Postdoctoral Mentors for MIT Video Making Teams: Lunch on Thursday (5/31) at 12:00

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Forwarded Message from Rebecca Fearing:

Dear Postdocs,

This year, an incredible group of your colleagues has played an 
instrumental role in helping MIT in an online educational collaboration 
with the Khan Academy.  We are looking for post-docs to mentor MIT 
student video making teams to ensure high quality, accurate content in 
their videos, and are hosting lunch this Thursday at 12:00 in 1-214 for 
you to learn more.  Please RSVP by Thursday at 8:00am using this link: 
http://tinyurl.com/85sv2ue.  Also, if you are interested in 
volunteering, please tell us a little bit about yourself using this 
link: http://tinyurl.com/SoE-PostDocMentors.

MIT graduate and undergraduate students are making hands-on, 
experimental videos to help inspire and educate K-12 students in 
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields before they 
attend college.  Their videos have already received over 85,000 views on 
our You Tube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mitK12Videos.  To learn 
more about the project, please visit our website: http://k12videos.mit.edu/.

This week, we are accepting teams of students to make videos due in late 
June.  We will require the teams to have a meeting with a postdoc before 
they film in the hopes of getting the technical content right the first 
time.  At lunch on Thursday, we can discuss what is entailed in this 
process.

We are thankful for the engagement of the post doctoral community in 
these efforts and look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Sincerely,
Becky

Rebecca Fearing
Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Initiatives, MIT School of 
Engineering
fearing at mit.edu