Forwarded from your new ITSA team. Best, S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear IT students and Alums, I hope this message finds you well, My name is Mohamad Al-Issa I am the new president of ITSA. A new group of outstanding students has been elected to serve as the executive board of ITSA for the academic year 2014-15 (Names listed below), on behalf of the group I would like give you all an idea about our plan for this year. Your suggestions, ideas, participation, are always welcome. Our plan is as follows : Events : - Organize the playful learning conference here at OU for the second year. - Conduct Weekly workshops introducing the latest technologies and their uses in education. - Host speakers from across the country and internationally if circumstances permit. - Organize field trips to educational institutions in Ohio and other states to help introduce the IT students to the work environment and the real life implementations of technologies. Marketing and promotion - Rebuild the ITSA website and social media presence to reflect the new spirit,mission and vision of the IT program. - Create a central hub for job posting. - Create a central hub for the research projects our students and alums are working on. - Create a central hub for all recourses students during their academic venture and after they graduate. - Creating a hub to advertise the research,presentations and publications of our students and the alums alike. - Create a central hub of funding recourses available for students and alums, locally through OU, nationally through educational or governmental organizations and internationally through international organizations and institutions. Academics: - Organize Portfolio workshops for MA students - Organize Comps groups to help students taking Comps through the process. - Organize Dissertation groups to help students throughout the process. In short, we want to create a community that can help you when you a student and after you graduate, a community you all will be proud to belong too, your help is much needed, any participation, assistance, suggestions, ideas or even criticism are always welcome, please don't hesitate to contact me with anything Please make sure you like us on Facebook to keep track of our latest news @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Instructional-Technology-Scholars-Association/180821188599960?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal Sincerely, Mohamad Al-Issa ma187509 at ohio.edu ITSA Executive Board Members: President : Mohamad Al-Issa VP: Mohamed Smahi Treasure: Samuel Antwi Programming officers : Jeff Khun, Patrick Mose, Paa Kwesi, John Ekpee Public relations/ Marketing officer : Fatima Ibrahim Communication and Social Media: Nasiha Arif Secretary: Filipo Lubua Webmaster: Tracy Robinson -- Seann M. Dikkers, PhD Assistant Professor, Educational Studies 388 McCracken Hall Dept. Educational Studies The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 Gaming Matter Research Group @ http://www.gamingmatter.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/itech/attachments/20140920/ef2aa219/attachment.html
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