faculty summit student thought leeaders know the cloud

Student Thought Leaders KNOW the Cloud

Faculty Summit

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Focused on Cloud/Professional Developer

Host: D³: LIVE & INTERACTIVE, TechDays TV, and the AlignIT Manager Tech Talk.

Moderator: Canadian Developer Connection on LinkedIn

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Jonathan Rozenblit

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Cloud’s Importance Today

Some say “the Cloud is coming”

THE CLOUD IS HERE

THE CLOUD IS MATURING FAST

Companies are learning just how much the Cloud can impact bottom line and .

Cloud’s Importance Moving Forward

Entering the workforce, Students will need to have:

Cloud knowledge Development Architecture

Cloud experience

Companies are lookingCompanies are expecting

People who know the Cloud

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Growing Cloud Thought Leaders

It starts in the classrom

Teaching Resources

• Curricula Resources Course work, code, and labs for classroom use:o Windows Azureo Windows Phone +

Windows Azure

Teaching Resources

• Faculty Connection Resource Kit

http://aka.ms/cloudreskit

Teaching Resources

• Windows Azure Training Kit Content, demos, hands-on labs

http://aka.ms/azuretrainingkit

Educator Grants

• Microsoft provides grants for educators wanting to use Windows Azure platform in their curricula.

• Grants facilitated through Windows Azure Academic Passes, which provide resources for a period of 5 months from the date of redemption.

http://aka.ms/azureforedu

Recommendations

• Dedicated course• Existing course

o 3-4 week segment – content and labso 1 time “workshop” – tour and lab

Continues outside the classroom

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Local User Groups

Social Media

Twitter@cdnazure

LinkedInlinkd.in/CdnDevs

Facebookfacebook.com/windowsazure

MSDNeNews

Outside the Classroom

Local Events

Online Learning

Canadian Developer Connectionblogs.msdn.com/cdndevs

TechDays Onlinetechdays.ca

MSDNmsdn.microsoft.com

We can help

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@jrozenblit

Developer AdvisorMicrosoft Canada

Focused on Cloud/Professional Developer

Host: D³: LIVE & INTERACTIVE, TechDays TV, and the AlignIT Manager Tech Talk.

Moderator: Canadian Developer Connection on LinkedIn

jrozenblit.ca

Jonathan Rozenblit

ca.linked.in/in/jrozenblit

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