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For the 4th year in a row, MPICT and the National ICT Center
NSF Advanced Technological Education Centers are partnering to
create a Winter ICT Educator Conference, January 5-6, 2012, in
San Francisco.
 It
is co-hosted by the new California Community College (CCC) ICT
Collaborative, created by the CCC State Chancellor’s office
with Perkins 1B funds to coordinate and improve ICT education
at all 112 of California’s Community Colleges, and the
BATEC and
CSSIA NSF
ATE National Centers.
The conference features an outstanding
agenda of more than 50 presentations from ICT industry
and ICT education representatives.
The theme for the 2012 Winter Conference is “ICT Education for
ICT Employment – Even Now”.
Even in this time of high unemployment and education funding
cuts, quality ICT education leads to quality ICT employment,
and that positively impacts the economy – at many levels.
Let’s share quality ICT education information, resources and
practices, improve ICT education, help people find good ICT
jobs and help improve this poor economy – now!
U.S. community college educators in ICT-related programs are
invited to attend this event free, with the possibility of
receiving a stipend or partial expense reimbursement.
The conference will take place Thursday and Friday, January
5-6, 2012. From 8:00 to 10:10 each day, morning coffee and
keynote presentations will be held at Microsoft’s San
Francisco facilities at 835 Market Street, Suite 700, by the
Powell Street BART/MUNI stations.
Thursday’s keynote "Building the IT Workforce of the Future"
by Steven Ruggiero, Director of IT Operations at Facebook,
will be followed by "Good But Challenging Times for ICT
Educators" by MPICT’s James Jones.
Friday, "The Digital Divide: Closing the Gap with Mobile" by
the ICT Center’s Gordon Snyder will precede a keynote on
"Challenges to Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century" by
Jim Gaston of the South Orange County Community College
District, Office of Information Technology.
Breakout sessions will then be held in San Francisco State
University Downtown Campus classrooms in that same building on
the 6th Floor.
We will finish around 7:30pm on Thursday, following a hosted
networking opportunity in the Educated Palate Restaurant at
the City College of San Francisco Downtown campus on the
corner of 4th and Mission Streets, and at 4pm on Friday.
For those who are not able to physically attend the event,
most sessions will be made available remotely via the Internet
in real time via CCC Confer (Blackboard Collaborate). Check
the MPICT website at
www.mpict.org in the "Currently Featuring" section of the
home page for instructions on how to join remotely for free!
It works with any computer, using any browser, at any
connection speed, from anywhere.
Even if you are able to attend the event in person, it is not
possible to attend every session. Most sessions will be
recorded and available as CCC Confer archives. (Archives
from the 2011 Winter Conference have been viewed about
2,000 times.) Many sessions will also be converted for viewing
on MPICT’s YouTube Channel at
www.youtube.com/mpictcenter.
Check the MPICT website at
www.mpict.org in the "Currently Featuring" section of the
home page for instructions on how to view presentations later
for free!
In 2011, 95.8% of attendees rated the conference excellent or
good, and nobody rated it marginal or poor. Attendees always
report opportunities to network with peers and industry
representatives as among most valuable conference aspects.
According to one attendee: “… the sessions were excellent.
Helped to motivate me to continue teaching as a CC instructor
who was feeling demotivated and demoralized with the petty
cuts by our state.”
This year, there is a track throughout the conference on
topics related to improving diversity in ICT education and
workforce, an important issue most programs are struggling
with.
Check it out – in person, remotely in real time, or later
online!
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