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IGM Academic Advising…..
Fall Semester Undergraduate Walk in Advising Hours:
Need assistance with quick questions (15 minutes or less)? Stop in during our
undergraduate walk in advising hours! During fall semester, walk in hours will be held:
Monday – Wednesday 1pm – 3pm
Thursday – Friday 10am – 12pm
Did you enter RIT this fall semester?
All students who entered into RIT this year are required to attend a meeting with their
advisor during fall semester. In this meeting we will discuss future course enrollment
and other IGM resources. To schedule this meeting you must stop by or call the IGM
office at 585-475-2763. It is imperative that you attend as there is a hold on your
account that will prevent for you from enrolling in spring semester classes. This hold
can only be removed by attending this meeting with your academic advisor. Please email your advisor if you have any questions.
Game Design & Development:
Last names A-K and all Honors Students: Amanda Scheerbaum (abslra@rit.edu)
Last names L-Z: Kathleen Schreier (kmsrla@rit.edu)
New Media Interactive Development:
All NMID students who entered in 2013 and beyond: Betty Hillman (echics@rit.edu)
Students who entered in Fall 2012 and prior, last names A-K and Honors students:
Amanda Scheerbaum (absrla@rit.edu)
Students who entered in Fall 2012 and prior, last names L-Z: Kathleen Schreier
(kmsrla@rit.edu)
Opportunities….
WordWells - The Game:
Help build a subterranean world where sounds and words have power. We are
assembling a team to develop a game to compete in the Adult Literacy XPrize for an
external venture capital group through MAGIC Spells Studio. In phase 1, we need
students with a variety of game development skills to be part of small teams for the
remainder of this semester (and possible intersession) for approximately 10 hours per
week to develop prototypes with programmer and concept art. In Phase 2, we will be
employing students for a two-block co-op starting Spring semester 2016 – Summer
2016 to build the working game to a professional, publishable level. Students who
contribute to the effort this semester and become familiar with the project and its
requirements will have first crack at the co-op positions. If you are interested, please
contact Gordon Goodman, Erin Cascioli or Sten McKinzie. Please let us know what
strengths you’d bring the project and previous projects on which you have worked.
Rochester Mini Maker Faire
We will be hosting an Information Session/Community Meeting on Thursday, October
8th, 6pm in the MAGIC Center to answer questions and build enthusiasm for the 2nd
annual Rochester Mini Maker Faire on November 1 at the Riverside Convention
Center. Come alone or bring a friend and join us for pizza and the opportunity to meet
other RIT makers! For more information and to let us know you will be there:
https://www.facebook.com/events/891814700871598/
MAGIC Speaker Series
MAGIC Speaker Series welcomes Amy Vernon on October 22, 1:00PM
TALK ABSTRACT: The Internet gets blamed for a lot of things, chief among them for the rise in
rudeness, cyber-bullying and harassment. Thing is, it hasn't caused any of this. The people who
act poorly on the Internet generally act poorly in real life, too. We just didn't have to see, talk
or ever interact with most of them before. Now we can't avoid them. Or can we? Social Media
Etiquette (#SMEtiquette, if you will) is vitally important now. Figuring out how (or when) to
respond to the knuckle-draggers is as important as treating other people properly. How can you
live your life publicly while not getting overwhelmed by trolls, yellers, braggarts and the like?
This talk will give you the tools to keep your blood pressure down next time you go on
Facebook.
SPEAKER BIO:
Amy Vernon is an independent consultant and a pioneer of social content strategy. She spent
20 years working for daily newspapers around the country and was a member of the 1992
Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of the Miami Herald. An inaugural inductee of the New Jersey Social
Media Hall of Fame, Amy was named the 15th-most influential woman in tech on Twitter by
Business Insider and Peer Index.
She has consulted on social media and content for a variety of companies and organizations,
including the American Museum of Natural History, Verizon and Venture Beat, and has driven
millions of pageviews through her work. Amy has been a mentor for Women 2.0, Women
Innovate Mobile and Bella Minds, among other organizations, and has spoken at dozens of
conferences, including SXSWedu, SMX and Mediabistro. A graduate of Northwestern University
in Evanston, Ill., she lives with her family in New Jersey and owns a very photogenic Siberian
husky named Lumi.MAGIC Speaker
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1131530416860572/
MAGIC Speaker Series welcomes Mary Chayko, November 19
For over fifteen years, Dr. Mary Chayko has investigated the experience of digital
connectedness – how it feels, how bonds and groupings are made and maintained online, and
how the online and the offline intersect in people’s everyday lives. She finds that the online,
digital realm is experienced as real in every way -- emotional, intimate, and communal -- and
that it tends to prompt, rather than to deter, physical social interaction and local community
ties. In this talk, she will share her research into the nature of digital connectedness and its
impact on members' "techno-social" lives.
Dr. Mary Chayko is a sociologist, Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Rutgers
University's School of Communication and Information, where she is also the co-chair of the
School's Social Media & Society Cluster. She is the author of Connecting: How We Form Social
Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age, Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of
Online and Mobile Connectedness (both with SUNY Press) and the forthcoming
Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life (2016, Sage Publications).
She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology, and Ed.M. in Psychology, from Rutgers
University.
More informationhttps://www.facebook.com/events/517667255063012/
RIT Academic Support Center
Math and Physics Tutoring!
RIT provides Math and Physics Support, take a math assessment, get advice about how
to best learn math or physics and get hints on how to better perform on tests and
quizzes.
Two locations on campus:
Bates Study Center (08-1200), M-Th 9a-9p, F 9a-6p
Sol Study Center M-Th 7p-10p, Sundays 2-5p and 7-10p (Sol Heumann Residence Hall,
1016
Room Reservations
All IGM students or student groups/clubs must go through Jill Bray to make a room
reservation. In GCCIS, please do not go through the Dean’s Office. Jill can be reached
at jcbics@rit.edu or Room 2161.
Social Media
Please remember to stay in touch with the latest and greatest School news
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Facebook: School of Interactive Games and Media
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Twitter: @IGMRIT
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Foursquare: School of Interactive Games and Media
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There are also 2 student created and moderated discussion groups: Game
Design and Development and New Media Interactive Development on Facebook
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IGM Student Wiki: https://wiki.rit.edu/display/IGMguide/Home
Key Players in IGM
Jessica Bayliss – Associate Director
Jill Bray – Administrative Assistant to the Director
Betty Hillman –Academic Advisor
Ed Huyer – Lab Manager
Beth Livecchi – Operations Manager
Amanda Scheerbaum – Sr. Academic Advisor
Kathleen Schreier Rudgers – Sr. Academic Advisor
David Schwartz – Director
Shameelah Thomas – Sr. Staff Assistant
Ann Warren – Lab Manager
Chad Weeden – Assistant Director
Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education Contacts
www.rit.edu/co-op/careers
Annette Stewart, aksoce@rit.edu, 585-475-5466
Lisa Monette, lamoce@rit.edu, 585-475-7413
Feedback Welcomed
Your constructive feedback is always welcomed! Please feel free to respond to this
email with any questions or concerns.