http://edtech.mit.edu/times/ en-us 2006-12-22T15:33:22-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000105.html Editor: James Cain 1... article jrcain 2006-12-22T15:33:22-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000103.html Web Publishers User Group meeting Day: Thursday, March 23, 2006 Time: 12:00 noon–1:00 pm Location: Building N42 Demo Center Refreshments will be served. Open to the general public. This month's guests at the Web Publishers User Group meeting will be Larry Gallagher from Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and Suzana Lisanti from MIT's Homepage Team. They will discuss their experience... announcement violeta 2006-03-15T17:15:07-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000101.html "Podcasting", a technology for distributing multimedia recordings over the Internet, provides an innovative way to bring class materials to today's technology-savvy students. Read this article to find out how podcasting works, what software, hardware, and skills one needs to create and use podcasts, and what resources exist at MIT to assist faculty and departments who want to create educational podcasts. Educational podcasting is also the central theme for publications in the Ed Tech Times this month. Look for upcoming articles and announcements on podcasting resources, services, projects, and training. article violeta 2006-03-08T11:32:48-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000100.html MIT Academic Computing is pleased to sponsor the next Crosstalk seminar: Prof. Peter Donaldson, Head of MIT Literature Faculty, will present the iCampus Cross Media Annotation System (XMAS) which provides tools to enhance video and image collections in humanities courses and other subjects that require precise reference to visual materials; on Friday, February 24, at 1-2:30 pm, in 1-375. Crosstalk violeta 2006-02-15T10:01:00-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000099.html Online journals called "weblogs" or "blogs" can be used to teach students how to reflect on experiences and how to share their reflections in a written form with classmates, teachers, and other audiences. Read this article to learn how weblogs were used, very effectively, in a freshman advising seminar during the Fall 2005 semester; and how blog-empowered web sites are created for MIT courses and departments. article violeta 2006-02-08T17:21:37-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000094.html The new webMathematica can help students learn computational concepts interactively on the web with little more than a web browser. Read this article to learn more about webMathematica and find out what it takes to create a webMathematica site for your class. article 2005-11-04T13:56:15-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000092.html With iPods slowly working their way into college classrooms, it was only a matter of time before someone put the devices to use as a way of cutting corners on course work. Now a pair of companies has stepped up, offering a line of iPod-ready crib notes to such literary classics as The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Letter. The... article 2005-11-02T12:38:38-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000078.html LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium), will hold its third annual symposium at MIT on October 27th and 28th, 2005. LINC is an MIT-affiliated program that works with educational leaders in developing countries to facilitate and enhance the delivery of quality higher education through distance education and e-learning technologies. At the annual conferences, rectors from virtual universities in Africa, Algeria, China, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Pakistan and Syria, (among others), have had the opportunity to exchange ideas with academicians and researchers not only from MIT but from around the world who are interested in the use of ICT's for education and social development. event 2005-10-12T13:28:10-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000077.html Digital Natives': A new generation of college students has arrived, and many of them have no interest in long lectures. How much should colleges change to accommodate the so-called Millennials?... article 2005-10-06T12:33:58-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000076.html Date: Thursday, October 6 Time: 4:00 - 6:00 Room: 4-237 A representative from National Instruments Corp. will be on campus to demonstrate features of the company's product, LabVIEW, which is widely used on campus for data acquisition, signal processing, controls, and various instrumentation needs. The workshop will cover: LabVIEW Student Edition and 12 add-on toolkits, including signal and image processing,... Training 2005-10-03T11:38:58-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000075.html When: Thursday, September 22, 3:30pm-5:30pm Where: Digital Instruction Resource Center (14N-132) Build your knowledge of library solutions that enhance teaching and learning, including course-integrated library instruction, GIS services, linking to full text via SFX, DSpace, the Business Database Advisor (a special tool for business and management research), and Institute Archives services.... announcement 2005-09-19T11:03:10-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000074.html The GIS Lab is offering five one-hour workshops this fall to help people get started using Geographic Information Systems at MIT. Workshop topics include: Introduction to ArcGIS software How to Read Topographic Maps with Digital Elevation Models Global Positioning Systems (GPS) The Quest for Data - Finding data for your projects and getting it into a GIS Working with U.S.... announcement 2005-09-19T10:04:44-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000073.html Thursday, June 23, 2005, 2:00 pm to 4:00pm, Bush Room (10-105) (Please forward to any lists or individuals you think might be interested.) The Emerson College Learning Portal Project is the latest and most ambitious iteration in their experiments in multimedia pedagogy. Combining blog and portal technology, this system has implications for pedagogy, software design, and the ways in which software does or does not reflect the actual craft practices of teaching and learning. In his presentation, David Bogen, Associate Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, will discuss the project and its implications for planning and integration. Click on the link below for details. announcement 2005-06-03T12:51:36-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000072.html What would you do to make Stellar more useful? If you a user of MIT's Stellar course management system, please click on the link below and take five minutes to fill in the survey. It may take only a few minutes of your time, but your input can influence future development and make Stellar a better and more useful tool for you. (Please feel free to forward this invitation along to other Stellar users.) announcement 2005-06-01T09:04:50-05:00 http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000070.html Are Google searches just getting your users in the ballpark? Not having the right metadata is like having a ticket to the game, but no seat number. Discover how metadata can make your digital resources more accessible by attending this MIT Libraries Metadata Services event on Tuesday, May 24 at 3 p.m. in the Stata Center Lobby. announcement 2005-05-19T09:18:37-05:00