From jfoster at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 2 11:07:01 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:07:01 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: iPods in Education Message-ID: <200502021607.j12G71k9021183@jaki.mit.edu> ((((((((((((((( Ed Tech Times Update: iPods in Education ))))))))))))))) February 02, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can the Apple iPod -- the symbol of a generation of students plugged in to downloaded music -- serve as a delivery system for serious education? Experiments at several universities are exploring the iPod's value as an educational technology. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000062.html -- Powered by Movable Type Version 2.65 http://www.movabletype.org/ From bowser at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 2 14:12:12 2005 From: bowser at MIT.EDU (Deb Bowser) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:12:12 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Microsoft Office 2004 Release Effort Underway Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050202131307.00be46f8@po12.mit.edu> Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2005 To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, macpartners at mit.edu, sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu From: Software Release Team Subject: Microsoft Office 2004 Release Effort Underway Good Afternoon, I am pleased to announce that the Microsoft Office 2004 release effort has begun. Microsoft Office 2004 is the latest version of the Office productivity suite from Microsoft for the Macintosh platform (OS X) and includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Although included with Microsoft Office 2004, Entourage and Virtual PC 7 are not supported by IS&T at this time Unlike previous release efforts for Microsoft Office which involved community testing as well as exhaustive functionality and compatibility testing, this release effort will focus primarily on compatibility testing, basic functionality testing, and identifying and documenting issues specifically relevant to the MIT computing environment. These changes, which apply to shrink-wrapped software, allow us to maintain the high quality of support while decreasing the time necessary to release the product to the MIT community. New Features and Improvements to Microsoft Office: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Compatibility reports: With the new Compatibility Report feature in Microsoft Office, you can check documents that you create in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint for compatibility with other versions of Office programs to ensure that your documents look the way you want when they are opened. - Project Gallery: Quickly find the documents you've worked on recently in the gallery, and use the new Learn tab to find instructive sample documents. For a complete list of new features, please review the following page: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=highlights For additional information regarding Microsoft Office 2004, please visit the Mactopia site: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx The Microsoft Office 2004 Release Team will send updates throughout the process as necessary. For more information on Microsoft Office 2004 and the release effort, see the Microsoft Office 2004 release notebook at http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/office. If you have questions, suggestions,or would like to participate in the release of Microsoft Office 2004, please contact the team via email at office-release at mit.edu. Regards, Al Willis and Deb Bowser for the Office 2004 Release Team Bill Brids John Fothergill Bronwen Heuer Esther Yanow From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 3 12:00:09 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:00:09 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: [edtech] Next Ed Tech Partners Meeting - Time changed or postponed? Message-ID: <1107450009.21315.8.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Hello all, We've just discovered that next Monday's Ed Tech Partners meeting conflicts with an important IS&T meeting so we are considering either changing the time of the meeting from 11:30 to 11:00, or rescheduling. If you are planning on coming, _please rsvp today_ and let me know if you can still make it if we start at 11:00. If not enough people can come we'll reschedule this talk for some other time. thanks, -jean- -----Forwarded Message----- From: Jean Foster To: ed-tech at mit.edu Subject: [edtech] Next Ed Tech Partners Meeting - Mon., Feb 7, 11:30, Bush Room Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:30:29 -0500 The 2005 Horizon Report has just been released. Compiled collaboratively by the New Media Centers(NMC), the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative(NLII,) and Educause, the report "highlights 6 technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years." IS&T Academic Computing's Phil Long worked on the report and will discuss its findings. WHAT: Educational Technology Partners meeting (with lunch) WHEN: Monday, February 7, 11:30 WHERE: Bush Room, 10-105 RSVP: By Thursday, February 3 to jfoster at mit.edu Agenda: - Lunch - 2005 Horizon Report presentation and discussion - Roundtable updates -jean- -- Jean Foster From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 3 15:36:00 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:36:00 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: [edtech] Next Ed Tech Partners Meeting - Time changed to 11:00] Message-ID: <1107462960.21315.44.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Thanks for your responses. We will meet on Monday at 11:00 in 10-105 (Bush Room). See you then. -jean- -----Forwarded Message----- From: Jean Foster To: ed-tech at mit.edu Subject: [edtech] Next Ed Tech Partners Meeting - Mon., Feb 7, 11:30, Bush Room Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:30:29 -0500 The 2005 Horizon Report has just been released. Compiled collaboratively by the New Media Centers(NMC), the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative(NLII,) and Educause, the report "highlights 6 technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years." IS&T Academic Computing's Phil Long worked on the report and will discuss its findings. WHAT: Educational Technology Partners meeting (with lunch) WHEN: Monday, February 7, 11:30 WHERE: Bush Room, 10-105 RSVP: By Thursday, February 3 to jfoster at mit.edu Agenda: - Lunch - 2005 Horizon Report presentation and discussion - Roundtable updates -jean- -- Jean Foster From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon Feb 7 15:18:37 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:18:37 -0500 Subject: [edtech] [Fwd: NERCOMP - IT/Library Collaborations SIG - March 30th] Message-ID: <1107807517.21315.945.camel@arizona.mit.edu> -----Forwarded Message----- From: NERCOMP To: jfoster at mit.edu Subject: NERCOMP - IT/Library Collaborations SIG - March 30th Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:26:03 -0500 Dear Friends, Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop: "IT/Library Collaborations in Teaching and Learning" DATE: March 30, 2005 TIME: 9:30- 2:55 (Coffee and Registration start at 8:30) PRICE: NERCOMP Members: $76, Non-Members: $176 LOCATION: College of the Holy Cross Hogan Campus Center Worcester, MA. DESCRIPTION: IT and Libraries are finding that our constituencies and teaching interests overlap, and the tools we are using and developing intersect. So, we are exploring effective ways to co-develop, reinforce, and support one another's initiatives, resulting in better teaching and learning for our higher education communities. We will discuss specific programs involving collaborative efforts in learning commons, course management systems, image repositories and literacy skills tutorials. We will point up lessons learned from our experiences and where we see possible future opportunities. Participants will be encouraged to participate in the discussions and offer lessons learned in their environments. For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/sigs/0405/033005ITLibrary/ITLibrarySched.html We would be grateful if you would pass this announcement on to friends and colleagues who might find it of interest. To view other SIGs events, click here: http://www.nercomp.org/ If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please reply to this email with "Please Remove from NERCOMP list" in the subject line. Thank you very much. We hope to see you on March 30th. Sincerely, Lisa DiMauro NERCOMP -- Jean Foster From bowser at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 9 12:18:31 2005 From: bowser at MIT.EDU (Deb Bowser) Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:18:31 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Adobe Reader Release Effort Underway Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050209102008.04ea3d50@po12.mit.edu> Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2005 To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, macpartners at mit.edu, winpartners at mit.edu, sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu From: Software Release Team Subject: Adobe Reader Release Effort Underway Good Afternoon, IS&T is pleased to announce that the Adobe Reader release effort has begun. Adobe Reader 7 is the latest version provided by Adobe and is free, universal software that lets you open, view, search, and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files with built-in security features. This release effort will focus on compatibility testing, basic functionality testing, and identifying and documenting issues specifically relevant to the MIT computing environment. These changes reflect a general change in the release effort process for shrink-wrapped software. Their effect is to maintain the high quality of support while decreasing the time necessary to release the product to the MIT community. Adobe Reader 7.0 system requirements ------------------------------------------------ Windows Intel Pentium processor Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or later, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 128MB of RAM Up to 90MB of available hard-disk space Macintosh PowerPC G3 processor Mac OS X 10.3 Up to 35MB of RAM Up to 125MB of available hard-disk space New Features and Improvements to Adobe Reader: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This new version of Adobe Reader provides better overall performance for faster launch times and real-time zooming and panning. You benefit from improved search features and a unified selection tool. Adobe Reader 7.0 lets you fill out and submit PDF forms with spell-checking (full version only) and save a wide range of files attached to PDF documents, including word processing documents, spreadsheets, and multimedia files. You can also view and organize digital editions (formerly eBooks) and view them in landscape or portrait mode. In addition to these features, authors creating PDF files using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional can activate special features in Adobe Reader 7.0 that enable you to review, mark up, and add comments to PDF files. To read more on Adobe Reader's new features, please visit their site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrwhatsnew.html. For additional information regarding Adobe Reader, please visit their site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html The Adobe Reader Release Team will send updates throughout the process. For more information on Adobe Reader and the release effort, see the Adobe Reader release notebook at http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/adobe/. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact the team via email at acrobat-release at mit.edu. Regards, Deb Bowser IS&T Adobe Reader Product Release Coordinator Client Support Services From ginnyw at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 9 12:56:33 2005 From: ginnyw at MIT.EDU (Ginny Williams) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:56:33 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Mac OS X Server Admin Training in March Message-ID: Greetings! I wanted to make you aware of this upcoming training, System Administration Using Mac OS X Server 10.3 to be held here at MIT. We were able to bring the cost of the course down by $600 by holding it at MIT. The deadline for registering is March 4th and there are 12 spaces available. Feel free to forward as appropriate. Please let me know if you have questions. Regards, Ginny Williams ps. I apologize if this is a duplicate posting. __________________________________________ Ginny Williams CSS Headquarters MIT IS&T Client Support Services ginnyw at mit.edu 617-253-4011 _________________________________________ System Administration Using Mac OS X Server 10.3 Location: MIT Bldg W92, Room 203 Date: March 21 - 25, 2005 Time: 9 am - 4 pm Course Description: System Administration Using Mac OS X Server is a five day course that focuses on planning, security, and interoperability with multiple operating systems. In addition to using Mac OS X Server to provide services to multiple clients, students will learn how to seamlessly integrate Mac OS X Server with other servers. Students will also learn how to effectively plan and easily implement a Mac OS X Server deployment that considers a preexisting network environment. Who Should Attend: This class is for system administrators, network engineers and analysts, and IT professionals who are responsible for analyzing business and technical requirements and architecting, implementing, or maintaining solutions using Mac OS X Server in a mixed-platform environment comprised of Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Windows, or UNIX operating systems. Cost: $1969 per participant (over $600 savings versus taking the same course at an Apple Training Center) To Register: To enroll or if you have questions, please contact Evonne Woodward toll free at (800) 848-6398, or via email: ewoodward at apple.com The registration deadline is: Friday, March 4th. More Information: To learn how this course will prepare you for the Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA), visit: http://train.apple.com/cert/roadmap.html You Will Learn How To: Implement and integrate services and solutions based on or that include Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Windows, and UNIX Manage Mac OS X Server in a mixed- platform environment comprised of Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX operating systems Deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and back up Mac OS X installations -- From jfoster at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 9 14:36:44 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:36:44 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: MIT Museum TEAL Exhibit Opening Reception Today Message-ID: <200502091936.j19JaiSh014642@jaki.mit.edu> ( Ed Tech Times Update: MIT Museum TEAL Exhibit Opening Reception Today ) February 09, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Museum TEAL Exhibit Opening Reception Today The MIT community is invited to celebrate this exhibit which offers an insider's view into MIT Course 8.02. Opening Reception, Wednesday, February 9th, 4 - 6pm, at the MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Building N52, 2nd Floor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000064.html -- Powered by Movable Type Version 2.65 http://www.movabletype.org/ From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 10 14:05:05 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:05:05 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: Crosstalk Seminar - Teaching Design-Oriented Learning with Tablet PCs Message-ID: <200502101905.j1AJ55Tm016299@jaki.mit.edu> Ed Tech Times Update: Crosstalk Seminar - Teaching Design-Oriented Learning with Tablet PCs February 10, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 17 in 56-114 (Note new location!) at 2:00 p.m. Continuing our exploration of how tablet PCs can be used in the classroom, Dr. Hai Ning will report on research done by MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering into the use of tablets to enhance the creative process in project-based design-oriented learning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000065.html -- Powered by Movable Type Version 2.65 http://www.movabletype.org/ From phess at MIT.EDU Mon Feb 14 15:14:31 2005 From: phess at MIT.EDU (Peter Hess) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:14:31 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Boston Area Ed Tech Group Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050214134736.024c2c08@po11.mit.edu> Hi Folks, At the last two Ed Tech Partners meetings, I talked briefly about the possibility of getting together a group of people involved with educational technology at Boston Area NERCOMP schools. I've started making a list of names of those who have responded positively when asked about being part of such a group, and am looking to add to it. If you know people who might be interested in this sort of thing, I'd appreciate your assistance in getting the word to them. You could send them the message below -- as-is or personalized -- or substitute a message of your own. One thing I'd like to be consistent about is asking non-MIT people to use the email address edtechstartup at mit.edu to communicate their interest. If you haven't already done so and would like to, you can reply to me or send email to edtechstartup at mit.edu to get on the list yourself. Thanks for your consideration and assistance. Best, -Peter ---------------------Possible text of message to your Ed Tech contacts ---------------------------------- Dear ___________________ We're in the preliminary stages of bringing together a group made up of people who work with educational technology at NERCOMP affiliated colleges and universities in the Boston area. Some additional details about what we envision are below. If participation in a group like that interests you, and you'd like to be kept informed about how it's developing, please send an email to edtechstartup at mit.edu saying so. If you have colleagues whom you think might be interested, we'd very much appreciate your forwarding this message to them. They too can indicate their interest by sending email to edtechstartup at mit.edu. If anyone receiving this message wants to become actively involved in getting the proposed group organized, please mention that in your email. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------ About the Boston Area Educational Technology Interest Group: This project grew out of the Educational Technology Partners group at MIT. Some of us in that group, appreciative of what we've gained from our interactions with our colleagues from other departments, became interested in the possibility of creating a similar group that extended beyond the boundaries of our campus. We decided to try to connect with those working with educational technology at other NERCOMP affiliated Colleges and Universities in the Boston area. Bringing together a group like this would allow its members to: - Get a close-up view of how problems we face have been addressed by neighboring institutions; - Have greater personal contact with our local colleagues; - Take advantage of resources and events at nearby schools; - Make use of the group as a basis for other collaborative efforts, especially those that would benefit from the possibility of face-to-face contact. Some likely areas of interest for this group are: - Electronically enhanced classrooms and learning spaces, - Digital libraries, - Learning management and content management systems, - Instructional media, - Instructional design, - Electronic portfolios, - Video-, web- and teleconferencing. We have been in touch with the members of the NERCOMP SIGMasters' Group, who have provided some support for this effort. Peter Hess 617-253-6435 phess at mit.edu From sgass at MIT.EDU Mon Feb 14 17:12:00 2005 From: sgass at MIT.EDU (Steven Gass) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:12:00 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Fwd: Save the Date: RefWorks Demo, Wed., Feb. 23, 10-11:30am, in the DIRC Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050214171003.01ec7918@po10.mit.edu> Here's the info on the RefWorks Demo I mentioned at last weeks meeting. The DIRC is located in 14N-132, next to the Institute Archives. Steve >X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 >X-Sender: sgass at hesiod >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.1 >Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:57:56 -0500 >To: subspec-lib at mit.edu, ref-lib at mit.edu, instruct-lib at mit.edu, > ask-central at mit.edu >From: Steven Gass >Subject: Save the Date: RefWorks Demo, Wed., Feb. 23, 10-11:30am, in > the DIRC >Cc: stc-lib at mit.edu, longpd at mit.edu >X-Spam-Score: -7.9 >X-Spam-Flag: NO >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 > >RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool that offers >affordable, institution-wide subscriptions. It has been supported by many >of our peer libraries including Stanford, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. You >can read about its many features at >http://www.refworks.com/factsheet.shtml. In order to learn more about it >and help determine if it would be suitable for support by the MIT >Libraries, I have invited RefWorks to demo the product for us in the DIRC >on Wed., Feb. 23, 10-11:30am. I hope you can join me then. > >Steve > > >Steve Gass >Associate Director for Public Services >MIT Libraries >Massachusetts Institute of Technology >77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14S-216 >Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 > >617.253.7058 >617.253.8894 (Fax) >sgass at mit.edu >http://libraries.mit.edu Steve Gass Associate Director for Public Services MIT Libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14S-216 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.7058 617.253.8894 (Fax) sgass at mit.edu http://libraries.mit.edu From jfoster at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 16 11:22:07 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:22:07 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Copies of 2005 Horizon Report available Message-ID: Hello, As Phil Long promised at his presentation last week, we have paper copies of the NMC 2005 Horizon Report available. The report is the result of a collaborative research effort between the New Media Center Consortium, Educause, and the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative to identify the top categories of technologies that are likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher ed. If you want a copy of the report, send me your office address and I'll pop one in the mail to you. If you can wait until our next Ed Tech Partners meeting (scheduled for March 28) you can pick one up then. If you prefer you can grab a pdf version from: http://www.nmc.org/projects/index.shtml For those of you who asked me to post a copy of Phil's slides, we are working on that. It's complicated because of the many media files but I'll send out a note when we have it up. -jean- -- Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Communications Coordinator MIT IS&T Academic Computing N42-040, x3-3909 From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 17 11:12:11 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:12:11 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Reminder - Crosstalk Seminar today at 2:00 in 56-114 Message-ID: <1108656731.25755.4926.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Hello, Please join us for Dr. Hai Ning's presentation "Teaching Design-Oriented Learning with Tablet PCs". For an abstract of the talk see the announcement in the Ed Tech Times at http://edtech.mit.edu/times/. NOTE: This will be in room 56-114. Regards, Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Communications Coordinator MIT IS&T Academic Computing 77 Massachusetts Ave, n42-040 jfoster at mit.edu, 617.253.3909 From sgass at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 22 11:19:17 2005 From: sgass at MIT.EDU (Steven Gass) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:19:17 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Reminder: RefWorks Demo, Wed., Feb. 23, 10am, in the DIRC, 14N-132 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050222110914.02abe990@po10.mit.edu> RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool that offers affordable, institution-wide subscriptions. It has been supported by many of our peer libraries including Stanford and Yale. You can read about its many features at http://www.refworks.com/factsheet.shtml. You are invited to join me at a demonstration of RefWorks tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 10am in the DIRC, 14N-132. Steve Steve Gass Associate Director for Public Services MIT Libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14S-216 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.7058 617.253.8894 (Fax) sgass at mit.edu http://libraries.mit.edu From sgass at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 22 11:19:17 2005 From: sgass at MIT.EDU (Steven Gass) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:19:17 -0500 Subject: [edtech] Reminder: RefWorks Demo, Wed., Feb. 23, 10am, in the DIRC, 14N-132 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050222110914.02abe990@po10.mit.edu> RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management tool that offers affordable, institution-wide subscriptions. It has been supported by many of our peer libraries including Stanford and Yale. You can read about its many features at http://www.refworks.com/factsheet.shtml. You are invited to join me at a demonstration of RefWorks tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 10am in the DIRC, 14N-132. Steve Steve Gass Associate Director for Public Services MIT Libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 14S-216 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.7058 617.253.8894 (Fax) sgass at mit.edu http://libraries.mit.edu From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU Fri Feb 25 13:04:18 2005 From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:04:18 -0500 Subject: [edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 3, Issue 2 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: February 2005 A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare ---------------------------------------------------------------- The February 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: 1. Content Partners Offer Users Unique Learning Tools 2. Foundations, Donors Fuel MIT OCW Success 3. Digging Deeper: Course 3.46 4. A Frequently Asked Question 5. Comments 6. Newsletter Available Online at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm 1. Content Partners Offer Users Unique Learning Tools ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) has several content partners who are providing users translations of MIT OCW courses and other tools to improve their learning experience. Universia.net is a consortium of more than 800 colleges and universities in Latin America, Spain and Portugal that has translated a sample of MIT OCW courses into Spanish and Portuguese. Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, Universia has now translated more than 90 courses and continues to publish new translations, including courses such as Course 21A.219 -- Law and Society, Spring 2003 in Spanish, and Course 9.641J -- Introduction to Neural Networks, Fall 2002 in Portuguese. Chinese Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a consortium of Chinese colleges and universities that will translate all of MIT OCW's courses into Chinese, and offer open and free access to the course materials from Chinese educators, over the course of the next five years. Thus far, CORE offers two complete, translated MIT courses, including Course 18.06 -- Linear Algebra, Fall 2002 and Course 18.085 -- Mathematical Methods for Engineers I, Fall 2002. Open Learning Support (OLS) is a joint MIT OCW/ Utah State University research project focused on building "social software" that enables informal learning communities to form around existing open educational content. The fundamental premise of OLS is that full educational opportunity requires a user to have social access to other human beings who can answer questions and provide support. 2. Foundations, Donors Fuel MIT OCW Success ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OCW would not be possible with the generous financial support of the Hewlett and the Mellon Foundations, in addition to several MIT alumni who have made financial donations to help us publish 915 courses. The Willam and Flora Hewlett Foundation has generously supported MIT OCW financially through the initial pilot phase and continues to to provide funding as MIT OCW works toward full publication of all of MIT's courses. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, the foundation concentrates its resources on activities in conflict resolution, education, environment, performing arts, population, and U.S.-Latin American relations. MIT OCW has also received wonderful financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The New York, NY-based foundation is active in higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, population, conservation and the environment, and public affairs, and is committed to the concept of open sharing of educational resources and tools, such as MIT OCW. In addition, MIT alumnus Jon Gruber has donated $1 million to the MIT OCW project. Gruber's gift will support the development and open publication of course materials in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - his undergraduate major - and also in MIT's various programs in the visual arts. Voluntary donations by MIT alumni and our users is a wonderful endorsement of what this project hopes to achieve long-term - promoting open sharing of information and knowledge that will democratize information and make the world a better place. If you choose to support MIT OCW financially, please make your check payable to "MIT" and enclose a note indicating that the contribution is for the OpenCourseWare Fund, #4021100. You can mail your check to: Recording Secretary MIT Office of the Treasurer 238 Main Street, Suite 200 Cambridge, MA 02142 You can support donate through the Giving to MIT Web site at http://web.mit.edu/giving. Utilize the site's secure, online giving form at https://alum.mit.edu/giftform/GiftMain.dyn. When filling out the form, the MIT OCW fund number is 4021100, and the official fund name is "OpenCourseWare." 3. Digging Deeper: Course 3.46 ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering is known as the world-wide leader of its field, based on its academic program, its highly regarded faculty, and the high caliber of its students. There are currently 36 courses from MIT's DMSE available on MIT OCW, including this month's featured course, Professor Lionel Kimerling's Course 3.46 - Photonic Materials and Devices, Spring 2004, which explores covers the theory, design, fabrication and applications of photonic materials and devices. After a survey of optical materials design for semiconductors, dielectrics and polymers, the course examines ray optics, electromagnetic optics and guided wave optics; physics of light-matter interactions; and device design principles of LEDs, lasers, photodetectors, modulators, fiber and waveguide interconnects, optical filters, and photonic crystals. Device processing topics include crystal growth, substrate engineering, thin film deposition, etching and process integration for dielectric, silicon and compound semiconductor materials. Professor Kimerling offers a comprehensive set of Lecture Notes, on such topics as Ray Optics, Electromagnetic Optics, Guided Wave Optics, Semiconductor Photo Detectors, and Laser Diodes. Course 3.46 also offers a rich set of Problem Sets, and six past quizzes along with a final exam, featuring such mind-benders as the following question: "Explain the differences in the gain spectrum between a double heterostructure laser and a quantum well laser. Which is more desirable and why?" Whew! Let the self-learning begin! The course also offers a guide to the design process, including four sample design reviews, and a sample of Professor Kimerling's comments on the design review process. 4. A Frequently Asked Question ---------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: Can I download MIT OCW videos to my computer for viewing off-line? ANSWER: Most of the video that MIT OCW provides is in a Real Video format delivered through streaming servers. Our goal in providing video in this format (in multiple bitrates) is to enable users with a variety of Internet connections to sample MIT OCW video offerings with a common browser plug-in without having to download large media files. Users are able to download our streaming video file if you prefer to play these files off-line. There are two typical URL structures for links to MIT OCW video lecture delivered in a streaming format: OCW video files stored on the Akamai network will have URLs that look something like this http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm If you want to download this file and play it off-line, use the following URL -- the only difference is in the first part of the URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/18/18.06/videolectures/strang-1806-lec01-26aug1999-220k.rm This same basic approach will work for all of the MIT OCW streaming videos stored on the Akamai network. Simply find the URL to the streaming media, and replace the first part of the URL http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870 with http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870 OCW video files stored on the Internet Archive (such as those for "Course 18.03 -- Differential Equations, Spring 2004") will have URLs that look something like this: http://www.archive.org/stream/mitocw.18.03.f03.videolectures/mit-ocw-18.03-lec1-05feb2003-220k.rm To download this file and play it off-line, use the following URL -- the only difference is that you replace "stream" with "download": http://www.archive.org/download/mitocw.18.03.f03.videolectures/mit-ocw-18.03-lec1-05feb2003-220k.rm This same basic approach will work for all the MIT OCW streaming videos stored on the Internet Archive network. 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