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American Sign Language for Beginners
Aashini Shah, Student, Hannah Harens, Student
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Limited to 25 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
This course will cover the basics of American Sign Language: conversational phrases, syntax, parameters of a sign, and non-verbal indicators. Throughout the course, we will also be talking about Deaf culture and the history of the Deaf community. No experience is necessary and all are welcome!
Sign Up Form: https://goo.gl/forms/EvqxBBeZnOo3rtiC2
Contact: Aashini Shah, AASHAH28@MIT.EDU
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Jan/07 | Mon | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
We will go over fingerspelling, introductions, greetings, question words, and how your body language can be used to convey intention.
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/09 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
We will go over colors, numbers, time (days of the week, months of the year, ages), shape according to perspective, number stories, and classifiers.
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/11 | Fri | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
We will go over basic grammar and writing, emotions, family words, and pet signs!
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/14 | Mon | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
We will go over food signs, courses/majors, professions, and clothing.
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/16 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
We will go over how to discuss and describe everyday activities (i.e. food shopping, hospital/medical, movies, banking, etc.)
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/18 | Fri | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
We will practice conversational skills and play games with the vocabulary we have learned so far!
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/22 | Tue | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
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Jan/23 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
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Jan/25 | Fri | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
Lesson 7 will discuss signs for different countries and languages, the difference between ASL and ESL, and a background behind how signs are created and the different dialects of sign language.
Lesson 8 will focus on signs for holidays around the year.
Lesson 9 will be a practice day and a time to play games with what we have covered so far.
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
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Jan/28 | Mon | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
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Jan/30 | Wed | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
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Feb/01 | Fri | 10:00AM-11:00AM | TBD |
Lessons 10-11 will focus on Deaf history, grassroots movements, Deaf art, Deaf music, and assistive technologies.
Lesson 12 will be our culminating lesson where we will all learn to sign a short song together! Suggestions are welcome.
Aashini Shah - Student, Hannah Harens - Student
Board Games and Counter Colonialism in the Americas
Mikael Jakobsson, Richard Eberhardt
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Jan/16 | Wed | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E15-335 |
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-05:00PM | E15-335 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/14
Limited to 16 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
What messages and ideologies are embedded in the games we play, why does it matter, and how can we do better? In this two day workshop, we will look at contemporary board games with colonialist themes set in the Americas. We will discuss and play the games using a critical postcolonial lens in order to see how we can understand the function of these cultural artifacts in a greater political context. We will look at problematic issues which are prevalent in current commercial games, but we will also look at examples of counter-colonialist games.
The first day will focus on games set in Latin America, and the second day Anglo-America. We will discuss the rhetorical power of messaging through games and investigate both its negative and positive potential. Participants will spend a substantial part of the workshop playing and analyzing games. We do this since the object of analysis often is designed to transcend a meta-analytical mindset while having interactive properties which require authentic engagement through play. In other words, participants will have fun playing games while maintaining a critical analytical frame of mind. Since we are dealing with sensitive subjects, there will be special guidelines in effect in addition to the MIT Game Lab anti-harassment policy to make sure all participants feel safe and included.
We hope that you will join us in our quest for a more inclusive and exciting future for board games. Contact Mikael Jakobsson mjson@mit.edu to sign up.
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: Mikael Jakobsson, mjson@mit.edu
Bridging the Bi-Partisan Divide: A Hands-On Workshop Towards Depolarization
Kate Mytty, MIT Lecturer
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Jan/31 | Thu | 05:00PM-08:30PM | 66-160 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31
Thursday, January 31, 5:00 - 8:30P, MIT Room 66-160
RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/VRfFojzIrnCs8H6M2
Both research and personal experience show that polarization is increasing in the United States. This has real implications for all of us.
The great challenge is to encourage people to move from passive, accepting actors to being catalysts towards a constructive, mediated dialogue model. We think it requires a lot of people working within their communities to address this reality and work to strengthen connectors between and across communities.
This IAP, we invite you to join us for a hands-on workshop on depolarization, where together we will learn and explore:
This is a three-part evening. You can join for all of it or choose the part to join.
RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/VRfFojzIrnCs8H6M2
This event is hosted by…
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
Challenging the Cultural Norms that Influence Our Careers Decisions
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Jan/17 | Thu | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 2-143 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/17
Many factors such as family, friends, community, and the media influence our views, thoughts and opinions about the “best” career move for us. We are also influenced by systems of privilege and oppression, including racism, heterosexism, ableism, and sexism. Through this interactive, discussion-based IAP workshop, we aim to provide a space to identify and challenge some of these norms and forces that effect our career decisions. This is an IAP workshop put on by MIT's Career Advising and Professional Development Office with the goal of providing professional development with a diversity and inclusion lens.
Suggested Learning Objectives
Register on CareerBridge and fill out the pre-workshop survey!
Questions? Email Amanda at apickett@mit.edu or Tavi at tsookhoo@mit.edu.
All CAPD events are open to MIT undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and alumni unless otherwise specified.
Sponsor(s): Career, Advising and Professional Development CAPD
Contact: Amanda Pickett, apickett@mit.edu
Class Awareness Workshop
Beatriz Cantada
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Jan/30 | Wed | 12:00PM-04:00PM | W20-307 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 12:00PM-04:00PM | W20-307, back-up date |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/18
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Class Awareness Workshop
Are you inspired to help end issues of class and classism at MIT? Join us and Class
Workshop details
DATE: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 (during IAP period)
Back-up date: Thursday, January 31, 2019
TIME: 12:00-4:00 pm (Lunch will be served from 12:00 -12:30pm, workshop starts at 12:30pm)
LOCATION: W20-307 (Mezzanine Lounge)
AUDIENCE: Faculty, postdocs, staff and students at MIT
PRESENTER: Rachel Rybaczuk, Interim Director, Class Action
Registration is required. Lunch will be served.
SUGGESTED LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To register and request for additional information, please contact Shauna Bush-Fenty at sfenty@mit.edu.
Hosted by: Institute Community and Equity Office (ICEO) in partnership with Class Awareness Support and Equality (CASE), MindHandHeart (MHH), and Working Group for Support Staff, Civility and Respect Subcommittee (WGSS- C&R).
Sponsor(s): Institute Community and Equity Office
Contact: Shauna Bush- Fenty, 4-250, 617-715-2066, sfenty@mit.edu
Design & Build the 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Installation
Tobie Weiner, Student Administrator
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants should attend all sessions but there is flexibility
Discussions about race, politics, human rights leading up to conceptualizing, designing and developing the 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Installation
Let's have fun and indepth conversations about the serious issues of race, politics, human and civil rights, then conceptualize and devlelop our plan for the 2019 MLK Jr. installation.
Since 1999 MIT and Wellesley students have worked together to create artistic and political installations that are built in Memorial Lobby to coincide with MIT’s celebration of Dr. King.
This year students have the option of enrolling in the MLK Design seminar (17.922, 6 units p/d/f) or joining a non credit discussion group to facilitate the design and construction of an installation, which will be placed in Memorial Lobby the dates of February 4 – February 14.
In designing the installation or project, participants in the seminar may address aspects of the theme of the honored speaker and the celebration in addition to their thoughts on civil and human rights, justice, equality, race, racism and the principles of Dr. King. The installation will serve as a model for connecting academics and education with real life problems and struggle. It is hoped that the seminar and the projects will encourage interaction and foster communication among members of the MIT community with diverse backgrounds.
If you are interested please contact me, Tobie (iguanatw@mit.edu) so I know how many people want to join the project.
Sponsor(s): Political Science, Institute Community and Equity Office
Contact: Tobie Weiner, E53-483, 617 253-3649, IGUANATW@MIT.EDU
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Jan/16 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E51-385 |
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Jan/23 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E51-385 |
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Jan/28 | Mon | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E51-385 |
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Jan/30 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:00PM | E51-385 |
We'll begin by getting to know one another and through our discussions about race, gender, human and civil rights and justice formulate our ideas for the 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr. Installation. The installation is built in Memorial Lobby the evening of February 4 and will be on display until February 14 when we take it down.
Exploring the Beauty of Gu-zheng
Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 8 participants
Attendance: Enrollment priority given to those who can attend all sessions.
Prereq: None
Registration Link
https://goo.gl/forms/h2HYkSKvlo59h5nq1
Overview
Gu-zheng, also known as Chinese Zither, is a traditional Chinese string instrument with over two thousand years of history. It is also replete with aesthetic vitality and can be adapted to play modern Western music. Exotic as it might seem, participants with no music background can perform elegant solo pieces (one traditional Chinese and another Western) after limited practice by the end of four sessions. We will also have Gu-zheng available for participants to practice individually outside the sessions.
Free and delicious Chinese snacks will be provided at each session!
Syllabus
Session 1 (1/11):
Introduction (Instrument & History)
Basic playing techniques (right hand: pluck, pick, hook; left hand: tremolo)
Group practice
Demonstrate simple Chinese piece (A Laugh at the Undaunted Sea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmbxge3rxgs
Session 2 (1/18):
Introduction (Traditional Chinese Music)
Basic playing techniques (flowery slide)
Teach simple Chinese piece (A Laugh at the Undaunted Sea)
Group practice
Session 3 (1/25):
Introduction (Traditional Chinese Art and Culture)
Basic playing techniques (left hand: press, half-note, slide)
Teach simple Western piece (Jingle Bells)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogtI9REv_6k
Group practice
Session 4 (2/1):
Advanced playing techniques (shake)
Demonstration (Qin Sang Qu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLm0itS3kbk
Group performance by participants
Sponsor(s): Chinese Students and Scholars Association
Contact: Qingyang Xu, E40-103, 650-804-3938, qxu94@mit.edu
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Jan/11 | Fri | 02:00PM-03:30PM | Sidney-Pacific |
Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.
Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room
Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na
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Jan/18 | Fri | 02:00PM-03:30PM | Sidney-Pacific |
Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.
Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room.
Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na
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Jan/25 | Fri | 02:00PM-03:30PM | Sidney-Pacific |
Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.
Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room.
Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na
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Feb/01 | Fri | 02:00PM-03:30PM | Sidney-Pacific |
Each session will be divided into two 45-minute sections, with 4 participants each. Each participant will attend one of the two sections on any given date. The section times are: 2:00-2:45PM and 2:45-3:30PM. Both sections on the same day will cover the same materials.
Meet at Sidney-Pacific seminar room.
Qingyang Xu, Liangyuan Na
Fearless Thrones: Celebrating Women/Femme/Trans Leaders
Karen Noiva, MIT Alumni & Researcher, Kate Mytty, MIT Lecturer
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Jan/28 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-154, if you like - bring art supplies & a profile idea |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: NA
RSVP so we can plan: https://goo.gl/forms/sH3dYDxtZ76e1eXA3
Help us celebrate women/trans/femme leaders around campus! We will be sprucing up a variety of MIT bathrooms with profiles of inspiring women / femme / trans leaders, scientists, innovators, engineers, and designers who have shown fearlessness and gumption as they’ve followed their hearts and used their minds to push the boundaries and make positive contributions to society.
Artists and aspiring artists, alike--all are welcome. Show your creativity in a variety of ways--we will provide digital templates as well as paper, pencils, and markers so we can put these profiles to paper. These profiles will be scanned after the event and we will print out multiple copies of each one.
Coffee and snacks will be provided at both events. Anyone with a passion for promoting the achievements of women / femme / trans leaders, scientists, innovators, and engineers around campus around welcome!
Questions? Email leadingthrone@mit.edu.
This activity is supported by the MIT MindHandHeart fund.
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
Field Trip with the MIT List Visual Arts Center to Possible Selves: Queer Foto Vernaculars at Williams College of Art Museum
Emily A. Garner, Campus and Public Program Manager
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Jan/29 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | E15Weisner Building, Will take Shuttle to Williams, MA |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/23
Limited to 20 participants
Possible Selves is the first major exhibition about the global impact of queer identities on the evolution of portrait photography and brings together works from WCMA’s collection alongside over two-hundred images from social media.
Join the MIT List Visual Arts Center, who brought together this year’s Max Wasserman Forum: Future Genders, to continue the exploration of how artists tackle the stakes of visibility and politics of identity when they address the complexity of gender. This field trip will examine representations of gender identity in social media, and analyze embodiment in art photography and through visual representations online.
We will meet in the lobby of the List Visual Arts Center and travel together to the Williams College of Art Museum, followed by conversations over lunch before coming back to MIT in the afternoon. Lunch and transportation will be provided by the List Center.
Contact: Emily Garner, E15-109, 617 324-4565, EAGARNER@MIT.EDU
Hollywood Remakes: Flipping Gender and Race
Lana Scott, Manager, Media Services, MITx
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Jan/07 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 2-146, Bring your lunch |
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Jan/14 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 2-146, Bring your lunch |
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Jan/22 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 2-146, Bring your lunch |
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Jan/28 | Mon | 12:00PM-01:30PM | 2-146, Bring your lunch |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/04
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None
From lady "Ghostbusters" to talk of a female James Bond, Hollywood has taken a shine to remaking classic movies with gender-swapped or race-swapped leads as a way of mixing up a tried and true formula. Gender and race swapping is nothing new in Hollywood. In 1940, Howard Hawks cast Rosalind Russell for His Girl Friday (1940) in a part played by a man in the source movie, The Front Page (1931).Recently it was annouced that High Fidelity will be made into a 10 part series with the lead character played by an African-American actress, even though the book clearly has a white male character lead. The reactions have been mixed.
What do these remakes say about minorites and women? Does it signify that women's movies still need some sort of male appeal to get made? A gender-swapped or race-swapped movie implies that women and minorities aren't important enough to get their own, original stories, and thus must piggy-back on franchises that have already proven to be successful.
With the onslaught of multiple gender and race-swapped movies in the works and those already in the public, this class will take on this phenomeon from a cultural perspective. We'll discuss representation of gender and race in films. You'll be asked to watch different versions of different movies and think critically about what it means to change the gender or race of characters.
Sponsor(s): Office of Open Learning
Contact: Lana Scott, NE49-2ND FLOOR, 617 253-7896, LMSCOTT@MIT.EDU
SAID in STEM - Students Advocating for Increased Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Mackenzie Lemieux, Technical Associate
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/21
Attendance: participants are encouraged to attend all sessions
Prereq: None
Students Advocating for Increased Diversity (SAID) in STEM is a seminar series that will be held throughout the months of January and February with a goal of educating men and women in the MIT community about the biases and stereotypes that create barriers for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.
Through group discussions, critical analysis of journal articles, and talks from successful women in science, our aim is to make students and faculty aware of the inequalities that exist in the workplace while also educating participants about biases and stereotypes directly impact behaviors and decrease opportunities for women and minorities to pursue STEM careers, especially positions of leadership.
Session 1 (January 10th) and Session 2 (January 17th) will focus on developing knowledge of biases and stereotypes, inequalities in STEM, and why they exist with emphasis on the work of transgender neuroscientist, neurologist, and advocate for women and minorities in science, Dr. Ben Barres.
The following sessions will include talks from Dr. Eve Marder, Dr. Marcy Bolster, Dr. Mary Montgomery, and Dr. Dorothy Schafer regarding their career achievements, experiences as women in science and/or medicine, and the barriers they have faced in their outstanding careers.
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Mackenzie Lemieux, 46-6263, (416) 806-0041, mlemieux@mit.edu
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Jan/10 | Thu | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 46-3310, bring your laptop or a notebook |
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Jan/17 | Thu | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 46-3310, bring your laptop or a notebook |
Sessions 1 and 2 will focus on developing knowledge of biases and stereotypes, inequalities in STEM, and why they exist with emphasis on the work of transgender neuroscientist, neurologist, and advocate for women and minorities in science, Dr. Ben Barres.
Mackenzie Lemieux - Technical Associate, Matilde Borio - Undergraduate Researcher
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Jan/30 | Wed | 05:30PM-07:30PM | 46-3310, Bring your laptop or a notebook |
The following sessions will include talks from Dr. Eve Marder, Dr. Marcy Bolster, Dr. Mary Montgomery, and Dr. Dorothy Schafer regarding their career achievements, experiences as women in science and/or medicine, and the barriers they have faced in their outstanding careers.
Additional session dates are available past 1/30 for those who are interested, please contact the Activity Leader directly for more information.
Mackenzie Lemieux - Technical Associate, Matilde Borio - Undergraduate Researcher
Space and the City
Marie-Pier Boucher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Jean-Francois Prost, Artist and architect
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Jan/28 | Mon | 01:30PM-04:30PM | Wiesner Student Art |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Prereq: none
What is the link between outer space technology and the sex industry when Las Vegas strippers accept online Bitcoin payment via QR Tattoos?
Adaptive Actions (AA) is looking for new contributions for its online platform and upcoming publication. In preparation for AA's Space and the City Camp (MIT campus April 2019), we are hosting a brainstorming session in order to gather the urbano-space enthusiasts on campus.
Cities are designed using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and technology. Outer space science and technology plays a central role in the design and development of urban, architectural and transportation systems yet its impact often goes unnoticed. For instance, satellite technology is used to track movement of bodies and goods and to predict urban forecast. GPS are used daily by urban dwellers to orient their mobility. Aerospace techniques are used to design buildings and transportation systems. Urban infrastructures are thus in close connection with the space industry. They are also in relation with outer space’s extreme and adverse conditions (imposed movement, uniformization, hyper acceleration, increased precarity and divisions). How can we resist the impact of space technology and invent productive tools to shape our cities.
Join us at Space and the City to brainstorm/discuss/speculate/invent alternate modes of urban inhabitation informed by the power of outer space technology on urban infrastructures.
Sponsor(s): Science, Technology, and Society
Contact: Carolyn Carlson, carlsonc@mit.edu
Web Accessibility Workshops
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
The Accessibility/Usability Team in Student Disability Services/Student Support and Wellbeing is offering the following topic-based workshops to MIT students, faculty and staff during IAP. Sign up for one workshop or sign up for all. Limited to 10 attendees per session. Bring your laptop!
January 10 Evaluating Web Accessibility
Not sure if your website meets accessibility guidelines? We will review simple ways to evaluate your site including using automated checkers like WAVE.
January 17 Color and Accessibility Standards
Learn about web accessibility standards for color and how you can meet them. We will discuss color contrast issues and tools for measuring contrast, as well as ways to use color effectively so that all users can access the information.
January 24 Making Images and Graphics Accessible: Using Alternative Text
Visual and graphic information need to have alternative text or “alt text” to make them accessible to users who can’t see them. Learn about different types of images and the corresponding alt text needed for each type. We will also review how to create good image descriptions.
January 31 Captioning and Transcripts
To be consistent with best practice, videos must contain captions and audio files like podcasts need to have written transcripts. Information on captioning tools and outsourcing will be discussed.
Sponsor(s): ATIC Lab
Contact: Kathleen Cahill, 7-143, 617 253-5111, KCAHILL@MIT.EDU
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Jan/10 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 8-119, Bring your laptop |
Not sure if your website meets accessibility guidelines? We will review simple ways to evaluate your site including using automated checkers like WAVE.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 2-146, Bring your laptop |
Learn about web accessibility standards for color and how you can meet them. We will discuss color contrast issues and tools for measuring contrast, as well as ways to use color effectively so that all users can access the information.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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Jan/24 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 2-146, Bring your laptop |
Visual and graphic information needs to have alternative text or alt text to make them accessible to users who can't see them. Learn about different types of images and the corresponding alt text needed for each type. We will also review how to create good image descriptions.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 2-146, Bring your laptop |
To be consistent with best practice, videos must contain captions and audio files like podcasts need to have written transcripts. Information on captioning tools and outsourcing will be discussed.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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