BAVC Bridges at City College of San Francisco

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Google Offers $35 Chromecast Streaming Video Device

by Karl Bode Thursday 25-Jul-2013

 

In addition to unveiling their latest Nexus 7 tablet, Google yesterday turned heads with the release of Chromecast, a $35 device that plugs into a television's HDMI port and allows users to stream content from their phone, tablet or PC directly to their television. According to the Google blog announcement, the device works with Netflix, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, and Google Play Music, with more services on the way.

The device is already on sale over at Amazon, where quite amusingly it already has 42 user reviews despite the fact nobody has really used it yet.

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2013 Winter Conference Interviews

Following are links to a series of interviews conducted at the Winter 2013 ICT Educator Conference in San Francisco on MPICT's YouTube Channel.

Check 'em out!

MPICT Winter Conference 2013 Interview Recordings

1)    Interview with John Carrese & Zhenya Lindstrom (California Community College Economic and Workforce Development Centers of Excellence)

2)    Interview with Peggy Maxson (Department of Homeland Security)

3)    Interview with Karl Cureton (National Minority Technology Council)

4)    Interview with Dave Nelson (VMware) & Rich Weeks (NDG)

5)    Interview with Kim Yohannan (EMC) & Rich Weeks (NDG)

6)    Interview with Steve Wright (iima4biz)

7)    Interview with Ross Brunson and Chuck Bixby (Linux Professional Institute)

8)    Interview with Interview with Dr. Carol Engler (Ashland University)

9)    Interview with Mark Conway (NetApp)

10) Interview with Shari Liss (iisme; Industry Initiatives for Science and Math  Education)

11) Interview with Chuck Bixby (LPI), Ross Brunson (LPI), and Rich Weeks (NDG)

12) Interview with Mike Qaissaunee (Brookdale CC & ICT Center/STCC)

13) Interview with Nic Xenos (Juniper Networks)

14) Interview with Jane Ostrander (Experiential Learning Center)

15) Interview with Una Daly (Community College Outreach)

16) Interview with Jeff Larson (SFUSD)

17) Interview with Elizabeth Wallner (Wallner Consulting Services/JSPAC)

18) Interview with Ron Lichty on Agile Methods

19) Interview with Ann Beheler (Convergence Technology Center)

20) Interview with Donna Milgram (IWITTS)

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2013 Winter ICT Educator Conference - YouTube Presentation Links

YouTube video conversions are complete for presentations from the Winter 2013 ICT Educator Conference in San Francisco.  These provide excellent exposure to resources, content and best practices from ICT industry and ICT educators from across the country.

  

You can download an agenda from the event with embedded links to YouTube presentations here, or following is a list of presentations and links.  Check them out!

 

2013 Winter ICT Educator Conference – Jan 3, 2013

 

1) Society 3.0, Technology Transformations in Society, Work and Higher Education

·        Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, VP and Managing Director, Apollo Research Institute

 

2) Doing What Matters for ICT Education

·        James Jones, Executive Director, Mid-Pacific ICT Center (MPICT)

3) Meet the New Windows Client – Windows 8

·        Douglas Spindler, IT Instructor, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California

 

4) Cybersecurity Track Intro and National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework

·        Casey O'Brien, Director, National Cyberwatch Center

·        Peggy Maxson, Director, National Cybersecurity Education Strategy, Department of Homeland Security

 

5) ACM CCECC IT Core Competencies Project

·        Robert Campbell, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York

6) CPATH and Computational Thinking: Road to the Future

·        Gary Hartley, Dean, Instruction and Technology, Folsom Lake College, Folsom, California

 

7) Using an Interactive Animated Module to Teach Animation Principles to Community College Digital Media Students

·        Daniel Boulos, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

8) EMC Academic Alliance’s Storage and Cloud Courses Supported by NDG’s NETLAB+

·        Kim Yohannan, Academic Alliance Manager, EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, Massachusetts

·        Rich Weeks, President, Network Development Group

 

9) Coursera: Education for Everyone

·        Relly Brandman, Course Operations, Coursera, Mountain View, California

 

10) Leadership Styles and Security Issues in Small Businesses

·        Debasis Bhattacharya, Interim Vice Chancellor of IT and ICT Faculty, University of Hawaii Maui College, Kahului, Hawaii

 

11) Interactive Internet for 'Small and Medium' Business

·        Stephen Wright, State Director iima4biz, EWD, Thousand Oaks, California

12) Soft Skills: Satisfying the Need in Southern Nevada

·        Warren Hioki, Executive Director, Academic Affairs, College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, Nevada

 

13) Test Drive VMware View (VDI) Hands On Labs

·        Rick Watson, Instruction Support Facilitator, VMware IT Academy Program, Palo Alto, California

 

14) Integrative Programming: The (Oftentimes) Missing Link

·        Ricardo M. Checchi, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA

 

15) Get a Job and Make a Career in Linux and Open Source

·        Ross Branson, Director of Member Services, Linux Professional Institute, CA

 

16) Data Breaches and Password Hashes

·        Sam Bowne, Instructor, CNIT Dept., CCSF, San Francisco, California

 

17) E-books and Mobile Apps for Technician Education (E-MATE)

·        Michael Qaissaunee, Professor and Chair, Engineering and Technology, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey

 

18) StRUT -Students Recycling Used Technology (ICT Public/Private Partnership)

·        Richard Grotegut, Professor, Ohlone College, Fremont, California

 

19) Teaching Cloud Computing Concepts

·        William Saichek, Professor, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California

 

20) California's Open Textbook Legislation to Expand Student Access and Fuel Faculty Innovation

·        Una Daly, Director of Community College Outreach, Open Courseware Consortium, Saratoga, California

 

21) Strengthening Transfer: A Case Study

·        Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director, BATEC

·        Ricardo M. Checchi, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

 

22) Capacity Building in Cybersecurity

·        Corrinne Sande, CIS Program Coordinator, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Washington

 

23) Strengthening Pathways to ICT Education and Careers in San Francisco

·        Olivia Herriford, Associate Director, Mid-Pacific ICT Center, San Francisco, CA

·        Beth Cataldo, Coordinator, Multimedia Studies Program, CCSF, San Francisco, CA

·        Evan Decker, SF ICT Pathways SFUSD Liaison, MPICT, San Francisco, California

·        Ursula Bischoff, Senior Program Associate, WestEd/TechSF, San Francisco, CA

·        Ingrid Dahl, Director NextGen Programs, BAVC, San Francisco, California

 

24) YouTube - Record, Edit and Caption with Your Browser

·        Donna Eyestone, Instructional Designer, CCSF, San Francisco, California

 

25) Introducing Windows Server 2012 to Technology Instructors

·        Douglas Spindler, IT Instructor, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California

 

26) New Opportunities in Storage & Data Management Education & Careers

·        Mark Conway, Sr. Program Lead, Academic Alliances, NetApp, Lincoln, MA

 

27) Industry Partnerships: The Impact of Cisco Networking Academy Inside & Outside of The Classroom

·        John Bjerke, Area Academy Manager, Cisco, San Jose, California

 

28) Cyber Security Training and the Gender Gap

·        Tony Coulson, Professor, Cal State San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California

 

29) Making SLO Progress: Where and How to Integrate Cloud Computing into Your College’s ICT Curriculum

·        Markus Geissler, Professor, Computer Information Science, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, California

 

30) Integrating Career Pathways via Bridge Programs

·        Ingrid Dahl, Director, Next Gen, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, CA

 

31) Virtualization Approach for Online ICT Courses

·        Erick Spengler, PI, CSSIA Center

·        Julie Hietschold, Virtual Lab Manager, Collin Community College

 

32) Teaching VoIP on the Cheap - Version 2

·        William Saichek, Professor, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California

 

33) The College of Southern Nevada’s “TechKnoHow Lab”

·        Linda Foreman, Sociology Professor, College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, Nevada

 

34) Collaboration as a Means to Build Capacity: Maryland’s K-12 Cybersecurity Pathway

·        Davina Pruitt-Mentle, Ex Director ETPRO/Co-PI National CyberWatch Center, ETPRO/NCW, Clarksville, Maryland

 

35) Empathy is not for Sissies! Improving ICT Education with Empathy and Perspective

·        Carol Engler, Associate Professor, Educational Administration, Ashland University, Columbus, Ohio

 

36) Tuning Up Your IT Program: Using Partnership and Instructional Checkpoints

·        Louise Yarnall, Sr. Research Social Scientist, SRI International, Menlo Park, California

 

37) Problem-Based Learning & Deep Learning for Success in the 21st Century

·        JaneOstrander, PI, Destination PBL Project, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada

 

38) Test Drive VMware View (VDI) Hands On Labs

·        Rick Watson, Instruction Support Facilitator, VMware IT Academy Program, Palo Alto, California

 

 

 

2013 Winter ICT Educator Conference – Jan 4, 2013

 

1) Keynote: A Tale of Two Cities: The Convergence Between an Increase in Student Diversity, ICT Industry Pipeline Changes, and Small Business Growth in Federal IT Contracting.

·        Karl Cureton, Chairman, National Minority Technology Council, McLean, Virginia

 

2) Gain Insight into Today’s Workforce Needs through a Paid, Relevant, Rich, Revitalizing,

Summer Fellowship

·        Shari Liss, Education Director, Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education, Santa Clara, California

 

3) Using Stackable Certificates to Improve Completions

·        Ann Beheler, Executive Director Emerging Tech Grants, Collin College, Frisco, TX

·        Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director, BATEC National Center

 

4) To MOOC or not to MOOC –How Community College ICT Programs Can Leverage New Interaction Models

·        Una Daly, Director of Community College Outreach, Open Courseware Consortium, Saratoga, California

·        Dr. Preetha Ram, OpenStudy.org and Emory University

 

5) Jobs of the Future: A Look at the Information Security Workforce – 1

·        Laura Coleman, Project Manager, Los Rios Community College District, Center of Excellence, Sacramento, California

 

6) Improve Under-represented Student Success with MPICT’s ICT Diversity Toolkit

·        Olivia Herriford, Associate Director, Mid-Pacific ICT Center, San Francisco, CA

 

7) This is How We Do It: Teaching SAS® at Ohlone College

·        Meili Xu, Instructor, Ohlone College, Fremont, California

 

8) Delivering a Win-Win-Win Workforce with Agile Programming Methods

·        Ron Lichty, Co-Chair, Emerging Technology SIG, SVForum

 

9) Just the Basics, Please: Engaging Nontraditional and Special Population ICT Students

·        Elizabeth Wallner, Equity Consultant, Wallner Consulting Services/JSPAC, Sacramento, California

 

10) Leveraging resources in a grant challenged time

·        Laura Qaissaunee, Director, Grants and Institutional Development, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey

·        Cheryl Dettrick, M.S., Grant Development Consultant, Resource Development Svcs.

 

11) Jobs of the Future: A Look at the Information Security Workforce – 2

·        Laura Coleman, Project Manager, Los Rios Community College District, Center of Excellence,  Sacramento, California

 

12) Introducing Junos Enablement: IOS to Junos OS: Better Prepare Your Students for Their Career in Networking

·        Nic Xenos, SrManager, Global Academic Alliances, Juniper Networks

 

13) Workshop: Using MIT App Inventor for Creative Engagement in Computer Science Courses – 1

·        Shaileen Pokress, Manager, Education Programs, MIT Center for Mobile Learning, Cambridge, Massachusetts

14) ICT Workforce Preparation for California Initiative

·        Bill Cullifer, Executive Director, WebProfessionals.org, Folsom, California

 

15) Engaging Students with Disabilities Using Universal Design Principles for Instruction

·        Donna Lange, Associate Professor, RIT/NTID, Rochester, New York

 

16) StudentCamps -Empower Your Students to Organize Their Own Regional Technology Conference.

·        David Nielsen, Co-founder, None, Mountain View, California

 

17) Impact of the NSF/ATE Cyber Security Centers on the US Cybersecurity Workforce

·        John Sands & Terryll Bailey, CSSIA

·        John Sener & Vera Zdravkovich, Cyberwatch National Center

 

18) Easily Add TCP-IP basics and Wireshark To Your class: How, What and Why

·        John Gonder, Cisco Academy Director, Las Positas College, Livermore, California

 

19) Workshop: Using MIT App Inventor for Creative Engagement in Computer Science Courses – 2

·        Shaileen Pokress, Manager, Education Programs, MIT Center for Mobile Learning, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

20) Certifying Creativity: Driving College and Career-Readiness with the Adobe Certified Associate

·        Melissa Jones, WW Education Program Manager, Adobe, San Francisco, California

21) Completion Matters! Assisting Nontraditional & Special Population Students in Attaining their Education and Career Goals

·        Elizabeth Wallner, Equity Consultant, Wallner Consulting Services/JSPAC, Sacramento, California

 

22) The National Cyber League -Reflections After The First Year

·        Dan Manson, Professor, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, California

 

23) Benefits of Having Business Own Your Programs

·        Mark Dempsey, Program Manager, Collin College, Frisco, Texas

·        Ann Beheler, PI, Convergence Technology Center, Collin College, Frisco, TX

 

24) @One: Tools, Training and Opportunities to Improve ICT Education

·        Micah Orloff, Interim Co-Director, @ONE, Menifee, California

 

25) Hands-on SQL Injection Attack and Defense

·        Sam Bowne, Instructor, CCSF, San Francisco, California

 

26) Industry Trends In Digital Publishing

·        Dave Gillespie, Senior Account Director, MEI, Lake Havasu City, Arizona

 

27) Retaining Female Students by Teaching to Their Learning Style

·        Donna Milgram, Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS), Alameda, California

 

28) Center for Academic Excellence Two-Year (CAE2Y) Program

·        Vera Zdravkovich, Senior Advisor, National CyberWatchCenter, Prince George's Community College, Largo, Maryland

 

29) Scenario Delivery and Virtualization Platform

·        Brad McPeak, Co-PI, Midwest Center for IT, Omaha, Nebraska

30) Citrix IT Academy: Opportunities for Community Colleges

·        Dan Myers, Global Academic Program Manager, Citrix, Castle Pines, Colorado

31) An Appropriate Alternative to MOOCs for Community Colleges

·        Michael McKeever, Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma, California

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