Category: 2019 News
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Fundsters, Foundations, and Festivities
Each semester since Fall 2017, we invite our capstone students to commit to the future of the NMI by joining the NMI Future Fund. This opportunity helps provide resources for future students to design, build, and innovate for years to come. Today, we have a total of 83 incredible students in our Fundster family! This…
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Fall 2019 SLAM
A few weeks ago, our New Media and Emerging Media Capstone students made the trek to downtown Atlanta for an evening of showcasing their projects to family, friends, NMI alumni, and industry guests. Whether working with clients or exploring emerging technologies, each Capstone team poured their heart and soul into creating their one-of-a-kind digital solution.…
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TEDxUGA Student Idea Showcase
Last week, the TEDxUGA Student Council hosted the 8th annual Student Idea Showcase. Eight students from across the University took the stage at the Fine Arts Theatre to share their unique ideas worth spreading with the UGA community. In the spirit of TED, this year’s showcase featured talks that examined a wide range of fascinating…
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TEDxUGA at TEDxJNJ
Four TEDxUGA students recently took their idea-spreading dedication to the next level as they curated TEDxJNJCornelia. For months, these students worked directly with the Johnson & Johnson presenters to navigate through each of the 11 steps of the curation process and prepare for the red round rug. These skilled curators seized this unique opportunity to…
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TEDxBocaRaton
After a month full of sharing their own TEDx-pertise, a few members of the TED fam hit the road to check out the recipe for another TEDx event’s success. At TEDxBocaRaton, the team got to soak up some sun AND some ideas worth spreading—our idea of a perfect weekend. Instead of calling the shots backstage,…
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Cultivating Student Resilience
The TEDxUGA team recently presented at this year’s Engage Conference hosted by UGA’s Division of Student Affairs. The event brought together academic and student affairs professionals from across the southeast for a day dedicated to professional development, innovative thinking, and networking. In keeping with the conference’s theme of resilience, TEDxUGA Licensee Megan Ward and five members…
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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,…