<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Forwarded from your new ITSA team. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">S</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear IT students and Alums,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I hope this message finds you well, </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Our plan is as follows :</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#0000ff">Events :</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Organize the playful learning conference here at OU for the second year.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Conduct Weekly workshops introducing the latest technologies and their uses in education.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Host speakers from across the country and internationally if circumstances permit.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- 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.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#0000ff">Marketing and promotion</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Rebuild the ITSA website and social media presence to reflect the new spirit,mission and vision of the IT program.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Create a central hub for job posting.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Create a central hub for the research projects our students and alums are working on.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Create a central hub for all recourses students during their academic venture and after they graduate.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Creating a hub to advertise the research,presentations and publications of our students and the alums alike.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- 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. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#0000ff">Academics:</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Organize Portfolio workshops for MA students</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Organize Comps groups to help students taking Comps through the process.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Organize Dissertation groups to help students throughout the process.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#0000ff">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 </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#ff0000">Please make sure you like us on Facebook to keep track of our latest news @</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#ff0000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#ff0000"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Instructional-Technology-Scholars-Association/180821188599960?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Instructional-Technology-Scholars-Association/180821188599960?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal</a></font><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Mohamad Al-Issa</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ma187509@ohio.edu" target="_blank">ma187509@ohio.edu</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#38761d">ITSA Executive Board Members:</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div><div><div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d">President : Mohamad Al-Issa<br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d">VP: Mohamed Smahi</font></div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><font color="#38761d">Treasure: Samuel Antwi<br><br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d">Programming officers : Jeff Khun, Patrick Mose, Paa Kwesi, John Ekpee<br></font></div></div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><font color="#38761d">Public relations/ Marketing officer : Fatima Ibrahim<br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d">Communication and Social Media: Nasiha Arif</font></div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><font color="#38761d">Secretary: Filipo Lubua<br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d"><br></font></div><div><font color="#38761d">Webmaster: Tracy Robinson</font></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Seann M. Dikkers, PhD<br>Assistant Professor, Educational Studies <br><br>388 McCracken Hall<br>Dept. Educational Studies<br>The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education<br>Ohio University<br>Athens, OH 45701<br><br>Gaming Matter Research Group @ <a href="http://www.gamingmatter.com" target="_blank">http://www.gamingmatter.com</a><br><br></div>
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