MIT Video Productions

MIT President Susan Hockfield addresses the Class of 2012 at the Freshman Convocation on August 24, 2008. Read the full story.

This video covers the basics of connecting to MITnet from on-campus residence halls, computing resources such as personal backup and VPN software available to students, as well as general information about using MITnet safely and securely while observing the "Rules of Use."

This short video covers the IS&T Help Desk Service Center services such as general computing help, Athena help, hardware repairs, and how we can assist with computing questions and problems.

The maiden voyage of our electric go-kart. Our field controller (the only piece of off-the-shelf electronics on the kart) broke, so it is limited to low gear with no capacitor brake/boost. Next time...http://web.mit.edu/first/kart

Meet the students of the 2008 MIT Summer Research Program.

This time with a guinea pig - I mean - driver. The custom motor controller is limited to to 33% of its maximum power so as not to damage anything.http://web.mit.edu/first/kart

A short clip showing Ricardo working with his cast in Moby-Dick: Then and Now.

Wyn Kelly discussion how her thoughts on Melville's Moby-Dick changed after she worked with Ricardo Pitts-Wiley on the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.

An example of remixing as seen in Moby-Dick: Then and Now - sample: Bobby Blue's "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City."

A video describing the basic plot of the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.

Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet, making LEGO-like bricks from dirt, or hooking up an electric generator to an irrigation pump may not save the world, but such simple projects could go a long way toward improving the lives of millions of people living in the world's developing countries. That's the guiding principle behind a month-long summer workshop at MIT. MoreVideo: MIT News Office/AMPS

Josue Rivera, a young actor in Moby-Dick: Then and Now, gives us a behind the scenes tour of the set.

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Henry Jenkins discussing how ProjectNML, and in particular the teachers' strategy guide "Reading in a Participatory Culture," defines the new media literacies.

Henry Jenkins discussing the characteristics of Participatory Culture.

A short video featuring Wyn Kelley and Henry Jenkins about the pedagogical shift in use for the ProjectNML Teachers' Strategy Guide "Reading in a Participatory Culture."

A short interview with Yosa Yon, a young actor who plays Alba in the play Moby-Dick: Then and Now.

In what some are calling a major breakthrough for renewable energy, MIT chemists Daniel Nocera and Matthew Kanan discover a new catalyst that speeds up the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen. The discovery may heighten interest in pollution-free fuel cell vehicles, which generate energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen chemically, emitting only water. The catalyst, made from cheap materials and working in ordinary water, may also make it easier to convert sunlight into chemical fuels, storing solar energy in much the way plants do. From Chemical Explorers, Moreno/Lyons Productions

Clip of Rudy Cabrera describing his thoughts on performance in the theater and in real life.

Wyn Kelley discussing the juxtaposition as seen in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

A short video clip discussing the violence seen in the play, "Moby-Dick: Then and Now" directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley.

The Sermon as performed (in two parts) in the play Moby-Dick: Then and Now.

Video detailing the reading habits of Rudy Cabrera, Wyn Kelley, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, and Henry Jenkins.

Rudy Cabrera discusses how his involvement with theater has changed his reading habits.

15 min. video detailing the making and the plot of Moby-Dick: Then and Now directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley.

Act I of the production, Moby-Dick: Then and Now, as performed in North Kingstown in Summer 2007.

By Jay Silver

International Development Design Summit 2008

As Sr. Advisor of Swissnex Boston, Pascal Marmier, focuses on the high-tech collaboration among Swiss and U.S. scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators in hopes of achieving climate change. In his time with the MIT Sloan Fellows program, Marmier, SF 2008, advanced his knowledge of sustainability through access to faculty leaders and in his role as co-founder of the MIT Sloan Fellows Social Impact Group. The group -- representing more than 25 countries -- believes that giving back to society is not about self-sacrifice, it's about commitment.

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