From jfoster at MIT.EDU Tue Jul 20 14:49:09 2004 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:49:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: Course Reader Services Expanded Message-ID: <200407201849.OAA22328@bongo.mit.edu> ((((((((( Ed Tech Times Update: Course Reader Services Expanded ))))))))) July 20, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CopyTech's enhanced Course Reader Copyright Service includes access to a new content database, faster copyright approval, and online ordering of course readers for students. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000043.html -- Powered by Movable Type Version 2.65 http://www.movabletype.org/ From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU Tue Jul 13 14:17:14 2004 From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:17:14 -0400 Subject: [edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 7 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: July 2004 A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare ---------------------------------------------------------------- The July 2004 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: 1. New Courses Now Available 2. Digging Deeper: Course 3. A Frequently Asked Question 4. Comments 5. Newsletter Available Online at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm 1. New Courses Now Available ---------------------------------------------------------------- Over the course of the summer, MIT OpenCourseWare will employ a "rolling" publication schedule, releasing batches of new courses to the Web site at http://ocw.mit.edu on a weekly basis, leading to the publication of 200 new courses by September 15. This milestone will mark the halfway point as MIT OCW works toward the publication of virtually all of MIT's courses by the year 2008. This month, we are pleased to offer the course materials from seven new MIT subjects, including: Anthropology 21A.336 -- Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization, Spring 2004 21A.337J -- Documenting Culture, Spring 2004 21A.338J -- Gender, Power, and International Development, Fall 2003 Economics 14.731 -- Economic History, Fall 2003 Political Science 17.03 -- Introduction to Political Thought, Spring 2004 17.037 -- American Political Thought, Spring 2004 Sloan School of Management 15.810 -- Introduction to Marketing, Spring 2004 MIT OCW will continue to publish new courses every week through September 15. For a complete list of all course offerings, visit the complete course list. Look for notice of new courses in subsequent issues of "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" email newsletter. 2. Digging Deeper: Course 21W.785 --------------------------------------------------------------- Each month, this newsletter offers subscribers an in-depth guide to one particular subject. This month, we delve into Professor Edward Barrett's "Course 21W.785 -- Communicating in Cyberspace, Fall 2003," from MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. The Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies offers MIT students the opportunity to learn the techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry, science writing, scientific and technical communication, and digital media. The Program's faculty consists of novelists, essayists, poets, translators, biographers, historians, engineers, and scientists -- including Professor Barrett, the general editor of the MIT Press Series on Digital Communication and director of the MIT Undergraduate Technical Writing Cooperative. Professor Barrett's course covers the analysis, design, implementation and testing of various forms of digital communication based on group collaboration. Students are encouraged to think about the Web and other new digital interactive media not just in terms of technology, but also broader issues such as language (verbal and visual), design, information architecture, communication and community. Students work in small groups on a semester-long project of their choice. The course includes a Related Resources section with examples of excellent and poor Web design. This section also offers links to useful technologies for student projects, including Apache, Flash, Java and JavaScript, MySQL, and TomCat. And users are encouraged to check out the rich collection of Readings, several of which are freely downloadable, including "Designing the User Experience" and "Websites as Metaphors," by Deborah A. Levinson. 3. 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Topics of the month: ---------------------------------------- 1. Recently released software 2. Software release efforts underway 3. Volume & site license software update 4. Operating systems retirement 5. How are we doing? Let us know 1. Recent Releases ------------------------------------------------------- Last week IS&T made MIT's Virtual Private Network (VPN) clients broadly available with a limited set of installation instructions in preparation for the DNC. We will be following up with a normal release effort for VPN clients on all three platforms, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux this fall. For information on the MIT's VPN, visit http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/network/vpn.html. Linux ------------------ RedHat Enterprise 3 - July 8, 2004 RedHat Network - July 8, 2004 Macintosh ------------------- Safari v 1.2.x for Mac OS X 10.3 - June 30, 2004 Windows ----------------- X-Win 32 6.0.2 - July 19, 2004 2. Software Release Efforts Underway ------------------------------------------------------ Linux ----------- Back-to-school CD - Release effort underway - August 2004 VPN - Release effort underway - Fall 2004 Macintosh ---------------- Back-to-school CD - Release effort underway - August 2004 Virex 7.5 - Release effort underway - Summer 2004 VPN - Release effort underway - Fall 2004 Windows ----------------- Back-to-school CD - Release effort underway - August 2004 Oracle Connector for Outlook to TechTime - Release effort underway - August 2004 VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i - Release effort underway - Summer 2004 VPN - Release effort underway - Fall 2004 Windows XP SP2 - Waiting on Microsoft - Summer 2004 To obtain information on any of the release efforts listed, please visit our page: http://web.mit.edu/swrt We've changed the way our web site looks and would appreciate your feedback. You can use the feedback form mentioned below or send your feedback to swrt at mit.edu. 3. Volume Site License Software Update ---------------------------------------------------------- The X-Win32 license for MIT has been renewed by IS&T. The new version of X-Win32 and an updated license key are available from the Software Download Site. http://web.mit.edu/software/win.html 4. Operating systems retirement -------------------------------------------------- We would like to take this opportunity to remind the Community that Windows 2000 will be retired from full support on December 31st, 2004. More information will be forthcoming in a separate communication. 5. How are we doing? - Let us know -------------------------------------------------------------- Do you find this communication helpful? Are there other items of interest you would like to see included as well? Please take a moment to let us know: http://web.mit.edu/swrt/feedback.html You can always send e-mail to swrt at mit.edu with any questions and comments you have pertaining to this communication or other software release matters. Regards, Deb Bowser IS&T Software Release Team