The GeoTech Center is proud to announce the first annual competition based
upon the new Department of Labor Geospatial Technology Competency Model.
The competition is open to any two year community and technical college
student currently enrolled in a geospatial technology course or program.
The competition requires a pre-registration and the first round begins
January 31, 2011.
Please announce the competition to your qualified students as early as
possible. Information regarding qualification, rules, and how to apply can
be found online here
Guitars in the Classroom? Absolutely. This National Science Foundation STEM Guitar Project provides innovative professional development to high school and community college faculty in collaborative design and rapid manufacturing. Faculty teams will take part in an intense five day guitar design/build project. Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar and will engage in student centered learning activities that relate the guitar design to specific math, science and engineering topics. Participants will leave this weeklong experience with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules that can be immediately integrated into the faculty team's school curriculum, and much more.
This workshop is being held in San Diego, CA from June 27th through July 1st.
For more information click here.
Collaborating with 12 community colleges and Bio-Link, the DNA Learning Center (DNALC) is offering week-long Genomic Approaches in BioSciences workshops. Workshop participants will explore cutting-edge science tools, hands-on laboratories, bioinformatic investigations, and careers. Participants will update their pedagogy while networking with biotech leaders and colleagues. Faculty from secondary education, 2-year colleges, and universities are invited to apply. The National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education’s Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) program is funding all instruction, workshop materials, meals/refreshments, and a stipend of $300. Further support for travel or other related expenses is not available.
The Genomic Approaches in BioSciences workshops will focus on four key technologies – PCR, DNA Sequencing, RNA interference, and Bioinformatics – that will prepare students for specialized life science elective courses, independent research projects, and biotechnology careers.
Genomic Approaches in BioSciences will integrate theoretical, laboratory, and computer technology with practical advice on classroom management and career exploration. Time will be included for independent work, lesson planning, and preparation for classroom projects. Each workshop is led by DNALC staff members and college faculty who collaborated in the development of the course modules.
For more information or to register, please click here.
The Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources (NCSR) will offer a professional development opportunity for college faculty that examines the science and issues related to wetlands mitigation. The Wetlands Mitigation and Management Institute will be held at the Oregon Garden located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Silverton, Oregon. The six-day event will include both field- and classroom-based activities based on instructional modules developed by NCSR. These modules are designed for adaptation and integration into courses such as general biology, environmental science, and natural resources.
The Connecticut College of Technology’s Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (RCNGM) in collaboration with the United States Coast Guard Academy, would like to offer you the opportunity to attend the Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century Program’s – 2011 Teachers’ Summer Dissemination Workshop being held at the United States Coast Guard
Academy in New London, Connecticut.
In addition to a traditional classroom setting, participants will work in teams led by United States Coast Guard Faculty and Cadets, RCNGM college faculty and Project Management and Behavioral Diversity Consultants.
Registration and General Information:
Program participants will receive the following:
• Reimbursement of airfare (maximum of $600.00) or mileage ($.51/mile @ maximum of $200.00). Expenses for rental cars will not be reimbursed. NO EXCEPTIONS.
• Lodging accommodations near the United States Coast Guard Academy in historic New London, Connecticut
• Dinner reception at the residential quarters of the Academy’s Admiral
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Program stipend of $250.00
• Manuals and related technical materials
• 4.0 CEU Credits
• Stipend of $500.00 for the implementation of program materials at your institution in the Fall of 2011
For additional information, please send e-mail to: tech.event21@gmail.com or call (860) 229-1225
Attend an eight-day summer program in biotechnology designed for high school and college teachers seeking new knowledge and instructional ideas. Receive a $750.00 stipend, a hardcopy and flashdrive version of the summer workshop's laboratory exercises, and access to lab supplies and kits that will enrich your home school lab/classroom activities.
Biotechnologists works in fields that fight disease, create new drugs, improve food production and clean up the environment. In the summer workshops teachers will learn real-world applications of biotechnology that will interest their students and shape future career choices. Representatives from industry will also provide the latest information on cutting edge research trends, job availability and current salaries in the field.
Kingsborough is located on a 70-acre campus in Manhattan Beach on the southern tip of Brooklyn. The college serves about 30,000 students each year, offering a wide range of courses in the liberal arts and sciences, not to mention a private beach where workshop participants can relax, read, and swim.
Boston-area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) provides multiple opportunities for partnering with them. Whether you are an educator working on curriculum or professional development, or a current or future student pursuing education and/or a career in IT, or a business wanting a qualified technical workforce, BATEC welcomes you to get involved.
BATEC Summer Institutes are a great way to get involved; the Summer Institutes are no cost, professional development courses offered for technology high school teachers and college faculty in Massachusetts. Courses will be offered at Bristol Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, Quinsigamond Community College and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Week of 7/11-16, 2011 Institutes include: Using Social Media and LinkedIn for Business, Introduction to Photoshop, Algorithms for Novices, and more.
For more information go to: http://batec.org/summer-institutes/summer-institutes-2011
Guitars in the Classroom? Absolutely. This National Science Foundation STEM Guitar Project provides innovative professional development to high school and community college faculty in collaborative design and rapid manufacturing. Faculty teams will take part in an intense five day guitar design/build project. Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar and will engage in student centered learning activities that relate the guitar design to specific math, science and engineering topics. Participants will leave this weeklong experience with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules that can be immediately integrated into the faculty team's school curriculum, and much more.
This workshop is being held at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH and Butler County Community College in Butler, PA from July 11 through 15th.
Guitars in the Classroom? Absolutely. This National Science Foundation STEM Guitar Project provides innovative professional development to high school and community college faculty in collaborative design and rapid manufacturing. Faculty teams will take part in an intense five day guitar design/build project. Each faculty member will build his/her own custom electric guitar and will engage in student centered learning activities that relate the guitar design to specific math, science and engineering topics. Participants will leave this weeklong experience with their custom-made guitars, curriculum modules that can be immediately integrated into the faculty team's school curriculum, and much more.
This workshop is being held at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH and Butler County Community College in Butler, PA from July 11 through 15th.
For more information click here.
Attend the five-day Microsoft Office 2010: Create a Dynamic Presentation workshop July 11-15, 2011 at a cost of $500 at RIT/NTID in Rochester, NY. The workshop will be held daily from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
You may use Microsoft Word and PowerPoint on a daily basis, but do you use it enough to make a dramatic impact in your workplace? Then this instructional “hands-on “workshop is designed for you. This class goes beyond the basics of Microsoft Office.
Each participant will have a solid understanding of how to apply Microsoft Word and PowerPoint so they will be able to enhance their level of productivity in the work place. The instructor will guide you through a step-by-step “how-to” approach that will help you master the features only Microsoft Office has to offer. Upon completion of this workshop, you will have sufficient knowledge to take the MCAS (Microsoft Certified Application Specialist) certification test.
Boston-area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) provides multiple opportunities for partnering with them. Whether you are an educator working on curriculum or professional development, or a current or future student pursuing education and/or a career in IT, or a business wanting a qualified technical workforce, BATEC welcomes you to get involved.
BATEC Summer Institutes are a great way to get involved; the Summer Institutes are no cost, professional development courses offered for technology high school teachers and college faculty in Massachusetts. Courses will be offered at Bristol Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, Quinsigamond Community College and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Week of July 18-23, 2011 Institutes include: Computer Forensics, Advanced Microsoft Office, and more.
For more information go to: http://batec.org/summer-institutes/summer-institutes-2011
Location
BioPharmaceutical Training Center (associated with Promega Corp.)
5445 E. Cheryl Parkway
Madison, Wisconsin
BTC Institute Teacher Courses for summer 2011 include:
Forensic DNA Analysis, June 20-24
Biotechnology: The Basics, July 18-22, scholarships available, see website for details
Biotechnology: Beyond the Basics, July 25-29, scholarships available, see website for details
http://www.btci.org
Registration information
Contact person: Barbara Bielec
phone: 608 277-2618
email: barbara.bielec@btci.org
Registration:
See www.btci.org for more information.
It’s that time of year again, when we are just a couple of short months away from the due date for the next round of ATE proposals. Join us as we review the elements of an ATE proposal’s evaluation component and how to use it to strengthen your submission. We’ll discuss how to tie evaluation tasks to the grant’s goals and objectives and how to be sure the evaluation is responsive to NSF’s expectations for ATE projects and centers. Wondering how to incorporate evaluation into your budget? Need advice on how you can convey that you’ll use evaluation for project improvement? This webinar will help you integrate evaluation into your project work and clearly discuss the project-evaluation relationship in your proposal
The Energy Systems Technology & Education Center (ESTEC) is extending an invitation to principal investigators, engineering technology instructors as well as energy industry representatives who would like to learn more about the Energy Systems Instrumentation and Controls curriculum developed at Idaho State University.
In August 2007, Idaho State University’s College of Technology and the Energy Systems Technology and Education Center received grant funding from the Advanced Technological Education program of the National Science Foundation.
The main objectives were:
• Identify and validate a competency-based skill set with input from
energy partners
• Implement a review and refinement process to drive development,
implementation, and evaluation processes
• Reformulate an existing technology program into a new two-year
technology curriculum entitled, "Energy System Instrumentation and
Control Engineering Technology"
• Disseminate the competency model and curricula
This webinar will present a selection of the Instrumentation and Controls curriculum and laboratory exercises developed under Grant #0703169. All curriculum, laboratory manuals, laboratory apparatus design and fabrication information will be available online at http://www.isu.edu/estec/ following the webinar.
There is no registration fee to attend but please contact Sherry Rindels-Larsen (rindsher@isu.edu) after July 11, 2011 for login information.
Western Michigan University is proud to host ChemEd 2011, a conference where chemistry educators share their teaching experiences, classroom innovations, and laboratory experiments. It’s a place to learn valuable insights from a few outstanding educators, and a place where participants engage in hands-on workshops and view chemical demonstrations.
For more information go to: http://www.wmich.edu/chemed/
Boston-area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC) provides multiple opportunities for partnering with them. Whether you are an educator working on curriculum or professional development, or a current or future student pursuing education and/or a career in IT, or a business wanting a qualified technical workforce, BATEC welcomes you to get involved.
BATEC Summer Institutes are a great way to get involved; the Summer Institutes are no cost, professional development courses offered for technology high school teachers and college faculty in Massachusetts. Courses will be offered at Bristol Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, Quinsigamond Community College and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Week of July 25-30, 2011 Institutes include: Cisco Exploration: Intro to Networks, Mobile Apps, and more.
For more information go to: http://batec.org/summer-institutes/summer-institutes-2011
Attend the five-day Microsoft Excel 2010: Create an Electronic Worksheet workshop July 25-29, 2011 at a cost of $500 at RIT/NTID in Rochester, NY. The workshop will be held daily from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful computer application tool that helps you to reliably and securely organize, manipulate, and graph numeric data at work or for personal use. This workshop will begin with the basics and gradually work up to a point where you will become a proficient user in Excel 2010. Upon completion of this workshop, you will have sufficient knowledge to take the MCAS (Microsoft Certified Application Specialist) certification test.
Location
BioPharmaceutical Training Center (associated with Promega Corp.)
5445 E. Cheryl Parkway
Madison, Wisconsin
BTC Institute Teacher Courses for summer 2011 include:
Forensic DNA Analysis, June 20-24
Biotechnology: The Basics, July 18-22, scholarships available, see website for details
Biotechnology: Beyond the Basics, July 25-29, scholarships available, see website for details
http://www.btci.org
Registration information
Contact person: Barbara Bielec
phone: 608 277-2618
email: barbara.bielec@btci.org
Registration:
See www.btci.org for more information.
This conference is a wonderful opportunity to learn about educating our nation's technical workforce. The sessions are expected to cover:
*Technicians in the workplace
*Technology Policy
*Best Practices in Technology Education
*Learning and Evaluation
*Advanced Manufacturing
*Engineering Technologies
*Energy and Environmental Technologies
*Biotechnology and Chemical Process
*Electronics, Micro- and Nanotechnologies
*Information, Geospatial, and Security Technologies
Human Anatomy and Physiology instructors from Minnesota State College and University institutions, the University of Minnesota, and state high schools will take part in a three day workshop in order to build a collaborative network and develop instructional skills intended to improve student learning and engagement. Participating instructors will learn about POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning), an instructional philosophy that combines constructivist learning theory and principles of cooperative learning. Each workshop participant will develop a classroom activity using this approach and share them with all other attendees.
In this workshop, an experienced TSM mentor will lead participants through the curriculum and provide insights into the pedagogy through personal experiences.
Who Should Attend
All instructors teaching TSM for the first time are required to attend this workshop prior to the start of their first semester. Experienced TSM instructors are also welcome.
Prerequisite
Faculty Experiential Learning Institute (FELI)
Participate!
This half-day workshop is offered twice annually, to attend, you must receive an invitation from ACE or the ACE Coordinator at your college.
