From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu May 5 09:26:53 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:26:53 -0400 Subject: [edtech] [Fwd: 2.007 event today] Message-ID: <1115299613.30396.13.camel@arizona.mit.edu> (Since will not be a Crosstalk presentation today, you might be interested in attending this special inauguration event which starts at 1:00 in 10-250. -jean-) Dear Colleagues, I am writing to invite you to attend today at 1PM in 10-250 "Learning by Design, 2007", a special event sponsored by the Inauguration Committee. This event promises to be an entertaining overview of MIT's renowned 2.007 Design and Manufacturing Course and Contest. The event will include a video retrospective of how the contest has evolved over thirty years, featuring Woody Flowers and Alex Slocum. Trial competitions between eight of this year's student contestants will be transmitted live from the Pappalardo Lab. Brief video profiles of each talented student describing the challenges of their particular design will also be screened. Alex Slocum will "officiate" the trial contest from 10-250 and will be joined by Woody Flowers for a discussion/Q&A session. The wrap up will include some prizes and surprises. The event will conclude with brief remarks by Susan Hockfield. Please come for any portion of the event (1PM to 3PM) that your schedule allows. (10-250 is great space for drifting in and out of with discretion.) Regards, -- Lawrence Gallagher Director, MIT Video Productions & Digital Technologies Academic Media Production Services (617) 253-0544 ldg at mit.edu -- Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Academic Computing Communications Coordinator N42-040, jfoster at mit.edu, x3-3909 From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU Tue May 3 10:56:49 2005 From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 10:56:49 -0400 Subject: [edtech] Thomas Friedman to speak at MIT on May 16 Message-ID: THREE-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER THOMAS FRIEDMAN TO SPEAK AT MIT ON MONDAY, MAY 16 New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist and author to discuss globalization and the digital revolution, will sign copies of his new book The World is Flat CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (May 3, 2005) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman will speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday, May 16, 2005. Friedman's lecture, "The World is Flat," is open to the public and will begin at 4 pm in Room 10-250 in the center of MIT's campus. Friedman's lecture will be immediately followed by a reception and signing of his new book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman's speech will focus on the world as it stands today in the age of globalization, and the convergence of technology that has allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization. And, Friedman will ask, with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest will introduce Friedman in this lecture that is open to the general public. The reception and book signing will be held in MIT's Bush Room, Room 10-105. Copies of The World is Flat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005) will be available for purchase. This event is sponsored by the MIT OpenCourseWare project (online at http://ocw.mit.edu). Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, for which he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He also was awarded Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting in 1983 and 1988. A world-renowned author and journalist, Friedman joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC and oil-related news and later served as the Chief Diplomatic, Chief White House, and International Economics Correspondents. He has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the Cold War, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His Foreign Affairs Column, which appears twice a week in The New York Times, is syndicated to 700 newspapers worldwide. In addition to his new book, Friedman is also the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won both the National Book and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1989 and was on The New York Times "Bestseller List" for nearly 12 months. Beirut has been published in more than 20 languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree, one of the best-selling business books of 1999, and the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best non-fiction book on foreign policy. Lexus is now out in 27 languages. Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean Studies and received a masters degree in Modern Middle East Studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities. He lives in Bethesda, MD, with his wife, Ann, and their two daughters. ABOUT MIT OPENCOURSEWARE MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), available online at http://ocw.mit.edu, makes the MIT Faculty's course materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. MIT OCW can be considered a large-scale, Web-based publication of educational materials. Visitors from 215 countries, territories and city-states are now using the MIT OCW Web site for educational purposes. Educators around the globe utilize the materials for curriculum development, while students and self-learners are able to draw upon the materials for self-study or supplementary use. With 1100 courses now available, MIT OCW is delivering on the global promise of open sharing of knowledge. -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ ocw-mail mailing list ocw-mail at mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ocw-mail From jfoster at MIT.EDU Mon May 16 16:30:24 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (Jean Foster) Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:30:24 -0400 Subject: [edtech] Next Ed Tech Partners Meeting - Mon June 6, 11:30, Bush Room (10-105) Message-ID: <1116275424.4377.514.camel@arizona.mit.edu> Hello, The topic for the next meeting will be Educational Technology Project Collaboration and the presenters will be us! This will really be an extended roundtable allowing us to update each other on current, completed, and upcoming projects, especially projects that involve collaboration amongst our groups. This is an opportunity for us to look back at some of our successes over the past few years and also look ahead to what can be improved as we work together in the future. WHAT: Educational Technology Partners meeting (with lunch) WHEN: Monday, June 6, 11:30 WHERE: Bush Room (1-105)) RSVP: By Thu, June 2 to edtech-events at mit.edu If you normally attend these meetings but can't make the next one, please send someone else to represent your organization and report on ed tech projects. Next Crosstalk: You may also want to set aside time in your calendar for the next Crosstalk Seminar on Thursday, June 23 at 2:00 in the Bush Room. The speaker will be David Bogen, Executive Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, and the topic will be their experiments using blogs and portfolios to support studio methods of instruction and critique. More information will be sent out about this seminar in a few weeks. -- Jean Foster Usability Consultant/ Academic Computing Communications Coordinator N42-040, jfoster at mit.edu, x3-3909 From jfoster at MIT.EDU Thu May 19 11:14:03 2005 From: jfoster at MIT.EDU (jfoster@MIT.EDU) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:14:03 -0400 Subject: [edtech] Ed Tech Times Update: The Value of Metadata in a Google Era Message-ID: <200505191514.j4JFE3aY019261@jaki.mit.edu> (((((( Ed Tech Times Update: The Value of Metadata in a Google Era )))))) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://edtech.mit.edu/times/archives/000070.html -- From ocw-mail at MIT.EDU Thu May 19 15:53:17 2005 From: ocw-mail at MIT.EDU (ocw-mail@MIT.EDU) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:53:17 -0400 Subject: [edtech] The MIT OpenCourseWare Update -- Vol. 3, Issue 5 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The MIT OpenCourseWare Update: May 2005 A Monthly E-mail Newsletter for Users and Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare ---------------------------------------------------------------- The May 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains: 1. New MIT Courses Bring Total to 1100 2. Top Japanese Universities Launch OCW Projects 3. A Frequently Asked Question 3. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW 4. Utah State University OCW 5. Comments 6. Newsletter Available Online at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/newsletter.htm 1. New MIT Courses Bring Total to 1100 ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to announce that with the publication of 175 new courses in the month of April, there are now 1101 total courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu. We are pleased to call your attention to the following new MIT courses. When looking at the complete MIT OCW Course List, look for the red NEW to indicate courses recently published: Course 1.89 - Environmental Microbiology, Fall 2004 Course 1.964 - Design for Sustainability, Fall 2004 Course 2.854 - Manufacturing Systems I, Fall 2004 Course 4.602 - Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004 Course 4.491 - Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop, Fall 2004 Course 6.270 - Autonomous Robert Design Competition, IAP 2005 Course 6.881 - Natural Language Processing, Fall 2004 Course 6.892 - Computational Models of Discourse, Spring 2004 Course 8.01T - Physics I, Fall 2004 Course 9.01 - Introduction to Neuroscience, Fall 2004 Course 9.56J - Abnormal Language, Fall 2004 Course 10.675J - Computational Quantum Mechanics of Molecular and Extended Systems, Fall 2004 Course 10.492-2 - Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics I: Introduction to Biocatalysis, Fall 2004 Course 11.947 - Race, Immigration, and Planning, Spring 2005 Course 12.808 - Introduction to Observational Physical Oceanography, Fall 2004 Course 13.400 - Introduction to Naval Architecture, Fall 2004 Course 15.969 - Dynamic Leadership: Using Improvisation in Business, Fall 2004 Course 16.07 - Dynamics, Fall 2004 Course 16.322 - Stochastic Estimation and Control, Fall 2004 Course 17.433 - International Relations of East Asia, Spring 2005 Course 18.04 - Complex Variables with Applications, Fall 2003 Course 18.101 - Analysis II, Fall 2004 Course 18.435J - Quantum Computation, Fall 2003 Course 18.755 - Introduction to Lie Groups, Fall 2004 Course 21H.302 - The Ancient World: Rome, Spring 2005 Course 24.964 - Topics in Phonology, Fall 2004 Course BE.420J - Biomolecular Kinetics and Cellular Dynamics, Fall 2004 Course BE.440 - Analysis of Biological Networks, Fall 2004 Course HST.542J - Quantitative Physiology: Organ Transport Systems, Spring 2004 Course MAS.712 - How to Learn (Almost) Anything, Spring 2001 Course MAS.714J - Technologies for Creative Learning, Fall 2004 Course SP.764 - Practical Electronics, Fall 2004 Course STS.036 - Industrial Landscapes, Fall 2004 Course STS.310 - History of Science, Fall 2003 2. Top Japanese Universities Launch OCW Projects ---------------------------------------------------------------- The top six universities in Japan - Keio University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and Waseda University - have announced the formation of the Japan OCW Collaboration Group. On Friday, May 13, the presidents of the six universities gathered in Tokyo to announce they had joined with MIT to make available, through a system compatible with MIT OCW, course content for approximately 10 courses, contributing to the progress of the information age as representatives of Japan. The six universities have created a portal page at http://www.jocw.jp. To visit the six individual Japanese OCW projects, see the following links: Keio University Kyoto University Osaka University Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Tokyo Waseda University MIT OCW and the "opencourseware" concept is a part of the larger open knowledge movement that promotes free and unrestricted access to the primary teaching materials for courses taught at educational institutions. So it is with great excitement that we are pleased these six leading Japanese universities are joining with MIT, Johns Hopkins University's School of Public Health, and Utah State University in launching OCW-like projects. 3. A Frequently Asked Question ---------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTION: Will MIT update the courses originally published in the MIT OCW pilot project in September 2002? ANSWER: In April 2005, MIT OCW began archiving some of its older courses and replacing them with updated versions of those courses (with new years and terms). Some of the courses are substantially different in teaching methodology, while some now offer additional teaching and learning resources. The updated courses are listed at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/OCWHelp/updatedcourses.htm. 4. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in Baltimore, MD, is world-renowned as a leading international authority on public health. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Opencourseware project provides access to the school's most popular courses. 5. Utah State University OCW ---------------------------------------------------------------- Utah State University (USU) is one of the nation's premier student-centered land-grant and space-grant universities. USU Opencourseware supports USU's institutional mission to serve the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. ---------------------------------------------------------------- MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is a large-scale, Web-based publishing initiative with the goal of providing free, searchable access to MIT course materials for educators, students, and individual learners around the world. These materials are offered in a single, searchable structure spanning all of MIT's academic disciplines, and include uniform metadata about the contents of the individual subject sites. "The MIT OpenCourseWare Update" welcomes your feedback and suggestions about this newsletter and the MIT OCW Web site. Please send your feedback to Jon Paul Potts, MIT OCW Communications Manager, at jpotts at mit.edu. Our mailing address is MIT OpenCourseWare, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 9-213, Cambridge, MA 02139. MIT does not share subscribers' email addresses and will not send SPAM email. 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Please RSVP bu THursday if you are planning to come. --------------------------------------------------- The topic for the next meeting will be Educational Technology Project Collaboration and the presenters will be us! This will really be an extended roundtable allowing us to update each other on current, completed, and upcoming projects, especially projects that involve collaboration amongst our groups. This is an opportunity for us to look back at some of our successes over the past few years and also look ahead to what can be improved as we work together in the future. WHAT: Educational Technology Partners meeting (with lunch) WHEN: Monday, June 6, 11:30 WHERE: Bush Room (1-105)) RSVP: By Thu, June 2 to edtech-events at mit.edu If you normally attend these meetings but can't make the next one, please send someone else to represent your organization and report on ed tech projects. Next Crosstalk: You may also want to set aside time in your calendar for the next Crosstalk Seminar on Thursday, June 23 at 2:00 in the Bush Room. The speaker will be David Bogen, Executive Director of the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, and the topic will be their experiments using blogs and portfolios to support studio methods of instruction and critique. More information will be sent out about this seminar in a few weeks. -- Jean Foster