MassBay’s DNA Conference II, the Symposiums of which should be of great relevance and interest to faculty and students in the CCs and four-year institutions of the country in a variety of disciplines. Presenters include Daniel Vanek (who identified the Bosnian Mass Grave Sites remains), and former FBI Senior Scientist, Bruce Budowle.
The Conference can also be viewed online, in whole or in part, very inexpensively (in real-time of delayed broadcasts). Also of great relevance to the USDOJ, in general, the Conference culminates in a debate on “DNA Familial Testing” between nationally renowned opponents and proponents of this methodology.
COT-RCNGM Virtual Worlds in Engineering and Technical Education
Date: Friday, November 11, 2011
Time: 8:30am – 3:30pm
Location: Manchester Community College
Room: Computer Lab
Agenda:
1. Introduction to virtual worlds in career, engineering and technical education.
2. Introduction to the COT Collaboratory and Cyber-Center.
3. Hands-on exploration of the COT Cyber-Center.
4. Hands-on building and construction in the COT Cyber-Center.
5. Faculty and student access to the COT Cyber-Center.
This professional development workshop will explore the use of “Virtual Worlds” in Career, Engineering and Technical education through OpenSimulator. OpenSimulator is an open source multi-platform, multi-user 3D application that has been used to create the COT Cyber-Center Virtual Simulation environment. Participants will explore the COT Cyber-Center and it’s application in existing courses and programs. Participants will also learn how to navigate an avatar and construct objects in OpenSimulator. All participants will be invited to register for use of the COT Cyber-Center in an existing engineering or technical course. A $100.00 stipend will be awarded for participants who successfully complete the workshop requirements.
Pat Ligon (Broughton High School) and Gail Webster (Guilford College) will be offering a 1 hour introduction to POGIL at the NCSTA Professional Development Institute in Greensboro, NC
The National Science Foundation and Texas A&M University-Commerce will be holding a one-day workshop on Monday, November 14, 2011. This workshop is primarily designed for researchers and educators less experienced in proposing to the NSF; however, more experienced proposers and NSF grantees may well find the workshop useful and informative. It is our hope that events such as this will stimulate new interest in NSF programs at institutions that have not been among our traditional customers, as well as at premier research institutions. We want to extend an invitation to you and to anyone else at your institution who would like to attend this workshop and learn more about the NSF and its programs. The workshop will provide an overview of the Foundation, its mission, priorities, and budget. It will cover the NSF proposal and merit review process and NSF programs that cut across disciplines. Additionally, representatives from the seven NSF directorates and the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Office of Integrative Activities will make presentations on their programs and will also be available informally and in breakout sessions for discussions of potential research proposals.
Hands on Introduction to Nanotechnology for Educators
Presented by: Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization at Penn State University
Workshop Location: Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization, 101 Innovation Boulevard, Suite 114, University Park, Pennsylvania.
This workshop will be an exploration of the world of nanotechnology. Participants will learn about the growing applications of nanotechnology in many industries including the biotechnology, MEMS, optoelectronics, chemical, and nanoelectronics industries. The basics of nanofabrication processes and tools will be covered and emphasized through processing labs held in the class 10 cleanrooms of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility and the CNEU Teaching Cleanroom. This three-day workshop is broken down into daily morning lectures by nationally recognized Penn State researchers and engineering staff and into afternoon lab sessions in nanofabrication.
If you would like more information or would like to register for this workshop, please click click here.
Network with ag teachers from all over the U.S. at the 2011 NAAE Convention. The conference provides professional development workshops, opportunities to get involved in NAAE at the regional and national levels, and time to recognize and reward outstanding agricultural educators. Attend this convention and come away with a year's worth of ideas and tools for your program.
The IBM Academic Initiative System z team is pleased to invite you to a special 90 minute online session entitled "Modernize Your Enterprise Systems Curriculum." This session will be held on Tuesday, November 15th, from 10:00 - 11:30 AM ET. Join the Academic Initiative to see (and hear) how the latest versions of the IBM Rational tools - and in particular Rational Developer for System z, Rational Asset Analyzer and Rational Developer for System z Unit Test - can help you modernize the experience of learning
z/Enterprise in the classroom. This session is being recorded and will be available for playback.
ATE grantees are using the Web for outreach, instruction, professional development, dissemination, and more. As the Web becomes more central to the activities and deliverables of ATE grants, evaluation strategies need to keep pace. In this webinar featuring Karl Kapp, ATE evaluator and noted expert on e-learning, we’ll share recent research on webinar, social media, and website evaluation practices.
The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers. The strength of ACTE is reflected in its diverse membership composed of more than 27,000 career and technical educators, administrators, researchers, guidance counselors and others involved in planning and conducting career and technical education programs at the secondary, postsecondary and adult levels. ACTE is committed to enhancing the job performance and satisfaction of its members; to increasing public awareness and appreciation for career and technical programs; and to assuring growth in local, state and federal funding for these programs by communicating and working with legislators and government leaders. Join them for their annual convention.
Free Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education
November 17-18, 2011
College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois (Chicago Area)
Workshop Hosted and Sponsored by College of Lake County
Workshop Information:
This 2-day workshop will provide an opportunity to get in on the ground floor in educating technicians for one of the most exciting and fastest growing technologies — Photonics!
The workshop is open to high school, community college and university faculty, staff and administrators, as well as industry/workforce trainers.
Participants will be provided information on the growing need for photonics technicians and postsecondary programs to educate them. OP-TEC staff will explain the opportunities for attendees to create new AAS programs in photonics and/or to infuse optics and photonics instruction into existing technical programs in technologies that are enabled by photonics. Attendees will also learn about OP-TEC materials and services available for planning and implementing photonics education at their institutions.
Date: Thursday, November 17 & Friday, November 18, 2011
Location: College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois (http://www.clcillinois.edu/)
Intended Audience: High School, Community College, Technical College and University Faculty, Staff & Administration; Industry/Workforce Trainers
Cost: No registration fees! Space is limited and registration is required. Lunch will be provided both days of the workshop. Participants are responsible for travel, lodging, and other meals.
Questions? Please email op-tec@op-tec.org.
For more information click here.
The purpose of this session is to provide introductory information about the Academy for College Excellence (ACE). The session will begin with an approximately 60-minute presentation followed by an optional 30-minute Question & Answer portion. For more information on the ACE program click here
Session topics include:
How effective is the ACE model?
What is the ACE program?
How is ACE different or unique?
What are the benefits of ACE to students, faculty, and college?
What are the next steps if I want to learn more?
Who Should Attend
This event is open to anyone interested in ACE, though we expect it to be most relevant to college administrators, faculty leaders and staff.
Facilitator
Jim Knickerbocker, PhD – Director of College Partnerships
Academy for College Excellence
Questions?
The point of contact for this event is:
Halle Evans
Program Assistant
halle@my-ace.org
831-477-5266
This 1/2 day 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.
The Northeast Advanced Technological Education Center
Open House, Conference & Workshops
November 29 – 30, 2011
Hudson Valley Community College
Troy, New York
NEATEC is the new Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Center for Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Education. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), we will leverage the resources of academia, industry, government and other ATE Centers to anticipate and fulfill the needs of the nanotechnology and semiconductor industries, K-12 schools, and general academia in New York State and Western New England through development, demonstrations, curricula, conferences and workshops.
Who should attend?
• K-12, Math, Science, and Technology teachers
• STEM faculty at a secondary or post-secondary institution
• Community college and four-year college faculty
Outline Agenda
November 29 – Learn about NEATEC
• Introduction to NEATEC
• Presentations by partner organizations. What does each NEATEC partner have to offer?
o CNSE (Albany Nano), RPI, MVCC, RIT
• Guest speakers
November 30 – Workshops
• Penn State (NACK) workshop
• SCME (New Mexico) workshop
• FLATE (Florida) workshop
• Springfield Technical College (MA) workshop
• Nano-Link (Minnesota) Workshop
The 8th Annual Manufacturers Summit & Marketplace will be held November 30 - December 1, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida. This event will provide a snapshot of the manufacturing industry in Florida and plans for the upcoming year.
Florida manufacturers are encourage to exhibit and state, national and international buyers are invited to attend. The event includes the third and final discussion forum "Educating and Certifying Florida's Manufacturing Workforce" to chart a course for expanding manufacturing education and training in Florida, a welcome Reception, forums on all the hot manufacturing topics in Florida, and the annual Manufacturer of the Year Awards. There is plenty of time on both days for state, national and international buyers to meet with exhibitors, mingle during the reception, and talk business over breakfast the next morning. This event is perfect for Presidents, CEOs, Plant Managers, sales staff, educators, human resource professionals, economic developers, government releations professionals, international buyers, regional manufacturing association members and anyone who is in the manufacturing business or serves the manufacturing business in Florida.
In this webinar you will learn to compare macro and micro devices that sense, analyze, respond, and actuate including:
• Examples of microdevices that sense, analyze, and act on
• Examples of macro and micro-size transducers, sensors and actuators
Winery Sanitation Workshop
Featuring: Patricia Howe, ETS Laboratories
VESTA Instructor and Wine Analyst
December 3 - 4, 2011
Saturday and Sunday
Highland Community College - Wamego
Wamego, KS
Featuring behind the scenes tours, hands on projects, presentations from industry leading companies and interaction with key winrey personnel.
Cost: $60 per person at the door
The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting nearly 20,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and policy makers. This meeting showcases current scientific theory focused on discoveries that will benefit humanity and ensure a sustainable future for our planet.
In addition to their geoscience-oriented workshops held at the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) National Conference, a CUR workshop is being held at GSA and AGU (San Francisco) meetings on topics such as "Getting Started in Undergraduate Research", "Funding Opportunities in the Geosciences", and "Proposal Writing and Strategies". The AGE workshop will be held on December 6th. To register, or for more information click http://cur.networkats.com/members_online/registration/register.asp?mt=GEOCUR11&af=CUR
Join DTN/The Progressive Farmer editors and authoritative speakers for thought-provoking discussion on what threats and opportunities face growth-oriented farms — and learn first-hand how some of America's leading farm operators are adapting.
MATEC NETWORKS produces free online webinars covering various topics in advanced technology education. A Webinar is a seminar, a workshop, or a lecture administered through the computer where participants and presenter can interact together. It is not just a one-way presentation, but a two-way connection between presenter and attendees. The Webinars will be conducted through Elluminate, a virtual meeting room accessible online from virtually anywhere. Participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance upon request. This webinar, Instructional Gaming, discusses "applying game dynamics, or "gamification", as part of the instructional toolkit."
Date: Friday December 9th, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM Eastern
Length: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Winery Microbiology Workshop
Featuring: Paul Gospodarczyk
VESTA Instructor, Wine Consultant and Certified Sommelier
December 10 - 11, 2011
Saturday and Sunday
Stoney Creek Inn
Onalaska, WI
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.
Faculty participants 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 workshop is by invitation only. A four day combination clean room/classroom training, STEM instructors will learn how to make a micro pressure sensor and in the process, understand how to teach this to their students using SCME classroom kits.
For more information contact: Anna Garden, agarden@unm.edu
For the 4th year in a row, these National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Centers are joining forces 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, which is funded by the CCC State Chancellor’s office to coordinate and improve ICT education at all 112 of California’s Community Colleges.
The conference will feature excellent presentations from ICT industry and ICT education representatives. Even in this period of high unemployment, quality ICT education leads to quality ICT employment, and that has a positive impact on 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 improve this poor economy – now!
Join Winter Working Connections for the best of both worlds: A technical conference and workshop experience, all in the heart of the U.S. Join us for two days of fast-paced networking opportunities and conference presentations followed by two days of an in-depth faculty institute. The Winter Working Connections Conference will provide you hands-on technology relevant to your students learning in real time.
The Convergence Technology Center expands on its popular week-long summer Working Connections institute with this two day winter version. Each attendee may choose one topic to focus in a two-day workshop (click on workshop title for more information).
Building & Using Mobile Apps in the Classroom
THIS TRACK IS FULL! Please choose another track.If you would like to be put on the waiting list for this track, send an email to techday@collin.edu with the subject line "Mobile Apps Waiting List".
Control Systems Security
Cloud Provisioning and Administration (EMC & VMware)
Final Cut Pro – An Introduction to Video Editing for Teachers
THIS TRACK IS FULL! Please choose another track.If you would like to be put on the waiting list for this track, send an email to techday@collin.edu with the subject line "Final Cut Pro Waiting List".
Juniper Networks Learning Paths
What's in the Cloud? An Introduction to Wireline, Wireless and Fiber Optics
WHEN AND WHERE:
Saturday - Tuesday, January 7 - 10, 2012 at the Collin College Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco TX.
SCHEDULE:
Saturday, January 7, 1:00pm – 5:30pm
Sunday, January 8, 8:30am – 4:30pm (lunch included)
Monday, January 9, 8:30am – 4:30pm (lunch included)
Tuesday, January 10, 8:30am – 4:30pm (lunch included)
ELIGIBLE ATTENDEES:
High School, Community College, and University staff and faculty. In addition to academic attendees, CTC Business and Industry Leadership Team representatives area eligible to participate.
Everyone that attends all four days of the conference will be provided a certificate of completion.
The international winter school for graduate students is an educational program of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, consisting of both a high level, focused nanotechnology course combined with a field experience. The technical course is held in conjunction with a leading academic institution in a developing country. Ten to twelve highly select US graduate students are selected for this experience each year.
Applications are solicited from students across the US , during August of each year. The course is held during December or January of each year.
Applications for the next instance of the course will be open in August 2011. Announcements will be widely distributed to leading science and engineering departments in the US, as well as to all NNIN users. It is not necessary to be an NNIN user to be selected.
The 4th iWSG will be held in Brazil on the campus of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) in Campinas, Brazil, near Sao Paulo , January 8-20, 2012. The second week will consist of a field experience in rural Brazil. The topic will be "Silicon and III-V Nano Photonics "
The EC-Council CHFI prep course will give participants the necessary skills to identify an intruder's footprints and to properly gather the necessary evidence to prosecute. Many of today's top tools of the forensic trade will be taught during this course, including software, hardware and specialized techniques. The need for businesses to become more efficient and integrated with one another, as well as the home user, has given way to a new type of criminal, the "cyber-criminal." It is no longer a matter of "will your organization be comprised (hacked)?" but, rather, "when?" This course will contain hands-on labs!
Today's battles between corporations, governments, and countries are no longer fought only in the typical arenas of boardrooms or battlefields using physical force. Now the battlefield starts in the technical realm, which ties into most every facet of modern day life. If you or your organization requires the knowledge or skills to identify, track, and prosecute the cyber-criminal, then this is the course for you.
Who should attend: This course will significantly benefit anyone who is concerned about the integrity of their network infrastructure, network security, or computer forensics. It is also intended for those interested in taking the EC-Council CHFI Exam EC0 312-49.
Price: Registration is always free to consortium members and other qualifying individuals. Registration is open at the www.cyberwatchcenter.org website, or contact Margaret Leary at mleary@nvcc.edu if you would like to attend and are not a consortium member.
Location : Northern Virginia Community College - Alexandria Campus
Contact : Margaret Leary mleary@nvcc.edu
This workshop will provide young researchers (graduate students, post-docs) from across the Americas with lectures and hands-on tutorial sessions in computational condensed matter, chemistry, and materials sciences for energy applications. It will also provide participants with a chance to build international connections and collaborations. Full travel support and housing for accepted participants will be provided. Energy topics will include battery design, photonics, thermoelectrics, piezoelectric energy harvesting, multiscale modeling, and computational searches for new materials.
Parents, teachers, students and the general public are cordially invited to:
- See demonstrations of high tech manufacturing processes
- Visit exhibits and hands-on technology demonstrations
- Learn about the new manufacturing center opening at Gateway CC
- See the process of a product being made
