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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….
The School of Interactive Games and Media is sponsoring 16 IGM students to
attend the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco March 16-18!
Applications are available in the IGM Main Office.
Hey New Media cool peeps!
You’ve got your mentor groups, now what? Come for New Media Club tonight, for
a Mentor Group Battle Royale! That’s Thursday, October 15, at 9pm in the New
Media Lab (Booth 1303). We’re doing a Photoshop battle between mentor groups,
where we'll give your group an hour to design something awesome in Photoshop. So
bring your Photoshop skills tomorrow night and get ready for epic team bonding, dank
memes, pizza AND prizes!
PS: if you haven’t seen the mentor group list it’s in the entrance of the New Media Lab,
on the cork board to your right.
RSVP to the Facebook event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/535874203228239/
And if you haven’t done so already, join NMC here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ritnewmediaclub/
IGM Halloween Party
IGM will be hosting a Halloween party on Friday, October 30th from 2-3pm in the main
office. More details will follow.
Class offered by School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, looking for IGM
students!
Topics in Advertising: Marketing & Gaming; PHAP 351
Marketing strategies are shifting as digital technology is evolving. One
contemporary marketing approach uses a gaming model to engage an audience
with content in a two-way interactive communication instead of a one-way delivery
system through mass communication. This type of non-interruptive marketing
approach communicates relevant information to customers without selling a specific
product.
This course is an interdisciplinary course between CIAS and GCCIS, bringing the
visual arts and game development students together in one classroom working
collaboratively on content marketing gaming projects. Tona Henderson will be
consulting in the development and delivery of the course material.
An questions about the course or problems with registering, please feel free to
contact Susan Lakin @ srlpph@rit.edu
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 information https://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.