An Anglophile Afternoon
Katie Livingston Vale
Wed Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, 03-05:00pm, 9-253
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Join us for tea and a selection of (relatively current) British TV shows, including comedies, game shows, cookery programmes and perhaps some football. We'll provide the Hobnobs - you bring the laughs.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Katie Livingston Vale, 9-250, x3-6690, katiel@mit.edu
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Be a Media Pundit: Connecting to Broadcast Media from MIT
Larry Gallagher
Thu Jan 30, 12-02:00pm, 9-450
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
MIT experts are often called upon by journalists to comment on various news stories. Although an exciting opportunity, the logistics involved can be very time consuming and inconvenient. MIT Video Productions provides the facilities and connectivity required to deliver you "live" or on tape to journalists around the world, from CNN or NPR, to Italian National Television. Staff will demonstrate the technology and will show examples of MIT experts "in the news."
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Larry Gallagher, 9-417, ldg@mit.edu
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Communicating Your Research with Video
Larry Gallagher
Tue Jan 28, 12:30-02:00pm, 9-057
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Document and promote your research using broadcast quality video distributed to international media outlets. Learn how MIT Video Productions and the MIT News Office package interviews, background "B-roll" video as well as record hard to replicate or one time only demonstrations. Find out about different modalities for disseminating your research through videotape, fiber optic television feeds, ISDN radio feeds and the Internet. Video reports on research are also an effective way to present your work at conferences and symposia. Work with us to contextualize your research for a world-wide audience. MIT News Office staff will be onhand to answer your questions.
Contact: Larry Gallagher, 9-417, ldg@mit.edu
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Computer Animation: Past and Future
Gayle C. Willman
Thu Jan 23, 02-04:00pm, Room 9-253
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
The foundations of today's computer animation were developed by some very creative programmers, mathematicians and scientists - nearly 20 years ago. See lots of footage of early examples, and examples of future applications. Popcorn and soda will be served!
Contact: Gayle C. Willman, 9-230, x3-9366, willman@mit.edu
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Converging on Educational Technology at MIT
Phil Long, Mike Barker, Jeff Merriman
Fri Jan 24, 02-03:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
There are currently several large-scale educational technology initiatives here at the Institute. In this talk we'll look at Stellar, OKI, DSpace, OCW and other activities, and talk about how they are cooperating to provide a full range of educational media services to the community and beyond.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Phil Long, N42-040, longpd@mit.edu
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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
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Digital Photography
Dave Constine
Thu Jan 16, 12-01:30pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Dave will discuss techniques of digital still photography, including Photoshop tricks and secrets, and will show samples from his most recent exhibition.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Dave Constine, 9-413, davecon@mit.edu
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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
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How to Get (Temporarily) Free Software
Molly Ruggles
Thu Jan 9, 02-04:30pm, W89-125
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2003
Limited to 12 participants.
Single session event
Did you realize you can find lots of free demo software for your PC? Get an overview of how to find free demo software on your own, and how to download, install, and use it. We'll highlight several apps such as Flash, Paint Shop Pro and MS Visio, focusing on the few critical skills needed to get started. This is a great class for someone who has never delved into downloads and installations and wants to do some exploring. Please note: W89 is on the West side of campus just beyond Simmons Hall. Either take the Tech Shuttle at Vassar and Mass Ave., and get off at Stop 6. It's also really not that far to walk, and all successful arrivals will be rewarded with hot cocoa.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Molly Ruggles, 9-230, ruggles@mit.edu
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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
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Introduction to Academic Media Production Services (AMPS)
Amitava Mitra
Wed Jan 29, 01-02:00pm, 1-390
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
AMPS offers a complete set of multimedia, web, video, and teleconferencing services to the MIT academic community. Learn about us and what we can do for you.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/
Contact: Amitava Mitra, 9-265, babi@mit.edu
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Making Web-based Movies: Intro to Digital Video
Katie Livingston Vale
Tue Jan 7, 12-01:30pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
In this hands-on session, we’ll learn how to capture video from a digital camcorder; edit digital video using iMovie; save movies for playback on the Web or onto a CD or DVD.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap/
Contact: Katie Livingston Vale, 9-250, katiel@mit.edu
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Making the Cut
Francie Chase, Dick Chase
Thu Jan 30, 01-02:00pm, 9-253
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Fee: 2.00 for To cover cost of the fresh veggies that you'll learn to chop
Ever want to Julienne like Julia or Chiffonade like a professional chef? Well here's your chance to learn some knife skills that will give you a cutting edge in the kitchen. Bring a sharp knife, small cutting board, and some Tupperware and learn the correct way to hold your knife, set up and prepare food for faster and more appealing dishes. Then bring your chopped veggies home with you!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Francie Chase, 9-230, x3-0594, francie@mit.edu
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Multimedia Approaches to Project Communications
Gayle C. Willman, AMPS Staff Members
Thu Jan 30, 03-05:00pm, 9-253
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
An overview of using multimedia to communicate project information, including examples from MIT projects. Learn to scope multimedia components and estimate costs.
Contact: Gayle C. Willman, 9-230, x3-9366, willman@mit.edu
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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
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Software for Musicians: ProTools for Recording and Editing Music
Shannon Rutherford
Mon Jan 27, 12-01:30pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Interested in recording and editing your music digitally? ProTools lets you do that and more.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Shannon Rutherford, 9-268, x2-2169, shannonr@mit.edu
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Stellar 1.4 for Students
Mike Barker
Tue Jan 21, 02-03:00pm, 1-150
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
You may have a class this Spring that uses Stellar 1.4. Stellar provides web-based support for classes at MIT. It's free for any faculty member to use. Would you like to take advantage of the web-based support that they are using? In Fall 2002, about 180 MIT classes used Stellar. By Fall 2003, we expect about 500 classes will be using it. We'll go over the features of Stellar 1.4, with particular attention to how turn in homework (and get comments from faculty!), how to state your position using the online discussion in Stellar, stay up-to-date with announcements, and even how to find the online materials in Stellar. And we'll answer your questions, and tell you how to get help in the future.
Contact: Mike Barker, 9-250, x3-0119, mbarker@MIT.EDU
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Stitch and Kvetch
Francie Chase
Thu Jan 16, 01-02:00pm, 9-253
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Bring your latest project, whether it be sewing, needlepoint, knitting or quilting, and join in lively discussion. Learn what projects other people are working on, share craft ideas and learn tricks of the trade from each other.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Francie Chase, 9-230, x3-0594, francie@mit.edu
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The Future Is In Your Handhelds
Peter Hess
Thu Jan 16, 02-03:30pm, 3-370
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
How Wireless Handheld Devices Will Remake The Computing Landscape And Bring Us Ubiquitous Computing (Sooner Than You Think)
We'll look at wireless devices, the protocols and networks they run on, and new services they'll enable. We'll talk about 3G & other wireless options, current products, and how handheld devices suitable for wireless operation may converge. Finally, we'll brainstorm about applications and services to drive the take-up of this technology. Have a wireless handheld to show off? Bring it along!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Peter Hess, 9-230, phess@mit.edu
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Tour the MIT Video Production Studio
Larry Gallagher
Thu Jan 30, 02-03:00pm, 9-450
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Visit the broadcast television studio on the 4th floor of building 9. See what goes on behind the scenes of a working TV studio. Learn how blue screen technology works or what it's like to be a TV anchorperson, journalist or weather forecaster under the glare of the lights.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Larry Gallagher, 9-417, ldg@mit.edu
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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
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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
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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
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Working with Digital Video and Special Effects
Dave Constine
Wed Jan 22, 12-02:00pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Academic Media Production Services' Dave Constine will show you how to add "oomph" to your video using Photoshop and After Effects. He'll also talk about his work as a professional digital video editor and post production specialist.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Dave Constine, 9-413, x3-3590, davecon@mit.edu
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