Team Windows7ako in Action: Another Successful Seminar / Lecture @ MAPUA Institute of IT

It’s an amazing or maybe funny thing for a Medical Technologist to stand right in front of graduating IT students talking about technologies which is not related to a medical profession at all.   Take note this students spent four years of their lives studying Information Technology which means that they are far more better than me when it comes to IT.  The thing is, even a Medical Technologist can amaze an Information Technologist.  My colleagues in my workplace are very amazed with my vast knowledge in information technology and they always ask me, “why did you became a Medical Technologist when you are far better to become an IT Pro?  I always answer “It’s because God knows where I’m most needed,” and now He gave me the chance to pursue IT in my own way wherein I can enjoy both worlds :)

Okay, enough with the dramatic  introduction.  Before our lecture / demo at DLSU, Christopher Ryan Abary already informed me that he was invited at Mapua Institute of IT to talk about Cloud Computing with SharePoint Collaboration and he wants John Erwin Magno and I to come and discuss MS Office 2010.  Tentative date of the said seminar is on August 19, 2010 but after talking with Kyle Villaflor from Mapua, the date was moved today, August 26, 2010 at 3 PM.  By the way Kyle is the one who invited us.  She’s a graduating IT student from Mapua School of IT. 

It was evening of August 19, 2010, after planning and collaboration at my workplace we (Erwin, Christopher, and I) met Kyle at a coffee shop located at Makati Cinema Square to give her an overview of what are we going to discuss in their seminar.  We asked her what they really want to hear from us because let’s admit it cloud computing is a broad topic.  In conclusion we agreed that Christopher will discuss Collaboration with SharePoint and Erwin and I will discuss MS Office 2010. Erwin and I divided the Office 2010 topic.  He’ll discuss and demo PowerPoint and Excel 2010 and as for me I’ll be discussing Word and OneNote 2010. 

After days and nights preparing our PowerPoint decks and studying our topics here comes the judgment day (haha)  wherein we are going to deploy and share our knowledge.  It’s 2PM of August 26, 2010, Erwin and Christopher fetch me at my workplace (Philcare, Inc).  After asking permission from my manager to allow me to have a 2 hour under time which she granted after telling her that I’ll be one of the resource speaker at Mapua (Thanks Dr. Espiritu for understanding and allowing me to leave the clinic premises 2 hours earlier).  We then proceeded at a coffee shop near Mapua where Kyle agreed to meet us. 

We started the lecture at about 3:30 in the afternoon.  Christopher started it by discussing what is Cloud Computing and Collaboration with SharePoint 2010.  Followed by a brief talk from Mapua’s MSPs introducing Windows Live, Imagine Cup and Microsoft Student Partner.  Now here comes my part, since our time is running out, Erwin and I decided to go fast track but without compromising quality.  Using the decks I prepared (enhanced by Erwin – the PowerPoint Master! Thanks Bro!), I started by giving them an overview of what’s new with Office 2010, followed by Microsoft Word 2010, then followed by Erwin’s deck  for PowerPoint and Excel, and lastly for my ending, OneNote!  Then we performed our live demo on Office 2010 new and improved features which amazed our audience and because Office 2010 has a lot to offer.  For our last demo we showed them the collaboration (co-authoring) feature of Office 2010 using the free Office WebApp in Windows Live.  We also raffled four special items to make our brief stay there more memorable. 

Team Windows7ako in Action (Mapua School of IT) VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

It was really amazing for me to stand of IT people discussing a topic that might be easy for them and a bit hard for me.  But as they said “do what you desire to do and do it well and you will be rewarded.”  If you’ll ask me what did I got from doing this, I’ll say happiness and fulfillment.  To Kyle and the Mapua IT students, thank you guys for inviting us!

My certificate of appreciation.  Christopher, Erwin, and I was presented with this certificate after the seminar. ;)