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!

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!!

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

IT Project Show 2011 by Seniors!

Interactive Media Informatics had our IT Project Show 2011 on the 18th of March on Lvl 5 in IIT School!
Its a showcase for our graduating seniors to invite the public to view their major projects. Major projects are done in the 3rd year and takes out a huge percentage of our final marks and a huge amount of time to complete. So after all the hardwork, heres their opporunity to showcase their projects. Below are some of the photos of our students at the showcase and also some project videos!

Our students with Ms Natasha!

Our students with their certificates for IT Project show!

Our student sharing with the visitor on their project!

Now here are some of the projects that were featured at the showcase!

Interactive Digital Media Ideation Platform (IDMIP)



From left to right: Alishia Chiang, Gerald Yong, Yeow Chun Chee, Yeow Chun Sian
Project Supervisor: Mr Rick Toh



The purpose of the Interactive Digital Media Ideation Platform (IDMIP) project is to create an interactive platform to allow the use of objects to represent ideas in the forum, and for people to share their ideas which can be viewed by all users. The platform will also serve as a medium to bring interested parties together to work on an idea. The IDMIP also provides a better representation of ideas through the use of animation and provide a richer collaboration experience for users to express their ideas.

The IDMIP is a collaborative project between Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) and Temasek Polytechnics School of Informatics & IT.

Motion Capture and 3D Video of Shaolin Martial Arts

From left to right: Soh Jun Jie, Zhing Chong Tian, Jaye Chan, Regina Tan
Project Supervisor: Ms Cherry Thian, Mr Douglas Finnigan

Motion Capture and 3D Video of Shaolin Martial Arts consists of a book with accompanying multimedia materials on DVD.

Venerable Gao Can’s disciples were invited to the motion capture lab at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to perform various Shaolin martial arts moves. Advanced 3D technologies were used to capture their body movements, which were then applied to a 3D model of the Venerable, to generate a realistic animation of the monk’s movements. A final video composite, including a realistic model of a Shaolin Temple, was then produced.

This project was done with in collaboration with Mr. Chan Chow Wah, a Singaporean cultural anthropologist from the Cultural Compass Project and the NUS School of Computing.

Project Food, My Life! (Project FML)

From left to right: Valenisha, Kear Tian Seng, Teo Min Li, Tong Kok Peng
Project Supervisor: Mr Andrew Tan



Project Food, My Life! (Project FML) is a Web application that not only provides users with information about various eateries around Singapore but also allows them to share their experiences about the various eateries by plotting them on Google Maps. Users can also rate, comment and share details of the eatery plots via Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

Project FML is a collaboration between Tribal DDB and Temasek Polytechnic School of Informatics & IT.

SIP Experience from Avril!

Hello all my dear juniors!

Avril here writing on the IMI blog for the first time! The lovely Miss Faridah approached me recently to ask me to blog about my SIP experience and here I am.

For those of you approaching Year 3 and being seniors soon or even freshman and juniors here’s an insight to what it may be like for you. =D

The company I got assigned to was a small company. And when I mean small, its like REALLY small. There was just my bosses and me. That was it. Oh and one other part time admin staff as well.

It’s a tuition centre and a tuition agency. So I was assigned to be their graphic designer. I basically helped to brand the company and give it its corporate identity.

One of the first things I did was to come up with a logo for the company.

And I created many flyers, name cards and helped with the modifications of their websites.

Those were some of the stuff that I did.

During my SIP, I’ve definitely worked hard. Sometimes pulling 12 hours shifts and working on weekends. We’ve had road shows and flyer distributions too!

Being in a small company is a good thing for me. It means that I don’t do just my job scope and that’s that. I had to take the initiative to do things that were new to me and were out of my comfort zone. But I am proud of myself to have achieved that.

So don’t be scared to experience new things during your internship journey. It’s definitely an experience you’ll never forget. Plus you’ll definitely learn many new things during the whole internship. Be it software skills or people skills.

The internship definitely opens up your eyes to the working world and gets you ready for it. But all work and no play makes life and your job a boring one.

During my time with the company, I’ve worked hard and I can definitely say that I’ve had fun outings with the company as well. We’ve gone out for dinners together to shop for Chinese New Year decorations for the office and also to celebrate one of the bosses’ birthday! We’ve even visited pet stores during our lunch break for a little pet therapy!

Here are some of the photos during those fun times.

Playing with one of the cute puppies running around the pet store.

Fooling around the with the Chinese new year decorations while shopping for them.

Standing next to the company’s logo that was created by yours truly.

The birthday boy with his cake

And a group photo of us!

There you go! Pictures of some of the outings we’ve had.

During the Internship, you’ll feel that it’s tiring and tedious to work every day, but nothing compares when you see that you’ve contributed and made a significant change to the company.

So approach your SIP experience with an open mind and embrace whatever opportunities that are thrown to you. Remember to take the initiative and do the tasks that are given to you properly. Make yourself be proud of your work.

Viola!

And with that I’ve imparted my internship knowledge and experience to you and I hope you enjoy yours too when the time comes.

I’m off to watch Gossip Girl now and relax.

Xoxo

Avril





An Enriching Internship Experience

By: Renga Murthi, IMI Senior
SIP company - Optimatic Pte Ltd
Attachment period : July - October 2010

Renga, (2nd from left at the back row), with his team members

Smiles of Success - Work Well Done!

Success always comes with hard work!

I have inevitably come to the end of my Internship. As much as I would want to spend as much time as I can with my colleagues at E27 but of course, the next leg of our Diploma studies is awaiting - Major Project. E27 is under the care of my SIP company Optimatic Pte Ltd.

I would very much say that I had quite of the best time with E27. As an events and social media-centric company that aims at Web innovation in Asia, E27 has come a long way from holding talks and seminars to holding the very recent - Asia's Largest tech Conference, Accelerate 2010.

Accelerate 2010, recognized as Asia's Largest Tech Conference, was done for the first time in Singapore, at the Suntec City Conventions and Exhibitions Centre. Co-organized with SingTel, a major key player with over 3 million user-strong market in Asia Pacific, the conference was a huge success among the major market players in the tech and Innovation field, also seeing attendees such as Developers, Innovators, Business people and Research Institutions.

As an Events Executive with E27, I handled many aspects of the conference, from maintaining the event website for the conference, to arranging Accommodation and other assistance for Speakers of the conference, and also crafting Sponsorship and Exhibitors Package for the conference.

Check out these websites for more details :
-E27 website >E27 – Web Innovation in Asia
-Event Website >Accelerate 2010

Maintaining the website is not much of an issue at all, as we all have learnt about websites and HTML and PHP etc. The challenge came in when I was required to perform tasks which was not taught in school - how to network with delegates, how to liaise with speakers and other guests to the conference, how to arrange for accommodation and transportation, who are the suppliers etc.

However, there wasn't really anyone to guide me along the way. Nevertheless, the work experiences from my previous company as an Event Coordinator gave me the relevant knowledge and know-hows to perform these tasks.

Of course there should always be challenges for us, otherwise life would get boring at times. So without much hesitation, I took up the job of crafting sponsorship and exhibitors packages for the conference. These scopes require a good knowledge of profit and loss when making considerations for the package amounts, such as $100,000.

And after the exhibitors were confirmed, they were put under my handling to liaise with them and arrange for their logistics requirements for the conference. As part of my handling, I had given several walk-through sessions for these Exhibitors to familiarize themselves with the specific venues of the conference within Suntec. I also did the allocation of exhibiting spaces for my exhibitors and sponsors.

And finally, before we knew it, it was the day of the Conference in Suntec! Of course we were all anxious and excited as well, to see how the conference being held for the first time in Singapore, goes. And again, before we knew it, the 2-day conference was over! We were all very busy during the conference. As I was in the Organizing Committee of Accelerate 2010 conference, I was required to oversee several aspects of the conference such as my Exhibitors as well as my Manpower for assistance. So I was just running around and making sure everything was running smooth for my sponsors and exhibitors and also ensure that my manpower is wisely utilized.

Being part of E27 and being in the Organizing Committee of Accelerate 2010 has brought upon many opportunities for me especially in this conference. Networking with top Keynote Speakers as well as other international delegates for the event was really something I really enjoyed. Talking with these people really enlightened me with much knowledge of the Tech and Media field as well as Business Startups and Incubation. It was also good that these guys actually recognized me from my previous conference - Echelon 2010.

It was also a pleasure working closely with SingTel as the main organizers of Accelerate 2010. Working with fellow corporate is something I have always wanted to do.

Overall, the Asia's Largest Tech Conference was a huge success with more than 2000 attendees in total turnover. It was also a huge success for us, the Organizing Committee for having worked without sleep and food several times and putting in so much of hard work. It was indeed a rewarding experience!

Thinking back, I see a lot of changes in me compared to before going for my internship. I have learnt the ways of corporate communications as well as working with Corporate. I have picked up the skills and knowledge of the Events and Conference Management field. I have also enlightened myself with the facts of the tech and Media market out in the world.

Ask me if I am ready to go out and start work in this sector - my answer would be a Yes of course. While I might not be perfect, but I did my best and accomplished what I wanted while being in E27 and having done my yet, another biggest project - SingTel Accelerate 2010.

All in all, I really enjoyed my time and I still do remain as a Part-time employee of E27, still helping them to coordinate other smaller-scale events.

Now, wouldn't you want to accomplish what you wanted to do, out in the working world? Go for it! All the best!

Life in Penang second entry...

Hey... Have not been visiting to this blog recently... I was busy on getting quite a number of resources and doing some research to prepare myself for Major Project... Yup...

Ok... It has been 2 months in Penang doing our OSIP (Oversea Student Internship Program, did i get it right? :P)... Work load else, we are managing quite well somehow... Of course we do have our ups and downs during this period of time... But we did learn quite a number of things when we helped each others on our individual works sometimes... Sharing is caring... :)

Just wanna show you guys a couple of corporate websites done by Yong Han and Edmund from the Distributed Multimedia option... MilleGlasses (http://www.milleglasses.com) and ERP (http://www.iripcd.com/erp/index.html)... Cool right? You can go to google and search Milleglasses and it is right there! Hehe... This need some kind of 'tricks'...

There are more websites that we have done... But still not upload yet... We also did some Flash Promotional/Presentation CD for some of our company's services and products... Too bad cant show you guys as it is coporate stuff... Yup...

K lahz... Enough of work stuff... Now come to a MORE interesting topic... We learnt to make full use of the local public bus transport and travelled to Queensbay Mall for shopping! Hehehe... The public transport system here is not as good as in Singapore as most of the locals here own at least one to two transport vehicles... So there is no point to have a good public transport system here...

Anyway... here we are... In Queensbay Mall, we did shoppings... Like clothings, toys, accessories, magazines, and other stuff... Some of us also went to Salon for a hair cut, medicure and we had dinner and watch movies together! Movie tickets here is 10RM on Sunday!!! Yoohoo... Muahahahaha... And i got myself a quite rare Super-Deformed Gundam model kit and C-3PO Mighty Muggs for my friend...

I think after staying oversea for awhile, we are able to adapt to the lifestyle quite well... Looking after each other, getting daily necessities, explore the place around and learning to be more independent... We even made our very own 'Music Video'... Hahaha... Yeah... K lahz... Better off to sleep soon... Do stay tune for next week on Alastair's blog entry... Cause we will be going to have a great time next week! Hehehe... Till next time!