MIT Film & Video Retrospective: Then and Now
Craig Milanesi MIT Video Productions & Digital Technologies
Fri Jan 20, 12-03:00pm, 9-057
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join us for a look at life at MIT through the decades with films and videos from the MIT Museum and MIT Video Productions archives.We'll start with an historical retrospective followed by several vintage documentaries. Meet the 1926 frat house gang of Phi Beta Epsilon. Revisit the 50s with the Social Beaver. See profiles of Doc Edgerton and Doc Draper, as well as the Academy Award winning short "Quicker than a Wink," featuring Doc Edgerton. Program also includes videos produced for the MIT News Office, MIT Museum and various academic departments. For a schedule and show times, go to:
Web: http://web.mit.edu/amps/spotlight/mvpdt-iap.html
Contact: Joanne Flood, 9-415, (617) 253-5475, jflood@mit.edu
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Online Auctions: Participating and Buying
Robert Sikkema
Tue Jan 24, 12-01:30pm, 9-057
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Joining an online auction site and taking advantage of its bargains requires revealing key information about yourself; and it requires adherence to a set of behaviors. Learn what you reveal and how to protect yourself when joining, plus how to use online tools to find and win the best bargains.
Contact: Robert Sikkema, 9-268, x3-0901, rsikkema@mit.edu
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Online Auctions: Selling and Feedback Management
Robert Sikkema
Tue Jan 31, 12-01:30pm, 9-057
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Accommodating the ethical disciplines and organizational challenges of becoming a seller in an online auction requires planning and self-discipline. Learn the elements of creating a good sales experience and building a feedback rating that enhances your future sales.
Contact: Robert Sikkema, 9-268, (617) 253-0901, rsikkema@mit.edu
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Stellar 2 Town Hall Meeting
Mark Brown, Sr. Project Manager, Ben Brophy, Stellar Product Manager
Wed Jan 25, 01-02:00pm, 9-151
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Stellar 2, the next generation of Stellar™ Course Management System, is slated for release in fall 2006. Stellar 2 is built on a flexible open source framework from the Sakai Project and the Open Knowledge Initiative. What would you like to see happen with MIT's course management system? What works for you in the current version of Stellar and what doesn't? Questions, comments, tirades, and panegyrics welcome.
Contact: Mark Brown,, 9-236, x2-3490, mwbrown@MIT.EDU
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Stellar Tools: Online Assessments and Surveys
Rich Garcia Educational Technology Consultant, Academic Computing
Thu Jan 12, 11am-12:00pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
As a result of its participation in the Sakai Project (an open-source learning environment for higher education), the Stellar team is currently piloting an online assessment and survey tool. We are evaluating it for inclusion in Stellar 2, which is scheduled for release in fall 2006. Join us for an hour-long session where we demonstrate the tool as it currently exists and collect suggestions for improving it. We are also collecting names of those interested in testing it during the spring '06 semester.
Contact: Rich Garcia, N42-250F, x2-2523, rlgarcia@mit.edu
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Stellar: Rx for Administrative Headaches
Rich Garcia , Educational Technology Consultant, Academic Computing
Wed Jan 18, 11-12:00am, 1-134
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Teaching a class is demanding enough; the details of administering the class often present an extra burden. Stellar Course Management System alleviates many of the problems and annoyances of class administration, such as the following:
- Section sign-up
- Collecting homework online
- Archiving and reusing class materials
- Library e-reserves
- Copyright issues
- Class email and access control lists
- Preparing class materials for OpenCourseWare
- Creating the class list
This session will be of interest to instructors, TAs, administrators -- anyone who would like to be less encumbered by the minutiae of class maintenance.
Contact: Rich Garcia, N42-250F, (617) 452-2523, rlgarcia@mit.edu
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Using Stellar to Search MIT Image Repositories
Ben Brophy , Product Manager, Stellar Course Management System
Wed Feb 1, 10-11:00am, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Stellar Images is a new tool being developed by the Stellar team that lets instructors search for images to use in the classroom. Initially the Stellar community will have access to images from the Rotch Visual Collection and the Visualizing Cultures Image Database. In this session, Ben will demonstrate the tool and gather feedback on how to improve it. Current plans for the tool are to add additional sources for images, as well as functionality for creating slideshows.
Contact: Ben Brophy, 9-250, x2-2085, benbr@mit.edu
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Using Stellar's Homework Tool
Rich Garcia , Educational Technology consultant, Academic Computing
Thu Jan 26, 01-02:00pm, 56-114
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The homework assignment and submission tool is one of Stellar's most useful and most underutilized features. Learn how to take full advantage of this tool for the following tasks:
- Posting assignments and solutions
- Returning grades and comments
- Encouraging student collaboration, such as reviewing and critiquing one another's work
This session will be of interest to course instructors, TAs, and assignment graders.
Contact: Rich Garcia, N42-250F, x2-2523, rlgarcia@mit.edu
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