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!!