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!!!!)