Guest Speaker on Information Security
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Who: Steven Weil CISSP, CISA, CISM, CBCP, QSA
Academic Outreach Coordinator for the ISACA Puget Sound Chapter
Over the past 15 years, Steve Weil CISSP, CISA, CISM, QSA has been a systems engineer & security engineer for a major ISP, an architect & security officer for a managed security services company and a senior [...]
Results of the CityU of Seattle Photo Walk
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Right before the Christmas Holidays – The CityU of Seattle photo club met up for a quick walk around the Seattle Center taking pictures of the Christmas lights and other night time displays of lighting. This is one of the photographers who participated in the photo walks and has allowed publishing of these [...]
Next CISSP Study Group at CityU of Seattle in March
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The CISSP is one of the fundamental certificates that a security engineer can have, and over the course of the ISEC program we teach all of the domains that are required for the CISSP. But we also provide support for ISSA Puget Sound by holding their FREE CISSP classes here at the school [...]
Help me choose a slate computer for my college programs
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One of the directions we are going in here at the school is making access to content easier for students and instructors. With the launching of CES this week – a plethora of slate and slate style devices have been demonstrated which all look really interesting. While I have an [...]
Voices of Adjuncts from the Chronicle of Higher Ed
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This is probably one of the more depressing posts to come out of the Chronicle of Higher Ed in a while, it is a quick 4.5 minute video with six adjuncts talking about their experience as Adjunct Faculty where they teach.
It is worth watching, anyone who is Adjunct Faculty and not on [...]
The influence of Social Media on Education
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Social media is a fundamentally different way of communicating than we are used to in the standard lecture hall format. More free form, more vigorous, and more entertaining for students and professors. While we continue to question some our basic ideas about what is evidence of learning, or what is the best way [...]
Why I need a tablet and so do my students
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With all the hype over do we or do we not need a tablet computer, I keep on thinking of my students and where I want to take educational technology in the next 10 years. While I am in a fortunate position to “change the world” when it comes to education, I am [...]
Online Education and Rock Star Instructors
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Having come from many jobs in the IT Field over the last 22 years I saw employers in the IT Industry focus on Rock Star employees. It is common knowledge that to become a fulltime employee at some of the software companies and in some startups you need to be in the top [...]
A List of Open Source Programs you can use in Class
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Educational Technology has been significantly helped by the Open Source Community. Here is a list of open source tools you can use to make your life as a student easier. This is by no means comprehensive, and you can add to this list in the comments section if you have a better tool [...]
With the loss of the Crunchpad TecEd faces serious challenges
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One of the things we have been looking for here is very cheap affordable technology for education. We were also anticipating the Crunchpad as a way to use affordable technology in our education programs. As the fallout from the death of the Crunchpad yesterday there is no longer any form of [...]
