Reflection of a year 2 student.

Hey peeps!

I’m Aisyah, year 2 student, in semester 2.2, to be exact. Before you go, “she must be one of those Director’s List students or someone from SIG, blogging for IMI”, well, for the record I’m not. I’m just an average student, sharing my school experiences.

Before entering TP, I was from ITE. Therefore, I did experienced culture shock when I saw the kind of workload I had to face in polytechnic. ITE was of course more relaxed. During 1st year, I remembered having to take my 1st CDS in semester 1.1. It is because I had deferred 2 modules as I had taken it before in ITE. My careperson, Ms Nat, thought that it would be good if I started on my CDS earlier. Thus, I settled on “Intro to Japanese” for a start. I love semester 1.1 as I can always go off earlier than my classmates. During the term break in semester 1.1, me and a group of friends, together with Ms Josephine (whom taught me VDT & NMT) , visited Northview Primary School. It is part of our efforts to spread the happiness during the festive period. I really enjoyed the time I spent with the kids. I’m sure my friends did too.

I got my 2nd CDS in semester 1.2. I took “Public Speaking”. It is really fun! I always look forward to the classes. Oh yes, by now, I had gotten used to programming as a must-have module. There was once, I had to rush a programming dateline, for the module Animation Programming (ANP). It was also on my birthday. I felt really demoralized and sad. My only consolation is that I can enjoy myself after all this is over. And yep, I did enjoy myself after that.

Oh here comes the fun part! I cleared my 3rd CDS even before I entered year 2! Yup, you heard that right. I took Transnational Studies (TNS) vacation. 2 of my friends got through too, so it was fun getting to stay in a flat with your friend for 2 weeks, going home on weekends. It’s similar to guys booking in and out of camp when they’re doing their National Service (NS). I stayed at Temasek Green, the block of apartments beside TP. I love staying together with my friends even though we are of different races and religions. We respect each other and we would always go out together during those 2 weeks. Till now, we still keep in contact.

Come year 2, it gets even more hectic! I love the modules I was taking in semester 2.1, but the workload was kinda crazy. I do appreciate the times when the lecturers actually extended our datelines, maybe due to the fact that the datelines clash with other modules. A special mention to Mr Douglas, the lecturer in charge of IN3D, for being generous and helpful when it comes to datelines. We as students, really appreciate your kind gestures. Oh I have a favourite module too. It’s Human & Computer Interaction (HCI). Lectures are done by Ms Nat, and my tutor is Mr Vijayan. He’s one of the best lecturers that you can ever ask for. He’s very nice, encouraging, and full of ideas and at the same time makes you get out of your comfort zone so as to give your best in everything you do. I always look forward to his lessons. This semester was also the time I started to stay overnight in school with friends in our effort to complete our work together. My friends and I would meet at the school bus stop around 10 pm, and then make our way to the concourse.

Now in semester 2.2, I’m doing my option, Edumatics. We have to do teaching plans and did a lot of research on learning styles, for example. I’m also having term teaching. It is way different from the normal semester teaching. The modules have to be cleared in a term and thus, the datelines were

speed up to an earlier date. That’s the disadvantage. The advantage is that, I am now enjoying my term break without any assignments or projects! How awesome is that?! I never thought that this day would come true. Heheheh. I was only taking 3 modules in term A of semester 2.2. When school re-opens, I have to take another 2 more modules. Nice right? But the workload and stress level is somewhat more manageable for Term A at least. I hope Term B will be nice. After that will be the school vacation, and then poof! I will be in year 3.

Alright, that’ all I’ve got to say for now. Hope you all like what you have been reading. Sorry if it was a bore. Bye! J

Our seniors have finished their Major Project and one team is here to share about their experience. They have created a application known as "Cyber wellness A Virtual Tour for Parents". It is an application designed for Health Promotion Board (HPB) and Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC).

It aims to encourage parents to learn about the digital world while taking place in an interactive, fun and engaging learning environment. It is a mixture of interactive video and games. The top 3 main topics covered in this application; social networking, cyber bullying and online security.

Alicia

During this MP, I learnt that looking at different angles to solve a problem is important. When one solution failed, there are other solutions to act as back up. When I was editing one of the videos, I initially planned to use this method called tracking. Unfortunately, there were complications and the method cannot be used. Therefore, I tried another alternative way to emphasize the specific part. In addition, i also learnt that communication is important (for both with the client and our team members). For our MP, filming was required. The filming process can be rather difficult and tiring sometimes. However, I felt that it is the most enjoyable period throughout the whole MP. It was interesting and fun with all the funny NGs and such.

In my opinion, I felt that to do a good MP, planning out the whole schedule and really following it is important. Also, when planning, always try to set the completion date earlier in case there are changes to be made at the last minute. Not forgetting, there is final report to complete within the dateline too!

Overall, I gained good experiences from working with the client. It allows me to have a clearer view of how working in the IT/media department will be like.

Foong Ting

I had learned and gained a lot of experience from this Major Project. 

I found out that it is not easy to follow a schedule exactly, there bound to be times where the project will be delayed.

Hence, planning ahead of the deadline is very important.

Although during the process some of us were lost and not sure what we were supposed to do next, we were able to get back on track and complete the application. It was a good experience to be able to have an actual client from external to feedback to us, it makes me feel that I am in the actual working environment.

Ain

By taking Major Project this semester, I had the opportunity to explore possibilities working with an industrial partner.

It is an eye opener and provides a real life experience in a working environment. As there were minimal assistance from

lecturers and students, the learning medium was through research and lots of reading from online resources and books.

While at it, we learn a lot of things and apply it to the project. One of the ways that we overcome the challenges and pressure

is to remain calm and positive. What I learn is that procrastination, lack of leadership and team work will effect the quality of work.

Make a wise decision when choosing group mates because it is important to have people working together and on the same page as well.

These are some screenshots of their work!

IMI Bonding ONE-Day 2011

On the 13th October, IMI SIG and IITSC held an event called the IMI Bonding ONE-Day 2011 Event for students in IMI to bond and have fun together as one family. The event first took place in the IIT school starting with the registration of students where they are grouped into 4 different teams; Red, Blue, Yellow and Green.

After which, we had an introduction of the committee involved and followed by ice breaking games for the different teams.

We also had games like Capture The Flag, where the teams were combined into two teams which were red and blue together, while green and yellow were teamed together. Teams had to first fill up their water bombs before the game started. Later, the teams had to first only carry one water bomb person and go around searching for the flag. Players could throw the water bombs at the opposing team players and that would then get them eliminated. Players had to find the flag, and bring it back to their base. It was definitely a fun experience for them and all of us!

Another game we had was called the Running man, where this time all four teams were playing as opposing teams. Teams had to go through four stations. There were four different stations located at different locations. Teams had to complete each station before getting a clue on where the other station would be located at. At the end after completing all four stations, teams had to gather at Mushroom to complete a game. After so, teams will have to go around the different schools in search for poker cards.

We also had BBQ after Running Man! Everyone was hungry and exhausted after participating in Running Man. We also had an impromptu Hide and Seek game after the BBQ.

We all had fun at the event and we hope that those who attended enjoyed themselves too! For those who didn't attend, we assure you that there will be more fun events to come!

Till then! :)

OCP: Cambodia

On the 1st October, 29 Interactive Media Informatics and 19 Information Technology students with Mr Sankara(IMI Lecturer) and Ms Christine Lau(IT Lecturer) went to do an Overseas Community Project(OCP) at Cambodia for 8 days.

The main Objective of this OCP was to foster the spirit of volunteerism, raise awareness, appreciation of a foreign culture, develop leadership, interpersonal skills and understand the environment and social-economical development issues in Cambodia.

Before going, some of them manage to find some sponsors and donors for the T-shirts, shoes, stationary, school bags and simple gifts we were going to give them. The others taught them english at their level, played interactive games such as Captain's Ball with them and perform a cultural item for the school. It was lots of fun.

We brought our energy and creativity which the kids there enjoyed and appreciate. I'm glad I had the chance to experience this amazing trip!

KM Singapore 2011

KM Singapore 2011 is the 8th IKM conference organised by iKMS. The theme for this year's conference is "Riding the Wave of Experience". It was held at Hotel InterContinenetal on 31 Aug - 2 Sep 2011, from 9.00am - 5.00pm.

The conference aims to bring together the IKM community in Singapore, both IKM practitioners and partners from the public and private sectors to share and learn about the latest development in KM in Singapore and beyond.

This event is mainly for KM/IM/OD/OE practitioners, HR professionals and senior executives. Delegates will gain insights on the trends and opportunities facing IKM professionals today, how other organisation capture, share and reuse their corporate knowledge and exchange dieas on how to cultivate a learning and sharing culture.

This year highlights include:

• International Keynotes : James Roberson and Dr Gary Klein
• Local Keynotes: Maish Nichani and Patrick Lambe
• Practitioner Case Presentation: Aw Siew Hoong, Shell
• Pre-Conference Masterclass: Michelle Lambert

On 1st & 2nd September, four current students and three graduates from Interactive Media Informatics(IMI) attended to learn more and help out the organizers as well. It was quite an amazing experience for all of them. Ms Faridah, our school's lecturer was also there to talk about her experience in knowledge management.

Delegates at the conference.

For more information, feel free to visit http://www.kmsingapore.com/

*KM is a common acronym for knowledge management.

Hello

Hello
I am a year 2 student in IMI! I am part of the IMI Student Interest Group Main Committee. My name is a secret but thou may call me Orange. Why orange? Well you see , I love the color orange. Because its really an amazing, awesome, life-is-fun-feeling inducing color and I could go on forever but I have better things to do.

Psst: Blogger recently updated their interface and guess what! The buttons are in orange! Haha! What are the odds!

Anyway, I'm one of the few who can post stuff on this blog here so I'll be posting things once in awhile.

So on with today's post
Today I'm going to share with you a website that I've stumbled upon while browsing on related articles about web design. A list apart is a webzine that publishes articles about web design and its various fields that are written by the professionals of that particular field. The link is www.alistapart.com. They have a wide range of topics which can talk about seemingly random subjects such as doodling, sketching or the more common ones such as graphic design, codes, culture, web writing and many other topics you'll find when you explore their website. Enjoy reading most of the articles they have there. It is really insightful and it may even help you during your projects!

Here is one of the articles I've read recently, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/making-up-stories-perception-language-and-the-web/ I won't spoil it for you but its more or less about how people-such as yourself- interpret and understand the way content is shown on the web. They talk about it in terms of the text on the website. The words used and bla bla bla about how people make inferences. Reminds you of the concept of mental models for those who have taken HCI.

Read it! Enjoy it! Understand it! Use it!

If you have any questions you can tweet about it to IMI's twitterfeed and I'll reply you from there or you could head over to our IMI page on facebook.

Just in case you don't have the links. 
Twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/IMItp
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/InteractiveMediaInformatics

With that I end my post here. Next up would be on Dropbox! A very powerful and simple tool you can use to help for school work and personal endeavors.

Until then, cheerios!

Orange

HAPPY 46th BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!

A Major Project done by 3 students from Temasek Polytechnic, School of Informatics & IT, Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics. This is our take on the popular NDP song called Home, sung by Kit Chan. A motion graphic made of typographic elements.

HAPPY 46th BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!!
AND A HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO ALL SINGAPOREANS!!

World Youth Tchoukball Championships 2011

World Youth Tchoukball Championships 2011 was held at Traiskirchen, Austria from 13-19 July 2011. A total of 4 team were sent out to participate in the competition M15 Boys merge as Champions in their category while the M12 Boys came in third. The M18 Girls and M18 Boys team came in 4th and 5th respectively. And our very own IMI Freshman, Kingsley Tan was there to participate and represent for the competition.

Outreach Program with Qiaonan Primary School

Qiaonan Primary School visited Informatics & IT School on the 5th Aug to find out more about some of our courses. Our Diploma Interactive Media Informatics and Diploma in Gaming Entertainment Technology welcomed them and gave them a brief overview on our diplomas.  IMI's Student Interest Group took the lead to plan the program for them and prepared some games created by our students for them to play. The students had fun playing the games and were given some treats provided by the school.

Students listening to what our student Kai sharing about our diploma

Our student Melvin teaching the students how to play the game created by our students

Students watching a video filmed by our students for our Motion & Sound subject

IMI's Student Interest Group

Yes, IMI's Student Interest Group is back! More organised, more serious and ready to start things with a bang! This is a photo of most of us having our first outing as a committee. So watch out for us, ready to present you with the biggest and first event IMI has ever initiated! Yea we are excited and we hope you guys are too!

Board of Governors Talk

For this year Board of Governors talk, it was Mr Alex Siow's turn. He came to gave an inspiring talk to the Director List students about how to excel in an IT career. The Board of Governors are the people who manage Informatics & IT School and they take turns to come to our school to give talks and share information with the students.

Mr Alex Siao & Mr Ng Koon Seng, Deputy Director of Temasek Polytechnic Informatics & IT School.

Our Director List students attending the talk

Here is some background information about him. Being Head of Business Excellence and System Technology, Starhub, he is well-known personality in the industry. In 1995, he was nominated by Computerworld Singapore as one of the top 10 most powerful IT personalities and IT Person of the Year 2002 by the Singapore Computer Society. He was formerly the Chief Information Officer(CIO) of the Housing Development Board of Singapore and was conferred the Public Administration Medal Bronze award in 1993 and the Silver award in 2000.

He shared with us lots of his wonderful experiences. One of the most amazing thing is he was a civil engineer yet he created a huge wave in Singapore's IT industry. At first he did not want to enter the IT industry. However, in the end, he still became one of the first few CIO in Singapore. One of the main reason was his success was that he taught his subordinates all his skills and knowledge. Even if he hates his job, he still give it his best and never complains.

Mr Alex Siow also shared about soft skills necessary to become a CIO or basically any job. Skills such as communication is very important, he emphasised on being good at English as its the language we use to communicate. Having the basic soft skills is not enough, we also need to learn to mentor others and be selfless. He mentioned that we have to teach others how to be good at what we do so as we can move on to other jobs. Learning is an endless process and we have to keep learning to improve ourselves and prove that we can be capable in other jobs so as to move up the working ladder.

Finally, I would like to end this post with his favourite saying, Never say never.

New Media Strategy and Web Analytics Talk by Mr Tan Kian Ann

Our senior students studying New Media Strategy and Analytics had the chance to listen to a guest speaker on the topic "New Media Strategy and Web Analytics". 


Mr Tan Kian Ann is a TP graduate from 2001 and set up his own business 4 years ago. He started with web development and proceeded onto Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as he realised the importance of it for businesses. 


He shared with us his knowledge on SEO and analytics. He also share his experience on working with clients and the practices he use. Showing us some of his clients and the results of the work, he explained what he does for his clients and how it has impacted the clients' businesses.

Looking at Life - Pre-sip Talk

Our senior students who are soon to go for internships with companies attended a talk on the topic "Looking at Life" on the 21st June. It was in collaboration with Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS). The speaker Don Lowe shared with us many interesting ideas on how to face life as we are entering a different phase of life. Graduation will approach us next year and its time for us to think about what we are going to do when we graduate and what we hope to achieve. Imagine yourself in 5 or 10 years time, where are would, what are you doing, what have you done. These are things we have to think about now so as to set a goal to target for the future. Don shared with us many thoughts and got us to think carefully about our future. Everyone gained a new perspective and learnt much from him. I believe it was a great learning experience from us especially with his enthusiasm.

Wishing all our seniors success in the future!

Our students standing up for an activity

Don Lowe sharing his experience

Don sharing some quotes about life.

"And in the end its not the years in your life that count, its the life in your years."

Don showing us his family picture and sharing the story behind the photo

Our students listening to his viewpoints and stories

Ms Farida, our lecturer who arranged this and the speaker Don Lowe

Graduation 2011

To all the Interactive Media Informatics Graduates, Congratulations to you for completing your three years in Temasek Poly! Time has passed very quickly hasn't it? Soon you will be on your way to further education or join the working force. Join the alumni and be part of the school. Always remember the times you had spent at TP, your friends, the hard work and happiness. Always remember that we will welcome you back with open arms!
Embrace your new life and work towards your goals! Be courageous and take on challenges!

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

Graduation ceremony at Temasek Convection Centre

Our graduates taking a photo with the board

Great job to our medalists! You are a role model to all of us!

Director's List AY10//11

Three of our senior students - Rina Teo, Yu Ling, Aziuddin

On the 14th May, 20 over students from IMI went to the Director's List to receive their certificates for being in the top 10 percent of the cohort! The Director's List is a ceremony to award students who have worked hard and  earned good grades. Many parents came with their children to celebrate their achievements.

Congratulations to all the students! We are proud of you guys. Keep up the great work!

A Day in the Life of A DPA Student

Today we have a guest blogger from Game Entertainment Technology. He is Eugene Choy who is a DPA student for AY11/12. He shares with us about his life during his time as a DPA student.


7 Feb was the 1^st day for my DPA Polytechnic Preparatory Programme. I walked into Temasek Polytechnic feeling both excited and nervous at the same time. I was worried whether the people there will be easy going or difficult to get along with.

We gathered outside one of the Lecture Theatres collected our matriculation card and proceeded into the Lecture hall. There were DPA seniors over there who were trying to help us break the ice with other DPA students. Most of us were very shy initially and did not really respond.

On the 2^nd day, We were divided into several groups and did many ice-breaking and bonding games. These activities help us opened up to some of the DPA students in 1 day. We were soon exchanging our contacts just after the 2^nd day of the programme. This was the first time that I in such a short time manage to make so many friends and even get their contacts. This was one of my most memorable experience I had in DPA Polytechnic Preparatory Programme.

After a period of 2 Weeks, We started off with some Cross-Disciplinary Subjects ( CDS) . I took Japanese & Culture and Transnational Studies as my CDS-es. We were required to interact with other classmates in our class during Japanese classes and Transnational Studies so we also made many new friends.

Just after our CDS started, We had our residential stay. We were assigned to stay in Temasek Green( The hostel just beside Engine sch). Each apartment have roughly about 5 people staying. Transnational Residential Stay was the most memorable experience I had in my Preparatory Programme. Although we had a curfew where we are required to stay in our own apartment after 11pm, we still went to each other’s apartment. There will be around 20 people in one of the groups apartment and we will start playing games and bond with each other. The Residential Stay was very fun but the fun did not last long. We had to move out just after 2 weeks. Although, the residential Stay was very short , we had fostered a very strong relationship with many other DPA students.

The last programme we had for our Preparatory Programme was the School Discovery Programme. For students from IIT sch , we completed another CDS which is Effective Internet research. This CDS helped to teach us on how to obtain resources for research effectively. This CDS also taught us how to make us of the databases that are available in TP. Therefore , this programme was very useful.

Overall , DPA was a very memorable experience for me. I was able to create strong bonds with many people from different schools and take Cross disciplinary subject which helps in my graduation. I would advise anyone who have a passion in any course to apply for DPA.

1st Week of sch is over!

Woots! I'm still in the camp+holiday mood! 

To all our freshies, did you had a great wk in school?

TP had CCA day with our free milo van and today was Team Temasek Day!

IITSC also went to Sentosa last sun for our freshies to hang out. This is our group photo of our Sentosa trip of the whole IIT school. Can't find IMI freshies since your faces are too small but I'm sure you guys are inside! In case you don't know, IITSC stands for Informatics & IT Studies Club which was in charge of Wk 0 camp. Join the IITSC family for a more happening life! 

It was really great to be back at school even though ITAS is still as smelly as ever and we were freezing in the labs. For us seniors, we have already been given all our projects to do! And I'm sure all of you are having fun trying to figure out how to use Maya or understand HTML. Even though it all seems so foreign now, I'm sure you will get the hang of it very soon!

Our seniors also had they very first FSP as a class. FSP stands for Fittness Star Program! Also known as Fat Star Program , just a joke. It was werid to see everyone suddenly in shoes and shorts with shirt. We really had an awesome time playing Captain's Ball that was hosted by IITSC. And many of us didn't want to go home after that. It was a great idea to have "PE" together as a class!

One of the IMI senior class after their great workout!

Watch out for more happenings especially in IMI this year! 

Have an awesome weekend!

First Day of AY 11/12!

Welcome back to IIT school juniors and seniors! Hello to all our freshman!

How was your first day of school? Hope all of you managed to find your classes and had an awesome day!
Get along well with your classmates freshies!
Rmb to say hi to your seniors you met in Wk 0!

IMI loves you!

Meet our IMI DPA 2011 students!

Hello everyone, I'm Tommy Lee, currently studying in Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics (IMI). I'm freshmen this year and will be starting school next week!

I'm here to share something about myself on our diploma's blog. One thing I do frequently as a hobby is Origami. It’s quite interesting how it’s possible to make something out of a simple piece of paper. One tip is to go slowly and take your time. This way, you do not make the wrong move and can fold the paper accurately.

Most of my time is spent at home. As for favourite websites, I visit many joke websites such as failblog.org, comixed.com etc.

I chose IMI as I’m interested in animation. I’ve always wanted to create a whole new universe from my mind (of course, I’m going to try to stick a bit closer to reality). It was this very reason that compelled me to join my school’s animation club. I have animated a few things, and even modeled a revolver using the program. We won a few competitions as well, one which I participated in on a minor role.

I find the DPA (Direct Polytechnic Admission) programme interesting especially participating in the activities like canoeing which allows me to connect with a few seniors. I have benefited from DPA as I have managed to get to know a few friends.

Looking forward to school next wk!

Freshman Orientation!

Freshman orientation is starting tml!
Freshies, we look forward to seeing you guys at the concourse level.
Get ready to cheer and go wild and crazy!

From your IMI senior (Programmer)!

Meet our IMI DPA 2011 students!

Hi readers! I am Ivan Goh from Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics (IMI). Im a freshie this year and will be joining my classmates for Orientation tomorrow!

I got to share a little about myself on IMI's blog because I am a DPA (Direct Polytechnic Admission) student for 2011. IMI is my choice because I simply adore animation and I believe that this course will be interesting, and interest is a start to success!

As a DPA student, I started classes earlier than others. The three modules I took in the past two months are Japanese, Transnational studies and EIR (effective internet research). These modules are all cross disciplinary subjects which help to reduce my workload during sch time.

I enjoyed DPA as it let me have a chance to know TP earlier than my fellow peers. It also gave me a chance to meet others from different courses and adopt to poly life faster.

Some of the things I will do when I'm freewould be to play computer games. I love watching Youtube , most of the things I watch are anime (Japanese cartoon) as I feel that the storylines are more interesting.

My favorite hangouts are mostly the LAN shops. My favourite internet sites include Wikipedia and GameFAQs for information.

I really look forward to my start of 3yrs in TP as an IMI student! Enjoy school life!

Wk 0 Freshman Camp

Countdown to Wk 0 in 4days! Hello to all the freshies coming in this year!

I'm one of the programmers for your orientation camp and also your IMI senior! I know a lot of you must be nervous about the camp and also school.

Don't worry, your seniors will make you feel right at home.

Do try to come for the camp as it is a time for you to mix around and know your seniors better! Seniors will give you loads of tips for school and they will be able to help you during your school times! Also you will get your timetable, know your classmates, get the sch shirt which is blue btw, and the matriculation card which is our identity as a TP student!

Some information for those coming to camp, dress comfortably, FBT is fine for girls and just any shirts that you don't mind getting dirty will do. Don't bring your nice shirts or clothes that you bring to go out!

This is a camp and its going to be dirty! Also wear shoes and bring slippers for bathing. Just enjoy the camp and have fun mixing with your new classmates!

If any of your have questions, feel free to ask them on IMI's Facebook page! I will be happy to answer all of them. I will be welcoming you guys on the first day of the camp so cya!

Twitter - Good or Bad

Hi y'all, it is me, the amazing and awesome M blogger still on the fringe of going insane with his erupting passion for FAME. Here to share the good and bad news about the social networking media tool Twitter which has rocked the Internet world and charmed us fellow Internet users since July 15, 2006.



Twitter is a microblogging tool and the purpose of Twitter is for users to tweet status about what they are feeling or whatever they are doing. FREEDOM of speech! Yes!, Yes! You can tweet about your ninja cat, the love potion that you're brewing, the clouds that look like a pillow, or something like my terrible plans of taking over the world. Opps? I did not just say anything about taking over the world, heheheh. As I was saying, Anything you wish, sir/madam!

You are able to choose the people who you want to follow and whenever that person tweets, you are entitled to read their juicy updates. That way, you will know what is on their thoughts. Likewise if they follow you, they will be able read your evil plans of taking over the world nonsense. Of course, if you want to, you can change the setting so that when people follow you, they must ask for your permission - that way, privacy issues are solved, you need not be afraid of internet stalkers.

Twitter can be found anywhere, the bird bird thrives in places like the internet, your friends' laptop, regardless of the different Operating System and it can even be found in your lecturer's smartphone, Blueberry lovers, Android the ice cream desserts robot, iPhone and many people concur that they are in love with twitter, iLoveTwitter too!

Twitter for Android


Twitter for iPhone

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Let me go onto the main topic about twitter that I will be talking about today. The good and the bad, the yin and the yang.

The bad part about Twitter.

First.
Many people who are using Twitter love twitter for it's awesomeness and they can't live without twitter for no apparent reason until they get bored of it. They love being able to tweet about anything they are thinking about, never mind if it does not make any sense at all to others. This is bad as some people love to post whatever happened to them and if you follow them, you have to read their tweets unfortunately.

You can read my version of people who tweet about every single thing all the time.

8 seconds ago: "Oh hell no, I realized I got school today."
3 minutes ago: "OMG WHY IS MY MOUSE NOT WORKIN!?
6 minutes ago: "I just drank soda hehe and my toe doesn't hurt anymore."
7 minutes ago: "Ouch, I just knock my toe against my computer table."

or watch this awesome video on people who tweet about every single thing all the time.



How to solve this problem? Stop following them or ignore their tweets.

Second.
Privacy issues. As I mentioned earlier, you are able to change the settings so that people have to ask for your permission to read.

Problem solved. Yay. You can select the mastermind who are able read your tweets about taking over the world.

See, technically there is no bad thing about Twitter at all.

The good part about Twitter!

First.
Ability to tweet whatever you want. Enough said. +2 for twitter!

Second
Get updates from the people you love. You can follow your friends, your family and your favourite artist/dancer/actors etc! Read their juicy updates and see what's happening in their life. Stalker alert. Stalker alert.

Third
If you found some amazing tweets, you can choose to share it or in twitters lingo, retweet it. This will allow people to see what your followers are tweeting about and they might start to follow them. You are knocking down two birds fruits with one stone. (SAVE THE BIRDS)

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These are the features that enticed me to use Twitter, the awesome microblogger and social networking tool. There are many uses for it and I love Twitter, it keeps me up to date with the people that I choose to follow. I am able to connect with all my loved ones and this makes me happy.

Lets not forget about our undying goal to become famous, with Twitter, if you post quality updates, people will start to retweet your tweets and you will become famous soon!

So hey! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS WAITING FOR? Join me, M flaming blogger, on our conquest to achieve fame by tweeting the best tweets ever. The blue bird of twitter will soar you up to the limits of fame.

Stay on the look out for my next erupting post, you have to and you will be in awe by my awesomeness. =D Remember to bookmark this blog for more insanity!

Signing off, the M blogger
P.S if you want to know what M means!? Keep guessing.

3D Animation Electives - Insights on the modules

 Hello☆

I’m Alicia. I was invited by Ms Faridah who was my Effective Internet Research lecturer, to write a guest post. So, this will be my first time blogging here (:
Being an IMI student, we have 3 majors to select from. As for me, I have chosen 3D Animation. So far, I had attended 3DVA (3D Visualisation and Animation) and 3DPF (3D Production Foundation). Creating 3D animation isn’t as easy as it seems. As you advance, you will realize that there are quite a lot of things to take note of. However, the process has been fun and interesting.
For 3DVA, we started out by sketching and modeling a character. Afterwards, we practiced movements (animating them). For example, bouncing ball (stretched and squashed) and how the pendulum move and swing (overlapping). For our final project, we did a full walk cycle which is whole body movement. We need to portray the characteristic through the walk cycle.

For 3DPF, we modeled out props and also did facial expression. We started to “act out” using a character (which is actually holgan, a robot character). For our final project, we did a short 11 seconds animation based on a sound clip. Here, we must lip sync for the character and also include suitable movements and appropriate props for the animation. This project enhanced our creativity and imagination as we created our own props and setting here.

Here are some of the images of what I had done for 3DPF.

Guitar prop for Holgan

Microphone prop for Holgan

Different face expressions of Holgan

My closing words to our freshies and junior, put in all efforts in doing your assignment.

When it’s done nicely, you will have a sense of satisfaction (:

Rich Media Application Development (RMAD) - Insights on the module

Hey peeps, Danielle here! Semester 2.2 has ended for me and I would like to talk a little about Rich Media Application Development which is a Distributed Media elective. In case you do not know what are electives, in Interactive Media Informatics, everyone has to choose from 3 options in Semester 2.1. The options are Distributed Media, Edumatics and 3D. So I'm from the Distributed Media option and Im here to talk about one of the electives I took.

Rich Media Application Development (RMAD) is about developing a Flash website based on e-commerce themes. So this is my work for the project. My group created a flash website that provides stock photos. Its like Photobucket or iStockPhoto. Basically visitors have to sign up for an account to be able to download the images or stock photos. Registered users can comment and add favourites to photos and follow other users. The concept is also derived from Facebook to give users more interaction.

The difference between the normal e-commerce websites and this flash website is that you will get to see a lot of animations and transitions from page to page. This is created in Flash Builder and also involves the use of database and mySQL to function.

I would say that creating this website was a very tedious process. Also because it is in term-mode which means we only had 8 weeks to finish this, we spent a lot of time experiementing with the codes as not everything is being taught in class.

Its all about self-exploration and testing to get things the way you want them to work. Flash Builder has already quicken up the process of creating such websites and all we have to do is learn how to use the different functions it offers.

I hope that I haven given a deeper insight to our freshies becoming juniors this april and also to anyone who wants to understand what we do.

Games and Apps (iPhone) by Jack S

Hi again folks, I'm back! Haven't put up anything since the Christmas song, the police are still trying to track me for it, so this post will be something a bit more fun!

Now, everyone uses smartphones or MP3s everyday, and honestly, do you guys actually know what you're putting onto it? Need some advice on some apps and games worth putting your cash into? Look no further, here's 4 for your entertainment and convenience.

SG NextBus

Want to know what time the next bus is coming? have no fear, SG NextBus and 3G connections are here. This apps saves stored bus stops and numbers, as well as searches for nearby ones, perfect for the scheduler in all of us.

Instant Queue

Don't you just hate the fact that nothing good's everyone's playing, even on your own iPhone or iTouch? Don't worry, Instant Queue will make sure all will be right with your ears. All you need to do is line up songs of your choice, and from there add more or rearange, making your own playlist on the go, so you won't be scrambling to double tap your headphones.

TweetDeck


Socialities unite! TweetDeck now has an iPhone app, and for those who don't know what it is, it is a cross social networking platform where you can update status across your FaceBook and Twitter accounts, so this will be perfect for you social hounds, and get a Twitter account!

Games Dev Story


Come on! Who doesn't love a good business Sim game? Run your own games company and churn out record breaking games after another. Okay, the price tag is a bit hefty, but wait for the next sale and purchase it! Trust me, you won't be putting it down so fast.

Okay, that's all from me, but still want more? Go to your Apps Store and have a look yourself, be adventerous. Come on, if you paid like $700 for your phone, you can pay $1 for a game. Okay, see you guys next time, and cheers!

(AND SORRY TO ANDROID USERS!!!!)