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October 8, 2008
Editor: Chuck Schubert An application in STAR's suite of visualization tools is reaching a wider audience. This month the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHS) featured StarHydro as a effective tool for...
September 29, 2008
Check out the new machines in the NMC: 13 - 24" iMacs (2.4GHz Intel Duo Core 2, 4 GB RAM, SuperDrive) running Leopard 10.5.4 and with Adobe CS3, Final Cut Pro, MS Office Suite 2004. The NMC is open 24/7, accessible with the Athena cluster code. The...
September 25, 2008
Approximately 15% of MIT undergraduates will spend time studying or researching in another country. Following DUE's strategic theme to foster global leadership through foreign travel, this percentage is predicted to grow. Using the capabilities of...
August 11, 2008
"How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?" Project Bamboo attempts to answer that question. A broad-based initiative, targeted at the needs of scholars in the humanities and...
August 8, 2008
New ideas in education are best optimized when the concepts are communicated to a broad community of practitioners. A proven and effective tool for encapsulating and conveying the essence of educational innovation is Carnegie Foundation's KEEP...
December 22, 2006
Editor: James Cain 1 For nearly 20 years, MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures (FL&L) section has been developing innovative ways to bring new technology into the classroom. Recently, Professor Ellen Crocker took the initiative to locate...
March 15, 2006
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...
March 8, 2006
Lisa Mayer Web and Database Consultant IS&T Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD) When you see students walking on campus with headphones plugged in their ears, they may be studying for finals instead of grooving to their...
February 15, 2006
Speaker: Peter S. Donaldson Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of Literature Faculty MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Day: Friday, Feb 24, 2006 Time: 1:00p–2:30p Location: 1-375 Open to the general public...
February 8, 2006
Katie Livingston-Vale, Ed.D. Team Leader, Educational Technology Consultants IS&T Academic Computing Online journals called "weblogs" or "blogs" are now being employed in MIT courses to teach students how to reflect on experiences and how to...
November 4, 2005
Violeta M. Ivanova, Ph.D. Math and Engineering Educational Technology Consultant IS&T Academic Computing If you are teaching or supporting a math, engineering, or science class and would like to make it possible for your students...
November 2, 2005
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...
October 12, 2005
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...
October 6, 2005
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? Read the rest of this article from the
October 3, 2005
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...
September 19, 2005
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...
September 19, 2005
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...
June 3, 2005
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...
June 1, 2005
What would you do to make Stellar more useful? Each Spring and Fall semester, a new version of the Stellar software provides new features and functionality, increased reliability, and an enhanced user experience. With each release Stellar course...
May 19, 2005
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. What: Meet metadata experts...

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