8th Annual Curriculum Workshop - Draft Agenda

July 11 - 14, 2005, Springfield, MA

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Day 1, Monday, July 11, 2005

Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
8:00 - 9:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome
9:15 - 9:30	Brief Introductions
9:30 - 10:30	Keynote Speaker – David Liroff, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, WGBH Educational Foundation
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:00	Technical Updates James Downing, NCTT Co-PI, Subject Matter Expertise Michael Qaissaunee, NCTT Co-PI, Open Content Gordon F. Snyder, Jr., NCTT PI and Executive Director
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch - Ira Rubenzhal, President of STCC
Location – Putnam Hall, Building 17
1:00 - 2:30	Technical Session 1 Vladimir Riabov, Rivier College Challenging Projects and Virtual Labs in Web-enhanced IT Classes (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Siben Dasgupta, Wentworth Institute of Technology Application of Matlab for Digital Signal Processing (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 617) Babak Beheshti, New York Institute of Technology Cellular Wireless Migration to 3G and Beyond 3G (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612)
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 4:15	Technical Session 2 Karl Kapp, Bloomsburg University Using E-Learning to Teach ICT (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 619) Yakov Cherner, ATEL LLC Integration of Interactive Simulations and Virtual Experiments in Fiber Optics and Wireless Communications Courses for Onsite, Online and Hybrid Delivery (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 617) Warren Hioki and Michael Connolly, Community College of Southern Nevada RFID and Bluetooth Technology (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
4:15	Adjourn
Dinner on your own

Day 2, Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
8:00 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:15	NCTT Overview Gordon F. Snyder, Jr., NCTT PI and Executive Director
Location – Putnam Hall, Building 17
9:15 - 10:45	Technical Session 3 Jeff Davis, Jamestown Community College Public Key Encryption (part 1 of 2) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Scott SaintOnge, NCTT Introduction to Information Architecture on the Web (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 619) Diane Snyder, STCC Teaching and Learning Using Tablet PC’s (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:30	Technical Session 4 Jeff Davis, Jamestown Community College Public Key Encryption (part 2 of 2) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Siben Dasgupta, Wentworth Institute of Technology Application of Matlab for Digital Signal Processing (repeated) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 617) Warren Hioki and Michael Connolly, Community College of Southern Nevada RFID and Bluetooth Technology (repeated) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch – Chance Glenn, Rochester Institute of Technology Integrating Applied Research into the ICT Classroom
1:30 - 4:00	Steve Budd, STCC, Laura Qaissaunee, Brookdale Community College, and Pete Saflund, NCTT Grant Writing Session (part 1 of 2)
4:00	Adjourn
Dinner on your own

Day 3, Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
8:00 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast
Location – Putnam Hall, Building 17
8:30 - 10:00	Technical Session 5 Linda Scott, Education Development Center How-to Access Students’ IT Skills in Non-IT Classes (part 1 of 2) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Gina Potenza, SUNY Institute of Technology Economic Impact of Industry Sponsored Information Technology (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612) Sala Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology Optical Wireless Communications: Challenges and Opportunities (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:45	Technical Session 6 Linda Scott, Education Development Center How-to Access Students’ IT Skills in Non-IT Classes (part 2 of 2) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Vladimir Riabov, Rivier College Challenging Projects and Virtual Labs in Web-enhanced IT Classes (repeated) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 619) Michael Qaissaunee and Mohammad Shanehsaz, Brookdale Community College The ABC's of Wireless Security: WEP, TKIP, WPA & Beyond (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
11:45 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:00	NCTT Open Content Development System Demonstration
2:00 - 4:00	Steve Budd, STCC, Laura Qaissaunee, Brookdale Community College, and Pete Saflund, NCTT Grant Writing Session (part 2 of 2)
4:00	Adjourn
Dinner on your own

Day 4, Thursday, July 14, 2005

Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
8:00 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast
Location – Putnam Hall, Building 17
8:30 - 10:30	Technical Session 7 Dennis G. Vaillancourt, National Center of Excellence for High Performance Computing Technology High-availability Clustered Computing (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Sala Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology Optical Wireless Communications: Challenges and Opportunities (repeated) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612) Michael Qaissaunee and Mohammad Shanehsaz, Brookdale Community College The ABC's of Wireless Security: WEP, TKIP, WPA & Beyond (repeated) (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
10:30 - 10:45	Break
Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
10:45 - 12:00	Panel: Regional Partnership Defined
12:00 - 1:00	Boxed Lunch & Raffle
1:00	Partner Meeting
Dinner on your own

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This material is based on work
supported by the
National Science Foundation
under Grant Number DUE 0302548.

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