Digital Learning and Inquiry - MIIS

META Lab Graduate Assistants teach an interactive software workshop each Friday for the whole MIIS community. No experience is required. Check our Facebook page or website (sites.miis.edu/metalab) to find out which software we will be focusing on this week.

Join Institute alumni Andy Stieglitz and Aaron Ebner, founders of the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development (AASD) in Peru, for a brown bag lunch focusing on using new media approaches to communicating the reach of organizations. The informal event is a space to share ideas and examples of how different mapping tools can be partnered with stories to convey impact.

Learn basics to Trados with workshop just for you. The workshop will focus on using TMs will help you to maintain consistency throughout your translations. It also means you will be able to use your previous work as a tool to speed up your own translation process. Use of TMs is standard industry practice, so in this introductory workshop, we will show you the TM basics using SDL Trados. We will also show you how you can create glossaries using SDL MultiTerm.

The DLC recently acquired ten, yes 10! LEGO SERIOUS PLAY™ lego kits and we are looking for some ideas and feedback about how we might make them available to the MIIS Community as a rapid prototyping tool. Drop in anytime between 10:00 and 2:00 on Friday, September 4, and receive a prompt to build your own world out of legos. This Friday, we will be looking toward the future.

Come join us for an informal workshop, led by Jeremy Borgia and Melissa Sorenson from the DLC. Learn about digital tools for productivity and time management, along with strategies for incorporating them into your life and projects. Space is limited, so reserve a spot at http://goo.gl/forms/592bbSxrTN.

Legos in grad school? Yes! The DLC has ten awesome Lego Serious Play™ kits that are great tools for creative thinking and prototyping. Come join us for a morning of innovation, fun, and donuts. Drop in anytime between 10:00am and 12:00pm on Friday, September 9th to experience some serious play and learn more about the DLC.Legos in grad school? Yes! The DLC has ten awesome Lego Serious Play™ kits that are great tools for creative thinking and prototyping. Come join us for a morning of innovation, fun, and donuts.

The end of the semester is approaching, the pace continues to quicken, and the election was only a month ago. How might we as a community carve out the necessary space and time to reflect & reach out to one another about those issues that are on our mind? How might we cultivate our own & others’ growth to deepen meaningful connections?

During this interactive workshop session we will explore storytelling as a technology for developing empathy and insight. Through a variety of storytelling exercises that can be used or adapted in a variety of contexts, participants will consider a number of underlying concepts, questions, and critical dispositions that have surfaced through the project while looking back at stories generated by the first cohorts of IDSP fellows. We invite Institute community members to participate in one or more of the #nestedstories community events – participation in all of them is not required.

So much of what we do at Middlebury Institute involves mutually beneficial partnerships with local and global communities. In this opening community-initiated conversation session we will explore the concept of “nested interculturality” and discover how individual and communal storytelling can play a key role in the ongoing creation of these partnerships.

Head shots Location: space between Laura Soto Adobe and Security Office