The 11th Annual POGIL National Meeting (PNM) will be held June 1st through June 4th, 2013 at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Each year, approximately 50 individuals who provide leadership for The POGIL Project at the regional and national level are engaged in moving the project forward. This year's event is particularly exciting, as it will be organized around the goals of The POGIL Project's Strategic Plan.
Attendees will have multiple opportunities to contribute to activities that support The POGIL Project toward meeting these strategic goals. As in past years, a poster session for attendees to share their experiences and work will be held. Free time for planned and impromptu meetings and gatherings will also be available.
Attendance at this event is by invitation. (The cost for this 4-day meeting, including housing and meals, is $450.)
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an educational method that engages students in inquiry-based "real world" problem solving and is an alternative to lecture-based instruction.
In this workshop, sponsored by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), participants will use STEM PBL "Challenges," authentic web-based multimedia case studies, to enhance students' content knowledge, critical thinking skills, and ability to work in teams. PBL Challenges are based on authentic industry problems. This workshop is primarily intended for secondary and postsecondary STEM faculty and administrators.
A new project, Advanced Manufacturing PBL (AM PBL), will soon begin recruiting high school and college STEM faculty to participate in a 2014 professional development workshop and subsequent field-testing activities.
This is a distance-learning 5 day training from 9 am - 5 pm CST.
This “train the trainer” track for teachers/faculty will prepare faculty to teach the technology-based Information Storage and Management (ISM) course offered through participating in the EMC Academic Alliance program and provide the hands-on experience to do the online ISM labs available through Network Development Group (NDG). Further, it prepares faculty to become EMC Proven Professional Information Storage Associates.
This class enables ICT faculty to achieve a comprehensive introduction to storage technology. Faculty will learn about the architectures, features, and benefits of intelligent storage systems; networked storage technologies and long-term archiving solutions, information security, and the emerging field of storage virtualization technologies.
Attend one, two, three, or all four of the Microsoft Office Specialist Exam Preparation workshops during June 3-6, 2013 at RIT/NTID in Rochester, NY at a cost of $200 per workshop. All workshops are held from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM.
These workshops are designed to prepare participants to take the official Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS exam). A MOS certificate will provide evidence of the skills necessary to successfully use Microsoft Office programs. This workshop series will prepare participants to take the official MOS certification exams using the exam preparation software, Gmetrix, which replicates the actual testing environment. Participants will be provided sample test questions via Gmetrix and will have most of the day to practice. Once the participant feels comfortable with the material, he/she will be able to take the official MOS exam.
Prerequisites: An INTERMEDIATE skill level in the Microsoft Office program for which participants wish to become certified is required. Participants will also need to be familiar with personal computers and with Microsoft Windows operating systems
Attend the five-day Grammar Review for Workplace Correspondence workshop June 3-7, 2013 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.
This session prepares participants to apply proper grammatical rules to produce better written communications - the kind of writing expected in the workplace.
Prerequisites: Participants must possess, at minimum, paragraph-level fluency and clarity, as demonstrated by successful completion of a basic writing course. Participants must be deaf/hard-of-hearing adults who are either already in the workforce, or are considering re-entry into the world of work.
Attend the three-day Digital Sketchbooking workshop June 3-5, 2013 at a cost of $350, at RIT/NTID in Rochester, NY. The workshop will be held daily from 8:30 am to 4:00 PM. (Cost of workshop includes the Wacom Inkling for each participant to take home.)
Sketching in a sketchbook will focus on brainstorming, developing ideas and the organization process to formulate solutions to design problems using the Wacom Inkling. In this workshop, participants will learn how to brainstorm, how and where to collect ideas for visual problem solving. The workshop includes idea generation through the inspiration of being on a local field trip to do sketches using the NTID’s Wacom Inkling and return to the workshop to transfer the sketches into Photoshop or Illustrator to modify images and add color for special effects. Participants are encouraged to bring 9 x 12” sketchbook to use for this workshop and a 4 or 8 GB USB thumb drive for image storage.
Prerequisites: The Digital Sketchbooking workshop is a comprehensive workshop for individuals that already have basic drawing, design skills, basic computer skills, knowledge of using either Photoshop or Illustrator or both. The workshop will be taught using local field trips and in an Apple Macintosh computing environment.
At the Bio-Link National Summer Fellows Forum, 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.
Fifteen Conference Fellowships are available to attend the 15th annual weeklong intensive Summer Fellows Forum. The Bio-Link National Center will select individuals geographically to receive the Fellowship from the following categories: a community or technical college biotechnology instructor, a community or technical college math or science instructor, and a high school teacher. First consideration will be given to applicants who have not yet attended a Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum or received the fellowship. However, consideration will be given to past Fellows who can demonstrate how this conference will provide necessary and unique value to their students, region and themselves.
The ACE Five-day Experiential Learning Institute (FELI) is five-day professional development experience designed for community college faculty, staff, and administrators.
ACE uses many different pedagogical techniques to allow for learning and growth in unexpected ways, as well as, to keep participants fully engaged throughout the day. We ask that participants attend each day in full as each exercise builds on the previous one and rapport is built within the group as the days unfold. Each FELI group is capped at 25 participants to ensure time for each participant to be heard.
The FELI can be offered as a stand-alone professional development activity or as a part of the process of bringing an ACE program to a college.
This boot camp is a hands-on, one week crash course in Fab Lab software, equipment, operations and processes. This camp is targeted for new or incoming Fab Lab Lead or Assistant Technicians, faculty who are or will be heavy fab lab users, and anyone championing the cause for a fab lab in their region.
Topics will include vinyl cutting, laser engraving & cutting, Shopbot computer controlled machining, molding & casting, electronics soldering, and more. Safety, software use, machine setup, and operation will also be covered. Attendees will learn how to use the technologies in the Fab Lab to "conceptualize, design, develop, fabricate and test" objects.
This 4.5 day workshop for faculty provides six "train the trainer" tracks that cover:
1. VMWare VSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (v5.1)
2. Hands-on Introduction to Popular Cloud Computing Technologies
3. Adding Essential Linux Skills to Your Classroom
4. Fundamentals of Business Intelligence, Big Data and Web Analytics
5. Security+ and Beyond, Hands-On with Remote Labs
6. HTML5, CSS3, JS in the Mobile World
There are also two pedagogical tracks that focus on teaching and learning skills:
7. Integrating Employability Skills and Employer Representation into Technical Curriculum
8. Remote Hosted Lab Creation and Use by NDG/CSSIA
Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute offers cutting-edge, cost-effect professional development opportunities to current high school and community college faculty that is often only available through expensive commercial training. Working Connections makes the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encourages the kind of networking and collaboration among educational and business leaders that can strengthen any IT educational program.
This five-day training workshop offers several tracks that cover a range of the most in-demand topics in IT. The goal of Working Connections is to provide attendees with the expertise needed to teach their respective track in a subsequent semester, bringing the most current information to their classrooms either as a stand-alone course or as supplemental information to an existing course.
This 5 day class introduces the network security specialist to the various methodologies for defending a network. The course will introduce the concepts, principles, types and topologies of firewalls to include packet filtering, proxy firewalls, application gateways, circuit gateways and stateful inspection. The course also prepares students with the skills necessary for completing one of the CISCO Certified Security Professional (CCSP) certification exams.
Prerequisite: Training or experience at the level of Cisco CCNA3&4: Switching and WAN Access.
REGISTRATION FEE: $400 for Wisconsin Technical College and high school full-time faculty.
This 5 day class is a second course in Android application development, assuming a background in Android development and taking up more advanced topics, including geo location, web services and network programming generally, game programming, HTML 5 strategies, and Google Play Store deployment considerations. More complex user interfaces are considered, including multi-activity applications. Design issues are explored with consideration to a phone, 7” tablet, and 10” tablet. Teachers will be provided with lecture and lab materials to use in an advanced class for Android Application Development.
Prerequisite: Android Application Development for Teachers class or similar training/experience.
Registration Fee: $400 for Wisconsin Technical College and high school full-time faculty.
Each year Bio-Link Fellows from across the nation travel to the Clark Kerr Campus (CKC) in Berkeley, CA to learn about the latest practices in biotechnology education.
At the Bio-Link National Summer Fellows Forum, 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.
Robo Storm Summer Camp is a two day robotics camp for students completing grades 6, 7, and 8 in the current school year. Participants build and program Lego Mindstorm robots and compete in skills competitions. A tour of a local manufacturing facility is also included. Cost of camp includes t-shirt, meals, and transportation to manufacturing facility.
Project WILD/Aquatic WILD are interdisciplinary, conservative and environmental education programs that emphasize wildlife, aquatic wildlife, aquatic ecosystems, people and the environment. Their program guides containing over 140 activities for educators of youths in grades K-12 that are correlated to the NAAEE guidelines as well National Science Education Standards
This conference and exposition addresses the ocean as a critical resource for people around the world. It is a major forum for scientists, engineers and those with an interest in the oceans to gather and exchange their knowledge and ideas regarding the future of the world’s oceans. Past attendees have arrived from 46 countries and have presented on hundreds of topics related to the oceans.
Held in Alberta’s capital Edmonton, the Western Manufacturing Technology Show (WMTS) is Western Canada’s definitive showcase for manufacturers of products ranging from machine tools, welding equipment, design engineering and plant maintenance to process control and automation. WMTS is the major forum for manufacturing professionals from Alberta and all of Canada to source machinery, equipment, supplies & services for all aspects of their operations.
This intensive 3.5 day short course offered by the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility, combines lectures and laboratory demonstrations designed to impart a broad understanding of the science and technology required to undertake research in nanoscience. Attendance is open to the general scientific community, but class size is limited to 30 participants.
Target Audience
Attendance is open to the general scientific community and is not limited to CNF users or Cornell students. We strongly encourage all persons expecting to become CNF users in 2012 to attend this course. It is suitable for both new and experienced researchers interested in nanoscale science. An emphasis will be placed on CNF laboratory resources, however, the concepts and techniques discussed are generally applicable to research in this field and do not require use of CNF. Please note the lab demonstrations do not replace any required formal tool trainings.
Schedule and Location
The course will be held Tuesday through Friday. The lectures and lunches will be held in (location TBD). The laboratory demonstrations and lectures will be held in the CNF clean room, in Duffield Hall. Please note the dress code below!
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Day 1: Registration & Orientation (5:30p-7:30p)
Day 2: Introduction & Microfluidic Systems (8:45a-4:00p)
Day 3: MEMS Cantilever Fabrication (8:45a-4:00p)
Day 4: Nanoelectrode Fabrication (8:45a-4:00p)
Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a series of modular activities and events through which students in classrooms of any discipline develop realistic, commercially viable projects. It is an active-learning pedagogical framework that blurs the lines between business and the underlying discipline as students take a holistic view of their firm and learn essential organizational and soft skills. Since the exercises are student-led, and products/services are student-conceptualized and dynamic, learners are continually engaged in problem identification and problem solving.
This seminar will present the Virtual Enterprise pedagogy and demonstrate how it can be integrated into classrooms of any discipline. The ideal participants are college faculty members and workforce grant writers who are seeking a method of infusing business-readiness and entrepreneurship skills into courses or program proposals.
This event will conclude with a one-day Curriculum Customization Day. On this day, Virtual Enterprise experts will work with instructors, curriculum developers, and administrators seeking to adapt the pedagogy to their institution. The session will focus both on credit-bearing and workforce uses of the pedagogy. For credit courses, instructors may work with the existing syllabi from their disciplinary courses. For workforce interventions, participants can either bring sketches of existing grant programs (such as TAACCCT) for integration, or bring proposal solicitations with the intent of designing an intervention for future funding.
This conference, which is uniquely focused on technical education, will bring together a diverse array of technical education practitioners and scholars to present cases, concepts, or ideas that advance, or have the potential to advance, sustainability through innovative educational practice. It will feature keynote presentations from Leith Sharp, a campus sustainability pioneer who was the founding director of Harvard’s Office for Sustainability and who served as Executive Director of the Illinois Green Economy Network, and Roger Ebbage, Executive Director of the Association of Community College Energy and Water Educators and Energy Management Program Coordinator at Lane Community College.
The BEST Center will be hosting its second instructor workshop at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Devoted exclusively to Sustainable Facilities Operations, the workshop will assist community college instructors to
- Explore industry trends in energy efficiency, renewable energy, microgrids & sustainable operations management;
- Design courses and programs in Sustainable Facilities Operations for commercial buildings;
- Learn about lab exercises, equipment specifications, and instructional lab setups at MATC’s Center for Energy Conservation & Advanced Manufacturing (ECAM); and
- Develop industry collaborations and advisory boards in Sustainable Facilities Operations.
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphereTM, which consists of ESXi and vCenter Server. The course is based on ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5. Completion of this course satisfies as a prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional 5 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.
This course includes both online and in-person elements. Faculty can earn 3 graduate credits through the University of Illinois - Springfield by enrolling in an online course and doing some additional follow-up work (describing how you would integrate FDW knowledge into your programs). Tuition for this option is about $1200.
CLEO serves as the premier international forum for scientific and technical optics, uniting the fields of lasers and opto-electronics by bringing together all aspects of laser technology, from basic research to industry applications.
Sponsored by the American Physical Society/ Division of Laser Science (APS/DLS), the Institute of Electronic Engineers Photonics Society (Photonics Society) and the Optical Society (OSA), CLEO, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, provides the full range of critical developments in the field, showcasing the most significant milestones from laboratory to marketplace.
Well-known for its world-renowned peer-reviewed program, CLEO unites the field of lasers and electro-optics by bringing together all aspects of laser technology and offers high-quality content featuring break-through research and applied innovations in areas such as ultrafast lasers, energy-efficient optics, quantum electronics, biophotonics and more.
Career Clusters: Achieving Excellence is the theme of this exciting event, which brings together educators from middle school, secondary, and postsecondary levels, school counseling, state education leadership, along with workforce development, business and industry experts, and economic development representatives to gain insight, hear strategies, and plan efforts for coordinating the implementation of aligned educational delivery in communities and states.
Highlights for the 2013 National Career Clusters Institute include the latest release of the validated Career Clusters knowledge and skills statements, green/sustainability knowledge and skills, updated Career Clusters crosswalks, and insight into the Common Career Technical Core.
This is a 5-day distance-learning training that takes place between 9 am - 5 pm CST.
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphereTM, which consists of ESXi and vCenter Server. The course is based on ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5. Completion of this course satisfies as a prerequisite to take the VMware Certified Professional 5 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.
*Note: This training opportunity is for Teachers/Faculty. Verification of teaching status and institution will be requested. Participatints also will be assisted in the enrollment of their institution into VMWare IT Academy program during or prior to the course as needed.
Attend the five-day Introduction to Network+ Certification workshop June 10-14, 2013 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.
This workshop can help participants prepare for the "Network+™ Certification" test that is offered by CompTIA. This is a test that participants can study for and take on their own after this workshop. A supplemental book and a testing engine will be provided to prepare to obtain this vendor-independent networking certificate. Attendance at the workshop does not guarantee a pass on this, or any, certification. The workshop will be divided into two primary areas of study:
1. Network technology theory – approximately 50%.
2. Network practices and applications – approximately 50%.
Prerequisites: Workshop participants should have knowledge and be familiar with PCs, operating systems, and general networking concepts.
NOTE: If participants already have any networking certification (such as the Cisco CCNA/CCDA, or the Microsoft MCP), this is not an appropriate workshop.
The National Geospatial Technology Center and Jefferson Community and Technical College is proud to announce a one day conference to be held Wednesday, June 12, 2013 with pre-conference workshops scheduled for Monday, June 10th and Tuesday, June 11th and post conference workshops scheduled for Thursday June 13th on the Southwest campus of Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky. This fifth annual conference provides a regional perspective of geospatial education. Presentations by leaders and practitioners in the field will provide participants with an up-to-date view.
Educational initiatives in GIS, remote sensing and other geospatial fields
What’s the outlook for geospatial careers in the region
Current software development and applications for geospatial education
