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 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.
|
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, |
Steve Stock
Executive Director, |
| Faye Sahai
Executive Director, |
Bill Murray
Senior Manager |
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 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.
Any student of San Francisco State University. However, iMSA members have priority since volunteer space is limited.
Email us at imsa@sfsu.edu if your interested in finding out more about volunteering.
30 spots are open for various positions.
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 |

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.

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

|
Why give a laptop...
Solve problems with education...
OLPC Around the WorldLaunch in a separate window - Click here for more info on laptop deployments
|