Tag: Team

  • Weather Channel + NMI Partnership Launch

    Weather Channel + NMI Partnership Launch

    Last month, The Weather Channel visited Grady College to discuss a range of exciting partnerships. The NMI and TWC (don’t you love acronyms?) will be launching a partnership dedicated to exploring new media photography, drones, user-generated content and more. As the first step in a collaboration with TWC, the NMI will be offering a new version…

  • Summer Success: NMIX 4110

    Summer Success: NMIX 4110

     NMIX 4110: New Media Production left the physical classroom this summer and moved online for the first time. Nineteen students, the most ever for a 4110 summer session, seized the opportunity to learn skills and earn credit toward the NMI certificate. As an instructor I entered the online experience with a good deal of trepidation. How could…

  • NMIX 4111: Apple Release Viewing Party

    NMIX 4111: Apple Release Viewing Party

    In NMIX 4111: New Media Design, students explore and discover what makes great design as they master the tools to create it. Taking their knowledge into the new media realm, students learn how layout and composition, imagery, typography, and interactive elements work together to create not only an exemplary product but an experience worth diving into. However,…

  • Tech Toys: Drones

    Tech Toys: Drones

    Over the past couple years, drone technology has taken off (pun intended). In response, the FAA has been finalizing regulations surrounding drones and their pilots. The NMI was an early adopter of drones in both classes and Capstone projects, so we’ve been paying close attention to each update. In August, when the FAA announced that…

  • Tech Toys: 360 Fly and Google Cardboard

    Tech Toys: 360 Fly and Google Cardboard

    Recently, the NMI has had some fun testing out new gadgets. We are always eager to explore the latest technology and their applications in and out of the classroom.In its efforts to explore the future of photography, the NMI recently acquired a 360° video camera (the 360Fly, to be exact) – it shoots video 360° horizontally…

  • Fall 2014 Mixers

    Fall 2014 Mixers

    NMixers are new to the New Media Institute this year. The events allow students to learn about the NMI: the certificate, the classes, and the crazy people who run the place. We eat, we laugh, we learn, and we welcome fabulous new students to the program every month. Here is what we have been up…

  • Congrats Emuel

    Congrats Emuel

    Help us congratulate the NMI’s very own Emuel Aldridge for being selected to work with the Distance Learning Committee as part of Grady College’s inaugural Online Learning Development Cohort! Emuel was selected to serve on the cohort after justifying why NMIX4110, New Media Production, should be developed as an online course. As Grady continues to grow, so…

  • Welcome John

    Welcome John

    John Weatherford joined the NMI in August and has had a busy start to the year teaching New Media Production and Rich Media classes. In his courses, John covers topics from mobile and web application development to user experience design to documentary filmmaking. Before joining the NMI, John taught in UGA’s English Department and beyond…

  • Congratulations Dr. Aldridge!

    Help us congratulate the New Media Institute’s very own Dr. Emuel Aldridge for being selected to work with the Distance Learning Committee as part of Grady’s inaugural Online Learning Development Cohort! Dean Charles Davis, who was tasked with forming Grady’s Distance Learning Committee last year, was seeking a select group of faculty to collaborate with the…

  • Welcome John Weatherford!

    Please join the New Media Institute in welcoming John Weatherford. John joined the NMI in August and has had a busy start to the year teaching New Media Production and Rich Media classes. John also works closely with Dr. Shamp and Emuel to lead the Capstone course. Before joining the NMI, John spent many years teaching in UGA’s…