9th Annual Curriculum Workshop - Agenda

July 10 - 13, 2006, Springfield, MA

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See the Technical Session Descriptions.

Day 1, Monday, July 10, 2006

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 – James V. Masi, Ph.D., Prof. Emeritus, Western New England College Former Director, NCTT, Res. Prof. U. Southern Maine
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 Shuping Wang, University of North Texas Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Technology in Optical Fiber Communications (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612) Vladimir Riabov, Rivier College Networking Simulation Labs in Web-enhanced IT Classes (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Patricia Dombrowski, Bellevue Community College Bioinfomatics (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
2:30 - 2:45	Break, (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 614)
2:45 - 4:15	Technical Session 2 Scot Terban, Assurance Technologies, Corp. Ethical Hacking and Security Issues (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602) Gordon Snyder and Scott SaintOnge, NCTT Using Social Web Tools for Curriculum Development and Delivery (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Sala Qazi, SUNY Institute of Technology Optical Wireless Communications in the Outdoor and Indoor Environment (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612)
4:15	Adjourn
Dinner on your own

Day 2, Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
8:00 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00	NCTT Overview Gordon F. Snyder, Jr., NCTT PI and Executive Director
Location – Putnam Hall, Building 17
9:15 - 10:45	Technical Session 3 Thomas Chan, Southern New Hampshire University FERPA Compliance with Encryption (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Eugene Newman, SUNY Institute of Technology Public Safety Telecommunications: Technology and Trends in Advanced Services (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612) Ladimer Nagurney, University of Hartford Use of Cell Site Design to Introduce Students to a Broad Range of Issues Regarding Design (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
10:45 - 11:00	Break, (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 614)
11:00 - 12:30	Technical Session 4 Diane Snyder, STCC Teaching and Learning Using Tablet PC's (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602) Moe Moghimi, Middlesex Community College VPN Access: Packet Aggregation Utilizing Ethereal (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Ann Beheler, Collin County Community College Convergence Technology - the New Direction for IT (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612)
Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 4:00	Steve Budd and Mary A. Moriarty, 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 12, 2006

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 Gordon F. Snyder Jr, NCTT and Michael Qaissaunee, MAITT PodCasting Basics (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 619) Robert Bowles, Middlesex Community College The Middlesex Comm. Coll. (MA) RFID Technology Program (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602) Reza Ahrabi, Bloomfield College Demo of Voice over IP (VoIP), part 1 of 2 (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621)
10:00 – 10:15	Break, (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 614)
10:15 - 11:45	Technical Session 6 Pierre Thiry, City College of San Franciscio and Tom DiMicelli, Juniper Networks IPTV: Ready for Prime Time? (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612) Robert Mortenson, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Dennis Kirlin, Midwest Center for Information Technology Developing the Information Technology Workforce (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602) Reza Ahrabi, Bloomfield College Demo of Voice over IP (VoIP), part 2 of 2 (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621)
Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
11:45 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:00	Dave and Jana Wilcox, Global Skills Exchange A Community of Practice in Practice
2:00 - 4:00	Steve Budd and Mary A. Moriarty, STCC, Laura Qaissaunee, Brookdale Community College, and Pete Saflund, NCTT Grant Writing Session (part 2 of 2)
4:00	Jim Downing, NCTT ICT Laboratory Video Demonstration
5:00	Adjourn
Dinner on your own

Day 4, Thursday, July 13, 2006

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 Nina Laurie, NCTT GIS in Practice (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 621) Michael Qaissaunee, Brookdale Community College (MAITT) Wireless Communications (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 612) Karl Kapp, Bloomsburg University SurveyMonkey: A Tool for Creating Online Surveys (Bldg. 17 – Rm. 602)
Location - Scibelli Hall, Building 2, 7th Floor
10:45 - 12:00	Panel: Content Distribution with the Open Content Portal and New "Social Web" Tools
12:00 - 1:00	Boxed Lunch & Raffle
1:00	Partner Meeting
Dinner on your own

NCTT will conduct its 9th Annual Curriculum Workshop on the campus of Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, MA

Experience hands-on technical ICT* workshops.

Receive materials ready to use in your classroom.

Hear academic presenters with expertise in cutting edge technology.

Learn technology directions from industry presenters.

Participate in grant writing sessions.

Network with faculty from around the country.

* Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is an umbrella term that includes any network-attached device, transmission medium or application including but not limited to voice, video, data, wireless and wireline systems, computers, handheld-devices including cellphones and PDAs, network infrastructure, hardware, software and the various services, protocols and applications associated with them such as security.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.

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

Springfield Technical
Community College

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