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Computers: Web Design and Development

BRL: After Cgiemail, Then What?
Bruce Lewis
Fri Jan 24, 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, 253-7788, sipb-iap-brl@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board

Customizing Your Stellar Website
Ben Brophy
Wed Jan 15, Wed Jan 29, 10-11:00am, 26-139

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

Learn how to make a Stellar class website match your class. Change the navigation, images, and customize the content of your Stellar site. Learn to integrate your Stellar class website with your personal or departmental website. No HTML or special computer skills are needed. Participants are advised, but not required, to request a Stellar website for a Spring 2003 class they may be teaching or administrating before attending the class. Stellar classes can be requested at http://stellar.mit.edu/contact/coursereq.html
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, benbr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services

DSpace Digital Repository
Margret G. Branschofsky
Wed Jan 15, 03-04:30pm, 14N-132
Fri Jan 24, 10-11:30am, 14N-132

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

The MIT Libraries' DSpace system is a dynamic repository for the digital intellectual output of MIT. It collects, preserves, indexes and distributes digital files in a variety of formats. See a demonstration of the system, and find out how you and your community can become contributors to this repository.
Web: http://www.dspace.org
Contact: Margret G. Branschofsky, 14S-M24, x3-1293, margretb@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries

Dreamweaver MX: New Features
Peggy Conant
Fri Jan 17, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Dreamweaver MX offers a significantly new interface to users as well as enhanced features that make it easier to work with templates and CSS style sheets. This session will be geared toward those who are already somewhat familiar with Dreamweaver from previous versions.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/training
Contact: sarah Hickok, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Dreamweaver Quick Start
Peggy Conant
Wed Jan 15, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Dreamweaver 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

Flash for Beginners
Stacy Scheingold
Tue Jan 28, 10am-12:00pm, 26-139

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event

Macromedia Flash is a program for creating animations and interactive applications. This class focuses on using Flash to create animations, such as animated logos, advertisements or cartoons. In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to create images in Flash, two techniques of animation with Flash, and exporting your movie to the Web.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap/
Contact: Stacy Scheingold, 9-250, sscheing@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services

Hands-on HTML/Web Page Mini-Course
Eugenia Trusova
Tue Jan 21, 07-10:00pm, 4-035

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Jan-2003
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

Do you want to make a web page, but don't know where to start? Having trouble formatting something as you would like it? Come work on your web page with us, and get answers to all of your questions as they come up!
Web: http://hkn.mit.edu
Contact: Eugenia Trusova, trusova@mit.edu
Sponsor: Eta Kappa Nu

How To Display Math on the Web
Daniel Jamous
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Three events to help you learn about tools that can be used for displaying mathematics and related graphics on the web.
Contact: Daniel Jamous, jamous@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

How to Display Mathematics on the Web
Daniel Jamous
This presentation/demonstration will review the various methods to display mathematical equations on the Web. Learn how several web browsers can display MathML (Mathematical Markup Language), an XML application to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. See http://web.mit.edu/acs/IAP-2003/math-on-the-web/
Thu Jan 9, 10:30am-12:00pm, 1-150

Using MathML to Display Math on the Web
Prof. Michael Kohlhase WWW Consortium, Math Working Group; C
Principles and practice of MathML, with some hands-on advice and examples (follow-up to the "How to Display Mathematics on the Web" presentation of Jan. 9)
Thu Jan 23, 09am-11:00pm, 4-237

How to Deploy MATLAB-Based Applications Over the Web Cancelled
Daniel Jamous
This presentation/demonstration will describe the MATLAB Web Server, a tool available and supported on Athena, which allows you to use MATLAB math and graphics in HTML applications.
Tue Jan 28, 10:30am-12:00pm, 1-150

Interactive Map Publishing on the Web
Raj Singh
Tue Jan 28, 02:30-06:00pm, Room 9-554

Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event

Learn ESRI's ArcIMS to publish Mapquest-like maps on the Web. Session also will introduce resources at MIT to publish maps without any system knowledge. 1-hour lecture followed by hands-on lab exercise.
Web: http://crl.mit.edu/gis/
Contact: Raj Singh, rajsingh@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning

Intro to Adobe Illustrator
Ben Brophy
Thu Jan 9, 02-04:00pm, 26-139

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event

A hands-on brief introduction to using Adobe Illustrator for graphics creation.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, benbr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services

Introduction to Stellar - MIT's Online Class Management System
Jean Foster, ACST Faculty Liaisons
Fri Jan 17, 10:30-11:30am, N42 Demo Center

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Now available for any MIT class, we'll explore Stellar's tools and features.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/stellar
Contact: Jean Foster, jfoster@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Introduction to WebSphere Studio Application Developer
Jeffrey Miller, IBM Corp
Tue Jan 7, 01-04:00pm, 2-105

Single session event
Prereq: some familiarity with Java and J2EE

The IBM WebSphere Studio development tools, built on an open source Java framework called Eclipse, are easily extended with plug-ins for new technologies. See a demo of WebSphere Studio Application Developer, its features and the types of components you can develop, the GUI and wizards that help with the grunt work.
Contact: Kathleen Moriarty, kathleen@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Is Your Web Site Easy to Use?
MIT Usability Group
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

Can your users do what they want on your site or do they struggle? Four sessions cover how usability testing can help you create better web sites. Find out how to set up your own tests to observe your users and gather inspiration for improvements.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/usability
Contact: Sarah Hickok, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Introduction to Web Usability
MIT Usability Group
Usability testing is an effective way to evaluate web and application interfaces. This session looks at the history of interface design and presents usability concepts, guidelines, and testing techniques. You'll also learn about MIT's Usability Team.
Wed Jan 8, 02-04:00pm, 1-150

Is Your MIT Web Site Usable by People with Disabilities?
MIT Usability Group
See examples of accessible design and learn techniques and tools to make your site more accessible. Blind Web developer Rich Callogero will demonstrate JAWS screen reading software. Bring in sample websites (URLs) if you want to see how blind users navigate your website.
Wed Jan 15, 02-04:00pm, 1-150

Usability Methods and Tools Workshop, Session 1
MIT Usability Group
Interactive sessions to explore usability test methods: talking protocol, paper prototyping, card-sorting and various inspection methods. Learn when each is appropriate, write user scenarios and test tasks, and facilitate actual tests.
Wed Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, 1-150

Usability Methods and Tools Workshop, Session 2
MIT Usability Group
Continues where Session 1 left off with recap of card sorting exercise and an introduction to paper prototyping and user-centered design.
Wed Jan 29, 02-04:00pm, 1-150

Pushing Pixels: Intro to Photoshop
Joanna Proulx
Wed Jan 29, 01-03:00pm, 26-139

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event

How to make abstract, futuristic digital compositions in Photoshop. An overview of existing artists' work as well as "underground" images and a walk-through presentation of the process of assembling an example in Photoshop. We will focus on layer blending modes, layer styles and synthetic effects.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap/
Contact: Joanna Proulx, 9-250, jbink@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services

SloanSpace: An Overview
Deirdre Kane, Caroline Meeks
Tue Jan 21, 01:30-03:00pm, E51-376

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 54 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: none

Session will provide an overview of the development history, project design and feature set of SloanSpace, the Sloan School of Management's open source course management and community building system. Presenters will also discuss how the system is used by faculty, staff and students and its role as part of the .LRN initiative.
Contact: Deirdre Kane, E52-Penthouse, 252-1110, dekane@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management

The Web as an Idea
David Weinberger
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)

In these discussions, we will try to understand the Web as more than a technology and more than a social phenomenon. What effect is it having on the core ideas in our culture? By analogy, if we wanted to understand
democracy, we would look at what it means for foundational ideas such as liberty, authority, citizenship, equality, etc. Similarly, we will look at the Web's effect on ideas such as individuality, knowledge, space, and even, yes, reality. Individual sessions are listed below. The format will be mixed lecture and seminar.
Contact: Chris Pomiecko, 14N-207A, x3-3599, cpomieko@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies

Who Is On Line: Individuality, Sociality, and the Self
David Weinberger
Tue Jan 7, 07-09:00pm, 1-390

The Medium Is the Morality: The Moral Implications of the Web's Architecture
David Weinberger
Tue Jan 14, 07-09:00pm, 1-390

Our World: The Reality of Connections
David Weinberger
Tue Jan 21, 07-09:00pm, 1-390

Typography: Petroglyphs to Unicode
Joanna Proulx
Fri Jan 24, 02-04:00pm, 26-139

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

An overview of the history of letters and their incarnation -- fonts, with focus on Internet typography.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Joanna Proulx, 9-250, jbink@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services

Web Page Layout Using Tables
Stacy Scheingold
Tue Jan 14, 10am-12:00pm, 26-139

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event

Learn how to lay out a Web page using HTML tables in DreamWeaver. In this hands-on workshop/demo, you'll learn some tricks of the trade including how to expand pages in different browser sizes without horizontal scrolling, how to nest tables for a clean layout, and how to construct a navigation bar out of images.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Stacy Scheingold, 9-250, sscheing@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services

Web Publishers User Group
Chris Sherrill
Thu Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Join other web publishers on campus for a bi-monthly meeting to learn new tips and tricks related to web publishing at MIT, as well as participate in Q&A sessions.
Web: http://mit.edu/mugs/index-count.html
Contact: Chris Sherrill, sherrill@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Web Publishing Overview
Kevin Cunningham
Mon Jan 6, 01:30-04:30pm, N42 Demo Center

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

This three-hour lecture/demo gives an overview of the electronic publishing process as it works at MIT, focusing on 1) how to code files using HTML tags, 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 web sites at MIT.
Web: http://http:/web.mit.edu/is/training
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Web Publishing Services Offered Through MIT's Information Systems
Representatives from ACST, AMPS, & WCS
Fri Jan 31, 10-11:30am, N42 Demo Center

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

Information Systems offers 3 groups to assist with your web publishing needs: the Academic Computing Support Team (ACST), Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), and Web Communications Services (WCS). Come learn how they work together to offer MIT an impressive array of web planning and production services.
Contact: Chris Sherrill, sherrill@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

Web Services Workshop
Jeffrey Miller, IBM Corp
Fri Jan 24, 01-04:00pm, 2-105

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Knowledge of Java and J2EE

Web services is the technology that finally allows applications to communicate with each other, despite location, platform, and implementation. We'll introduce Web services and discuss general architecture and protocols: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, plus the IBM products that implement some of them. We'll use WebSphere Studio and build some Web services. We'll look at Web services security and some of the new emerging standards.
Contact: Kathleen Moriarty, kathleen@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems

What's New in Stellar 1.4
Ben Brophy
Wed Jan 8, Wed Jan 22, 10-11:00am, 9-253

Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session

A look at new features that have been added to MIT's Stellar Learning Management System for Spring 2003. Special attention will paid to assigning and collecting homework using Stellar. This class is especially recommended for people who used Stellar before, and just want to see the new tools. This is a hands on session.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, benbr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services


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