Winter 2010 ICT Educator Conference Approaching
For the second year in a row, the National and Mid-Pacific
ICT Centers are producing a Winter ICT Educator Conference,
January 7-8, 2010, in San Francisco.
It will feature presentations from industry sources of ICT
educational resources and from the NCICT and MPICT educator
communities on quality ICT educational practices. In this
tough economic climate, we all benefit from sharing what
works well, so the impact of good work expands beyond
individual classrooms.
Community college educators in ICT-related programs
 are
invited to participate in this free event, by coming to San
Francisco, joining conference sessions live over the
Internet, and/or by viewing archived presentations later via
links on our website.
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Phase 1 Distributed ICT Education Pilot Completed
During Fall of 2009, MPICT initiated a pilot project to test
a new distributed ICT education delivery model.
This hybrid course delivery model allows students to
participate in the class "live," either by being physically
present in class, or by joining the live, interactive
Internet delivery of the class through the CCC Confer
version of the Elluminate platform. It allows all students
access to archived lectures and demonstrations any time via
the Internet, and it allows access to a closed-captioning
record of what went on in each class, creating the
opportunity for new strategies in student note-taking.
Students have remote access to professors through online
office
 hours,
and they can do lab exercises on real equipment remotely.
This model has great potential.
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Inside This
Issue:
Season's Greetings!
May 2010 Be a Great Year for You and
for ICT Education!
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Convergence Technology Center (CTC) Efforts
MPICT is not the only Center funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
program to improve ICT education. Other relevant and related
centers include the
ICT
Center and
BATEC in
Massachusetts,
CREATE in California,
CTC and
GeoTech in Texas,
CSEC
in Oklahoma,
CyberWatch in the DC area,
CSSIA in
Illinois, and
NWCET in
Washington State. ICT
 educators
would benefit from visits to any of these centers’ websites.
The Convergence Technology Center (CTC), for example has
been operating in Texas for more than 5 years under P.I. Dr.
Ann Beheler.
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