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Prof. Dawn Spencer
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY - PUEBLO
COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT

Link to Colorado State University-Pueblo Home PageLink to Hasan School of Business Home PageOffice: HSB253
Office Phone: 719-549-2757 (LIZ-ASKS)  (email is better)
Office Hours:
  see Schedule link to the left
E-mail: prof@dawnspencer.com 

Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $59.95 (for real!) or Vista Ultimate upgrade for $65
Microsoft FREE developer and design tools Visual studio, Server 2003/2008, etc. Similar items as you can get from Dr. Huff, but downloadable.

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test

Talk to me to register for a trade meeting. You must preregister for most of them. Future meetings you can attend, to plan ahead are:

bulletFebruary 16, 2011 ISSA-COS Luncheon Bambino's in Colorado Springs 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
I will leave at 10:30 sharp from the CIS tutor room and return about 1:45.
bulletISSA-COS March Conference March 17, 2011 Colorado Springs Crowne Plaza (all day)
I will probably go for the morning and leave early to be back before 2:00
bullet 2011 Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit
April 25-27 and includes a day of Enterprise and Service Provider tutorials.  Day 2 of the conference covers multi-track subjects with expert speakers
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=naox5fdab&oeidk=a07e3a7v8aid91b1edd&oseq=a01acg4c3htny
This has a standard conference fee, but student (over-18) discount is available. I don't know if I will be able to attend or not.

Plagiarism

Is it Plagiarism Yet? from Purdue. There are additional resources/explanation attached to this page.
Plagiarism.org

IT Security

bulletCheck out this list of average salaries for people with particular certifications (look at CompTIA Security+!):
    http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/mediatec/cm1208/#/22
    http://www.certmag.com/read2.php?in=4242 

Books/Magazines available for check-out:

bulletMany Microsoft and CompTIA certification study guides.
bulletSearching for a job? There was a speaker on campus Spring 2003 who really seemed to have done his research and had a lot of good tips on how to get hired. I purchased his book for you to check out from me if you are interested. 
BTW: It's a thin book! From College to the Real World by James Malinchak
bulletMany others, come and look in my office.

Other points of interest:

bulletNetworks Lab Room Schedule
 
bulletMIT OpenCourseWare (see the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept)

 

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