Another UCC I.T. BIG TIME Seminar...?

It's almost midnight, and I am about to sleep.

Today is the first day for Center for UCC's Best Entertainers' (CUBE) Musical Play at the Ever Gotesco Grandcentral Cinema 1. It is a first time that University of Caloocan City (UCC) performed in a big venue like a cinema. Wow! Going big time.

I've lots of planned seminars. For three (3) consecutive years, UCC I.T Department had been conducting information technology seminars in 5-star hotels like Pan Pacific and Sofitel for its senior students. Surely you can say it's big time.

I was invited numerous times as a speaker for an I.T. event, with venues ranging from a small class room, a hall, an open court, an auditorium, but never in a big cinema. WHY NOT?

University of the Philippines (UP) will be having its annual Youth For I.T (Y4IT) Event this September at UP Theater. It came to my mind why not also have an open-invitation, open to everybody, not only to UCC I.T. student, another BIG-TIME seminar to be held in one big cinema, with more or less a thousand attendees (as a starter).

WHY NOT?... But first, it's time to think of one BIG TIME topic... Hmmm...

UCC IT trip 2010

Learning should not be limited within the corners of our classrooms.

The UCC IT Department is now in focus for the forthcoming I.T. Lakbay Aral set this September 20 (main campus) and September 27 (camarin campus). Again, we are scheduled to visit companies where we can expose our I.T. students in the actual technical aspects of the various electronic and computer-based technologies, I.T. professions, real industry situations and processes. The event will be highlighted by our team-building activities in one of Laguna's resort. Team assignment is now posted for references. Points from the team-building activities will be carried over to the much awaited Mini-Sports Olympics comes 2nd Semester. It's just unfortunate that our freshmen will not be joining us during the trip due to some conflicts.

Alumni are welcome to join...

Joomla ...

- Is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS)...

- Is a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework
- Is written in PHP
- stores data in MySQL
- includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

Joomla is coming...

As promised and a requirement/commitment in attending the European IT Service Center (EITSC) Seminar, I'm finalizing my Joomla presentation for a series of seminars for the faculty and staff of UCC I.T. Department.
I'm still collecting additional samples, write-ups, tips and tricks and some comparison to other same-category applications like Wordpress and Drupal. I'm also planning to post the same lecture here so better watch out for it.

Oh! Joomla! My Joomla!...

Still with the EITSC Seminar series... I was the one who attended the Creating Powerful and Dynamic Websites Using Joomla Seminar and the Joomla Extensions Seminar.

It was not the first time I've learned about Joomla but it is the most comprehensive. In two days time, we were ask to create two (2) fully functional dynamic websites with all the nitty-gritty parts from Login to RSS feed to adding specialized extensions.

Many thanks to our instructor, Sir Omar F. Abesamis and to all the participants from different schools: University of Makati, UPITTC, Rizal Technological University, Cavite State University, Tarlac State U, Pampanga, and others.

Joomla is indeed a technology worth studying for and it is almost sure now that our graduating I.T. students will have Joomla for the coming 2nd Semester.

EITSC Seminar Series...

It's a good thing that we were invited by University of the Philippines I.T. Technology Center (UPITTC) and University of Makati (UMAK) to participate in a series of seminars sponsored by the European I.T. Service Center (EITSC) and Hanns Seidel Foundation.

The series of seminars is FREE for all professors from the state colleges and universities (SUCs) and local colleges and universities (LCUs). Seminar topics includes Outsourcing Management, I.T. Project Management , Joomla, Advanced I.T. Project Management, Software Engineering, Cyber Security and Advanced Excel. The seminar runs from July to October of 2010.

Professors from the UCC CS Department who were task to participate in the seminars are required to conduct echo-seminar and/or impart the learning in their own classes. This is still in line with the policy of the department to produce technically competent I.T. professional in the future.