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NCTT Winter Workshop - Draft Agenda

January 12 - 13, 2007, San Francisco, CA

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Day 1, Friday, January 12, 2007

8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast / Meet & Greet, 8th Floor Common Room, Downtown Campus
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Introductions
NCTT Strategic Update and Review of Agenda
, Room 821
9:00 - 9:50 Presentation: "Trends in ICT Job, Salary and Technology Demand," Room 821
Dr. Peter Joyce, Cisco Systems
10:00 - 10:50 Presentation: "AT&T Plans and Implications for Employment," Room 821
Connie Williams-Hudson & Teri Mercado
11:00 - 11:50 Presentation: "Comcast Plans and Implications for Employment," Room 821
Jill Thompson, Comcast
12:00 - 12:50 Catered Lunch, 8th Floor Common Room
1:00 - 1:45
  • Fiber Optic Technology Lecture, Part 1 of 2, Room 817
    Sam Bowne, City Collge of San Francisco, CA
  • Simulation of Level 3 and VLAN Switching Using Cisco Devices, Room 514
    Moe Moghimi, Middlesex Community College, MA
  • Making It: Factors that Promote Resilience in First Generation College Students, Part 1 of 2, Room 822
    Linda Meccouri, Springfield Technical Community College, MA
  • GIS - A Power Base for Occupationally Based Education, Room 818
    Nina Laurie, National Center for Telecommunications Technologies and Carol Mathews, Century College, MN
  • Juniper Networks: WAN Optimization, Room 821
    Scott Edwards and Raghu Subramanian, Juniper Networks

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1:50 - 2:35
  • Fiber Optic Technology Lab, Part 2 of 2, Room 817
    Sam Bowne, City Collge of San Francisco, CA
  • Packet Analysis in VPN Connections, Room 514
    Moe Moghimi, Middlesex Community College, MA
  • Making It: Factors that Promote Resilience in First Generation College Students, Part 2 of 2, Room 822
    Linda Meccouri, Springfield Technical Community College, MA
  • Convergence Technology, Room 818
    Peter Brierley, Collin County Community College, TX
  • Cisco Systems: Wireless Network Growth and Management, Room 821
    Louis Kalmar and Mike Meditz, Cisco Systems

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2:40 - 3:10 Refreshments, 8th Floor Common Room
3:15 - 4:00
  • An Overview of Municipal WiFi Networks, Room 817
    Tim Ryan, City College of San Francisco, CA and Mike Qaissaunee, Brookdale Community College, NJ
  • Ethical Hacking and Network Defense Lecture, Part 1 of 2, Room 514
    Sam Bowne, City College of San Francisco, CA
  • Creating Career Pathways for Women & Minorities in Digital Video Technology, Room 822
    Shari R. Mekonen, Borough of Manhattan Community College / CUNY, NY
  • Four Community Colleges, Law Enforcement and a University: Partners in Computer Forensics, Room 818
    Paula Velluto, Bunker Hill Community Collge, MA
  • A Program in RFID Technology, Room 821
    Barry Werner, Middlesex Community College, MA

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4:05 - 4:50
  • Multimedia Learning Objects, Room 817
    Tery Bartelt, Fox Valley Technical College, WI
  • Ethical Hacking and Network Defense Lab, Part 2 of 2, Room 514
    Sam Bowne, City College of San Francisco, CA
  • IT Across the Curriculum - Partnerships with Medical Imaging, Room 822
    Paula Velluto, Bunker Hill Community College, MA
  • ICT and its Role in Assessment and Evaluation, Room 818
    Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University, VA
  • Alcatel-Lucent: My Teamwork Collaboration and Communication Convergence Application, Room 821
    Jay Sungu, Alcatel-Lucent, CA
  • Being Creative and Imaginative with Wireless Labs, Room 8xx
    Glenn Pfaustch, Boise State University, ID

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6:00 - 7:30 Cocktails, Refreshments and Networking at Hotel Penthouse
8:00 - 9:00 No Host Social Dinner at Local Restaurant

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Day 2, Saturday, January 13, 2007

7:30 - 8:15 Continental Breakfast / Meet & Greet - 8th Floor, Downtown Campus
Review of Agenda
8:20 - 9:45
  • NCTT & Regional Partner Panel Discussion: "Building on NCTT Community Successes", Room 821
    Gordon Snyder - NCTT History
    Pierre Thiry - ICONS Summer Convergence Workshops
    Mike Qaissaunee and Scott St. Onge - Course Development / Sharing Tools
    Ted Chandler - Recruiting / Marketing
    Ann Beheler - Business Community Interactions
    Mohammad Shanehsaz - Subject Matter Expertise

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9:50 - 10:35
  • Using GIS/GPS to Energize the Curriculum, Room 817
    Robert Welch, Lansing Community College, MI
  • Digital Signal Processing by MATLAB, Room 514
    Siben Dasgupta, Wentworth Institute of Technology, MA
  • Educational Significance of ICT and its Impact on US Economy, Room 822
    Mohammad Razani, New York City College of Technology / CUNY, NY
  • Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), Room 818
    Gordon Snyder, National Center for Telecommunications Technologies
  • Connection Revolution - Communities of Practice, Room 821
    Kim Grady, Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center, AZ

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10:35 - 11:00 Refreshments, 8th Floor Common Room
11:00 - 12:30 NCTT and Regional Partner Panel Discussion: "Approaches to Developing Student Employability or Soft Skills", Room 821
  • Education Panel
       David McNeel, Center for IT Education (CITE), Nashville State Community College, TN
       Peter Crabtree, Laney Community College, CA
       Indiana Quadra, City College of San Francisco, CA
  • Industry Panel
       Connie Williams-Hudson, AT&T, CA
       Beverly Seyfert, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA
       Michael Lavin, IT Consultant, CA

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12:45 - 1:30 Lunch Buffet, 8th Floor Common Room;
Raffle for Prizes!
1:30 - 3:00 Workshop - Peter Saflund: Technical Assistance for NSF Grants

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3:00 Conference Adjourns - Have Fun in San Francisco!!

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