Olivet University Christian Worship course

This is a course of study covering the theology and practice of Christian worship. The course is designed to help students deepen their understanding of worship and examines how to strengthen contemporary worship in its various cultural settings.

RELATION TO THE COLLEGE STATEMENT OF MISSION: JCM of Olivet University students are preparing to spread the Gospel to the “network generation” through music. The local church and the world-wide Christian community continue to use music as a vital expression of their worship of God. Advanced studies in worship will help students be better witnesses to the “network generation” around the world.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: To gain an understanding of the theology and practice of Christian worship.

COURSE TEXTBOOKS:

 Required Textbooks: Learning to Worship with All Your Heart: A Study in the Biblical

Foundations of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, 1996

 Enter His Courts with Praise: A Study of the Role of Music and the Arts in Worship, Robert E. Webber, 1997

 Rediscovering the Christian Feasts: A Study in the Services of the Christian Year, Robert E. Webber, 1998

 Recommended Reading: Recalling the Hope of Glory: Biblical Worship from the Garden to the New Creation, Allen P. Ross, 2006

 Entering His Courts with Praise! Old Testament Worship for the New Testament Church, Andrew E. Hill, 1993

  Understanding, Preparing for, and Practicing Christian Worship,

 Second Edition, Franklin M. Segler, Revised by Randall Bradley, 1996

  Diverse Worship: African-American, Caribbean & Hispanic Perspectives, Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid, 2000

  The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations: Dan Kimball, 2003

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http://olivetit.blogspot.com/2013/02/trip-to-mit.html

Olivet Design Professor Launches Learning Lecture Lab Series

Professor Maurice Woods of Olivet University’s design college is kicking off a lecture series for his youth design education program called Inneract Project, IP.  The first lecture of IP's "Learning Lab" features former Nike Design Director D'Wayne Edwards.  Edwards was the footwear designer for popular sport athletes such as Michael Jordan, current basketball star Carmelo Anthony, and baseball's Derek Jeter.  The event will feature Edwards speaking about his design process as well as his experience in starting up the first shoe design academy in the U.S.  called Pensole Academy.

Edwards began the innovative Footwear Design Academy to offer students the opportunity to train as professional footwear designers with industry leaders.  He left a lucrative career at Nike with hopes to help others achieve their dream of becoming a designer.

Check out the Lecture Learning Lab event on June 14th, at Guerrero Gallery in San Franciso, to learn more about D'Wayne Edwards design process and his innovative academy.  All proceeds from the event will be donated towards helping provide youth free classes and exposure to design field.

For more information, visit http://inneractproject4dwayne.eventbrite.com
Information about D'Wayne Edwards, visit:  http://www.pensole.com
News source: http://www.olivetnews.com/articles/2013/05/28/807/olivet-university-design-professor-launches-learning-lecture-lab-series.htm

Olivet University JSP (Java Server Page) class 2

Web application

Client/server application
DBMS database management system

Set up Tomcat server  http://tomcat.apache.org/
Jar files that need to be available to JRE
servlet-api.jar
jsp-api,jar
el-api.jar
tomcat-dbcp.jar

Olivet University JSP (Java Server Page) class 1

This course studies Web system design and development. Current practices and trends in software design, development, and deployment of web-based systems, with particular emphasis on e-commerce with Java. Projects include the latest technologies and techniques used by the Internet.

RELATION TO THE COLLEGE STATEMENT OF MISSION:

This course provides students with knowledge in the subject of Web-based systems. It advances the mission of Olivet University by equipping students with the practical skills to communicate the Gospel through Web system development on E-service – which is particularly important for effectiveness in the ‘network generation‘ of Olivet community and university.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completing this course, a student at Olivet University should be able to:

(1) understand Web-based systems concept and technology

(2) understand how real-world E-commerce systems are designed and implemented

(3) design and implement various tasks in web-based E-systems.

COURSE TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCES:

Required Textbook/Notes:

(1) Harris, R. Murach's JavaScript and DOM Scriptings, Mikes Murach Associates,

Inc. , 2009

(2) Steelman, A., and Murach, J., Murach's Java Servlets and JSP, Mikes Murach Associates,

Inc. 2nd edition, 2008

References:

Jeffery C. Jackson Web Technologies, A Computer Science Perspective , Person/Prentice Hall, 2007

  

Give to Olivet University web design

Happen to find this

Looks good ~~

http://www.cssmania.com/galleries/2010/10/13/give-to-olivet-university/

What is really below a web application ? from Olivet University

Many times I am also greatly wondering, what is really behind a web application, behind a browser ?

I did a little dive into.

In web application layer, we can open an url as a resource just like open a file.

If written in python, it would be like:

import urllib,urllib2

url = "~~~~"
reply = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url).read())
print reply['~']

....
If you want to scan a page, or make a crawler, you can simply add more code to above to achieve that.

If we move down into protocol layer, the most used protocol is HTTP.

If written in python , it would be like:

import httplib

path = '~~~'
connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(' some url ' )
connection.request('GET',path)
reply = json.load(connection.getresponse().read())
print ....

Other protocol applies too like FTP ... ,  instead of typing the source for many times, the protocol layer set up firstly a connection, and once it binds , we can just use it just like a local file.

If we continue move down, we can set up connection to any port of a remote machine, we called socket.

If written in python, it would be like:

import socket
sock = socket.socket()
sock.sendall('GET / ~~~~
                    '&parameter =~~
                    'Host:  ~~'
                    'User-Agent: ~~'
                    'Connection:  '
reply = sock.recv(port #)

if we print this reply , it can be very raw like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content- Type ~~~

 if you connection to normal HTTP socket port 80

OIT

Olivet University's ARP Platform Myolivet

http://www.myolivet.com/  has three entries for student, staff and faculty.

Olivet University IT course outline on Algorithm Analysis

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is aiming at providing students with an enjoyable introduction to the field of algorithms. It is good that students have some programming experience and some facility with proofs by mathematical induction. The course will cover basic algorithm topics like Sorting and Order Statistics, Data Structures, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithms, Amortized Analysis, Graph Algorithms, and some selected advanced topics.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completing this course, a student should be able to:

(1) Analyze the asymptotic performance of algorithms.

(2) Demonstrate a familiarity with major algorithms and data structures.

(3) Apply important algorithmic design paradigms and methods of analysis.

(4) Synthesize efficient algorithms in common engineering design situations.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

A. Reading:

Carefully read all the assigned reading from the textbook.

B. Exams:

The course will have one midterm and one final.

COURSE TEXTBOOKS:

Required Textbooks:

Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein.

Optional Textbooks:

Aho, Alfred V., John E. Hopcroft, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1974. ISBN: 0201000296.
The classic text, but it lacks topics in network flows and linear programming, as well as more recent algorithms.

———. Data Structures and Algorithms. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1983. ISBN: 0201000237.
Revised and more elementary version of the first six chapters of The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms.

Baase, Sara. Computer Algorithms: Introduction to Design and Analysis. 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988. ISBN: 0201060353.

General reference, although the exposition is sometimes terse or sketchy.

Bentley, Jon Louis. Programming Pearls. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1986. ISBN: 0201103311.
Applications of algorithm design techniques to software engineering.

———. More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988. ISBN: 0201118890.

More applications of algorithm design techniques to software engineering.

———. Writing Efficient Programs. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. ISBN: 0139702512.
Performance hacking extraordinaire.

Brassard, Gilles, and Paul Bratley. Algorithmics: Theory and Practice. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988. ISBN: 0130232432.
Good examples and problems. Focus on methods rather than specific problems.

Chung, Kai Lai. Elementary Probability Theory with Stochastic Processes. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1974. ISBN: 0387900969.

Intuitive introduction to probability.

Even, Shimon. Graph Algorithms. Rockville, MD: Computer Science Press, 1979. ISBN: 0914894218.
Broad treatment of graph algorithms, including network flow and planarity.

Feller, William. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications. 3rd ed. 2 vols. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1968, 1971. ISBN: 0471257087. ISBN: 0471257095.
Excellent reference for probability theory.

Team Projects

Class will be divided into 4-6 person teams. Each team will be provided a set of high-level requirements to be implemented, integrated, and tested. Each team’s requirements will be implemented using a selected set of the computer algorithms covered in the course. Teams may define their own project (subject to instructor approval) or select a project from a list provided by the instructor. By using pseudocode or even practical computer language like C, students should design and fulfill the computer algorithm. Then students learn how to use mathematics and computer to set up a mathematical model and solve the practical problems.

Sample Team Project:

1. FFT algorithm implementation like iterative method. To establish and describe a parallel FFT circuit using pseudocode.
2. To construct a Huffman code and analyze its correctness.

COURSE SCHEDULE:

Week 1 Introduction of Analysis and Design of Algorithms Ch 1,2 -from required Insertion Sort, Mergesort book

Week 2 Sorting,Medians and Other Statistics Ch 6,7,9

Quicksort,heapsort

Week 3 Data Structures I Ch 10

Stacks, queues, linked lists,

Week 4 Data Structures II Ch 11

Hash talbes, Universal Hashing, Perfect Hashing

Week 5 Trees Ch 12,13

Binary Search, Red-Black Tree(Rotations, Insertions, Deletions)

Week 6 Elementary Graph Algorithms Ch 22,23

Representations of graphs, Breadth-first and

Depth-first search, Topological sort, Minimum Spanning Trees

Week 7 Advanced Graph Algorithms Ch 24-26

Shortest Paths, Maximum Flow

Week 8 Midterm

Week 9 Linear Programming Ch 29

Week 10 Dynamic Prgramming Ch 15

Assembly-line scheduling,Matrix-chain multiplication

Longest common subsequence

Week 11 Greedy Algorithm Ch 16

Activity-selection scheduling,Matrix-chain multipliction

Longest common subequence

Week 12 Selected topics 1

Advanced Data Structures Ch 18-20

B-Trees,Binomial Heaps,Fibonacci Heaps

Week 13 Selected topics 1 Ch 32,30,28

String Matching, Polynimials and the FFT,Matrix Operations

Week 14 Selected topics 2 Ch 34,27

NP-Completeness, Sorting Networks

Week 15 Putting It All Together

Review

Week 16 Finals

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ABHE's description of Olivet University Business Program

" Olivet College of Business’s Bachelor of Arts in Business degree is designed to develop business professionals who will meet the needs of professional and effective business services for ministry around the world. The 120-hour undergraduate degree program combines core curricular studies in Bible, general education, and business. Upon graduation, students will be equipped with a Biblical worldview and a professional perspective necessary to contribute to a world revolutionized through Christian mission as business professionals. "

http://www.abhe.etdi.org/index.php?controller=providercourses&task=view&CrsID=4126&option=com_evangelical&Itemid=3

As an IT student, I have a lot of interests to see how business and combine with IT for Christian Mission.

Olivet University Business School New York internet marketing course

John Wanamaker said in 1875 " Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."

This is very true and even more portion of current online marketing advertisement expense is not bringing effect. The needs to define and identify the quality of internet marketing, and to make suitable marketing design is huge.  Olivet University Business school 's this course is very helpful in learning this.

During course, sponsored search advertising, social media advertising (facebook and twitter) , keywords targeting  geography targeting and other interesting topics were covered. 

Olivet University Music students hold worship night

You can imagine it is a very graceful night.
Jubliee College of Music

Some tips on how to Scale a Website

1) front-end level

  - Try best to cache
    Varnish is a good platform for web application cache. It sits in front of the web app.It speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents.
    https://www.varnish-cache.org/
    Behind Varnish we can put other memory based cache like memcached. It is more back end and it is in memory, which is important.          http://memcached.org/

  - performance wise, cookie defeats cache.

 2) server script level

  - avoid unnecessary ORM operations but use template. ORM is basically heavy database operation, which is obvious. Most script language or framework has templates, which allow basic programming ability to display, like accessing, if/for.. etc, but was forbidden from more advanced programming logic, which should be inside of Controller not in View.

  - try to deter everything if possible. Do not run asynch tasks in view function, but queue them for later processing. Also queue sync tasks if it is long-running.

  - pay attention to thundering herd
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

 3) Model and DB design level

  - find fast vs slow data
   fast data change a lot, like last access time
   slow data stay stable mostly, like username
   separate these two kinds of data into different tables

  - Make query as small as possible, so if you want to scale website, not afraid of writing custom SQL query.

  - If query result is huge (especially when query for first time), prerendering can be used. Use possible memory cache for query result if needed.

  - Do joins in SQL not in script

  - Do not let users assemble arbitrary queries

  - Never issue an explicit db lock

  - Do not store session, tasks queue in DB

 4) Server horizontal scaling, Sharding

  - Means using distributed server
  Divide db layer over multiple servers, like by custom, by geography ...

  - make sure common data distributed

  - understand growth model of each part of the data and separate them
     (linear, exponential with user base,  linear over time, constant .. )

 By a programmer at Olivet University

Jubliee Mission, Jubliee College of Music in Los Angeles, CA

Established in Los Angeles, CA, in 2002 as “Jubilee Mission” by a group of university students, the ministry began with a vision to form a non-denominational fellowship of Christian musicians to aid in increasing the presence and quality of Gospel music on campuses. Through partnerships with local fellowships and Christian organizations, the ministry began its growth, gradually extending its influence into other fields of the performing arts, as well as media and education.

In 2007, Jubilee Mission changed its name to Jubilee to represent the organization’s diverse work in the field, which includes several established ministries such as the Jubilee College of Music, BREATHE Music & Dance, (est. 2002), BREATHEcast (est. 2004), the Jubilee Chorus and the Jubilee Symphony Orchestra (est. 2007).

That same year, Jubilee also began to form a Senior Advisory Board to help broaden and strengthen the ministry’s goals and strategies. Current board members include John Styll (President, Gospel Music Association), Howard Rachinski (President, CCLI), and Charley Humbard (President/CEO, Gospel Music Channel)

Jubilee currently operates in over 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Korea and Japan, uniting God’s gifted people locally in a global effort to spread the knowledge of Him to the ends of the earth.

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April 11, 2013, Jubilee New York City was hold its first contemporary worship concert of this year in downtown Manhattan.

The free Jubilee Worship Night will be held tonight at 7pm at the local theater on 45 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, with the door open at 6:30pm.

Jubilee NYC will perform over 10 songs including some from its own production like “Anchor for my soul” which is now available at http://bit.ly/150zWZy.

The full band to perform includes drums, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, piano, violin and group of singers.

Jubilee NYC hopes that this will be the first concert to begin a chain of worship events in New York City. After the concert, the ministry plans to hold regular events each month to gather musicians as well as worshippers in the city.

Currently, the last touches of preparation for the concert are undergoing.

Please say a prayer for the concert to be a success in every way and to be a pleasing offering unto the Lord.

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Google Play Services and GCM api upgraded

During 2013 Google I/O meeting, a block away from Olivet University, Google Play services was introduced in keynotes.

In GCM specially , which is Google Cloud Messaging Api,  a muilti directional data scream api is provided, which adds the ability to scream data from user device through google server to your server. It is quite cool.
Also Google Play services features single sign on different devices of a single user, which was the research and development trend in the last 4 years in Silicon Valley.

Game Api was added to Google Play Services too this year and it is expected that it would be easier than before.

Google I/O 2013 feature Android Studio and Trying it

Google I/O 2013 Meeting was held again at Monscone Center , San Francisco, a block away from Olivet University.

During I/O this year, for our android developers, a new IDE was introduced for android development is Android Studio.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

I try the tool a little bit and in some content it is quite cool. Firstly it make me switch between files, sources much easier. And also it can display the result on diverse screen sites and devices easily.  Its support for the updated GCM api quite well too.

Pending to try more and see whether I will transfer from Eclipse.

Google I/O 2013 Lines Up Innovation, Inspirations and Olivet University attends

The sixth annual Google I/O 2013 conference for software developers was held at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center last week.  In attendance were IT students from Olivet University's Information Technology College, OIT, who soaked in the developer-centric event with glimpses into future products offered by Google. 

At its 3-hour keynote, Google introduced its latest progress for Google+, Hangout, IDE, Chrome, Android devices, music services, and Google Maps. The company announced that there are over 48 billion apps installed from the Google Play store, thanks to 900 million activations of Android devices.

Google's new development environment-Android Studio, which aimed at speeding up code building, was announced. It’s a full IDE with an Android-friendly code editor utilizing margin previews for editing. It also has a live simulator, which can show views in real time on multi screen size devices across multi languages. OIT students tried out the new Android Studio and marveled at its efficiency.  Google added five new features to Google Play Developer Console that can assist developers, particularly OIT students working on Android development in their curriculum.

Google+ provided 41 new features, including new column-based layout of Google+, and its amazing photo tools.  Improvements were made to reduce the labor-intensive works of organizing, sharing, and uploading photos into an easy process. It aims at building a smarter social network using innovative algorithms to improve the user experience. Google’s redesigned its Maps experience for mobile and desktop, making it smarter and more personalized. These changes imply the trends of how technology is being used. Olivet University's IT students are working with trends in mind as Google’s lineup of innovative products offer nothing but inspiration.

http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/news/articles/2013/05/20/806/olivet-university-google-i&-47;o-2013-lines-up-innovation--inspirations.html

Accepting Voice into smartphone

http://www.google.com/mobile/search/
http://www.apple.com/ios/siri/

Paying with your Iphone, not Credit Card

Emerging trends involves getting your credit card in iphone.

One of the platforms I find here is doing this:
https://squareup.com/

It turns the credit into the iphone wallet and you can use iphone to pay. Currently the fee is 2.75% per swipe and no other fee

Qwiki: a new tool to organize and share your iphone photo

http://www.qwiki.com/    start with the idea of turning wikipedia into video search wiki. Backing to 2010, when you type keywords in qwiki, it returned you with a video to describe the keywords from all aspects.

For some unknown reason, it stopped this service but turn to social media in 2011-2012. It provided a tool to let user drag and drop photos and automatically formed a video or movie with or without editing. It is also quite cool too.

However it stopped this service again and currently focusing on photos in smartphones especially in iphone.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id599210280

By this app, you can automatically turn your photo screams in your iphone into movies and share instantly with your friends.

Mobile with Sensor

The website http://www.ot-2.com/ demonstrate quite the idea of combing Mobile and Sensor.
The idea connects iphone/ipod with the vehicle by many useful connections like Meters, Engine checking, Efficiency.

The programming support behind the screen is ios calling programmed c language driver via USB to communicate with the 3rd party devices.

Other applications can be fish-catcher, heart-rate measurement device and fitness devices.

Emerging Mobile SMS Ads ?

Recently I discovered a platform for making SMS ads, which is quite different from the traditional ads platforms.
http://www.zeepmedia.com/

It seems that sms would be quite effective since most people will look at it. And also the site says "You set your own bid in our auction and only pay when someone responds to your SMS ad."

According to

comScore Reports October 2012 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2012/11/comScore_Reports_October_2012_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
Mobile Users top content usage is still SMS and it is growing!
Oct 2012 shows 75.9% of using SMS while only 63.8% as of Feb 2010

It would be a growing advertisement market and it is promising.

Yahoo buying blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion

Yahoo is reportedly buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, a deal that was first reported by All Things D.
The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that the Yahoo board has approved the deal.

It would mark the biggest deal yet for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and it would give the company a big shot-in-the-arm when it comes to reaching the coveted 18 to 34-year-old demographic.

Based in New York, Tumblr boasts 108 million blogs and 175 employees. As part of the deal, All Things D reports that Tumblr CEO David Karp is incentivized to stay at Yahoo for four years. The service, which generated just $13 million in revenue last year, is expected to remain relatively independent.

Yahoo is expected to announce the deal, as well as an update on its Flickr photo sharing service, on Monday, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Yahoo is looking to supercharge efforts under the direction of Mayer. Revenues fell seven percent to $1.1 billion in the first quarter. It finished the quarter with cash, cash equivalents and investments of $5.4 billion.
“We are moving quickly to roll out beautifully designed, more intuitive experiences for our users. I’m confident that the improvements we’re making to our products will set up the company for long-term growth,” said Mayer in the company’s first quarter earnings release last month.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324787004578493130789235150.html
http://www.geekwire.com/2013/report-yahoo-buys-tumblr-11-billion/

Olivet You

Students at Olivet University now have more options to access the school's rich theological and leadership resources in a variety of disciplines.

Olivet YOU is targeted toward individuals who wish to benefit from further education without committing time to an entire program of study.

http://olivetyou.com/

Olivet University Holds Training Session for Dmin Mentors

Director of Olivet University's Zinzendorf School of Doctoral Studies, Dr. Tom Cowley, led a training session for mentors in San Francisco, CA, with hopes of enhancing guidance for Doctor of Ministry candidates.  Dr. Cowley guided a team of Dmin mentors on best practices and reviewed the status of its current candidates.

Mentors listened to lectures on the rewards and challenges of guiding doctoral candidates.  "There is nothing more rewarding than mentoring and coaching a Dmin candidate," said Dr. Cowley during his lecture.

The session included refresher training modules for Turabian formats of papers and other resources that can be utilized for improving mentorship skills. The Turabian video tutorials were also created as resource training for Dmin students.

The session also included report updates on the Zinzendorf School's progress, its upcoming colloquium, and new website. Zinzendorf School of Doctoral Studies' Co-President Dr. Joseph Ray Tallman, greeted participants and gave a report on the program's developments and distinctive. Olivet University's IT team also presented updates on the development of Zinzendorf's intranet website platform that can be used for resources and interaction between faculty, staff, students, and mentors.
Video recordings of the session are available on the D.Min intranet for candidates to access from their countries.

Source:

Ruby on Rails Series: 1 Get running

Setting up Rails can be quite easy.
First Install Ruby and use RubyGem to install rails
gem install rails

check
ruby -v and rails -v to see it is ok

rails new : create new application
if using scaffold it will create restful 7 method: index,show,new,edit,create,update,destroy
after making changes , migrate db using
rake db:migrate

Useful ide can be rubymine.  sqlite is default so for testing is enough, to browser sqlite using sqlite database browser.

rake routes can see all routes

Check more about IT courses at Olivet Institute of Technology

Heads up Olivet University Students: Free Live Webcast of Exponential 2013 with Rick Warren, Francis Chan, Craig Groeschel, and More

The Exponential 2013: DiscipleShift has announced to offer free high-quality live webcast, allowing those who are not able to attend the conference in Orlando, Fla. during April 22-25 to join the big-name speakers including Rick Warren, Francis Chan, and Craig Groeshcel completely online.

This conference on discipleship will focus on five key “shifts” for the church to make and release disciples, which are reaching to making, teaching to modeling, attending to participating, connecting to transforming, and attracting to deploying.

According to its website, the conference in Orland is already sold out with 5,000 registered to attend. While they are still taking names in the waiting list, an alternative solution is to attend what they call the “next best thing to being on-site at Exponential”.

“Jesus gave the Great Commission to everyone,” says Exponential Director Geoff Surratt in a statement on March 20. “These early registration numbers indicate that churches see this webcast as an important equipping tool to challenge and inspire everyone in the church.”

The statement also added that they believe more than 30,000 viewers around the world could be reached through webcast.

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Free Desktop Backgrounds from Olivet University Christian Designers

Check out more pretty Christian Wall paper from 

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Jubilee College of Music Expands Non-Major Opportunities

Olivet University's Jubilee College of Music is expanding learning opportunities for non-music majors.

JCM opened private lessons for piano, voice, composition, and orchestral instruments, and voice performance seminars for non-music major students in 2013 Spring quarter. Instructed by faculty members and graduate assistants, the lessons and seminars are available for credit or non-credit.

"This program will give opportunities for non-majors who wish to pursue their love for music while studying at Olivet University," said Emily Ko, JCM violin instructor.

Originally, only student majors enrolled in the program are allowed to take any music related courses.  Due to the interest and demand for educational experiences in other fields, JCM has taken steps to make it possible through its new offerings.   Applications are available now at the student service center. 

It is a great news for non-music people like me but also am fond of music and wish to learn !

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http://jcm.olivetuniversity.edu

We have guest from WEA Mission Commission

See more at
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Olivet Institute of Technology open Android Programming Class at San Francisco

Olivet Institute of Technology  opened the course for android development in Spring quarter.

This course covers fundamentals of software development for Android platforms, basic Java development concepts and excursions into advanced mobile device development. About 20 students registered this course.

Upon completion of this course, student will have 3 outcomes:

(1) understand fundamentals of the Android platform;
(2) be able to design, develop, and publish applications for Android platforms;
(3) have an introduction to various APIs that are common to mobile platforms.

http://oit.olivetuniversity.edu/

http://www.android.com/

Olivet University theology student in Los Angeles

A dozen of Olivet University theology students headed south this summer to begin their short term mission in Los Angeles for about three weeks.  Hopeful reports are streaming in as students from the Olivet Theological College and Seminary are passionately practicing what they have learned from the classroom.

Courses in evangelism offered at Olivet University included models developed by the late Dr. Ralph D. Winter such as the E-scale, which refers to the cultural difference between the missionary and the person he or she is witnessing to.

Olivet University students coming to study from foreign countries use their diverse cultural background as an advantage to connect to people during evangelism trips.

"We have group bible study four days a week. We give Bible Studies in both English and Chinese to cater to the different groups of individuals we’re meeting,” said OTCS student Gloria Tang.

"Sometimes people show no interest, but whenever I encounter those who are seeking the Bible, there is nothing more thrilling. I realize that evangelism is bringing the people that God has already prepared," added Tang.


Olivet students seek to be trained in preaching the Gospel effectively through academics and practical hand-on experience.  One of the churches that Olivet students are collaborating with is the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church in Orange County. The church also provides spiritual and Biblical trainings for the short-term missionaries.

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Olivet University Washington, D.C. program to be enhanced with production facilities

Olivet University Washington, D.C. program to be enhanced with production facilities

March 12, 2013

Olivet College of Journalism's Washington D.C. program is preparing to equip students with practical training and learning opportunities in the nation's capital at new campus facilities this spring.

 

According to Director Eunice Or, classrooms are being designed at offices that were formerly home to God TV, which is known for its faith-based programs broadcasted across the globe.

 

As soon as April, participants of OCJ's Washington program will be gaining academic and internship credit as well as professional skills learning in offices equipped with broadcasting sets/studios, video editing suites, newsroom, and other production facilities, perfect for training students in the area of visual news production.  

 

The Washington D.C. program is focused on placing students in professional local internships and providing related academic programming.

 

With more than 5,000 journalists living and working in the D.C. area, OCJ's journalism program is positioned ideally in the nation’s capital working alongside these professionals.

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Olivet University San Francisco Students Developping Anti-Plagiarism Software

Plagiarism may be centuries old, but the practice has certainly not lost its relevance. With a plethora of resources and content being produced on a daily basis all of which are easily accessible via the internet, plagiarism seems to be a growing trend and a growing problem not only within cyberspace but also within academic space.


Students at Olivet University's Institute of Technology in San Francisco are opting to help solve plagiarism, a practice that has arguably been plaguing not only several online media companies but also university institutions and its professors.
"All institutions deal with the universal challenges of preventing and detecting plagiarism in student work. Cheating has become easier in today's digital age. Copying and pasting materials from the web onto assignments are causing concerns for faculty who have to monitor a growing number of student in their class," read one of the University's recent article.


The University's website also adds that the students will present the work by the end of first quarter of 2013.
Many institutions around the world are ramping up their efforts and investing resources in this growing issue in order to better detect and fight off these maligned practices.
One other example is found in Nigerian Federal Universities which have recently partnered up with an UK IT firm in order to deploy anti-plagiarism software throughout the institutions in order to better detect according to the News Agency of Nigeria.


The project was spearheaded by the Committee of Vice-chancellors in Nigeria and so far it has received only praise.
Dayo Duyile, the head of the mass communication department at Joseph Ayo Babalola University, called the action a "good move" while other professors from other institutions such as Ademola Onifade, director of the Centre for Environment and Science Education at Lagos State University, lauded the initiative.
On a parallel note, plagiarism may even relate to politicians who were once students at higher institutions.
According to The Daily Tarheel, a investigation in Russia is underway that may target plagiarism among top political figures such as President Vladimir Putin.
"Plagiarism has been a widespread problem in Russia since the Soviet Union fell in the 1990s. The probe is the first of its kind in Russian history," says Donald Raleigh according to the website.
Back in February, current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev informed of this anti-plagiarism investigation into Russian Universities targeting the fraudulent practices.

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Students Get Hands-On in VMware Forum from Olivet University

Olivet University IT Students participated in an online VMware Forum for a hands-on experience about VMware's virtualization software. The session allowed participants to learn about VMware IT products and solutions for enhanced mobility, utilization of cloud, and security.  VMware uses cloud-computing software providing virtualization for servers and operating systems.  

The forum’s online chat with VMware experts and live break out sessions allowed deeper discussion of proper implementation and setup.  IT students work with the virtualization software and hardware to improve management and organization of personal desktops.  Collaborating with IT professionals and forums, the team worked on a sample entry level enterprise solution that acts as a training ground towards setting up a larger mid-range solution.  Part of the university’s R&D department are already utilizing virtualization to make IT services more accessible ranging from laptops, phones, and tablets.  

VMware will be having its 10th year anniversary of VMworld in San Francisco in August.  The event is expected to host 21,000 attendees this year. Olivet’s IT College plans to attend the event to engage with market leading technology for business and growth.  

For information about the VMworld 2013 event, go to www.vmworld.com.

Source: http://olivetuniversity.edu/news/articles/2013/05/03/798/olivet-university-students-get-hands-on-in-vmware-forum.html

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