|Home | About Us | Products | Services | Programs | NSF Grants | Partners | Programs > Center for IT Excellence   CITE Home   About CITE   Emerging IT Trends   For Students   For Education   For Industry   Events   Communication   Advancing IT Education and the Workforce in Washington State     Welcome to the Center for Information Technology Excellence!       About CITE... Headquartered at Bellevue Community College, the Center for IT Excellence (CITE) is a statewide resource for: Community and technical colleges, K-20 educational system, and, Information technology (IT) industry. CITE, as an information resource and solutions-provider regarding model educational programs, supplies: Best practices for IT education and training; Up-to-date research, including IT trends that impact hiring and educational needs and Business growth across industry sectors in Washington State; Information dissemination; and, K-20 faculty professional development conferences and student events. CITE is affiliated and co-located with the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) at BCC. Sponsored by the Washington State Board for Community and TechnicalColleges, CITE is one of eleven Centers of Excellence in Washington and the only one of the Centers devoted to Information Technology.       What's New at CITE     The 2008 Washington State Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute will be holding its 10th annual Working Connections Institute August 19-22, 2008, at Bellevue Community College. Register here for any of the following tracks: Office 2007: Soup to Nuts Advanced Features in the Applications of MS Office 2007 (In-Depth with Infopath and Sharepoint) Web 2.0 websites: Next Generation Technology for Next Generation Students Creating Your First Podcast Camtasia Studio: Create Online Demonstration from Your Desktop (Pre/Production/Post) Microsoft's Windows Server 2008: What is New? Web Site Development with PHP and XML       Recent Events   Educational Technology for Instruction: Everything a Dean Needs to Know, presented at WEC, April 30, 2008 by Michele Royer, PhD. (PowerPoint file)       Careers in IT: The Real Story (April 24, 2008)   Are your students curious about Information Technology (IT) or do they think IT is only for geeks? Do they think offshore outsourcing has eliminated all high paying technology jobs in the United States? Do your students believe they don't have the computer skills, technical competence or aptitude to do well in the information technology sector? Tell them to think again!!! Technology touches every job, career, and industry in today's society. Technology literacy is essential to succeed in today's employment marketplace. Find out about, and discover how to get started in a variety of careers including: web design, video and film production, gaming, mobile and wireless, computer forensics, and health informatics. Understanding Information Technology doesn't necessarily mean just programming! It involves leadership skills, communication abilities, teamwork and a love for constant challenges! Read more...       2008 IT Futures Education Summit   "Inspiring Faculty for Tomorrow" Next Generation Technology for Next Generation Students   Friday, May 2, 2008 Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington       Join your fellow technical and workforce development instructors across our state to discover new and innovative ways to improve information technology (IT) education, including science and technology areas where IT intersects with other disciplines. This one-day event features several industry and education speakers in various disciplines of IT, technology and business to share the impacts, challenges, growth and demands of technology in today's workplaces and classrooms. Read more...       The 2007 IT Futures Education Summit: "Inspiring Faculty for Tomorrow" was held at Microsoft's Conference Center on Friday, May 18th 2007. There were over 180 faculty, workforce administrators, guests, and presenters attending!   Watch the videos from the 2007 IT Education Futures Summit. Keynote speaker, Daniel Rasmus, Director of Information Work Vision, Microsoft high resolution low resolution IT Employer & Hiring Panel Discussion high resolution low resolution       The following presentations and related materials are available below:   Keynote Speaker Daniel Rasmus, Director of Information Work Vision, Microsoft: The New World of Work: Evolution of the Workforce       Session Presenters   Corinne Hoisington, Central Virginia Community College (IT professor and author) Everything Just Changed: Office 2007       Dr. Mark Minie, Affiliate Instructor, Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington Putting the Tech in Bio: Critical Curriculum Connections Between IT & Life Sciences       Dr. Michele Royer, NWCET, Bellevue Community College Digital Natives: Engaging the New Learners       Workforce Education Council/Continuing Education Council Presentations – February 8, 2007   The Center of Excellence and National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) were honored to present data on the “Future IT Workforce & Trends in IT Education and Careers” (Jerry Bunce, Boeing, and Michele Royer, NWCET) at the statewide WEC/CEC meeting February 8th, 2007 at Bates College in Tacoma. The informative presentations are available for download here: Jerry's presentation, Micheles's presentation. You can also link to a podcast of the program (coming soon), including brief introduction of the event and speakers by former Center of Excellence director, Jeff Johnson. The podcast production by Greg Marshall, Whatcom College, is available at www.gregspoddingadventure.blogspot.com (click on right-hand menu). The February 8th event was attended by over 100 representatives from 34 community and technical colleges. Thanks to Jerry and Michele for their excellent insights, detailed presentations, and IT workforce and education information shared with the group on behalf of the Center of Excellence. Any questions, contact us at cite@bcc.ctc.edu or 425-564-4229.       IT Hiring Panel discussion and the Key-note presentation from the 2006 Washington State IT Futures Education Summit are available for download on the IT Summit page.       Instructor Applications now being accepted for the 2008 Instructor Job Shadow Program, linking IT Educators with Washington State Businesses. Read the Instructor reports from the Summer 2007 Job Shadows.       2007-08 IT Trends Assessment: Understand the dramatic changes in the IT workforce.       CyberCareers: Information for students, IT pros and career changers about career paths, specializations and roles in IT.       Working Connections 2008: Eight great courses offered thjs year!       E-newsletter: Monthly e-mail news update providing information pertinentto IT education in the community college.       page last updated May 13, 2008   Contact our webmaster for broken links or navigation problems.

NWCET is a division of Bellevue Community College, and is partially funded by National Science Foundation grants.