From the author:

Imagine if you could sit with a book for three hours and learn hassle free ways to unleash your personal productivity. These 99 Windows 7 ® and Office 2010 (Outlook, Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint) tips will save you precious minutes every day to a new efficient you!
This book will teach you ready to use tips that you can apply in your day to day work and be efficient almost from the first few tips. Not only could you save up to several minutes a day (depending on your time with the PC) but also you will be envy of your coworkers and soon be the “go-to” person in the office and with your friends for master tips. You will be able to reinvent your work in a subtle but significant way and create a new work lifestyle.

If you are an educator, training manager, or responsible for employee training or professional development in your organization or educational institution, you will find these tips can significantly increase productivity for employees and quickly up skill students who need to learn how to use Windows and Office.

Imagine if you could learn in a few pages how to:

• Create quick steps and templates for repetitive tasks
• Build custom rules to suit your own unique work style
• Get through your e-mail workload efficiently
• Use Windows tips to increase productivity

Highlights

• Follow the easy numbered steps
• Over 240 Screen images to help you as you try the tips on your own
• Cheat sheets to help you practice these tips in your day-to-day work

The Center of Excellence is now accepting up to five IT degrees/certificates from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges for the Spring 2012 quarter for a review session from industry professionals

The Center is now opening up the application process for IT degrees and certificates. Any Washington State CTC can submit one information or computing technology degree or certificate for a two-hour review session by IT industry professionals. This service is offered at no charge to the participating college(s).

The reviews will take place May-June 2012, and reports will be issued to the colleges by June 2012. The reports summarize the recommendations made by the industry review team, as well as provide a high-level workforce trend scan, employment trends if applicable, and possibilities for emerging trends that might impact curricular changes or developments.

The application submission deadline is Friday, April 6, 2012.

Find out more about the process, the history, and access to the application online form.

Registration is open for the second annual STEM Summit (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math): Emerging & Innovative Trends for Tomorrow’s Classroom on Thursday, February 9th, and Friday, February 10th, 2012.  For our K-12 educators, clock hours will be offered.

About the STEM Summit:  This two-day Summit will introduce you to K-20 best practices in education focusing on innovative teaching and learning in STEM.  As attendees, you will be examining curriculum for incorporation of best practices in STEM teaching and learning.

This free event includes lunch and snacks, materials, and fun giveaways (including five copies of the  lauded Learning and Teaching Early Math:  The Learning Trajectories Approach, a Cannon EOS RebelT3 digital camera – over $500 value, a Texas Instruments graphing calculator – over $100 value, and more…)

• Your educational colleagues will be sharing their strategies for incorporating STEM in the classroom
• Industry professionals from allied health, aerospace, construction, information and computing technology, and manufacturing will highlight emerging technology and workforce trends.

Read this report on Data Analytics courtesy of Computerworld.com. 

Insights from a webinar in the SAS Applying Business Analytics series. Originally broadcast in November 2010. 

Click on the cover to start the download.

Payment is negotiable.

We are hoping to have the training sometime between late February and early June 2012.

Please contact Maureen Majury at maureen.majury@belleveucollege.edu or 425.564.4229.

This is one of five videos being created for the 2011-2012 “A Day in the Life of an IT Professional: A Five Minute Story”. It is sponsored by the Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology. It was written, filmed, directed and produced by Robert Johnson, Jr. of Shoreline Community College.

Watch other IT professionals tell their story…

News and Updates for Fall & Winter Quarter 2011-2012

As we prepare for finals and winter break the Center wants to share with you updates about Center activities as well as professional development opportunities, upcoming resources, and services for 2012.

News

•  Register for the second annual STEM Summit (February 9^th and 10^th, 2012). Keynote presenter announced.
• The Life of an IT Professional: A Five Minute Story (an IT professional competition/video series). Check out two new videos on IT professionals here.

Updates

• Seven IT degrees/certificates submitted by six colleges will be reviewed by industry professionals on December 8^th and 9^th.   The next session will be spring 2012.
• 26 Washington State educators completed the Building Your Web 2.0 Website with WordPress.  See evaluative and ROI data here.
• The Washington State ICT Community/Technical College Program Directory (Publication: January 2012)

About the STEM Summit: This free two-day Summit will introduce you to industry’s perspective on STEM, emerging technology trends and jobs that require STEM graduates and  K-20 best practices in education focusing on innovative teaching and learning in STEM.  As attendees, you will be examining curriculum for incorporation of best practices in STEM teaching and learning.

This free event includes lunch and snacks, materials, and fun giveaways.

• Your educational colleagues will be sharing their strategies for incorporating STEM in the classroom
• Industry professionals from aerospace and advanced manufacturing, education, energy, and information and computing technology will highlight emerging technology and workforce trends.

The STEM Summit is proud to announce that Dr. Bradley Layton, Assistant Professor for the Department of Applied Computing and Electronics at The University of Montana College of Technology will be the 2012 keynote speaker.

Dr. Layton received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with concentrations in soft-tissue mechanics and the molecular structure of collagen.  He serves as the Director of Energy Technology Program at The University of Montana College of Technology.

We have reserved the Hotel Sierra, a premier boutique hotel, a less than five minute walk from the N-Building at Bellevue College, for you at the rate of $139.00 per night, plus tax.  Visit the Hotel Sierra to reserve your room now.  After January 20, 2012, the room rate may no longer be available.  Mention or use the code “STEM Summit” to get this rate.  Contact us if you have any questions.

The curriculum development this year will be facilitated by Dr. Michele Royer. Expect an innovative practicum developed by Dr. Royer which will allow you to take a project and adapt it using STEM principles to your classroom.

In a fun hands-on environment of multi-disciplinary faculty teams, develop engaging student STEM projects in the context of aerospace, education, energy, and Information and Computing Technology industries using innovative collaborative teaching/learning processes. Through the guided activity you will:

• Create multi-disciplinary student projects that can be applied to your classroom or to an online environment
• Explore innovative processes for student collaboration across programs and institutions, and for industry engagement in student learning experiences
• Share perspectives from different disciplines and different education levels through the lens of a collaborative project
• Discuss barriers and possible solutions to implementing truly multidisciplinary student experiences to meet the needs of growth industries and emerging technologies

For more information or questions contact Maureen Majury, M.Ed., Director for the Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology at maureen.majury@bellevuecollege.edu or 425.564.4229.

Brandon is a 2007 graduate of the University of Washington with degrees in political science and law. In his spare time, Brandon hikes, mountain bikes, skis and plays soccer.

Join NCA at our 5th annual 
Security & Technology Conference 
at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Network Computing Architects is pleased to bring together a multitude of business and technology leaders to share their perspectives and engage in discussions centering on Risk Management and Service Delivery.

In this day and age, the line between personal time and work time has been blurred by the “always on” mentality created by increasing mobility and a variety of mobile platforms from which your employees can access the network, anytime and anywhere.

Every business—from large enterprise corporations with armies of mobile users, to the smallest SMB with only a few remote workers—is feeling the pressure to adapt and must focus on how to keep every asset of the network connected, while producing real orderly intelligence so they can maximize that other ROI: Return on Investment.

Join the Discussion. Register Today!