Creating Accessible PDFs
Stephani Roberts Lincoln
Thu Jan 22, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn about tips for authoring PDFs that are accessible to people with disabilities, including those using screen readers or magnification software. We will cover how to create accessible source documents in other formats (such as HTML and MS Word) as well as ways to take your existing PDFs and use tools available in Acrobat 6.0 to make them more accessible. This is a very useful class for academic departments posting course related PDF materials in Stellar.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/atic/www
Contact: Stephani Roberts Lincoln, N42-040LR, (617) 253-0866, stephani@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Defining Project Requirements in an Uncertain World
Mark W Brown, Stacy Scheingold
Tue Jan 20, 02-03:00pm, 9-057 LiNC
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Building a customized software application is a difficult process, because no one knows quite what the end product will become -- neither the client nor the development team. The focus of our presentation will be on our process for visually understanding what an application should look like, and building consensus between the client and the development team around it, in the most efficient way possible. In this talk, we'll give a quick overview of a specific web application that AMPS built for a client, and draw lessons from the project's successes.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Mark W Brown, 9-268, (617) 452-3490, mwbrown@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 New Features
Jeff Pankin
Fri Jan 23, 10-11:00am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Macromedia Dreamweaver is an easy, powerful, and open authoring tool a web development team can use to quickly build robust websites and Internet applications. It provides rich, powerful CSS support and lets you work within one environment to easily create and manage any professional website. Come see the new features of the latest version - Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Contact: Jeff Pankin, N42-240H, (617) 253-4135, pankin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Dynamic Web Sites: BRL
Bruce Lewis
Mon Jan 26, 05-07:00pm, 1-135
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Some experience with HTML forms and cgiemail
Try your hand at dynamic web-site development with BRL, a language similar in purpose to PHP, but with simpler syntax, much like cgiemail's templates. It extends Scheme, a programming language designed with learning in mind, in a web-friendly way.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/brl/
Contact: Bruce Lewis, W20-557, 253-7788, sipb-iap-brl@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Flash for Beginners
Stacy Scheingold
Thu Jan 22, Tue Jan 27, 10am-12:00pm, 26-139
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 12 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
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
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Getting Started with Weblogs
Andrew Grumet, Tracy Adams
Tue Jan 6, 02:30-04:00pm, E52-010
Thu Jan 15, 07-08:30pm, E52-010
Fri Jan 23, 11:30am-01:00pm, E52-010
Wed Jan 28, 10-11:30am, E52-010
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Basic familiarity with a Web browser.
Weblogs, or "blogs" for short, have emerged in recent years as an important new tool for writing on the Web. They are gaining widespread use as personal Web sites and for topical sites about education, research, law, journalism and even presidential politics. What are weblogs? How are they different from ordinary home pages? Should I write a weblog? How do I get started? In this workshop, we will introduce weblogs and attempt to answer these questions. We'll present a simple definition, survey a variety of popular weblogs and weblog writing styles, help you set up your own MIT weblog at http://weblogs.mit.edu/ and write your first post, and demonstrate how a news aggregator works.
Web: http://weblogs.mit.edu/iap2004
Contact: Andrew Grumet, E52-Penthouse, x4-6092, aegrumet@mit.edu
Sponsor: Sloan School of Management
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Introduction to CSS
Joanna Proulx
Tue Jan 27, 03-04:00pm, 9-253
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: familiarity with Dreamweaver or other HTML editor
This session will introduce Cascading Style Sheets. You'll learn how to streamline your HTML, layout your pages and make site management easier by using external style sheets.
This session assumes you know your way around Dreamweaver or a comparable WYSIWYG HTML editor, and that you are familiar with the basics of web site creation and the fundamentals of HTML tags.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap
Contact: Joanna Proulx, 9-250, jbink@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
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Is Your Web Site Easy to Use?
MIT Usability Team
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 show 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: Susan B. Jones, sbjones@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
Introduction to Web Usability
MIT Usability Team
Usability testing is an effective way to evaluate web and application interfaces. This session presents usability concepts, guidelines, and testing techniques using practical exercises. You'll also learn to write user scenarios and test tasks, and facilitate actual tests.
Tue Jan 6, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
Is the Content on Your Web Site Accessible by People with Disabilities?
Stephani Roberts Lincoln, ATIC Lab
Can a blind user navigate your web site? What about keyboard only users? See a demonstration of JAWS screen reading software for the blind, learn techniques to make your web site more accessible to all audiences, and get an overview of federal web accessibility laws and how they pertain to your web site.
Tue Jan 13, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
Usability Methods and Tools Workshop
MIT Usability Team
Discussion of methods and tools available. Learn when each is appropriate and practice using them. Note: Room is different from other sessions in series.
Tue Jan 20, 01-03:00pm, 2-131
User-Centered Design Methods and Tools Workshop
MIT Usability Team
Overview of user-centered design practices, including planning, using focus groups to discover user needs, and creating an information architecture. Interactive exercise will begin to explore usability design and test methods.
Tue Jan 27, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
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QTools - A Web survey tool for MIT
Mark W Brown, Brian Bermack
Thu Jan 15, 02-03:00pm, 9-057 LiNC
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
See a demonstration of the uses and features of Qtools, a customizable web survey tool designed and built by MIT's Academic Media Production Services.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/iap/
Contact: Mark W Brown, 9-268, (617) 452-3490, mwbrown@mit.edu
Sponsor: Academic Media Production Services
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Typography: Petroglyphs to Unicode
Joanna Proulx
Wed Jan 14, 02-04:00pm, 9-253
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
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Web Publishers User Group
Suzana Lisanti
Thu Jan 22, 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: Suzana Lisanti, lisanti@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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