nyah Carlson. Nyah is interning with the NMI as part of Young Dawgs, a program that places high-achieving high school students in internships on campus and in the community. Currently a senior at Clarke Central High School, Nyah is Captain of the varsity soccer team…
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Peanut Hero
Peanut Hero is a colorful, lively video game designed to pique young kids’ interest in farming and peanut production in particular. Peanuts are an enormously important crop around the world. As a cheap source of lean protein, they are a staple part of the traditional diet in South America, Asia, and Africa. As an adaptive…
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SPORTDEX
SPORTDEX aims to centralize athletic department information for all teams across all sports at the high school level. Our product allows for coaches, teams, and athletic departments to consistently update their game results, team statistics, season calendar, and roster information. Coaches, parents, teachers, and students can then easily access this information online. SPORTDEX takes all…
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Synchrony VR
SynchronyVR is a collaborative effort between the University of Georgia and Cornell University to create a powerful but easy to use research tool for studying human interaction in virtual worlds. We have leveraged modern server technologies and emerging VR social worlds to create a tool that is both powerful, extendable, and easy to deploy. The…
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From City Hall to Silicon Valley
Recently, the NMI has been honored to host new friends from near and far, and we are over the moon to explore how these fresh friendships could blossom into potential partnerships. First, we welcomed Athens-Clarke County Mayor Kelly Girtz to our humble abode. During the Mayor’s visit, he spoke with New Media Production students…