About Me edit
Alicia Gray, 20 years old, currently an undergraduate in third year of university, studying BSc Web Design and Development at University of Hull, School of Arts & New Media, Scarborough Campus. I live in a little village in the North East of England called Widdrington Station and Stobswood just outside of Morpeth, Northumberland before moving to study at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, a lovely little tourist town, where I am currently living. Some of my interests are volunteering at the local Girlguiding group, at the present moment in time I am volunteering for a local Rainbow within Scarborough, during the christmas, easter, and summer breaks I helped at a local Rainbow and Brownie group in Northumberland.
University Life edit
Starting in 2011, I have studied a variety of different modules throughout being at university and developed new skills and learnt new software such as Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. Some of the modules which I have studied are:
First Year edit
- Multimedia
- Programming for Interactive Media
- Media Culture and society
- Principles of Visual Design
- Web Authoring
- Interaction and Design
Second Year edit
- Information Management
- Programming for the Web
- Web Systems Management
- Web Design
- Research Methods
- Collaborative Development
Third Year edit
- Web Security
- Advanced Interfaces
- Psychology Of Interner Behaviour
- e-Business
- Independent Study (Disseration)
With being in my final year, I am currently working on my disseration which is 'Running a University, A Facebook Game', with the help from my supervisor Paul Warren. The software which I have developed with researching for my disseration is Autodesk Maya by designing animated people for the Facebook game.
Pages Currently Editing edit
The current module studying is Education Program:University of Hull/Psychology of Internet Behaviour (Spring 2014) which consists of editing a Wikipedia page and also includes learning about communication theories. The module is taught by Toni Sant and Darren Stephens who are showing me the basics elements of how to edit a Wikipedia Page and giving me advice/directing me on where I should go for help, they have recommended Teahouse. I am working in a group with Irina, Nat, Tom and Danielle to edit the page. The sections I will be doing are Common expectancy violations in close relationships and The theory in new media age. I will also be helping Nat to design and develop a suitable Diagram for Proxemics.
Alicia's sandbox