Integrated Communications: Keeping in touch with MIT while at Cambridge

Some notes on brainstorming sessions with Vijay and Dennis

  1. Vijay provides overview
    1. Physical and virtual spaces for collaboration: implications for research, education, and community
      1. Admissions portal example
      2. Wikis
      3. Blogs
      4. Collaboration spaces
        1. Enriching video conferences
          1. tech help
          2. non-dedicated space
    2. CMExchange as a potential source for experiments in this area
  1. Ideas
    1. Innovative journaling: ways to capture the experience
    2. Communication Requirement improvements?
    3. Off-week supervisions
      1. Emily Fox suggests best coming from Cambridge people, not MIT
      2. Network of alums and Cambridge students who were at MIT on exchange
      3. One person might run a tutorial, maybe 3x, to answer questions (to help with intimidation factor at start of Cambridge term)
      4. Opportunity to "rant" and get feedback about issues associated with new being at the new school
      5. Small group academic tutorials that allow a morph into 'rants'.
        1. both distance and local
        2. structured introductions that appear ad hoc
    4. Online registration for MIT students (no such thing at Cambridge)
      1. Very cumbersome system currently
      2. Easier way to get reports, to retrieve scores
    5. Duane: "multiple communities" - one attaction of exchange
    6. Mock supervisions run by students
    7. Library induction (Les Perelman)
      1. Communication Requirement
      2. Stellar?
      3. Readings and links
      4. Library research/info literacy, reading, writing
      5. Les: "they're afraid they're leavning stuff at CU that won't prepare them for back at MIT." (Same concern voiced by Cambridge students at MIT.)
      6. Maybe 2d CI-M is tied to undergraduate thesis: in Easter term, MIT students explore with MIT department possible thesis or project topics. Chat board? Involve librarians, articles on line. Goal: return with a literature review.
    8. Recruitment generally for the exchange
      1. Publicity
      2. Chat board
      3. Marketing
    9. Parents of CME students
  1. Next steps
    1. Meeting with MIT CME returning seniors: first week in August
    2. Conversation with Haynes Miller (Math)

25 July 2005
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