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. This class requires a mandatory orientation meeting & capstone session. Orientation meeting - December 11th from 8:30a.m. - 12:30p.m. - you will receive a webex invitation for this. The class session is on December 16, 17 & 18 @ Stanly Community College - Whitley Technology Center Room 122. Capstone session - January 8th, 2010 from 2-4p.m. One week prior to the orientation meeting, registrants will receive class agenda, curriculum & labs via e-mail. Hotel information: Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Albemarle www.hiexpress.com 500 Leonard Avenue Albemarle, NC 28001 877 863-4780
Throughout the two-day symposium participants will break out into a number of workshops, interactive presentations, and roundtables, where they will have the opportunity to discuss cutting edge environmental education research ideas and policy. Results of current environmental education research will be presented in a series of more formal presentations and posters and several plenary discussions will focus on current trends in environmental education research.
This curriculum presents a comprehensive overview of networking; from fundamentals to advanced applications and services. It is based on the top-down approach to networking that is popular in many colleges and universities.
The course emphasizes concepts and skills required to design networks, while providing opportunities for practical application and hands-on experience by teaching students how to install, operate, and maintain networks.
Students will acquire skill through hands on and virtual labs using the Cisco Packet tracer.
The SCME is offering a Pressure sensor workshop for invited College faculty. You most likely have been directed to this website to see the full program.
If you are a community college faculty and either use or plan to use micro/nano fabrication learning modules and hands-on kits in your program and did not receive an invitation, please contact Anna Garden at agarden@unm.edu This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and request to be put on the distribution list and also request an invitation.
To view a copy of the invitation and details on the program, click on the "Documents" link in the Main Menu (left) and go to the "Workshop Information" section.
If you have any question, feel free to contact: Anna Garden at agarden@unm.edu This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Pressure sensor workshop participants will participate in two events, the 4-day pressure sensor workshop starting on January 5, 2010 and ending with the 1-day Mini Microsystems Conference which will be held on Saturday, January 9, 2010.
Day 1-4 - Will be attended, by invitation only, by Community College Faculty either using or planning to use Microsystems Fabrication learning modules and kits in their classroom.
For the second year in a row, the National and Mid-Pacific ICT Centers are joining forces to
offer a Winter ICT Educator Conference, January 7-8, 2010, in San Francisco.
The event will feature presentations from industry sources of ICT educational resources and
from the NCICT and MPICT educator communities on quality ICT educational practices.
U.S. Community college educators in ICT-related programs are invited to attend this event
free, with the possibility of receiving a stipend or partial expense reimbursment, and to
submit a presentation proposal for quality ICT educational practices or stories.
The Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME) presents a free one day microsystems conference for Mid/High School STEM Teachers. At this conference, attendees will receive and learn to use unique curriculum kits. The kits contain instructor guides, PowerPoint CDs, student learning modules, and components that will enable you to teach about microsystems in the classroom. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are tiny machines with moving parts smaller than a human hair. Learn how MEMS are used everywhere. They enable nanotechnology and relate to all STEM areas. Update your own knowledge and give your students the resources and reasons to study STEM and micro/nanotechnology. A $150 stipend will be awarded to the first 20 STEM teachers who apply, are accepted and attend the entire conference; enrollment is limited to 30.
Workshop Information
When: Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, 8 AM to 4 PM (1 1/2 hour lunch break).
Where: UNM Manufacturing Training and Technology Center, Albuquerque, NM.
Who: Taught by Dr. Matthias Pleil, Harold Madsen, Fabian Lopez, M.J. Willis, Barbara Lopez and others.
Why: Job growth in this field is accelerating. SCME wants to educate teachers about this exciting technology so that they can offer new career pathways to their students.
Cost: Free, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Certificate awarded for 6 hours of professional development.
For more information contact Anna Garden at agarden@unm.edu
To apply visit: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB229W9XMRAPB
For more information visit: http://scme-nm.net/scme_2009/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63&Itemid=75#Introduction
How, exactly, is evaluation done? This webinar's focus in on logic models, success indicators, and standards of performance –
the blueprints for an evaluation.
A logic model maps out a project's activities and intended outcomes and impacts. Logic models facilitate the identification of success indicators (measurable information about key aspects of your project) and performance standards (what counts as “acceptable” or “excellent” performance, for example). You’ll leave the webinar with a better understanding of how to create and use these tools to generate a robust and useful evaluation.
Attend the world's leading photonics, laser, and biomedical optics event!
SPIE Photonics West is an essential part of your strategy for 2010—access the people, the information, and the technologies that will advance your work.
The Careers Conference is hosted by the Center on Education and Work, part of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive events of its kind, featuring top quality professional development including:
• More than 150 practitioner sessions
• Off-site tours to workplaces and model career centers
• Interactive sessions on the latest career development trends
• Outstanding featured and keynote speakers
• Hands-on technology sessions
• Panels by experts focusing on key topics
• Networking opportunities galore
• Program and classroom ideas you can use
• Best practices and exemplary programs
Building on the resounding success of the last 7 North American Vaccine Forums, the 2010 event will once again provide a highly valuable meeting place for senior level industry and public sector figures driving the development of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.
The 3 day conference program will feature a mixture of business, regulatory and scientific topics, with speakers drawn from big pharma/biotech, the regulators and and vaccine developers themselves. Breakout sessions, workshops and panel discussions combine to make the event highly interactive.
In 2010, the Washington Vaccine Forum will once again run concurrently with Phacilitate’s annual Cell & Gene Therapy Forum. Participants will be able to select the conference agenda of greatest current value to themselves and their organization, with all networking opportunities shared between the two events. Breakfast and lunch buffets, extended refreshment breaks and evening receptions will all take place in the shared exhibition area.
Built with the joint input of growers, vintners and allied industry members, the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium is held annually in Sacramento, California and is the largest event of its kind in the western hemisphere. Serving as a clearinghouse for practical information important to wine and grape industry professionals, the Unified Symposium also hosts a trade show with over 550 vendors displaying their products and services to the more than 11,000 people who attend annually.
Each year a team of experts from the wine and grape industry create a program to address the current industry needs which features an international lineup of speakers. Tuesday through Thursday mornings begin with a general session highlighting an issue of broad appeal. Breakout sessions in the afternoons focus on specific topics in four areas which are: grapegrowing; winemaking; business; and marketing & public relations. The 2010 conference week ends on Friday with a full-day seminar, High Elevation/High Latitude: Wine Growing on the Edge.
Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration: Preparing the Workforce for the Global Marketplace. This conference is organized and sponsored by the Cooperative and Experiential Education, College Industry Partnership Division, Continuing Professional Development Division, and the Engineering Technology Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Focused on the needs of high school and community college STEM educators, this workshop focuses on how measures of student progress can be made more consistent and useful for program evaluation purposes.
Based on her well-known book, Assessing Impact, Joellen Killion will provide guidance and practical resources for evaluating professional development impact. Her eight-step evaluation framework is grounded in three key assumptions: professional development is data-driven, research-based, and well-defined; those in charge of the professional development have the capacity to implement the learning and the evaluation; and key stakeholders intend to use the evaluation results to make decisions about the program. While intended to serve ATE evaluation efforts, the workshop is open to broad participation.
Cost:
$295 for those with an ATE grant number;
$245 for those in the Maricopa Community Colleges;
$695 for those not affiliated with ATE or Maricopa.
Why attend? Participants will...
· Develop an understanding of the evaluation process.
· Create a theory of change for their staff development program.
· Use the theory of change to design an evaluation framework for a staff development program.
· Examine resources to assist them in evaluating their staff development program.
The UCGIS 2010 Winter Meeting will feature presentations about "Research on Geospatial Measures of Efficiency, Efficacy and Equity in Government Policy". This will include discussions about cloud computing, H1N1 and social networking, geospatial inequities in education and health policies, spatial data infrastructure for emergency management, and the smart
(electrical) grid. The meeting will bring together colleagues and leaders from around the country for two days of involvement in major national issues affecting geographic information science, with an emphasis on working with government officials.
The program also will include details on upcoming initiatives in 2010 at several major government agencies, including a presentation from the Geographic Information Officer at the Department of Interior, Karen Siderelis (invited). A panel discussion by Washington-based government relations representatives of UCGIS member universities will review national issues affecting higher education and provide tips on working with members of Congress and executive agencies.
Next Workshop Location: Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York
Click here to register
Sponsors: New York Photonics, Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster and Monroe Community College
Registration Fee: None.
The workshop is free of charge. Participants will be responsible for any travel, lodging or meals. Lunch will be provided both days of the workshop.
Click here to download a workshop informational brochure!
The workshop flier (PDF file) includes all the workshop details and registration instructions.
Background:
Optics and photonics applications are rapidly transforming the way we work and live. Photonics, and its applications, involve the cutting-edge use of lasers, optics, fiber-optics and electro-optical devices. Photonics has many applications in manufacturing, medicine, communications, solid-state lighting, and other high-tech fields. Thus, it represents a broad, commercially viable area in which American employers require a steady supply of well-qualified technicians.
The demand for photonics technicians in the United States is great and that demand is growing faster than the pool of qualified candidates. Since most of the skills needed for photonics workers at the technician level are obtainable through AAS degree programs, community and technical colleges provide the optimum environment for significantly increasing the number of qualified personnel available to U.S. employers in technical fields. Two-year colleges must also partner with high schools to design photonics career pathways to lead students through well planned secondary course sequences and into articulated two-year postsecondary programs. The creation of this secondary-to postsecondary “pipeline” of students is critical to the success of producing enough qualified technicians to meet industry needs.
In an effort to support and promote the inclusion of optics and photonics applications in secondary and postsecondary programs, OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, offers a free two-day Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education.
Based on her well-known book, Assessing Impact, Joellen Killion will provide guidance and practical resources for evaluating professional development impact. Her eight-step evaluation framework is grounded in three key assumptions: professional development is data-driven, research-based, and well-defined; those in charge of the professional development have the capacity to implement the learning and the evaluation; and key stakeholders intend to use the evaluation results to make decisions about the program. While intended to serve ATE evaluation efforts, the workshop is open to broad participation. Register soon at evalu-ate.org/events
The Missouri Vintner’s Association and Missouri Wine and Grape Board would like to invite you to attend the 25th Annual Midwest Grape and Wine Conference, February 6-8, 2010.
This year—the 25th Anniversary of the Conference— is themed "Toast to Our History, Sustaining Our Future". The conference will feature three full days of informative viticulture, enology and marketing sessions, a deluxe trade show and a grand finale—25th Anniversary Celebration!
Known as one of the premiere conferences in the Midwest, our 2010 Conference offers an opportunity to build relationships with industry colleagues, and socialize with old and new friends.
This year the conference will be returning to the beautiful Tan-Tar-A Resort at the Lake of the Ozarks. Our trade show exhibit area is in the most spacious, centralized location at the resort—the Grand Ballroom! We will have dedicated exhibit hours as well as social events you won ’t want to miss.
Soft- and entrepreneurial skills are the two areas that employers have agreed that make the difference in choice when hiring college graduates; this is especially so in BioTechnology, Information Technology, Computer Science and other high-tech fields. This Call for Participation is for a National Science Foundation supported Faculty Development Seminar that brings Virtual Enterprise to the BioTech and Information Technology disciplines. Its objective is to bring our students in line with industry’s demand for soft-skills while giving them the sense that becoming a tech-entrepreneur is not something that’s out of their reach, especially in the current economic climate.
CSEC is currently offering a series of five instructor training
workshops in three different locations. The workshops are for CSEC member institutions in the CSEC eight state region. These workshops are to prepare an instructor to teach courses in each of the five core areas of Information Assurance, which are:
1. Principles of Information Assurance
2. Network Security
3. Enterprise Security Management
4. Secure Electronic Commerce
5. Digital Forensics
Limited openings are available for instructors from community colleges that are not part of CSEC.
More workshop dates are also listed on the CSEC events calendar at:
http://ociafe.ctln.org/calendar/
For more information please contact:
Robert Hamilton
405-743-5552
rhami@okcareertech.org
CSEC is currently offering a series of five instructor training
workshops in three different locations. The workshops are for CSEC member institutions in the CSEC eight state region. These workshops are to prepare an instructor to teach courses in each of the five core areas of Information Assurance, which are:
1. Principles of Information Assurance
2. Network Security
3. Enterprise Security Management
4. Secure Electronic Commerce
5. Digital Forensics
Limited openings are available for instructors from community colleges that are not part of CSEC.
More workshop dates are also listed on the CSEC events calendar at:
http://ociafe.ctln.org/calendar/
For more information please contact:
Robert Hamilton
405-743-5552
rhami@okcareertech.org
Student impact is a crucial indicator that is often overlooked or poorly reported. However, when accurately measured, these results can further shape program development by identifying areas of weakness and providing evidence of student success. Gain expert insight in the field of evaluation.
AAPT sponsors many events throughout the year with the goal of providing professional development and networking opportunities for our members and the physics education community.
The COT RCNGM is offering assistance to attend a two-day CAD training at the new University Science and Engineering High School in New Haven. Hosted by Technical Education Solutions, LLC, the program provides instructors with an overview of The CAD Academy learning resources, basic to advanced software training and ADDA Industry Instructor Certification program review. Participants can focus on two of the software tracks listed below:
SolidWorks (Mechanical)- participants will experience the form, fit and function of 3D mechanical design before it is built (STEM centric)
ArchiCAD (Architectural)- participants will learn how the power of BIM will unlock student potential and vault a design program to new heights.
Microstation + PowerCivil (Civic engineering)- participants will learn why Bentley software is utilized for more infrastructure projects than any other CAD software program (STEM centric).
A+CAD (General CAD) - participants will use a functionally equivalent alternative to AutoCAD for exposure to CAD Fundamentals.
One hour webinar on Using Web 2.0 tools and mobile GIS to promote geospatial technology education and career awareness Presenter Ming Tsou
http://delmarcollege.na3.acrobat.com/ngtc/
Toll free number: 866.962.6635
The 34th Annual Conference kicks off on Thursday, February 18th with our welcome general session with a Legislative Update with Gabe Parker; TDA Grant Recipients and 2010 Grant Program; and 2010 Newsom Scholarship Winners Announcement. The program continues with break-out sessions geared for marketing, wine making and grape growing and include State and Federal Regulatory Sessions with TTB, TABC and TDA; New Marketing Techniques: Social Media Marketing with Denise Frasier, Dr. Russ Kane and Jeff Siegel; Sensory Evaluation and Flaw Detection with Mike Sipowicz; and Frost Protection Techniques with Monte Nesbitt.
Engineering EXPO is the USF College of Engineering’s Celebration of National Engineering Week. Our main goal is to educate elementary, middle and high school age students on how math, science, engineering and technology affect our everyday lives.
One hour webinar on Introductory GIS as a General Education Course Offering
Presenter Ken Yanow
http://delmarcollege.na3.acrobat.com/ngtc/
Toll free number: 866.962.6635
The National Science Foundation funded Advanced Technology Education project: "eSyst: A Systems View of Electronics Education" has developed instructional materials to give students the information and practice they’ll need to show competency in each learning objective. In this webinar the eSyst Development Team will demonstrate how to implement the eSyst Electronics System course “Data Acquisition”. This webinar will also explore: • Enhancing student/technician enrollments in today''''s electronics technology degree programs • How teaching a "systems" approach can revitalize your existing electronics curriculum • How the "systems view" can aid in the retention of your students • Present overviews of the course''''s new systems resources • Provide current status of the project • Demonstrate where to find the eSyst systems resources on the eSyst website Register at http://www.matecnetworks.org/webreg/esyst.php
The North American Network Operators' Group! NANOG is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices.
