The Cisco Networking Academy has released a new CCNA level network security curriculum for Fall 2009. The new course provides students with in-depth network security education and a comprehensive understanding of network security concepts. The course is designed to provide students with hands-on knowledge and skills, emphasizing practical experience needed for entry-level job roles in network security. This curriculum reflects the latest network security technologies and provides hands-on exercises. The hands-on exercises teach installation, troubleshooting and monitoring of network devices to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability of data and devices. The class is designed to prepare students for CCNA Security certification (IINS 640-553 exam). There is a mandatory orientation meeting and capstone session scheduled for this course. Orientation is June 4th from 8:30a.m. - 12:30p.m. You will receive a webex invitation for this session. The training will take place June 7th, 8th & 9th @ Madison Area Technical College. The Capstone session will be June 18th from 2-4p.m. You will receive a webex invitation for this session.
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You will be sent a confirming email from the registrar.
This course explores methodologies especially suited to teaching online, using cyber ethics as the course framework. Strategies for engaging students online, monitoring online group work, and using participation rubrics for assessing online students will be discussed and demonstrated within the context of current cyber ethic issues. This course will run for one month to offer flexibility, but can be completed in as few as 3 dedicated days. Activities include using examples to develop materials for use in your own classrooms. The class is offered completely online. Graduate credit for this course is offered by the Computer Science Department at UIS.
Greetings, IA Professionals! The Colloquium Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the 2010 Colloquium will be held in Baltimore, Maryland at the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards from Monday, June 7th, through Wednesday, June 9th.
New this year: 2-day hands-on pre-conference workshop on Hacking Tools, offered on Saturday and Sunday (June 5th and 6th) by Casey O’Brien. This workshop will be limited to the first 20 registrants, and is being sponsored by CyberWatch. Participants will walk away with an array of free hacking tools and the knowledge of how they’re used.
Introduction to Forensics 2 day workshop An introduction to the forensics analysis of the files on a personal computer. Industry-standard software will be used. Instructor: Terry Pasley Workshop will meet in Room 103 of the Business Building.
This workshop will explore the georeferencing of historical maps. A historical map that was originally created on paper will not have an electronic reference to the surface of the earth. This workshop will explore how to take a map that was originally created on paper and reference it to the surface of the earth so that it can be utilized in a geospatial system. This allows the educator to utilize today’s images with data created in the past. The specific case that will be done will be to georeference civil war battlefields with imagery and shapefiles of today. The heads up digitization of information contained on the map will also be done. No previous GIS knowledge is required. Online video and printable documents will be available for the participants to use after the workshop. Instructor: Vince DiNoto Workshop will meet in Room 108 of the Business building.
This workshop will explore how a geospatial system can assist in making an informed decision through the use of geospatial information technology system. The concept of the workshop is how to visualize data that has a spatial orientation. The participants will learn how to take data that is contained within a spreadsheet and display it spatially. This will include displaying the data via address or position latitude and longitude as well as how to summarize data and display the summary information. The concepts geocoding and summation of data through the COUNTIF function of Excel will be done. Online basemaps will be utilized. No previous knowledge of GIS is required. Online video and documentation will be available to the participants for reference and continued study after the workshop. Instructor: Vince DiNoto Workshop will meet in Room 108 of the Business building.
Photoshop Adobe and Gimp Open Source are tools that allow you to manipulate images. Join me in this workshop to learn about image file formats and about editing images for use in your projects. Images used on the web or in online classes are not saved the same way as images used in print. With these programs, you can crop images, perform color corrections, combine images, add effects & filters to images and most importantly, save your images depending on their use. So, gather some images and come learn how to Picture This. Instructor: Paige Brooks-Jeffiers Workshop will meet from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm in Room 110A of the Business Building. Lunch will be provided.
Introduction to Virtual Machines 2 day workshop An introduction into the installation and use of virtual machines in the classroom, with an emphasis on the use of VMware Workstation. Various virtual network configurations will also be covered. Instructor: Terry Pasley Workshop will meet in Room 103 of the Business Building.
Door County, Wisconsin
Featuring Dr. Andrew Landers Cornell University:
Cost: $20 each
Registration required by: 5-28-10, limited to 24 people
Sponsored by: UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)
Please Join
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
For a breakfast presentation and discussion forum on
Frontiers in Technology
How will future technological advancements affect your business?
What do you need to know today to prosper tomorrow?
Thursday, June 10, 2010 • 7:30 – 9:30 AM
• Discover how the leading-edge information technology programs and affiliated
research initiatives of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School can benefit you
and your employees.
• Keynote Address: Making IT Happen — the Workforce of the Future
Stephanie L. Reel, vice president for Information Services, Johns Hopkins Medicine,
and vice provost for Information Technologies, Johns Hopkins University • Meet faculty and school representatives and tour our facilities as you network and
exchange ideas with industry peers.
Space is limited.
Struggling for creative ways to recruit students for your technology programs? Obtain a multitude of proven tips including: major career motivators, dealing with student conceptions and misconceptions, and how to pique the interest of diverse student populations.
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Door/Kewaunee area of Wisconsin
Featuring Dr. Andrew Landers Cornell University
Registration required by: 5-28-10, limited to 24 people
Sponsored by: UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)
At this meeting , participants will learn new skills and techniques, examine and test exemplary curriculum models and course material, engage in dialogue about ethical, legal, and social issues in biotechnology and learn how to disseminate this information within their own regions. Fellows are expected to implement new strategies into their own programs, to lead regional staff development activities, and provide prompt response to follow-up surveys.
Bio-Link Conferences allow members and partners to share successes in teaching the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for student success in the rapidly changing biotechnology workplace. A highly qualified workforce is one of the major factors required for high tech industries like biotechnology to thrive. Bio-Link and its members are dedicated to these aims.
This hands-on academy will cover the fundamentals of biofuels with an emphasis on fuel production, quality control, engine performance, and vehicle emissions. Participating teachers will produce biodiesel by the transesterfication process and perform ASTM measurements to determine chemical and physical properties of fuel. They will also perform a distillation to process ethanol fuel from a fermented feedstock. Test engines will be operated on biofuels to evaluate both performance and emission properties.
The CERET Train the Trainer Academies have been funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DUE #0903293) to provide professional development for the next generation of renewable energy two-year college and high school educators. The academies are administered through a partnership between Madison Area Technical College, Solar Energy International, and the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. These academies will give educators from across the nation authentic hands-on renewable energy experiences taught by veteran industry installers and experts. Academy participants will share classroom strategies, instructional materials, and best practices for teaching renewable energy technology in the high school and two-year college settings.
Current high school and two-year college science and technology instructors from across the U.S. are invited to apply. Instructors who are selected to participate will receive a stipend to cover travel expenses, meals, and tuition costs associated with the Academy. Upon completion of all requirements, participants will receive one graduate credit issued by the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Additional details, informational flyers, and application forms are available on the CERET Web Site.
Send your application and a letter of recommendation by March 1, 2010 as directed on the CERET website and application forms. (Please note that late or incomplete applications may not receive full consideration.) Questions not answered on the CERET website may be directed to Ken Walz at kwalz@matcmadison.edu
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You will be sent a confirming email from the registrar.
This 5 day class will cover core competencies in the latest PC hardware and software technologies as well as safety and environmental issues and soft skills. There will be a special unit focusing on Cyber Security. The course will cover all topics required for CompTIA’s new A+ (2010) Certification and the new Cisco IT Essentials curriculum (version 4.1). This course’s focus is on the training needs of high school IT faculty although it will also be open to College IT faculty. Attendees will have opportunity to gain certification as Cisco Instructor for Cisco IT Essentials curriculum.
Instructor: Ron Koci has been a full-time instructor at Madison Area Technical College since January of 2001, teaching in the Help Desk Certificate program. The program was later developed into a Help Desk Support Specialist technical diploma. He has taught courses not only in computer hardware and software troubleshooting, but also in Help Desk support and customer service. He also holds the A+ Certification from CompTIA. Ron is a former high school teacher with a background that includes work in retail software store management and as a member of a support team at a major area hospital.
Registration Fee: NO REGISTRATION FEE for Full-time WTCS IT Faculty (WTCS Fundeaining). All others: $300 (WI/MN Residents only).
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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 take part in an intense five day guitar design/build project. Each faculty member builds 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 leave this weeklong experience with their custom‐made guitars, curriculum modules that can be immediately integrated into the faculty teams school curriculum, and much more.
Registration for this seminar requires approval.
You will be sent a confirming email from the registrar.
This 5 day class introduces programming simple iPhone applications using Cocoa and Objective C. Students will learn basic Objective C concepts, iPhone programming basics, and use the SDK environment on Apple Macintosh computers with OS X as a development platform. Design concepts and programming tools will be integrated with an emphasis on developing and deploying iPhone applications.
Prerequisites: It is suggested that attendees have some background in Object Oriented programming languages such as Java, Ruby on Rails, Visual Basic.NET, C# or PHP.
Instructor: Eric Knapp has been a full time Information Technology instructor at Madison Area Technical College for over 8 years. He has taught Java, Ruby on Rails and PHP with MySQL at MATC and is the lead developer of JavaScript curriculum for the Programmer/Analyst Associate Degree program. Eric's background includes over 15 years of IT systems development experience, including web development work on major e-commerce sites.
Registration Fee: EGISTRATION FEE for Full-time WTCS IT Faculty (WTCS Funded Training) All others: $300(WI/MN residents only)
Workshop hosted by CITI, CAITE and Rick Adrion of UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst, Computer Science Building, 140 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA
Learn approaches to introducing computing that engage a broad range of students. This two-day workshop will include brief introductions to visual programming in Alice and Scratch and techniques for motivating textual programming in Java and Python for manipulating media.
Who should attend? This workshop is aimed at computer science higher-education facutly and is also open to high school teachers. It is funded by the NSF CCLI program.
To register for the Boston workshop, please email Felicia Auzla with:
Your name
Institution
Description of Institute: 2 yr vs. liberal arts vs. research university vs. high school, approximate number of computing majors, and if minority-serving
Mailing address
Email and phone number
Any dietary restrictions (e.g., vegetarian, vegan, pork-free, etc.)
Will you need a laptop at the workshop, or will you be bringing one? All workshops are hands-on.
Do you require accommodations at the workshop, or will you be commuting in each day?
Funded by CSSIA, this two-day camp will feature sessions taught by women from the UIS Computer Science department and Information Technology staff who will provide a hands-on introduction to drop-and-drag programming with Story Telling Alice, fundamentals of robotics using Lego robots, and a round of battle-bots. A scavenger hunt for access points will teach the girls about computer networking and steganography as the young ladies will access the server holding the treasure file. Using digital flip cameras and iMovie, the girls will film their own movies, edit them, add sound track and premier them at the closing session. The campers will also create magazine covers that star themselves using Photoshop and Web-cams, and will get acquainted with the hardware in the "What's in the Box?" session.
The 2010 Sustainable Energy Education and Training (SEET) Technology Workshop is facilitated by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) and hosted this year by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The SEET Technology Workshop will be held at NREL's facilities in Golden, Colorado from June 20 through July 1, 2010 and is open to community college and high school instructors of energy technology. Topics to be addressed include sustainable energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation. Workshop costs for educators are provided by an NSF grant. For more information on this professional development opportunity, visit ATEEC''s Web site at
www.ateec.org/profdev/seet/2010workshop.htm.
The 2010 Annual ATEEC Fellows Institute is presented by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) and is hosted by the Eastern Iowa Community College District. High school and community college teachers of environmental technology or a related field will be participating. This year's institute theme is flood management and will be held in Muscatine, Iowa from June 20 through June 29. Institute costs for teachers are provided by an NSF grant. For more information on this event, visit ATEEC's Web site at www.ateec.org/profdev/fellows/next.htm
The ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition is the only conference dedicated to all disciplines of engineering education. It is committed to fostering the exchange of ideas, enhancing teaching methods and curriculum, and providing prime networking opportunities for engineering and technology education stakeholders such as deans, faculty members and industry and government representatives.
More than 15,000 people—including students, teachers and business partners—are expected to participate in the week-long event.
The SkillsUSA Championships will be held on Thursday, June 24 in H. Roe Bartle Hall and Municipal Auditorium. More than 5,000 outstanding career and technical education students—all state contest winners—will compete hands-on in 96 different trade, technical and leadership fields.
Students work against the clock and each other, proving their expertise in occupations like electronics, computer-aided drafting, precision machining, medical assisting and culinary arts.
Contests are run with the help of industry, trade associations, and labor organizations, and test competencies are set by industry.
Leadership contestants will demonstrate skills including extemporaneous speaking and conducting meetings by parliamentary procedure. The competitions will be open to the public and free of charge.
The National Geospatial Technology Center, Jefferson Community and Technical College, and the Kentucky Information Technology Center (KITCenter) in Partnership with Kentucky Geographic Alliance and University of Kentucky Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment and advice from the Kentucky Division of Geographic Information, is proud to announce a regional one day conference to be held Wednesday, June 23, 2010 with pre-conference workshops scheduled for Monday, June 21 and Tuesday, June 22 on the Southwest campus of Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky.
This second annual conference provides a regional and Kentucky perspective of geospatial education in the P-16 segment. Presentations by leaders and practitioners in the field will provide participants with an up-to-date view.
Plenary sessions and professional development tracks include the following topics:
-Educational initiatives in GIS, remote sensing and other geospatial fields
-What’s the outlook for P-16 geospatial careers in Kentucky and the region
-Current software development and applications for geospatial education
Geospatial pre-conference workshops will be held Monday, June 21 through Tuesday, June 22. As soon as the workshops are finalized and scheduled, separate invitations (to each workshop) will be sent.
All conference events and pre-conference workshops will be held on the Southwest campus of Jefferson Community and Technical College, approximately 9 miles from Louisville International Airport.
Hotel reservations can be made at the Comfort Suites Hotel at 502-964-0740. Ask for Donna Thompson and mention group#101155 for a discounted rate of $74 (+ taxes) per night.
For additional information requests, contact tammy.mccollum@kctcs.edu
Design for Engineering Academy (DFEA) enables instructors to effectively teach engineering design and manufacturing applications using: SolidWorks (3D solids modeling), CAMWorks (2 1⁄2 - 3 axis mill / turn), Design For Manufacturing (DFM), Sustainability (LCA), and Discovery Channel -Extreme Engineering. DFEA prepares students for engineering school and manufacturing career opportunities, including CSWA and CSWP certification. DFEA includes a customizable two year engineering CAD/CAM curriculum for both the K-12 and Post-Secondary schools.
Registration for this seminar requires approval.
You will be sent a confirming email from the registrar.
This class will cover core competencies in the latest PC hardware and software technologies as well as safety and environmental issues and soft skills. There will be a special unit focusing on Cyber Security. The course will cover all topics required for CompTIA’s new A+ (2009) Certification and the new Cisco IT Essentials curriculum (version 4.1). This course’s focus is on the training needs of high school IT faculty although it will also be open to College IT faculty. Attendees will have opportunity to gain certification as Cisco Instructor for Cisco IT Essentials curriculum.
Instructor: Rebecca Marschner has been a full-time instructor at Gateway Technical College since August of 1994, teaching in the Customer Support Specialist and more recently the Network Specialist programs. She has taught courses not only in computer hardware and software troubleshooting, but also in Help Desk support, Security and the Cisco Network Academy Program. She has obtained her CCNA and CCAI from Cisco Systems.
NO REGISTRATION FEE for Full-time Wisconsin high school & WTCS Faculty (WTCS Funded Training). Others: $300(WI/MN Residents only).
Intermediate GIS 2 day workshop This workshop is designed for those who have used geospatial software specifically ArcVIew. The workshop will be taught using ArcInfo 9.3.1. This workshop will cover the following topics: data projections and need for projections, creating and using geodatabases, using ArcCatalog to create new labels, heads up digitization, using raster data, using digital elevation models, using ArcScene and 3D analysis, creating spider diagrams, counting of data through Excel and ArcView, GeoCoding of address data, and georeferencing of data. Upon completion of this workshop participants will be given access to the software via a terminal service connection, access to data and access to additional curriculum content which they can use to continue their learn and/or use with student learners. Instructor: Vince DiNoto Lunch will be provided. This workshop will meet in Room 108 of the Business Building.
Introduction to GIS 2 day workshop This workshop is designed for those with little or no experience in the geospatial field of study and would like to learn either the basics of ArcView. The workshop is designed both for those interesting in teaching a class in ArcGIS or wishing to use ArcGIS concepts within another course as a component part. This workshop will cover the concepts of joining of data, merging of shapefiles, symbology associated with shapefiles, downloading data from external sources, utilizing basemaps, setting zoom levels on when data turns on or off, labeling of map features, creating a map with legends, titles, directional arrows and scale, using a GPS and importing XY data. The participants will be given access to the software, all content covered in the workshop and additional concepts to continue the learning process which was begun in the workshop. Instructor: Mike Rudibaugh Lunch will be provided. This workshop will meet in Room 110A of the Business Building.
Join us in 2010 in beautiful Happy Valley for an engaging week of oral presentations, poster sessions, roundtable discussions and exciting tours as we "Collaborate, Communicate, Celebrate," teaching and learning around agricultural, human, and renewable natural resources.
