|Home | About Us | Products | Services | Programs | NSF Grants | Partners | Programs > Center for IT Excellence > IT Summit   CITE Home   About CITE   Emerging IT Trends   For Students   For Education   For Industry   Events   Communication Advancing IT Education and the Workforce in Washington State 2008 IT Futures Education Summit "Inspiring Faculty for Tomorrow" Next Generation Technology for Next Generation Students Friday, May 2, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 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. Instructors, deans and workforce staff of community and technical colleges and high schools are encouraged to attend. University staff and faculty and four-year college personnel are also welcome to attend. This is a free event sponsored by CITE. Lunch will be provided. Reserve your seat by clicking the registration link at the top of the page. Benefits of attending: Learn about current upcoming technical skills sought by businesses. Focus on integration of new technologies and strategies for classroom learning. Choose a break-out session with an expert speaker for a specific interest area. Network with other instructors to build community amongst our institutions.   Agenda: 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Check-in and Continental Breakfast – West Hall     8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m General Session, Cascade Auditorium Welcome & Opening Remarks Paula Boyum, PhD.; Vice President, Workforce Development, Bellevue Community College (BCC) Executive Director, NWCET & Center for IT Excellence, BCC Keynote Speaker – Martin Bean, Managing Director of Education for Worldwide Public Sector at Microsoft Corporation 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Networking Break – West Hall     9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Session 1 Cascade Auditorium St. Helens Rainier Windows Server 2008, Longhorn – David Lowe, Senior Project Manager, Microsoft & Melissa Dehaan, Columbia Basin College Introducing SQL and Visual Studio 2008 -- Gerry O’Brien, Technologist, Microsoft, & Debi Wolf, Columbia Basin College Camtasia Studio: Create Online Demonstration from Your Desktop (Pre/Production/Post) -- Jean Kent, Seattle Central Community College, emeritus     10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. Session 2 Cascade Auditorium St. Helens Rainier Office 2007 and XML -- Rachel Drossman, Product Manager, Microsoft, & Marika Reinke, Bellevue Community College Introducing Microsoft SQL 2008 and Visual Studio 2008Getting Linqd with SQL and Visual Studio 2008 – Gerry O’Brien, Technologist, Microsoft, & Steve Conger, Seattle Central Community CollegeCamtasia Studio: Creating Online Demonstrations from your Desktop (Pre-Production/Post) Web 2.0 Websites: Next Generation Technology for Next Generation Students – Tony Sako, Columbia Basin College     11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m Lunch & Round Table Sessions Cascade Auditorium St. Helens Rainier Round Table Session Discover the Zen of XML facilitated by Mark Westlund, Olympic College Round Table Session Online Cheating: How to detect it, and what to do about it -- facilitated by Marcia Williams, Bellevue Community College Round Table Session Innovative Articulation -- facilitated by Ying-Chen Milbrath, Columbia Basin College     1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m Session 3 Cascade Auditorium St. Helens Rainier Advanced Office 2007: Sharepoint and Infopath – Microsoft & Letty Barnes, Lake Washington Technical College Podcasting with Zune – Rob Greenlee, Podcasting Programming Lead, Microsoft, Jean Kent, Seattle Central Community College, emeritus Computing Multimedia: Movie Making – Robert L. Backstrand, Bellevue Community College     2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Networking Break – West Hall     2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. IT Employer & Hiring Panel Discussion - Cascade Auditorium. "Next Generation Technology for Next Generation Students"     3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m Closing Remarks and Giveaways – Cascade Auditorium Jim DiIanni, Director, Academic Programs, Microsoft Learning   Special thanks to Microsoft Learning, the Microsoft Conference Center, Wiley Publishing, Pearson VUE, the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges, and the League for Innovation in the Community College for support of this year's Summit.   Thank you to all who participated in the CITE survey, your input helped determine the session topics.

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