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
OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, is a National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center of Excellence with the stated mission of promoting photonics education and assisting colleges around the country in developing and implementing educational programs that support expansion of this critical new technology.
As part of our efforts to provide faculty development in optics and photonics, OP-TEC will be offering a hybrid, online faculty development course. The course will cover OP-TEC’s Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. Each of the six modules will be taught online over a two-week period with a high level of self-paced instruction combined with an interactive component facilitated by e-mail exchanges and chat room discussions.
Fundamentals of Light and Lasers Modules:
Module 1: Nature and Properties of Light
Module 2: Optical Handling and Positioning
Module 3: Light Sources and Laser Safety
Module 4: Basic Geometrical Optics
Module 5: Basic Physical Optics
Module 6: Principles of Lasers
This online course is being offered at no charge to high school, community college and technical college faculty interested in teaching a basic photonics course. Participants who successfully complete the 12-week course and 3-day laboratory session will receive a certificate of completion from OP-TEC. Participants will also be awarded 9 CEUs.
Next course date: Starts February 28, 2011 ( 12-week course runs 2/28/11 - 5/22/11)
The six modules will be taught over a 12-week period. After the completion of Module 6, all participants will spend a 3-day period at an OP-TEC Partner College where they will have the opportunity to conduct all laboratory experiments included in the course and discuss with experienced instructors best practices for teaching the materials.
Winery Sanitation Workshop
April 30- May 1, 2011
Mount Pleasant Winery, Augusta, MO
Featuring behind the scenes tours, hands-on projects, presentations from industry leading companies and interaction with key personnel at Mount Pleasant Winery.
Cost: $60 per person at the door. (No cost for VESTA students currently enrolled in VIN 148)
This semester’s workshop will feature presentations on winery cleaning and sanitation practices by a variety of presenters including Joe Lutomske of New World Winery Equipment, Joel DeGonia of the Criveller Group, Nick Tyre of Independent Stave/Cooperages 1912; as well as presentations by Patricia Howe, Wine Analyst and VESTA Winery Sanitation instructor and members of the Mount Pleasant Winery staff.
For further information and registration information, please visit http://www.vesta-usa.org/main/index.php/current-students/calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2011/04/30/30/-/winery-sanitation-workshop.
Don’t miss this opportunity to further your winemaking knowledge!
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Center for Security Studies and the Office of Career Services invite you to the 2010 Annual Cybersecurity and Homeland Defense Symposium and Job Fair: Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity and Homeland Defense.
This special, free symposium and job fair features a keynote speech and panel discussions by prominent leaders and experts in cybersecurity and homeland defense. Register today for your opportunity to:
* Hear in-depth presentations and discussions about the emerging security threats and strategies, shortage of talent, career trends and opportunities in cybersecurity and homeland defense.
* Network with professionals and experts in the fields of cybersecurity and homeland defense
* Meet with recruiters from the area's top employers in cybersecurity, information assurance, homeland security, emergency response management, law enforcement and criminal justice.
At the MNT Conference you will find everything you need to integrate emerging technology resources into your STEM classes, get help starting your own micro/nano program, and learn best practices for partnering with local industry, community leaders, and college administration.
Micro Nano Tech Conference 1 is open to Post-Secondary Educators and Academic Administrators interested in preparing their students for jobs in emerging technologies, and Industry Professionals who want to offer input about training the next technical workforce.
Join us at Micro Nano Tech Conference 1, hosted by a consortium of NSF ATE Centers of Excellence.
Several hands-on workshops, sessions and interactive discussion with industry and experienced micro-nano education implementors will be provided.
Topics presented will answer questions such as:
Where are the jobs?
What type of skills are required for micro nano technologists?
Where can you get learning modules and hands-on kits and activities which showcase micro nano?
How do I integrate these into more traditional STEM programs?
What can I do in the classroom to demonstrate nano and micro concepts?
Visit www.scme-nm.org for the full conference agenda and more information, or contact Sue Barger at 814-863-2955.
Micro Nano Tech Conference 1 is sponsored by a consortium of National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Centers:
NACK at Pennsylvania State University in PA - www.nano4me.org
MATEC NetWorks at the Maricopa Community Colleges in AZ - www.matecnetworks.org
Nano-Link at Dakota County Technical College in MN -www.nano-link.org
NEATEC at Hudson Valley Community College in NY - www.rcsne.org
SCME at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM - www.scme-nm.org
Technology education programs as we know them are at risk of being replaced by new models for workforce and economic development. In this Webinar, explore the significant challenges and solutions in supporting technology programs at our nation's community colleges.
You know your project’s goals. And you know you need to measure your progress toward reaching them. You probably even know whether a survey questionnaire would help you measure that progress. But what sort of questions belong on a survey instrument? And how should they be worded? This webinar will explain the questionnaire development process, using ATE survey work as examples. Along with the EvaluATE team, Candiya Mann will showcase her work and we’ll feature Wayne Welch as a discussant, sharing his process of establishing face and content validity with a method that is practical for most ATE projects and centers. Both examples emphasize the importance of thinking from a measurement perspective to get more trustworthy data.
The webinar will be recorded and made available roughly one week after the live session takes place.
Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) technology is intended to prevent malicious or unwanted software. Unfortunately, it is problematic when
used in the real world - resulting in excessive support costs, high false positives and labor-intensive behavioral rules.
Cisco CSA expert Eric Ogren of The Ogren Group offers an insider's
perspective on replacing HIPS with Application Whitelisting for
proactive endpoint protection:
This three-day conference of excellence in pedagogy brings together hundreds of faculty members from campuses nationwide, to:
*Explore the newest ideas in teaching and learning
*Hear the latest research
*Discuss the state of today’s changing classroom
Each year, The Teaching Professor Conference tackles the issues of the moment … the things that matter most to educators today. You’ll hear leading speakers on topics like:
*Student performance Mentoring
*Academic integrity Faculty development
*Technology Group work
*Self-assessments Rubrics
*Motivating students And many, many more
Expect lively discussion, spirited debate and a rewarding exchange of ideas throughout all three days!
This workshop serves as an introduction to POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) and an exploration of the benefits of this approach to active-learning in the classroom. Participants will experience a POGIL-based learning environment, analyze activities to understand how guided-inquiry is structured in a POGIL classroom, and consider classroom facilitation and other issues related to the implementation of POGIL.
Part of the Concurrent Event: 192nd 2YC3 Conference – Celebrating 50 Years of Chemical Education Conference, Stark State College
http://www.starkstate.edu/2YC3
Hands-on professional development opportunity to transform your teaming and your students' learning. Choose from one of four tracks: Problem-Based Learning, iCourse Design, Technology Toolkit, and Elluminate Live!
The 2011 Ag Innovation Showcase is a distinguished world-class gathering of key players in the agriculture sector including industry figures, emerging innovators, investors, and Ag leaders. The Showcase also offers a platform for dialogue, discussion, and deal making in sectors including ag-bio, food production, biofuels, sustainable materials, bio-based products, farming technologies, and animal health.
The two-day conference will include opportunities to:
*Highlight up-and-coming entrepreneurial companies with solutions to the most pressing challenges facing agriculture
*Originate strategic deals, partnering opportunities, and collaborative business ventures between participants
*Connect a prime network of entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and investors in the ag space
The Ag Innovation Showcase is a joint effort of BRDG Park at Danforth Plant Science Center, Larta Institute, St. Louis County Economic Council (SLCEC), Missouri Biotechnology Association (MOBIO), St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA), and Missouri Technology Corporation.
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphereTM, which consists of ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server. The course is based on ESX/ESXi 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1. Completion of this course satisfies as a prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional 4 exam.
Students who complete this course may enroll in any of several more-advanced vSphere courses. See www.vmware.com/education for advanced course options.
By instituting this program, VMware seeks to create a collaborative relationship with academic institutions whereby their students may obtain the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) status and other VMware certifications.
Participation in VMware vSphere will provide you with VMware vouchers for exams.
This five day course will provide an in-depth look at the knowledgebase needed for teaching VMware Certified Professional (VCP) courseware in an academic environment. This course will focus strictly on ESX Server and VMware vSphere 4. We will discuss the VMware IT Academy program from VMware and how you can become a member. Then we will move to a boot camp-style training that covers the material you will need in order to pass the VCP exam, which is necessary to teach VMware courses at your school. All training will focus on VMware ESX Server. This will be information packed week so come ready to learn! Prerequisite: This course is intended for individuals who have working knowledge of computers.
Registration for this seminar requires approval.
You will be sent a confirming email from the registrar.
This five day course introduces developing applications for Android devices. All the required software is free, including the Android emulator. It is not necessary to own an Android device, though the applications developed in the course can be deployed to one. After preliminaries with Google Docs and Google Maps, we take up Android layout and input widgets, both in XML and programmatically; menus and dialogs; gesture detection; graphics and the Android drawing API; database access with SQLite and file IO; location-based services (geo-location); and device dependency issues. Teachers will be provided with lecture and lab materials to use in an introductory class for Android Application Development.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with Java and Eclipse (or willingness to learn them quickly) is assumed.
The Innovations in Teaching and Learning team is excited to announce that we are hosting a 2 ½ day workshop at the Holiday Inn Vanderbilt, Nashville Tennessee for people who are interested in learning how to implement the Problem Based-Case Learning (PBCL) teaching strategy. The workshop will start on the afternoon of Tuesday. May 24th, and will run through the afternoon of Thursday, May 26th.
The workshop will be broken into two parts. The first part is a half-day orientation that serves as an overview of the PBCL process. The second part is a two day Design and Development Workshop that will take you through the process of designing a curriculum that is based on the PBCL strategy. We have found that educators who join us for these workshops leave with an excellent understanding of how to use our strategy to create a contextual learning environment in their classes.
For more information - or to register - email: [email protected]
Arrangements need to be completed before May 17, 2011.
Come to the 2011 NAWI Conference to learn best practices from colleagues in CTE and related fields and to expand your network to be more successful in your current and future work. THEME: STEM in CTE: The Core of America’s Economic Strategy The National Association for Workforce Improvement NAWI is an organization of state and local career and technical educators dedicated to career and technical education program improvement. NAWI includes secondary, postsecondary, and workforce members.
The purpose of the institute is to provide directors of undergraduate research programs the means to develop and effectively run their programs. Recognizing the different models of offices of undergraduate research offices, we encourage applications from those that run programs on full and/or part-time basis as well as from committees that might have this responsibility on their campus. Models will be from all types of institutions; PUI, regional comprehensive to Research I institutions.
Recruitment of students into STEM curriculum is a continuing problem for post secondary institutions across the country. The recruitment of underrepresented minorities into nanotechnology degree programs however, is an even greater challenge. This webinar will review some techniques and insights from several institutions across the U.S. that have been utilized to tackle this critical recruitment challenge.
The goals of NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence are to celebrate excellence and provide a unique professional development opportunity for community college and university faculty, staff, and administrators to foster student success.
Our three main objectives are:
*To offer an array of presentations that will span the continuum of cutting-edge topics in higher education for faculty, staff, and administrators
*To provide networking opportunities with other conference participants and NISOD corporate partners
*To recognize and celebrate outstanding faculty, staff, and administrators with the NISOD Excellence Awards.
This conference has been the largest conference to focus on community colleges for the past four years. Join the more than 2,000 professionals, typically representing more than 400 community colleges and other institutions of higher learning worldwide who gather each May in Austin to support the highest standards of teaching and leadership excellence.
The 2011 Aspen Environment Forum presented by the Aspen Institute in partnership with National Geographic will provide a critical framework for committed voices to address a significant milestone: A global population of 7 billion and how to reconcile Earth’s finite resources with its ability to sustain our expanding human needs.
