IAP 2016 Activities by Category: Multi-Media

Adobe InDesign Essentials: Basics of InDesign

Andrew Ramirez, Business Analyst

Jan/21	Thu	10:00AM-11:30AM	W92-106A, Bring your laptop

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19

Adobe InDesign is a powerful tool that the IS&T software grid provides free access to for Staff and Faculty. This quick 90-minute session will teach you the fundamentals of using InDesign for common tasks that will help you in your workplace such as creating flyers, posters and promotional material.

Please bring your laptops and pre-install Adobe Photoshop before the session (free). https://ist.mit.edu/adobe/cc

SIGNUP LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_ueo_64xIklqxXTu2FvsAXnXbgBOuMG_8mYwtwIC-lI/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Sponsor(s): Information Systems & Technology
Contact: Andrew Ramirez, 617 324-3945, AZRAM@MIT.EDU

Comics Culture from Print to Screen

James Paradis, Lacey Lord

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

This IAP activity will address formal and cultural shifts in the comics medium in North America and Europe with a particular focus on the US. The goal of this activity is to explore comics as texts and cultural artifacts in class discussions, viewings, readings, and some activities. Readings will include a mixture of academic writing and comics, including print, short film clips, and digital selections.

We will start with the early history of comics and its relationship to other media, and then move on to the current state of comics as the medium transitions from print to digital modes. In the final session, we will ask you to bring in the comics you want to discuss.

Sessions may be attended individually, but we strongly suggest that participants attend all sessions. Advance signup is required to guarantee a seat. To sign up, please email lglord@mit.edu the following information: name, MIT email address, your status or MIT title, MIT department/section, and a sentence or two about your previous experience with comics. All experience levels are welcome.

Notes:

Bring your laptop to class. All required readings will be provided digitally, but some digital comics will require purchase.
We suggest that you bring an iPad to class or share with a friend. A limited number will be provided for use in the classroom.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Lacey Lord, lglord@mit.edu

Jan/19	Tue	12:00PM-01:00PM	E17-122

Early Comic History, from the The Yellow Kid to Flipbooks and Cartoons

Jan/20	Wed	12:00PM-01:00PM	E17-122

Comics and Early Animation: KrazyKat, Mickey Mouse, and Company

Jan/21	Thu	12:00PM-01:00PM	E17-122

The Panel and the Screen, from Watchmen to Framed

Jan/22	Fri	12:00PM-01:00PM	E17-122

Comics and the Senses, from Issues to iPads

Jan/25	Mon	12:00PM-01:00PM	E17-122

Comics Appreciation Session: BYOC (Bring your own comics!)

Create Your Own Comic! (Artistic Ability Optional)

Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Ph.D, Lecturer, CMS/W

Jan/11	Mon	02:00PM-04:00PM	56-167, bring laptop
Jan/12	Tue	02:00PM-04:00PM	56-167, bring laptop
Jan/13	Wed	02:00PM-04:00PM	56-167, bring laptop
Jan/14	Thu	02:00PM-04:00PM	56-167, bring laptop
Jan/15	Fri	02:00PM-04:00PM	56-167, bring laptop

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/08
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None

Collaborate with peers to write stories, create scripts and storyboards, create comics, and publish on our class blog. We’ll discuss students’ favorite comics and graphic novels, as well as those from the broad range of genres, styles, and media currently available. We’ll discuss different theories of comic and graphic novel form, including those from the US, Asia, and Europe. Brief in-class writing assignments, story drafts, scripts, and story-boards will be published on our class blog. Students will collaborate to create comics, in genres and styles of their choice, informed by our discussions.

Please sign up via email. Include your name, MIT email address, your student status or MIT title, MIT department/section, and a sentence or two about why you're interested in the workshop.

Special Instructions: The work we do in class will be published on our class blog, but you can opt out of sharing your work online. After signing up via email, on Jan. 11 please bring your laptop and charger, your favorite comic or graphic novel (a link online is ok), and a couple of ideas for short stories - from real life or your imagination - that you’d like to create in graphic or comics form. Estimated work on comic outside of class: 1-2 hours per day on first four days.

Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, E39-115AA, rtb@mit.edu

Digital Imaging 101

Jenn Morris, Digital Imaging Manager, MIT Libraries

Jan/19	Tue	11:00AM-12:00PM	4-145

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 35 participants

With current tools like smartphones and photocopiers, digital images of paper or photographs can be captured in a snap. While these quick and easy methods might work for instant online sharing and social media, they are not the best choice for scans you want to keep long term. This class will cover basic digital imaging concepts and considerations to keep in mind when digitizing for future access. Topics to be covered will include planning your digital project, imaging specifications, equipment, simple image correction and retouching methods, storage, optical character recognition, and metadata.

Please register as space is limited.

Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jennifer Morris, 14-0551, 617 253-7286, J_MORRIS@MIT.EDU

Learn to Play Music on Your iPhone or iPad

Dazza Greenwood, Scientist

Jan/13	Wed	04:00PM-05:00PM	E15-393, Bring iPhone or iPad

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/13
Limited to 18 participants
Prereq: None

Check out GrooveCommission.com for more information on this new method and come to the workshop with an iOS device to learn how to do it yourself! We will have a group jam session at the end of the workshop and you all get a soundcloud copy of your jam (if you want it).

Contact: Dazza Greenwood, E15-384C, (617) 500-3644, dazza@civics.com

Microlearning Boot Camp

Sally Susnowitz, Director DSLx Life Learning

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Quickly delivering ideas and information, microlearning is ideal for busy, self-directed learners like MIT students. That’s why we’re inviting the MIT community to join us in creating microlessons to enhance the lives of MIT students. Learn more at <lifelearning.mit.edu>

The four-session Microlearning Boot Camp can spur your thinking and get you started with communicating your ideas effectively online.

Sign up for one session or all four (please indicate which session(s)) -- and sign up soon, since space is limited!

Introduction to microlearning and instructional design for online learning on Tues, Jan 5, 2-4 pm
Quick guide to "fair use," copyright, and citation online on Tues, Jan 12, 2-4 PM
Quick guide to making short educational videos on Thurs Jan 14, 2-4 pm
Quick guide to articles, listicles, blogs and infographics on Tues Jan 19, 2-4 pm

To sign up, just email the dates of the sessions you'd like to attend to lifelearning@mit.edu.

Contact: Sally Susnowitz, W32-119, 617-258-7344, lifelearning@mit.edu

Instructional design and microlearning

Jan/05	Tue	02:00PM-04:00PM	4-159

Come learn essential instructional design principles as they pertain to online education. We'll also discuss microlearning, an approach that offers opportunities for voluntary, self-directed learning - and how to get started with developing your own microlearning materials.

Sally Susnowitz - Director DSLx Life Learning, Sheryl Barnes - Program Manager, Digital Learning Res Ed: ODL

Quick guide to fair use

Jan/12	Tue	02:00PM-04:00PM	4-159

"Fair use" requires understanding and interpretation, and the ways you may use sources in print or in other contexts may be very different from what's required online. This is a great opportunity to get your most pressing questions answered by a copyright connoisseur!

Ellen Finnie Duranceau - Prog Mgr, Scholarly Pub, Copyright: Libraries

Quick guide to short videos

Jan/14	Thu	02:00PM-04:00PM	4-145

You can make a brief, engaging educational video - really! This session will help increase your level of understanding about what makes a good video, offer you the opportunity to learn the essentials from an expert, and most importantly, give you the chance to ask questions.

Chris Boebel - Manager, Multimedia Development: ODL

Quick guide to online text and graphics

Jan/19	Tue	02:00PM-04:00PM	4-159

Microlearning covers a wide range of learning approaches. This session will give you a chance to learn about strategies and tools for producing text-based microlearning (e.g. articles, listicles, and blogs) and graphic-based microlearning (e.g. infographics). Enjoy!

Mike Healy - Design Advisor: Copy Tech Center, Scott R Murray - Digital Communications Specialist: GECD

Photoshop Essentials: Introduction to the basics of Photoshop