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Free Microsoft Training for Students

Microsoft is offering a free IT Academy Student Pass good for 12-22 hours of FREE e-learn courses pertaining to different topics on the first Microsoft Certification Exam.

The goal of the IT Academy Student Pass is to give you a head start by providing hours and hours of rich, award-winning e-learning content that sets the stage for the learning to come.

You can learn more about the Microsoft Technical Certificates here.
Get your IT Academy Student Pass today!

 Microsoft is also offering a free voucher for one Microsoft technical Specialist exam, these exams usually cost hundreds of dollars, so take advantage while it lasts.

 

Educause Contest - Computer Secuirty Awareness

Educause is sponsoring a contest for Computer Security Awareness- I just happened to hear about this and there looks like about a month to pursue if you know of a student or other group interested in.

A total of $8,800 will be awarded:

four "gold" prizes of $1,000, four "silver" prizes of $800 and four
"bronze" prizes of $400.  The contest is now open and has a deadline of
April 30, 2009.

KPIT - Technology in Health Care

 

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Meet Executive Leaders of Kaiser Permanente.

Hear them talk about how technology and business work together.

Learn about careers in health care IT.

Speakers

David Yoo

Vice President,
e-Business
Business Information Office

Steve Stock

Executive Director,
Business Infrastructure - Finance
Business Information Office

Faye Sahai

Executive Director,
Executive Oversight
Business Management & Operations

Bill Murray

Senior Manager
Client & Systems Services
Infrastructure Management Group

At Kaiser Permanente, technology looks a bit different. Because here, we manage the information that, in an instant, could communicate an illness or save a life.

We design, develop, and support technologies that link health professionals from coast to coast and affect the lives of our members.

At KP-IT, the work we do will touch lives—8.7 million of them—every day.

When:
Tuesday - April 7, 2009
5:00 - 7:00pm
Where:
College of Business
Room 202

AMCIS 2009


AMCIS 2009

 

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems

San Francisco, California, August 6 - 9, 2009

AMCIS 2009 will be in San Francisco, the center of the high-tech Bay Area. It will bring together the best of academia and industry to focus on the future of Information Systems. Come join us in the City by the Bay and be part of this exciting conference.

 

Why Volunteer?

  • Explore career possibilities
  • Network with tech industry professionals
  • Learn about the latest in IS Tech
  • Listen to Keynote Speakers
  • Attend Tutorials
  • Get off the COUCH!

Who can volunteer?

Any student of San Francisco State University. However, iMSA members have priority since volunteer space is limited.

How to Sign Up?

Email us at imsa@sfsu.edu if your interested in finding out more about volunteering.

We need People for:

30 spots are open for various positions.

Committee Members from SF State

The AMCIS Committee consists of of Professors from around United States. Here is a list of committee members from SF State.

Prof. Robert Nickerson Prof. Sameer Verma
Prof. Lutfus Sayeed Prof. Lei Jin
Prof. Paul Beckman  

AMCIS Sponsors

 

OpenEducationDisc

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OpenDisc

Let’s face it even at its discounted prices most students can’t afford proprietary software such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative and Design Suites.  Enter - Free and Open Source Software.

The OpenEducationDisc is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software that cover the most common tasks you will need for school work. All programs have been carefully selected by Teachers and Computer Specialists who believe that you shouldn't have to pay lots of money to get a good education.
The entire disc can be downloaded from the following site:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opendisc/OpenEducationDisc.09.01.iso
However, for your convenience, we’ve listed a few useful links to software most commonly used by the Information Systems student. Click on the logo to view its website.


Substitute for - Microsoft Office
Designed by the best as a single piece of software, OpenOffice was created to help you. This complete All-in-One Office Suite contains all that is needed for a productive day at the office, from word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. OpenOffice is the best overall solution.


Substitute for - Publisher
Scribus
is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.


Substitute for - Visio
Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.


Substitute for - Photoshop
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely available open source application for creating and manipulating graphic images that runs on Linux, other Unix-based operating systems, and also on Windows and Mac OS X.


Substitute for - Dreamweaver
KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.


Substitute for - Illustrator

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

 

 

iMSA is a proud supporter of OLPC

OLPC Foundation's Goal:

"To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves."

To learn more about OLPC, go to http://laptop.org

IMSA Fall 2008 Fundraiser Update:

 

I am pleased to say that our Spring 2008 "End of the Semester" fundraiser event yielded enough funds to donate three laptops to the OLPC Project.


A big THANK YOU to everyone that participated!

Below is the email confirmation of our donation to OLPC

January 13, 2009

Thank you for your contribution of $597 to the One Laptop per Child Foundation.  Further we confirm that no tangible benefits were received by you, the donor, in exchange for the gift referenced above.  Your order number is 13PGKFL9NEPUS9HHUPJ44LHJJJRDZSPQA25.

The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that every school-aged child in the lesser-developed parts of the world is able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly collaborate as they learn and learn about learning together.

The OLPC Foundation is focused on enhancing and sustaining learning among those children, their families and communities in lesser developed communities by ensuring rich, diverse and open access to innovative learning materials and by encouraging interactive learning, communication and exploration with their XO laptops.  For this purpose, the Foundation provides grants and other support for the development and use of collaborative learning resources and other initiatives that enrich children’s learning.

Your contribution will help us move forward with these important programs for children.  Please tell your friends and colleagues about the One Laptop per Child program (www.laptop.org) and encourage them also to support our mission.

Sincerely,

 

Robert D. Fadel

One Laptop per Child Foundation

 

 

OLPC Videos

 

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OLPC Around the World

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