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Independent Activities Period (IAP)

Channel | updated February 12, 2013

The Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a special four week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month. For close to four decades, IAP has provided members of the MIT community (students, faculty, staff, and alums) with a unique opportunity to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of activities, including how-to sessions, forums, athletic endeavors, lecture series, films, tours, recitals and contests. Learn more

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Format large documents in Word
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"Big Docs in Word: Tips and Tricks to Format your Thesis" Course IAP 2012

This is a 1.5 hour interactive course on how to format large documents in Word 2008 for Macs led by an MIT PhD graduate, Lourdes Alemán. This course covers how to apply consistent formatting throughout the document using Styles, how to automatically ...

2.97 Egg Drop during IAP 2008
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
2.97 Egg Drop during IAP 2008

The default Flash version of the video downloads fast, but is low quality. Download the QuickTime (.mov) file for best quality. 2.97 "Design-a-palooza" was offered for the first time during IAP 2008. The class encouraged students to develop their own design processes through several design ...

3 Myths About Fossil Fuels
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
3 Myths About Fossil Fuels

Three myths about fossil fuels. Part of MIT's IAP 2012 Cool Shorts Lecture on the creation of short videos related to Climate Change.

Adolescence & Earth
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Community
Adolescence & Earth

From the 'Cool Shorts: Climate Change on Web Video' Independent Activities Period 2012 course. The class, co-sponsored by Knight Science Journalism at MIT, focused on the production of several short videos about climate change, meant for web distribution. The goal will be to explore, visualize ...

BattleCode 2013 Day 1
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013 Day 1

Recorded 1/7/13

BattleCode 2013 Day 3
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013 Day 3

Recorded 1/9/13

BattleCode 2013 Day 4
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013 Day 4

Recorded 1/10/13

BattleCode 2013 Day 5
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013 Day 5

Recorded 1/15/13

BattleCode 2013 Day 5
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013 Day 5

Recorded 1/11/13

BattleCode 2013 Day 7
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013 Day 7

Recorded 1/15/13

BattleCode 2013, Day 8
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
BattleCode 2013, Day 8

Recorded Jan. 17, 2013

Can I Go Out And Play?
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
Can I Go Out And Play?

From the 'Cool Shorts: Climate Change on Web Video' Independent Activities Period 2012 course. The class, co-sponsored by Knight Science Journalism at MIT, focused on the production of several short videos about climate change, meant for web distribution. The goal will be to explore, visualize ...

CO2 vs. Humanity
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
CO2 vs. Humanity - A Cool Short about Climate Change

Doodle/comic about climate change: Part of MIT's "Cool Shorts" IAP 2012 Lecture focusing on the creation of short videos on global warming.

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Crash. Design. Rebuild.
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
Crash. Design. Rebuild: engineering design and rapid prototyping

During 2012 IAP, AeroAstro undergraduate students had seven days to redesign (and fly!) commercial, off-the-shelf, remote-controlled aircraft kits.

Extinction
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Community
Extinction

Cool Shorts from MIT IAP course Molly Ruggles 2012

Fixit Clinic
  • MIT Edgerton Center,
  • Community
Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center

Education, empowerment and enlightenment through guided disassembly of your broken stuffPeter Mui ’82 holds Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center

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Global Teaching Labs Reflections
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Educational
Global Teaching Labs Reflections

A student reflects about teaching science and math to German high school students, and living with a German host family during IAP.

IAP Externship Program Orientation
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Demonstration
IAP Externship Program Orientation

IAP session 1: 01/12/2009
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
IAP session 1: 01/12/2009

archive of the live video stream from the IAP "Virtual Worlds at MIT" session 1

IAP session 2: 01/14/2009 - part a
  • Independent Activities Period (IAP),
  • Feature
IAP session 2: 01/14/2009 - part a

Dr. Dan Hoch from Mass General Hospital along with his colleagues Heather Bello and Deborah Linton speak about their experience using Second Life for their relaxation response study.

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