Assertiveness Workshop for Women
Holly Sweet, PhD, licensed psychologist
| Jan/12 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:30PM | 36-112 |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 04:00PM-05:30PM | 36-112 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
In this workshop, we will explore different styles of communication with
others, including passive, passive-aggressive, assertive and aggressive
behaviors. Through role playing, personal inventories, and group
discussion, we will examine what gets in our way of being assertive and
what helps us be more assertive in both personal and professional relationships.
Limited to 25 participants. Sign up link: http://goo.gl/forms/tUf9i6jg9t.
There will be a waiting list.
Priority will be given to women undergraduate in Course 6.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Sheena Nie, HKN Outreach, xnie@mit.edu
Branding Yourself - Effective Communication Skills
| Jan/20 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Communication goes beyond verbal skills which are important to the success of any job seeker. To brand yourself as a professional, you must deliver a consistent message in a Written, Verbal, and Virtual manner. As students and postdocs begin to look for positions in engineering and science, both in academia and industry, they must be aware of how their nonverbal communication skills impact their possibility of finding employment opportunities. Learning how to maximize the use of one's verbal and nonverbal communication skills is a powerful tool to help one achieve professional success, and a critical component for the future. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Careers in Law for STEM Students: A Panel
GECD
| Jan/14 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:30PM | 3-333 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Come for the pizza, stay for the career advice. At this panel, you will learn about career opportunities at the intersection of technology and law and the various career paths that panelists have taken to get from their STEM backgrounds into law. Panelists include patent lawyers, MIT alum, and other professionals who use their STEM expertise in the field of law. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Case Interview Workshop with Accenture
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 60 participants
The overall goal of all case interviews is to assess a candidate’s analytical problem solving skills. This is an integral part of evaluating applicants for roles in consulting. Accenture invites MIT students to join our Case Interview Workshop for an opportunity to learn first-hand from Accenture executives and interviewers about how to effectively answer a case interview question. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Communicating Science to Nonscientists, featuring Jean-luc Doumont
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
GECD and ODGE are thrilled to welcome back Jean-luc Doumont for his annual IAP lectures on excellence in communication --
Scientists are often perceived as living in their own impenetrable world. Jean-luc discusses the challenges of communicating with a lay audience, and presents effective strategies for overcoming the challenges. Most of these strategies apply to communicating to scientists as well. They are universal good ideas - heeding the advice becomes more critical when the audience is less specialized. Advanced registration requested CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Communicating Science to the Public
Suzanne Lane, Dir. of Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication
| Jan/25 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 56-162 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 25 participants
This workshop will provide vivid lessons and hands-on practice in communicating scientific research to a general audience. A panel of science writers will explain strategies for making complex information accessible and memorable, without compromising accuracy. The panelists will then lead participants in exercises for developing clear and vivid explanations of data and concepts. Space is limited to 25. Please contact the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program at wrap@mit.edu to reserve a place.
Contact: Katherine Olson, wrap@mit.edu
Convert Your CV into a 2-Page Resume for Industry
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
If you are considering exploring Industry positions, you will need to have a resume that effectively positions you for this path. This workshop presented by Bob Dolan will discuss the process of converting your 4-6 page CV into a 2-page resume for industry, and creating a document that effectively targets the Hiring Manager. Can your resume survive a 15 second scan and still get into the YES pile? Discussions will surround the strategies of effective messaging and how to be "on-point" with your written communication. Actual successful MIT PhD/Postdoc resumes will be provided as handouts. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
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
Creativity: The lucky 7: Discover Your Superpower
Ruth Levitsky, Toastmasters@MIT
| Jan/30 | Sat | 10:00AM-12:15PM | E51-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/30
Prereq: none
An experiential workshop correlated to creativity and the 7 Intelligences (first presented in Dr. Howard Gardner’s book Frames of Mind). This workshop will give you an understanding of the 7 intelligences. It will help you discover which intelligence your superpower fits. We will also provide creative practices that involve all seven intelligences. It is educational, fun and highly experiential.
By participating you will learn useful information about yourself and others that you can use to empower your life journey.
Presented by Creativity Integrators: Cherylle Garnes, and Janet Johnson,
with Guest speaker: Ruth Levitsky
Come prepared to speak, think, interact with others, move, learn and have fun!
To sign up: go to
http://tinyurl.com/creativity2016
or email levitsky@mit.edu
Contact: Ruth Levitsky, E52-415, 617 253-3399, LEVITSKY@MIT.EDU
Data Visualization: Introduction to Tools and Principles
Helen Bailey, Digital Curation Analyst
| Jan/12 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:30AM | 4-163 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
This introductory session will provide an overview of concepts and tools for visualizing data. Attendees will be introduced to web-based, open-source tools that provide beginner and intermediate users with richer functionality than traditional desktop spreadsheet and graphics software. Topics will include use cases and tool selection, data processing workflows, and principles for creating effective visualizations.
Register here: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2255951
*Please note there is a new location for this workshop. It will now be held in 4-163.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Helen Bailey, E25-131, 617 324-4493, HBAILEY@MIT.EDU
(CANCELED) Effective Presentation Skills
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 4-231 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Do you present your work to your lab, at conferences, or to a faculty or industry hiring committee? If so, this workshop is designed to provide you with tips and strategies for delivering an effective presentation, and one that aligns you with your audience. The more prepared you are, the more confident you will be. Discussions will include room set-up, proper dress, room management, and actual professional delivery to your audience. Whether you are targeting academia or industry, all employers will expect you to be able communicate effectively. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
From Submission to Publication: What Authors Need to Know About the Journal and Book Publishing Process
Ellen Finnie, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 60 participants
The times they are a-challenging, especially for academic authors. With submission queues stretching toward infinity and a bewildering landscape of publishing options, writing the darned article or book begins to seem like the easy part. And first-time authors in particular might find that competition for reputable publishing options is fierce.
How can authors get noticed and succeed in such an environment?
For book publishing, we will address: What sorts of projects are university press editors seeking? What selection process do they use? Should you write a specialized book for readers in your field or aim for a larger audience? Can you publish your dissertation as a book? Can you submit to more than one publisher at a time?
For journal publishing, we will address: How do you target a journal for submission? How will your article survive the peer review process at a top-ranked journal and what are the pitfalls to avoid? How do scholarly journal editors think about impact, and how can you ensure your article will have it?
In this session, MIT Press Journals Director Nick Lindsay and Books Editorial Director Gita Manaktala will answer your questions about the publishing process at their press and offer concrete strategies to help you get from proposal to publication. They will be joined by David Kaiser, author of many books, and Dpt Head of MIT's Prg in Sci., Tech., and Soc., and Sean Lynn-Jones, editor of the journal International Security.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Ellen Finnie Duranceau, 14S-216, 617 253-8483, EFINNIE@MIT.EDU
Global Fellows Program Information Sessions
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance:
Learn collaboration and communication skills for PhDs
Thursday January 7 5:00-5:30 - Location: 4-145
Friday January 8 1:00-1:30 - Location: 4-145
Pre-registration requested via CareerBridge.
Now in its sixth year, MIT and Imperial College London are jointly offering an intensive 4 ½ day Global Fellows Program for PhD students. 20 MIT PhD student participants will join 20 Imperial College PhD students for 4.5 days of presentations, interactive work, and hands-on activities. Participants work in small groups with either an MIT or Imperial facilitator. Faculty members present on the topic of developing and managing international collaborations as an integral part of a research career.
• Approaches for successful working relationships and collaborations
• Team and project development
• Leadership
• Presentation skills
• Global intercultural skills and communication
Cost: Fellowship covers cost of travel, housing, program and most meals. (Most international students will need to complete a required visa application process. This cost is covered by the student and typically is around $150).
Application deadline: Monday, January 18 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Interviews will begin the week of January 25.
For more information: Please visit http://gecd.mit.edu/global-fellows and email questions to Jake Livengood or Marilyn Wilson at: globalphd@mit.edu.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
| Jan/07 | Thu | 05:00PM-05:30PM | 4-145 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-01:30PM | 4-145 |
How to Speak
Patrick Henry Winston, Ford Professor of Engineering/MacVicar Fellow
| Jan/29 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Professor Winston offers heuristic rules that enable you to do better oral exams, job talks, lectures,
and conferences presentations, and make your listeners consider your performances to be inspiring.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Patrick Henry Winston, phw@mit.edu
IAP 2016: Stand up and present yourself!
International Training in Communications, Powertalk
| Jan/11 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | E51-149, RSVP if you like, so we have enough handouts |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
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IAP 2016: Stand up and present yourself!
Monday, January 11, 2016, 12-1:30
Stop hiding behind that i-Phone and join members of
International Training in Communications for a discussion
of the elements of speaking you need to stand up and
present yourself: we’ll cover the basics of vocal variety,
gestures, and organizing your message. We’ll also
discuss upcoming plans for starting a POWERtalk club on
campus. For more information contact Ruth,
levitsky@mit.edu, 857-266-3400.
Sign-up encouraged but not required (just so we have enough handouts)
Sponsored by International Training in Communications/Powertalk
Sponsor(s): Toastmasters@MIT
Contact: Ruth Levitsky, E18-201C, 617 253-3399, LEVITSKY@MIT.EDU
Improv Comedy Workshop to Improve Communication and Public Speaking
Jake Livengood, Assistant Director for Graduate Student Career Services
| Jan/26 | Tue | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E39-040 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/26
Limited to 20 participants
This event is open to undergrad and grad students and postdocs. Have you had that awkward moment in a presentation where someone asks a really weird question? Has a student in class posed an off-the-wall idea while you are presenting? Do you fear what a committee member may ask in your thesis defense? This improv workshop will help develop skills to respond to such situations. We will be doing improv comedy exercises to develop a comfort with engaging others. Participants should expect to participate in improv comedy exercises with attendees. Fun will be had by all...we hope. Advanced registration required via CareerBridge. Registration begins 12/15/15.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
Steven Strang
| Jan/04 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/05 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/06 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/07 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/13 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/20 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/22 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/27 | Wed | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
| Jan/29 | Fri | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E39-115, sign up online |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
The professional communication experts at the Writing & Communication Center (WCC) will continue to offer free consultations and advice about oral presentations, slide design, poster presentations, and about any writing issue, including writing strategically, finding a topic, generating ideas, turning data into a story, overcoming writer's block, improving grammar, crafting effective sentences and paragraphs, organizing ideas, using evidence, & analyzing audiences. We can help with technical writing; theses in all departments; job, graduate and med school application essays; research and teaching statements; resumes; conference talks; articles for publication; book proposals and chapters; and papers for any course. We also offer help on pronunciation. The WCC is open throughout IAP. You must be registered with our online scheduler. Go to https://mit.mywconline.com to register and to schedule appointments. Open to MIT undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-docs.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E39-115C, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
Interviewing advice from Tech-industry experts: How to decide on the best job opportunity for a successful career
Beverly Kahn, Risa Kahn
| Jan/20 | Wed | 05:00PM-07:00PM | 36-112 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join recruiting industry veterans in an interactive discussion lead by Beverly Kahn Founder/President of New Dimensions in Technology (NDT), a boutique Boston-area recruiting firm, that has worked successfully to place many MIT students and alums over 30 years and Risa Kahn, Recruiting Manager, New Dimensions in Technology (NDT) who offers 15+ years of coaching "early career" tech professionals. NDT has successfully partnered with generations of MIT students and alums to build and grow their careers!
All are welcome.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Anne Hunter, 38-476, 617 253-4654, ANNEH@MIT.EDU
Introduction to Editing Wikipedia
Greta Kuriger Suiter, Collections Archivist, Phoebe Ayers, Librarian for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Amy Carleton, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Jessica Venlet, Library Fellow for Digital Archives
| Jan/22 | Fri | 02:00PM-05:00PM | 14N 132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Join us for this IAP session to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the world’s largest reference work. From 2-3pm, we’ll offer an introduction to editing mechanisms and Wikipedia guidelines, and help new contributors get set up with usernames and articles. From 3-5pm, we’ll work on improving articles.
Staff from the Libraries and Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication who are experienced Wikipedians will be available to answer questions about editing, writing and researching for Wikipedia throughout the session. Both new and experienced Wikipedians are welcome. For participants fluent in multiple languages, working in any language Wikipedia is welcome and encouraged. Drop in any time during the session, and bring your questions and ideas for topics to work on! Computers will be available, but participants can also bring their own laptops. For the most up to date event details, visit our Wikipedia Meet-Up page.
Registration is not required, but encouraged. To register, visit the registration page.
Excited about Wikipedia possibilities? Join us for two other Wikipedia events for IAP: Wikipedia in the Classroom: Creating Digital Research and Writing Assignments (registration page). Writing Black History into Wikipedia (registration page).
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jessica Venlet, 14N-118, 617 715-4468, JVENLET@MIT.EDU
LaTeX/BibTeX & citation management tools
Christine Malinowski, Library Fellow for Research Data Management
| Jan/28 | Thu | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 DIRC, Bring your laptop with LaTeX installed |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/28
Limited to 25 participants
Are you using LaTeX to create your documents? Are you looking for more guidance on integrating Zotero or Mendeley into your workflow? Do you keep running into issues with your citations or your .bib files? If you have a working knowledge of LaTeX and are looking to optimize how you manage citations and integrate your favorite citation management tools like Zotero, Mendeley or JabRef, this is the workshop for you!
Note, this is not an introduction to LaTeX or BibTeX – a working knowledge of LaTeX is assumed. Bring your laptop with your LaTeX setup to follow along.
Register for this session at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event/2256749
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Christine Malinowski, E53-100, 617 324-6394, CMALIN@MIT.EDU
Leveraging Experience Abroad to Get the Job
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
This interactive session will provide an opportunity for students who have participated in OR are considering participating in global experiences to explore how these present an advantage to their candidacy during the job search. We will consider employer perspectives, alumni perspectives, and current student perspectives on what can be learned by going abroad and how it can be translated into life skills. Strategies for adding global experiences to resumes and discussing these experiences while interviewing will be discussed. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
LinkedIn - Lab
| Jan/06 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-159, Bring your laptop. |
Enrollment: https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student
Sign-up by 01/05
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Bring your laptop to explore the many ways LinkedIn can help you in your career exploration and job or internship search. We will begin with an overview of LinkedIn and some of the key areas of a complete LinkedIn profile. We will also cover some ways LinkedIn can be used as job search tool. This will be followed by individual work on your profile, with Career Services staff available to answer your questions. Advanced registration required via CareerBridge. Registration begins 12/15/15.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
LinkedIn - Lab
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-159, Bring Yyour laptop. |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 30 participants
Bring your laptop to explore the many ways LinkedIn can help you in your career exploration and job or internship search. We will begin with an overview of LinkedIn and some of the key areas of a complete LinkedIn profile. We will also cover some ways LinkedIn can be used as job search tool. This will be followed by individual work on your profile, with Career Services staff available to answer your questions. Advanced registration required via CareerBridge. Registration begins 12/15/15.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Making the Most of Your Presentation, featuring Jean-luc Doumont
| Jan/19 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 10-250 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
GECD and ODGE are thrilled to welcome back Jean-luc Doumont for his annual IAP lectures on excellence in communication --
Strong oral presentation skills are a key to success for engineers, scientists, and other professionals, yet many speakers are at a loss to tackle the task. Systematic as they otherwise can be in their work, they go at it intuitively, sometimes haphazardly, with much good will but seldom good results. Based on Dr. Doumont’s book Trees, maps, and theorems, about “effective communication for rational minds” this lecture proposes a systematic way to prepare and deliver presentations. Among others, it covers structure, slides, and delivery, as well as stage fright.
Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Manager's Medley - IAP Workshops for Managers
Scott Rolph
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Calling all MIT managers. Start the New Year off right: sharpen your managerial knowledge and skills by taking an MIT management workshop. Offered during IAP by MIT Human Resources, the Manager’s Medley includes the following workshops aimed at helping you grow and advance your capabilities as a manager.
Offered in convenient two- or three-hour segments, each in-person workshop provides valuable tools and information and opportunities for reflection and practice in partnership with fellow MIT managers. Set your learning objectives, pick your workshops, and we’ll prepare you to apply what you learn immediately. Sign up for as many as you would like through the MIT Learning Center.
Schedule:
Managing with Situational Leadership
Friday, January 8, 9-11 am
E19-603
Tuesday, January 12, 9 am-12 pm
E19-306
Performance Development: Manager’s Role
Thursday, January 14, 12-2 pm
E19-306
Performance Development: Your Role
Wednesday, January 20, 12-2 pm
E19-306
Thursday, January 21, 9-11 am
E19-603
Using Atlas for Talent Management
Tuesday, January 26, 9-11 am
E19-603
Managing Change and Transition
Thursday, January 28, 9-11 am
E19-306
Online Learning:
Collaborate and Build Relationships
Demonstrating Strategic Agility
Developing Potential of Self and Others
Fostering an Inclusive Community
Giving Presentations with Confidence
Sponsor(s): MIT Human Resources
Contact: Scott Rolph, E19-215, 617-253-6065, srolph@mit.edu
| Jan/08 | Fri | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-603 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL31030c
| Jan/12 | Tue | 09:00AM-12:00PM | E19-306 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL32035c
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:00PM-02:00PM | E19-306 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL31040c
| Jan/20 | Wed | 12:00PM-02:00PM | E19-306 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CDT20040c
| Jan/21 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-603 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL31330c
| Jan/26 | Tue | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-603 |
http://web.mit.edu/training/course.html?course=CL30071c
| Jan/28 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:00AM | E19-306 |
Mentor the Class of 2020: Become an Orientation Leader and/or Associate Advisor!
Elizabeth Young, Associate Dean, Leslie Bottari, Staff Associate, Meghan Kenney, Assistant Dean
| Jan/26 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 4-159 |
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: freshmen, sophomores and juniors welcome
The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming offers two fantastic leadership opportunities for undergraduates—orientation leader (OL) and associate advisor (AA). Both positions play a key role in helping first year students make a successful transition to MIT. Hear from students in these positions speak about their roles and responsibilities, the opportunities to work with faculty and staff, and the leadership skills they gained that will help them in the future. UAAP representatives will be available to give an overview of the application process and important dates. Light refreshments will be served. Bring any and all questions!
Sponsor(s): Office of Undergrad. Advising/Academic Programming
Contact: Meghan Kenney, 7-103, 617 253-9764, MKENNEY@MIT.EDU
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!
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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
MIT Can Talk Speaking Competition
Tony Eng, EECS
| Jan/29 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | MIT Museum |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none
Come watch MIT students compete for prizes in the "MIT Can Talk: Speaking Competition". Participants give a 4-5 minute speech in English that relates to this year's competition theme. Material must be original, but it can include excerpts from other works (a speech, a literary work, a poem, a story, etc.) so long as sources are properly attributed. Prizes will be awarded by a panel of judges to those who are best able to deliver their material to a live audience. The event is open to everyone in the MIT Community.
To compete please visit http://mitcantalk.mit.edu/competition.html to register and for more information.
Add yourself to the mitcantalk-announce mailing list for reminders about general upcoming events related to MIT Can Talk.
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Tony Eng, tleng@mit.edu
MIT Can Talk: Workshop Series
Dr. Tony L. Eng
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Many great thinkers of the past excelled in both Engineering/Science and Exposition/Rhetoric/Oration. The creative men and women who will be the leaders of tomorrow can do so as well. "MIT Can Talk" promotes campus-wide awareness of good oral communication skills. It consists of: (1) a series of independent workshop sessions on public speaking/oral communication, followed by (2) a speaking competition. The workshops are open to the MIT community, but the contest is open only to MIT students. The various workshops address different aspects of speaking and oral communication. They are meant to be practical and hands-on. Sometimes, audience volunteers will be asked to participate in a demonstration; preference will be given to those who have entered the speaking competition. Check out the website for the most updated information on the workshops and competition!
Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Dr. Tony L. Eng, mitcantalk@mit.edu
| Jan/22 | Fri | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 26-168 |
A brilliant mind ferments many intelligent ideas. Being able to express ideas clearly to others is a key element in successful communication. This interactive workshop will help you to transform your random thoughts into succinct presentations with a solid structure. Bring your "spaghetti thoughts"; we will straighten them out here.
Kitty Huang
| Jan/23 | Sat | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 26-328 |
Nothing grabs an audience's attention than a well-told story. You will workshop and develop a story. Want to enter the MIT Can Talk competition but don't know what to talk about? Come to this workshop!
Dr. Tony L. Eng
| Jan/23 | Sat | 03:00PM-05:00PM | 26-328 |
Speaker ready? Check! Message prepared? Check! Audience engaged? Wait¿what? Engaging your audience is an often unexplored key to delivering a great presentation. Learn ideas for connecting with your listeners. When someone actively participates in your presentation, they become emotionally & psychologically involved in the message you are sharing, allowing you to serve them more effectively.
Kyle Keldsen
| Jan/24 | Sun | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 32-141 |
The best speakers connect with their audience. Try out some ideas for speaking from stillness, being comfortable in your own skin and talking to (and not at) your audience.
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Dr. Tony L. Eng
| Jan/24 | Sun | 03:00PM-04:30PM | 26-328 |
Help the audience better parse (and consequently understand) what it is you are saying by learning to use things like silence, emphasis, speed and intonation to punctuate your speech.
Dr. Tony L. Eng
| Jan/25 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 26-168 |
Sponsored by the De Florez Fund for Humor
Learn techniques for delivering comedic lines such as explosions, reversals and staircases. Come and "find your funny." Squares encouraged to attend!
George Gallagher
| Jan/25 | Mon | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 26-168 |
Sponsored by the De Florez Fund for Humor
Learn techniques used by Hollywood comedy writers to mine your own personal reservoir of comedy. You'll discover how to create a comedic throughline to build your content on, or merely ways to inject a dose of humor into your writing. You will learn various exercises including 'The Cluster', 'The 7 Deadly Sins' and other ways to access your funny bone.
David O'Donnell
| Jan/26 | Tue | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 26-328 |
This workshop is designed to provide you with tips and strategies for delivering an effective speaking engagement. The more prepared you are, the more confident you will be. We will also discuss room set-up, body language and verbal delivery.
Bob Dolan
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Walker 201 |
An effective confident speaker is more than just physically "there" -- they are present, they are in the moment, they take up space. Learn how to find and fill both the space within you and the space immediately around you, so that you can be yourself in front of an audience.
Wear loose clothing conducive for physical movement. Limited to 25 participants.
Anna Kohler
MIT Writers' Group
Steven Strang
| Jan/04 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | E39-335 |
| Jan/11 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | E39-335 |
| Jan/25 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:00PM | E39-335 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/03
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
Calling all creative writers! Want to write something creative but need some motivation or support or some thoguhtful readers? Join other MIT writers to get advice about your own writing, to be a reader of other writers' work, and/or to get inspiration to write something. Any type of creative writing is welcomed: e.g., fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, memoirs, personal essays, plays, blog entries, book reviews. We help each other get started on a creative writing project, we help each other develop ideas and style, we function as engaged and encouraging readers of each other's material. The Group includes emerging and established writers. We meet every Monday from noon-1:00 p.m. in E39-335 (the same building that hosues Rebecca's Cafe in Kendall Square). Open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, lectuers, staff and faculty.Please note that this is not a class and not a group for technical writing or for thesis writing.
Please email <smstrang@mit.edu> to register.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Writing and Communication Center
Contact: Steven Strang, E39-115C, 617 253-4459, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU
Negotiating Job Offers
| Jan/28 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:30PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
The Negotiating Job Offers workshop presented by Bob Dolan will examine the many variables that exist during the evaluation and negotiation process of Job Offers. Knowing how, when and why you should negotiate will be reviewed. Salary vs. Total Compensation will be examined. Strategies on the negotiation process will be discussed along with "Should You Negotiate?" and "What Can" and "What Can Not" be negotiated. These strategies can be used throughout your career. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Practicing a Meaningful Elevator Pitch
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:15PM | 4-159 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Among the greatest missed opportunities are banal responses to questions like "tell me about yourself" Learn and exercise creative ways to be a successful self-advocate: together, we will strengthen our responses to hallway chatter and use reflection to develop, rehearse, and share an authentic elevator pitch with meaning! Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Responding to Student Writing: Best Practices from the Research
Suzanne Lane, Senior Lecturer, CMS/W and Director of WRAP
| Jan/28 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E39-335 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
What kind of feedback is most effective in helping students to develop and structure their ideas, and to communicate them effectively in writing? This workshop will draw on composition research to explore the range of instruction and responding practices, from rubrics to peer review to individual conferences, and when each is effective. By considering feedback in relation to other forms of instruction, participants will learn to provide the kinds of comments and strategies that will help students understand how to improve both their specific texts and their abilities as writers.
Contact: Katherine Olson, wrap@mit.edu
Teaching Oral Communication: From Invention to Delivery
Suzanne Lane, CMS/W and Director of WRAP
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E39-335 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
By learning the stages of developing, structuring, rehearsing, and delivering presentations, students can become comfortable with a live audience, and use the interaction as a tool to develop their thinking. This workshop will help instructors think through their goals for oral assignments, so that they can scaffold the steps involved in developing presentations. Workshop participants will be able to work on (re)designing assignments for their current or future courses by developing (i) a deeper understanding of fundamental oral communication concepts, (ii) strategies to integrate oral communication assignments into a class, and (iii) techniques and tools to provide feedback on student presentations.
Contact: Katherine Olson, wrap@mit.edu
Teaching Reading and Writing in Technical Disciplines
Andreas Karatsolis, Associate Director of WRAP and Media Assessment Specialist,
| Jan/26 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | E39-335 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
While scientists typically communicate knowledge in the field through proposals, technical reports and journal articles, most undergraduate students spend their time in problem-set based classes which don’t include substantive engagement with readings in their field. In this workshop we will explore ways to engage students in reading and understanding published literature in their field, using that knowledge to design their own projects, and analyzing how the literature conveys meaning. Our overall goal is to help instructors develop and scaffold instructional activities and assignments so that their students can learn how to write effectively in these genres.
Contact: Katherine Olson, wrap@mit.edu
The Art of Behavioral Interviewing
| Jan/27 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:45PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Learn how to develop and enhance your interviewing skills! While your technical skills will get you the interview, it is your behavioral attributes that will get you the job. This workshop delivered by Bob Dolan will cover topics such as types of interviews, sample interview questions, appropriate dress, and important tips to think about before, during and after the interview. The intended outcome is to help you prepare and develop a strategy for a successful interview. In addition, sample behavioral and academic interview questions will be provided along with tips on how to answer these tough questions. Advanced registration requested via CareerBridge.
Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Nyasha Toyloy, E39-305, 617 715-5329, NYTOYLOY@MIT.EDU
Wikipedia in the Classroom: Creating Digital Research and Writing Assignments
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Amy Carleton, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 14N 132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 30 participants
When Wikipedia was founded in 2001, its difference from the traditional print model of encyclopedic writing was perhaps most apparent, but the fact that its content was generated by an alternative model—a non-centralized cadre of volunteer editors—offered the most significant difference. Almost overnight, there was an online reference tool that outpaced resources like Microsoft’s Encarta, and students and educators alike took notice. But not in a good way. Many instructors (myself included) made sure to include a clause in their syllabi that read: “Wikipedia does NOT count as a valid source.”
Fast-forward more than a decade and Wikipedia is the 7th most visited website in the world, containing well over 36 million articles in all its language editions. It now has high quality standards and a rigorous gatekeeping system in place. And another thing: many educators and academics now teach and collaborate with Wikipedia, often using best practices and resources developed by the Wiki Education Foundation.
In this workshop, will discuss how Wikipedia has evolved over the last decade and how it can be integrated into classroom instruction as a research tool and as a vehicle through which students can gain experience in writing for a public audience.
Please register via the registration page.
Immediately following this session we are hosting an Introduction to Editing Wikipedia event starting at 2:00 PM. Join us!
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jessica Venlet, 14N-118, 617 715-4468, JVENLET@MIT.EDU
Writing Black History into Wikipedia
Greta Kuriger Suiter, Collections Archivist, Phoebe Ayers, Librarian for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Amy Carleton, Lecturer, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Jessica Venlet, Library Fellow for Digital Archives
| Jan/29 | Fri | 01:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
In anticipation of Black History Month 2016, join us for an edit-a-thon to update and improve Wikipedia articles about African Americans in STEM fields (STEM = science, technology, engineering and mathematics.) We will look at the Blacks at MIT History Project for inspiration and resources from the MIT Libraries will be on hand.
Staff from the Libraries and Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication who are experienced Wikipedians will provide a short introduction and overview of editing Wikipedia and will be available to answer questions throughout the session. Drop in any time during the session, and come with questions and ideas for topics! For those fluent in multiple languages, working in any language Wikipedia is welcome and encouraged. Computers will be available, but participants can also bring their own laptops.
Learn more about this event on our Wikipedia Meet-Up page.
Registration is encouraged, but not required. Resigter online via the Libraries website.
Excited about Wikipedia possibilities? Join us for two other Wikipedia events during IAP: Wikipedia in the Classroom: Creating Digital Research and Writing Assignments. Visit the registration page for more details. Introduction to Editing Wikipedia. Visit the registration page for more details.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Jessica Venlet, 14N-118, 617 715-4468, JVENLET@MIT.EDU
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