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Education Resources for the Future

Blog Headlines

Gordon Snyder's Blog:

AT&T 2G Network Services Changing?
4 Jan 2009

Pew Study: The Internet In 2020
1 Jan 2009

Will U.S. Continue Broadband Slide Under Obama?
30 Dec 2008

10 Random Thoughts On 12-24-08
24 Dec 2008

Digital TV: Goodbye Analog Snow, Hello Digital Losses
23 Dec 2008

Mikes Qaissaunee's Blog:

Video Stream of the Apple Keynote
6 Jan 2009

Apple Macworld Keynote
6 Jan 2009

Scrap the Landline
6 Jan 2009

Like Jing? You'll Love Jing Pro!
6 Jan 2009

Animoto Video
6 Jan 2009

Featured Video

Splitting a beam
Gordon and Jeff

Quick Links

Events
pointer Winter 2009 Educator Conference
January 8-9, San Francisco, CA

The National and Mid-Pacific ICT Centers are joining forces to create the Winter 2009 Educator Conference, concurrent with MacWorld in San Francisco.
Click here for detailed event information.
Event Registration
Agenda

NCTT's 11th Annual Summer Conference
Seamless Connections at SAME-TEC
July 28 - 31, 2008, Austin TX

This summer, NCTT partnered
with MATEC and OP-TEC for our
summer conference.
See the Agenda
Presentations Available

NCTT ICT / Convergence
Winter Conference

January 4 - 5, 2008
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
Presentations Available
View the Agenda

Resources

Check out www.TeachingTechnicians.org, a website that links technician educators with National Science Foundation supported, state-of-the-art, faculty development in advanced & emerging technologies, teaching methods, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

ICT Center Laboratory Video Project

Download the ICT Technician Skill Standards!

News
Questions about being an NCTT partner?

Read TECHcitement: Advances in Technological Education (1.5MB PDF), a detailed newsletter about the ATE program from the AACC.

The ICT Center was established in 1997 as a division of Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), in Springfield, Massachusetts. Originally called the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies (NCTT), the ICT Center changed its name in 2008 to the National Center for Information and Communications Technologies (NCICT, or, The ICT Center). The ICT Center is one of 14 National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Resource Centers of Excellence, each one organized around a specific technology focus. The ICT Center is charged with leading a national collaborative of business and education partners to develop and disseminate an always relevant, industry-driven curriculum to teach and train tomorrow's ICT technicians and technologists.

 

ICT - Information and Communications Technology

ICT describes a truly convergent communications system used by traditional and emerging industries to conduct their core business and mission critical applications.

ICT is the technology used to handle information and aid communication. It is an umbrella term used to include:
  • Network-attached devices - hardware from routers and switches to cell phones, tablet PCs and PDAs
  • Transmission media - infrastructure components including core services and protocols
  • Applications for the wide area sharing of data and communications - interface software including video conferencing, security solutions and distance learning environments

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