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 For
the second year in a row, the National and Mid-Pacific ICT
Centers co-produced a great Winter ICT Educator Conference in
San Francisco.
This year’s Winter 2010 ICT Educator conference attracted 170
registrations. Because faculty travel is difficult in this
economic climate, the National and Mid-Pacific ICT Centers
provided local stipends or travel assistance money to help
qualified community college faculty in ICT related programs
attend. Attendance was otherwise free.
The event began with everyone gathering at an outstanding
facility in the
Westfield Center shopping and business complex, which was
generously donated by Microsoft. City College of San Francisco
Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Dr. Alice Murillo,
welcomed everyone, and MPICT’s James Jones provided an initial
orientation presentation. Microsoft evangelists Kenny Spade
and Sam Stokes then provided an inspiring keynote on Taking
Advantage of Cloud Computing, Games and Competitions to
improve ICT education.
Keynote presentation at Microsoft Facilities
On the second morning, again at Microsoft’s location, the
National ICT Center’s Gordon Snyder provided an ICT tech
update, and Karl Kapp of Bloomsburg University provided an
entertaining and inspiring keynote on the use of virtual
worlds, Web2.0 and smartphones to improve educational
excellence.
Karl Kapp inspires new thoughts and strategies
At 10:30 each morning, we then walked around the corner to the
City College of San Francisco Downtown Campus, on the
corner of 4th and Mission Streets, for breakout sessions.
CCSF Downtown Campus Hosted Breakout Sessions
Over two days, there was an outstanding collection of
presentations from representatives of business and industry,
including:
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CompTIA on updates to its programs
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EMC on including storage in ICT curriculum
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VMware on virtualization
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Microsoft on cloud computing
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Cisco on its Networking Academy
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Microsoft on programming through game development
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Juniper Networks on its Academic Alliance
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Alcatel-Lucent on mobility training
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Cengage Learning on teaching PC repair
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HDI on HDI and ITIL credentials
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World Organization of Webmasters on teaching web
professionals
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Cengage Learning and EC Council on Ethical Hacking
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IBM on DB2 Fundamentals and SQL Programming
Microsoft's Kenny Spade, Sam Stokes and Cloud Computing
Educators from the MPICT region presented topics of particular
interest to ICT educators in the MPICT region, including:
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Scenario-based learning in technical courses
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The Nevada IT Education NSF project and its great progress
in Nevada
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ePortfolios and ICT competency assessment by the California
Virtual Campus
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CSU-Monterey Bay’s CSIT baccalaureate degree options that
accept community college IT program course transfers
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The CompTechS computer refurbishing and reuse program
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ICT in K-12 educational systems by the California Department
of Education
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The Sacramento CPATH Project
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A roundtable discussion on SLO practices in ICT education
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The CAPathways K-12 to community college articulation and
transfer pathways project
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Improving teaching and learning through CCCConfer
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California’s New Media and Entertainment initiative
Attendees absorb new information in breakout session
ICT educators from within the MPICT region and from across the
nation presented high quality ICT education practices and
topics, including:
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How to secure grants for community college ICT education
initiatives
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Web2.0
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A sustainable 2+2 articulation program
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Mobile application development programs
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Using lab application servers to teach networking
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Smart energy and smart-grids
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A Year-Up collaboration between a CBO and community college
to serve at risk populations
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Finding ICT Open Textbooks that meet accessibility
requirements
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Video compositing and special effects for video in ICT
education
Learning by doing in hands-on session
Many of the sessions included hands-on or otherwise
interactive and participatory elements, including:
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Microblogging and Twitter
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The iPhone SDK in the classroom
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Hands-on with Windows7
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Digital home technology integration
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ACM’s new SIGITE model curriculum
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Teaching interoperability in a Green IT environment
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How virtualization reduces call center costs
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Computer forensics
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Bringing industry voices into the classroom as a 21st
century teaching and learning strategy and practice
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Engaging female students with Web2.0
We attempted to make it possible to join each session at the
Winter Conference remotely in real time. Among those who took
advantage of that opportunity was a snowed-in faculty member
in dark Alaska.
Most presentation sessions are archived and can be viewed any
time. Go to
www.mpict.org/mpict_presentations.html. Under Winter 2010
ICT Educator Conference 1/7-8/10, click on
Agenda and Links to Recorded Presentations to download a
spreadsheet version of the agenda. Titles that are links
launch archives. (Follow instructions)
Dr. Alice Murillo, Sam Stokes and Bill Saichek making
connections
We got to know each other, and we had fun.
Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make this event
a success!
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