NCTT Winter Workshop - Session Descriptions

Fiber Optic Technology Lecture, Part 1 of 2, Room 817
   Sam Bowne, City College of San Francisc, CA
Learn how modern fiber optic links are built, and how to use them. Hands-on lab exercises terminating, testing, and using singlemode and multimode fiber optic cables.

Simulation of Level 3 and VLAN Switching Using Cisco Devices, Room 514
   Moe Moghimi, Middlesex Community College, MA
The presenter will lecture for about 12 minutes. The audience will then use computers to simulate a given constellation of different VLANs connected via a router. Access control list may be used to limit access of some VLANs to others. Packet Tracer 4 is used.

Making It: Factors that Promote Resilience in First Generation College Students, Part 1 of 2, Room 822
   Linda Meccouri, Springfield Technical Community College, MA
Low socioeconomic status anda poor social environment are negative predictors of educational success, but some people succeed against the odds. This multi-modal presentation will describe the factors involved for a diverse group of adults being able to "succeed" despite the odds and approaches that support educational persistence for people from underserved populations.

GIS - A Power Base for Occupationally Based Education, Room 818
   Nina Laurie, National Center for Telecommunications Technologies and Carol Mathews, Century College, MN
Increasingly, businesses of all kinds are turning to GIS * the Power of Location, to be more competitive, efficient and responsive. GIS has evolved into a technology that can help people plan, design, engineer, build, and maintain information infrastructures that improve the way we live and do business. Knowledge of GIS technology is desirable for a wide variety of IT and business professionals and this presentation will illustrate some applicaitons to introduce GIS to students in seemingly unrelated disciplines using data from service learning with county agencies.

Juniper Networks: WAN Optimization, Room 821
   Scott Edwards and Raghu Subramanian, Juniper Networks, CA
Tired of seeing that flashlight or hour glass when operating over a WAN? Make it operate like a LAN; squeeze more juice out of your WAN

Fiber Optic Technology Lab, Part 2 of 2, Room 817
   Sam Bowne, City College of San Francisco, CA

Packet Analysis in VPN Connections, Room 514
   Moe Moghimi, Middlesex Community College, MA
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are becoming wide area network solutions of choice for many enterprises. In this interactive and hands-on session, participants will run Ethreal to observe and analyze Packets transfered in different VPN sesions.

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
This session offers a sample convergence technology recruiting presentation, a definition of convergence technology, service provider offerings of "Triple Play", explanation of additional recruiting efforts, and how the NSF grant has turned around our IT enrollment.

Cisco Systems: Wireless Network Growth and Management, Room 821
   Louis Kalmar and Mike Meditz, Cisco Systems, CA
Wireless Networking is experiencing tremendous growth and adoption in the marketplace both within the corporate environment as well as in large Municipal rollouts. Managing and supporting these large wireless networks has become top of mind. In this interactive session Cisco will demonstrate the Cisco Wireless Control System and discuss the challenges as well as the tools used in managing such wireless deployments.

An Overview of Municipal WiFi Networks, Room 817
   Tim Ryan, City College of San Francisco, CA and Mike Qaissaunee, Brookdale Community College, NJ
An overview of municipal Wi-Fi networks will be presented with emphasis on differences from traditional 802.11 networks. The proposed San Francisco TechConnect project will be described in detail including work completed to date and an estimated timeline for full implementation.

Ethical Hacking and Network Defense Lecture, Part 1 of 2, Room 514
   Sam Bowne, City College of San Francisco, CA
Learn how criminals take over Windows and Linux servers with buffer overflows, SQL injection, and other exploits, and how to defend networks. Students will use port scanners, the Metasploit framework, and other tools in hands-on labs taking over demonstration servers.

Creating Career Pathways for Women & Minorities in Digital Video Technology, Room 822
   Shari R. Mekonen, Borough of Manhattan Community College / CUNY, NY
Creating Career Pathways is an NSF-ATE project in BMCC's Video Arts & Technology Program. The project serves BMCC and high school students, high school and college faculty and staff, and industry professionals. Using Power Point and website presentations we will illustrate the various curricular, workshop, and other grant activities.

Four Community Colleges, Law Enforcement and a University: Partners in Computer Forensics, Room 818
   Paula Velluto, Bunker Hill Community College, MA
This session presents how 4 Massachusetts Community Colleges U. of Massachusetts-Boston and Federal, State & Local Law Enforcement agencies are partnering to develop a Computer Forensics Program. Colleges partner Criminal Justice and their Computer Science/Information Technology departments to create a model curriculum that will include seamless transition from one school to another, multiple delivery formats and multiple options for CJ students, CS/IT students and Law Enforcement personnel.

A Program in RFID Technology, Room 821
   Barry Werner, Middlesex Community College, MA
MCC has implemented a certificate and a degree progem in RFID. The program will be described in detail. The contents of the lab and the process through which the program was developed will also be discussed.

Multimedia Learning Objects, Room 817
   Terry Bartelt, Fox Valley Technical College, WI
Information about learning objects using Flash software will be presented. A learning object is a brief lesson that uses a variety of learning tools such as animations, video clips, audio, and interactive exercises to present a concept. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, over 300 lessons accessible on the internet have been completed. Most of them cover electronic fundamentals, digital concepts, and computer math that is useful for Information and Computer Technology instruction.

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
Faculty from the CIT and MIG Departments in partnership with MASS General Hospital have developed a certificate program in PACS Administration. This emerging technology combines the knowledge base of Medical Imaging and IT to provide administrative support to Hospital Medical Imaging Departments. This certificate is designed for IT professionals and Imaging Professionals.

ICT and its Role in Assessment and Evaluation, Room 818
   Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University, VA
This presentation describes an innovative model to facilitate assessment using an innovative matrix which makes the information collections painless and effective. That matrix brings a common frame of reference used for evaluation or the interpretation of results which can identifies the areas for improvement and prepares continued improvement plan.

Alcatel-Lucent: My Teamwork Collaboration and Communication Convergence Application, Room 821
   Jay Sungu, Alcatel-Lucent, CA
Alcatel-Lucent will present their award winning conferencing and collaboration application - My Teamwork. During this live interactive presentation Alcatel-Lucent will show you how My Teamwork helps facilitate swift and effective communication amongst teams and colleagues both inside and outside an organization utilizing a broad feature set.

Being Creative and Imaginative with Wireless Labs, Room 8xx
   Glenn Pfautsch, Boise State University, ID
Upon completion of the lab, students should be able to build their own antenna and test it's capabilities. This lab is to develop students creativity and imagination on desiging different RF antennas for Wifi applications.

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
This panel presentation in intended to build community and leverage successes within the greater NCTT community. It will present NCTT and its members and associations, and it will profile select successes from within the NCTT community. NCTT is very interested in building collaborative relationships that leverage all of our various successes for all of our mutual benefit.

Using GIS/GPS to Energize the Curriculum, Room 817
   Robert Welch, Lansing Community College, MI
This session shows the use of online resources in conjunction with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) along with Landscape CAD and data libraries in classroom teaching of landscape ecosystems. It also presents ideas for how these resources may be utilized in the instruction of other related classes.

Digital Signal Processing by MATLAB, Room 514
   Siben Dasgupta, Wentworth Institute of Technology, MA
The aims of this seminar are to explain the meaning and benefits of digital signal processing (DSP), to introduce basic DSP operations on which much of DSP is founded and to make the audience aware of the wide range of application areas for DSP. Specific real world application examples by MATLAB and Texas Instruments Hardware will be presented, drawn from areas with which most audience can relate. This seminar will provide demonstrations, including MATLAB and Texas Instrument DSP Chip.

Educational Significance of ICT and its Impact on US Economy, Room 822
   Mohammad Razani, New York City College of Technology / CUNY, NY
In 2000, the U.N. instructed a unit under the Secretary General's supervision to work on ICT. This session reports on ICT Task Force activities and the launch of a "Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Development." It further decribes the importance of ICT education programs and possible integration with these efforts.

Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), Room 818
   Gordon Snyder, National Center for Telecommunications Technologies
MMORPGs are online Role Playing Games (RPG's) in which many players interact with others in a virtual world, assume roles of fictional characters and control characters' actions. MMORPG persistent worlds continue to exist and evolve while a player is away from the game. Today, business and industry (including Intel and IBM) along with academic institutions (including Harvard and U. of Washington) are developing MMORPGs for education and training. We'll take a look at some common games and discuss how they could be used in our classrooms.

Connection Revolution - Communities of Practice, Room 821
   Kim Grady, Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center, AZ
Since Etienne Wenger first coined the term, Communities of Practice, business and education took to defining the meaning of a COP, the value, and how to harness them. Companies started initiatives to capture "human capital," institutions took advantage of student teams to enhance learning. COPs quickly took advantage of technology to connect and capture their collective knowledge. Today, knowing what we know about the power of a COP, what is next, how can the education community prosper using new technologies and virtues of a COP?
At this round table I would like to discuss current thinking about how COPs get work done and how to best collect and share that work. In particular how gaps in technology education can be filled and shared on a national level, rewrite the books so to speak or write our own.

NCTT and Regional Partner Panel Discussion: "Approaches to Developing Student Employability or Soft Skills", Room 821
Industry consistently reports the importance of non-technical skills for employee success and advancement. This panel workshop presents and discusses this challenge to technical educators.

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

Workshop - Peter Saflund: Technical Assistance for NSF Grants
Valuable insight and practical advice in applying for, receiving and managing National Science Foundation grants.