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MPICT Summer 2010 Faculty Development Week

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 Written by Jen Gednalske Friday, 23 April 2010

The Mid-pacific Information and Communication Technologies Center (MPICT) will hold a Summer 2010 Faculty Development Week from June 21-25, 2010 at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Ocean campus.

The MPICT Center was created by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of MPICT Center is to launch, coordinate, improve and promote Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) education, within two-year colleges in northern California, northern Nevada, southern Oregon, Hawaii and the Pacific Territories.

The conference will feature "Train the Trainer" tracks to prepare faculty to teach new or improve existing courses, and a pedagogical track to impart new teaching and learning skills.

The MPICT Summer 2010 Faculty Development Week will be hosted by City College of San Francisco.

This event is free to qualified ICT educators, who may be eligible for travel cost reimbursements.

The following tracks are currently being offered:

• INFORMATION AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT: This track is a comprehensive introduction to data storage architectures, systems, technologies, concepts, principles, features and benefits. The course prepares students to become EMC Proven Professional, certified at the associate level. The track will be conducted by Jeff Brown, a Senior Technical Instructor at EMC Corporation.
   
• VMWARE VSPHERE: INSTALL, CONFIGURE, MANAGE: This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware vSphere, which consists of VMware ESXi/ESX and VMware vCenter Server. This course, prepares students to take the examination to become a VMware Certified Professional. Timur Mirzoev is a professor in the Information Technology Department at Georgia Southern University, College of Information Technology.
   
• COMPUTER FORENSICS: Also known as digital forensics, the goal of computer forensics is to explain the current state of a digital artifact. The term digital artifact can include a computer system, a storage medium, an electronic document or even a sequence of packets moving over a computer network. Instructor Steve Hailey is President and CEO of Cybersecurity Institute, Digital Forensic Examiner and Educator.
   
• ANDROID MOBILE PROGRAMMING WITH APP INVENTOR: This course will address Android programming based on Google's soon-to-be-released App Inventor for Android. David Wolber will teach the course. He is a professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. His recent focus has been computer science education and specifically courses for beginners and for students with little technical background.
   
• GAME PROGRAMMING IN JAVA: In this interactive course, instructors will learn how to use a game-centric approach to teaching introductory programming courses. Dr. Brian C. Ladd, who will be teaching the course, has been using games to teach introductory computer science at the college level for fifteen years. Ladd is currently teaching at the State University of New York, Potsdam.
   
• RUBY ON RAILS WEB DEVELOPMENT: This course provides an introduction to the Ruby on Rails framework, including the installation of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, creation and testing of simple database-driven Rails applications. The instructor for this course will be Douglas Putnam. Putnam has been teaching scripting languages and Web programming at CCSF since 2001.
   
• DELIVERING HIGH IMPACT, HYBRID ONLINE COURSES: This track offers professional development for educators to deliver high-quality course experiences simultaneously to both in-person and on-line students. The CCC Confer Elluminate platform will be used however, the lessons and experiences are transferable to other platforms, like Webex, Adobe Connect or Wimba.

Instructors for this course will be:

Michael McKeever is a full-time faculty member at Santa Rosa Junior College SRJC, lead for the SRJC Cisco Regional Networking Academy and a CREATE CATC instructor. He developed and teaches Computer Security, Client/Server and Forensics courses and is also considered an Elluminate teaching expert.

Blaine Morrow is Director of 3C Media Solutions and CCC Confer, two statewide technology projects serving California Community Colleges.

Michelle Taramasco is Client Services Manager for CCC Confer. She and her award-winning team offer in-person training, on-line training and technical support for CCC Confer users. <>

For more information on the MPICT Center, please visit: www.mpict.org.

A PDF with more in depth course descriptions and information about the Summer 2010 Faculty Development Week can be downloaded here.

To apply to the conference please download the form at: www.mpict.org/form.html.

Jen Gednalske is a CCC Technology Center and California Virtual Campus Project Manager
and a TechEDge Editor.