{"id":1613,"date":"2010-05-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2010-05-10T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:04:05","slug":"new-media-projects-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/05\/10\/new-media-projects-for-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"New Media Projects For Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff was in Haiti the week before last  (April 25 &#8212; May 1st) with Professors Dale Joachim and Barry Vercoe from the Media Lab and with seven students from the new Media Lab class &#8220;New Media Projects For Haiti.&#8221;  The students had four projects to further develop and test in Haiti: <\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Uplifting expressions&#8221;: Theater, music, dance and craft as therapy for children&#8217;s post-traumatic stress disorder (Asha Martin and Clinton Scroggins)<br clear='none'\/>\n2. Health education in post-earthquake Haiti (Amritaa Ganguly)<br clear='none'\/>\n3. Low-cost water testing (Anila Sinha, Jess Kim and Kathy Li)<br clear='none'\/>\n4. &#8220;Pedal Power&#8221;: Lost-cost system to produce electricity by pedaling (Marvin Arnold and Daryl Fairweather)<\/p>\n<p>Two of the students (Jess Kim and Amritaa Ganguly) have blogged about their experiences in Haiti:<\/p>\n<p><http:\/\/www.mitadmissions.org\/JKim.shtml><\/p>\n<p><http:\/\/amritaahaiti.blogspot.com\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff was in Haiti the week before last (April 25 &#8212; May 1st) with Professors Dale Joachim and Barry Vercoe from the Media Lab and with seven students from the new Media Lab class &#8220;New Media Projects For Haiti.&#8221; The students had four projects to further develop and test in Haiti: 1. &#8220;Uplifting expressions&#8221;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}