Microsoft and YCAB Foundation and local government of DIY again held Jogja Cyber Province event located at Wanitatama Building Yogyakarta starting at 09.00 until finished. Jogja Cyber Province which lasted for two days has one of the activities of Realization Jogja Cyber Province which was held on the second day, May 16, 2017. Press Conference was attended by Muhammad Farhan as YCAB General Secretary, Ruben Hattari as Director of Corporate Affairs Microsoft Indonesia, and Baskoro Aji as the Head of Education Office of DI Yogyakarta Province. The 15-minute Press Conference shows the press's great attention to academic and social activities, where some media, broadcasters, printers, and bl...

Microsoft YouthSpark is a global initiative for young people to study computers and prepare them to grow independently within the community. In these 4 years, Microsoft has given these opportunities to more than 300 million young people in the world. Many of those who have been able to provide change not only in their own lives but also into the lives of others and have a real impact in the community. Since 2013, Microsoft has collaborated with Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) to hold Microsoft YouthSpark in Indonesia, YCAB itself focuses on developing and empowering young people. This program focuses on giving young people the opportunity to learn programming, as well as trying to apply...

Saturday (22/04) Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) Yogyakarta held Global Azure Bootcamp 2017. This is a simultaneous event conducted in several countries. In this event, MIC Yogyakarta brings a special theme about "Azure as Digital Transformation Platform to Preserve Tourism and Culture", this is in accordance with the position of Yogyakarta as a city of tourism closely with the culture. The event was followed by various circles, ranging from students, educators, developers and startup. Approximately 20 people attended the event at Jogja Digital Valley. There are two speakers in this event, Dr. Ridi Ferdiana (Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio, Researcher, MIC Lead) and Erick Kurniawan (Mi...

Microsoft YouthSpark has entered the third phase with the different theme from the previous workshop. In the first workshop, the participants learned about Kodu and the second workshop using Minecraft, then at the third workshop, participants were taught to create a game world using CS Unplugged and Project Spark. Workshop CS Unplugged is a series of Microsoft YouthSpark 2017 Yogyakarta focused on improving the educational competence and competitiveness of students in the field of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology). This activity focuses on the teaching and practice of computer science relating to the recognition method without using a computer. This method was stu...

As a continuation of the previous workshop, certification and education division, Microsoft Innovation Center in collaboration with E-library, Faculty of Engineering UGM held workshop "Word for Academics" phase II. In this event, it covered the same materials as the previous workshop. This workshop attempted to discuss how to create Word formatting. As a variant of Microsoft Office ProPlus, Word offers a variety of features to Facilitate the user in composing and writing documents. In the academic field, either schools, colleges or other educational institutions, there are many conditions that must be affixed in the preparation of the document, such as writing research reports, thesis or ...

In educational environments, creating paper or research is something that must be done by academics. Various issues arise related to the manufacture of paper template. Most scholars make the format in the form of a manual and they do not know that Microsoft Word provides an automatic feature that will certainly facilitate in creating paper format. Therefore, Certification and Education Division, Microsoft Innovation Center in collaboration with E-Library, Faculty of Engineering UGM held an workshop with the theme "Word for Academic". As a variant of Microsoft Office ProPlus, Word offers a variety of features to facilitate the user in composing and writing documents. In the academic field...

One of 21st century challenges at education field is preparing graduates students who can compete in the global competition. New ways are needed for the teacher to innovate their teaching and learning. Technology-based approach be one that has been proven to provide a solution, by presenting a variety of tools that can bring students to the new experience in learning and improving teacher effectiveness in their activities in the school. As a company that concern in education technology tools, Microsoft considers that it is important to be a part education transformation. Some of digital tools, curriculum competencies through a variety of professional career development opportunities pres...

MSEC (Microsoft Educator Community) Campaign is an activity program that focuses on enhancing teachers' competencies through integrated technology in their classroom. By utilizing a variety of resources and materials contained on Microsoft Classroom portal, this activity has the objective of maximizing the usefulness of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in teaching and learning. Carrying the concept of training-to-trainer, from Microsoft Certified Expert to teachers, this workshop is expected to impact continuous. Besides, with the intention of teachers enrolled into this activity to become influencers are able to provide examples and understanding of the material learned to ...

Minecraft Education Edition is a series of Microsoft YouthSpark Yogyakarta in 2017 that focuses on enhancing educational competence and competitiveness among students in the field of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology). This activity is a continuation of the workshop that was held earlier which used Touchdevelop as a media to create a game. However, this workshop focused on teaching techniques and practices regarding on the use of Minecraft: Education Edition as a platform to increase collaboration between teachers and students in learning and teaching. Simply through this game, players can create a play area and in it the teacher or students can work together solvi...

TechTalk Office 365 for Education is a session facilitated by Microsoft Innovation Center in partnership with Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. Specifically, It was held by Certification and Education Division and it was led by Randi Eka Yonida as Manager of certification and education division. This workshop aimed to share about the advantages of Office 365. This event was held at January 25 – 26, 2017 at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) and it was attended by around 70 lecturers from the Medical Faculty. First, the participants were guided to activate their 365 account. Then they were guided by the facilitator to learn the basic of One Note, including how to create a sectio...