Meeting with IBM Academic Alliance and MPICT, San Mateo
26 Feb 2009
http://www.mpict.org/
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01005c/university/scholars/academicinitiative

The Mid Pacific ICT Center is the new center to coordinate, promote and improve the quality of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) education in this region. They organized a meeting with a group inside IBM, the "Academic Initiative", that promotes open standards, open source, and IBM resources for academia. We were looking for ways that we could work together to help our students.

IBM has a website that outlines their academic initiative, which includes curriculum maps, courseware, free access to IBM's expensive software development tools, and more. See link above.

I am hoping I can find resources to help me teach students how to work in teams, manage projects, collaborate online, facilitate discussion. I would also like to make a videotape of some IBMers stating tha they value these soft skills.