Anatomy of a Completed Web Site: Lessons from GCP
Stacy Scheingold
Tue Jan 15, 11am-12:00pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Have you ever wondered what goes into building a web site? In this one hour talk, you'll see what really happens behind the scenes of a medium sized web site - from the site builder's point of view. The web site to be discussed is Good Practices in Clinical Research, which is an on-line course for physicians in Latin America.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap/
Contact: Stacy Scheingold, 9-250, sscheing@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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BRL: After Cgiemail, Then What?
Bruce Lewis
Fri Jan 25, 01-03:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 23 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Some experience with HTML forms and cgiemail
Web developers impatient with the limitations of cgiemail can take it to the next level using BRL. Workshop participants will use Jakarta Tomcat 4.0 to test BRL pages in their Athena lockers, and then optionally put them on the web 24x7.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/brl
Contact: Bruce Lewis, W20-557, x3-7788, sipb-iap-brl@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Basics of Web Graphic Design
Stacy Sheingold, Joanna Binkowski
Wed Jan 23, 30, 10am-12:00pm, 26-139, CLASS FULL!
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2002
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
NOTE: CLASS FULL
What do they mean by "Web Safe Colors"? What's the difference between a GIF and a JPEG? How do "rollovers" work? In these hands-on 2 hour sessions, we'll learn about the basics of graphic design on the web.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap/
Contact: Stacy Sheingold, 9-250, sscheing@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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Building Course Web Pages with Dreamweaver
Rich Garcia
Thu Jan 10, 02-04:00pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 04-Jan-2002
Limited to 12 participants.
Single session event
Dreamweaver is the HTML editor recommended and supported by Information Systems. In this tutorial, you can edit existing course Web pages, or make a new site based on preformatted templates. Retrieve a page/template, edit it, and transfer it to Athena using secure file transfer methods. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants, on a first-come first-served basis. If more interest is shown, an additional session can be arranged.
Contact: Rich Garcia, rlgarcia@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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DSpace - Durable Digital Documents
Margret Branschofsky
Tue Jan 22, 10-11:00am, E53-220
Thu Jan 31, 02-03:00pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Calling all faculty and researchers!
Get a sneak preview of this new system that will enable us to capture, distribute and preserve MIT's digital research output. Find out how you can showcase and share your digital preprints, working papers, technical reports, images, datasets, and rich-media research products using a system designed and built by MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company. See http://www.dspace.org for more information.
Web: http://www.dspace.org
Contact: Margret Branschofsky, 10-500, x3-1293, margretb@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Dreamweaver Quick Start
Peggy Conant
Fri Jan 11, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Dreamweaver 4 is a powerful tool for creating and managing complex web sites. This session introduces users to the Dreamweaver interface and gives a brief overview of web publishing practices at MIT.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/training
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Hands-on HTML/Webpage Mini-Course
Amy Mueller
Thu Jan 17, 07-08:30pm, 14-0637
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Do you want to make a webpage but don't know where to start? Having trouble formatting something as you would like it? Come work on your webpage with us and get answers to all of your questions as they come up!
Web: http://hkn.mit.edu
Contact: Amy Mueller, amym@mit.edu
Sponsor: Eta Kappa Nu
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Microsoft .NET Workshop
Don Box (www.developmentor.com)
Mon Jan 14, Tue Jan 15, Wed Jan 16, 10am-05:00pm, One Cambridge Center, 11th Floor Compaq Lab
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2002
Limited to 60 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This workshop is specifically for members of the MIT community and will provide deep technical coverage of the .NET platform, focusing on how the technologies fit together as well as how aspects of the platform advance the field of component software and distributed application development. Topics include: platform evolution, the Common Language Runtime, the CLR type system and C#, ASP.NET, XML, SOAP, WSDL and Web Services.
Web: http://icampus.mit.edu/iap
Contact: dave mitchell, NE43-438, x3-0767, davidmit@mit.edu
Sponsor: David T Mitchell, NE43-438, 617 253-0767, davidmit@microsoft.com
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Pushing Pixels: Intro to Photoshop
Ben Brophy
Thu Jan 24, 10am-12:00pm, 26-139, CLASS FULL!
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2002
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
NOTE: CLASS FULL
Photoshop is a big piece of software, but this class can get you started. I'll be teaching essential skills you need to manipulate photos or create "pixel paintings" of your own creation. An emphasis on images that will be used on the web or sent by email.
In this hands-on two-hour session, we'll learn:
- How to work with paintbrushes, selection tools, layers and transparency.
- How to fix low quality or damaged photos
- How to prepare your photo for the web.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap/
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, benbr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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Step By Step: Designing Your Personal Web Site
Ben Brophy
Fri Jan 11, 18, 25, 10-11:00am, 26-139, CLASS FULL!
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 31-Dec-2001
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
NOTE: CLASS FULL
Every person who works or studies at MIT has a free web locker, a great benefit that few of us use. Whether you want to put up your resume, showcase your hobby or art, or put up pictures to share with yor family, this class will get you started.
Week 1: Hello World: Making your first page.
Week 2: Adding photos
Week 3: Turn your homepage into a website
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap/
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, benbr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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Typography: Petroglyphs to Unicode
Joanna Binkowski
Thu Jan 24, 03-05:00pm, 2-136, Room Change!
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 15-Jan-2002
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
An overview of the history of letters and their incarnation -- fonts, with focus on Internet typography.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap
Contact: Joanna Binkowski, 9-250, jbink@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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Usability 101: Create Websites That Work
MIT Usability Group
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Learn about Usability and how to avoid the usability police. Learn ways to test the usability of your product or website to determine if it is truly user-friendly. Attend any or all of the following three workshops sponsored by the MIT Usability Group.
Participants who want to take an active role must preregister for sessions two and three.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/usability
Contact: MIT Usability Group, usability@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
Usability Team
MIT Usability Group
Learn about the MIT Usability Group, the process we use to test products and websites, and see the Usability Lab.
Thu Jan 10, 02-04:00pm, N42 Demo Center
Usability Testing Methods: Test Tasks and Card Sorting
MIT Usability Group
During this session, you will learn to analyze your site and develop tasks that will test the site's usability. You will also learn when and how to use card sorting as a tool for testing the content management of a site. Those who pre-register for this and the next session will work in small groups to plan for session three.
Wed Jan 16, 03:30-05:00pm, N42 Demo Center
Usability Practicum: Bring Your Own Tasks (BYOT)
MIT Usability Group
In this session, we will select two or three websites for review. Using tasks created by the "owners" of the site, the group will walk through the review process. Preregistered participants will be active participants, others may observe, but silently.
Thu Jan 24, 02-04:00pm, N42 Demo Center, Session requires registration
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Web Animation: Flash for Beginners
Ben Brophy
Thu Jan 31, 10am-12:00pm, 26-139, CLASS FULL!
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2002
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
NOTE: CLASS FULL
Macromedia Flash is a program for creating animations and interactive applications. In this hands-on two-hour session, we'll learn:
- How to create images in Flash
- two techniques of animation with Flash
- exporting to the web
Web: http://web.mit.edu/emcc/iap/
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, benbr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Media Creation Center
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Web Publishers User Group
Suzana Lisanti
Thu Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join other web publishers on campus for a monthly meeting to learn new tips and tricks related to web publishing at MIT, as well as participate in Q&A sessions. January's meeting will feature a presentation on Maximizing Graphics for the Web Using Photoshop.
Web: http://mit.edu/mugs/index-count.html
Contact: Chris Sherrill, sherrill@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Web Publishing Overview
Kevin Cunningham
Mon Jan 7, 01:30-04:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This three-hour lecture/demonstration session gives an overview of the electronic publishing process as it works at MIT, focusing on 1) how to code files using HTML tags (HyperText Markup Language, the standard for publishing on the Web), and 2) how to upload files to the Athena system for delivery through MIT’s primary Web server,web.mit.edu. Special attention is paid to issues affecting websites at MIT (MITnet rules of use, Athena file conventions, special services available on web.mit.edu, etc.)
Web: http://http:/web.mit.edu/is/training
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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