DESIGN VISUALIZATION WORKSHOP
FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY
Tuesday,June 3, 2003
Wednesday,June 4, 2003

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Two days of FREE workshops designed for drafting and design faculty. Join your colleagues to learn how you can integrate design visualization concepts into your curriculum. This workshop is sponsored by the Business Education Statewide Advisory Committee (BESAC) as part of a statewide curriculum development grant project.

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There will be a mixture of presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on training. Special Guest Speaker — Cisco Systems Inc. Security Expert. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

• Wireless Security
• I D S
• Encryption
• Firewall
• Port Scanning
• Steganography
• Biometrics
• Anonymous Web Browsing and E-mail
• Other Interesting Topics

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WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF TEAM PARTICIPATION AND SOFT SKILLS

Monday, June 16, 2003,


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Presented by Professor Ken Leighton, Professor Judy Montague, and Coordination Professor Sally Kurz

This staff development workshop focuses on helping teachers to incorporate soft skills and team building exercises in their classrooms. This workshop will cover lesson plans, from a variety of subject areas, designed to help students understand the importance of communication skills and team building strategies in the workplace. The classroom-tested exercises demonstrated during this workshop will provide students with opportunities to practice speaking in front of groups and working in teams, thereby, preparing them to participate more actively in workplace settings.

TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
TOOLS FOR THE FUTURE

Wednesday, June 25th, 2003

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ANY TIME ANYWHERE: CLASSROOM MOBILITY
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc./Public Sector

Learn how handheld devices and Tablet PC’s, equipped with Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition, OneNote, and Office 2003 software, bring a very mobile, powerful and versatile computing experience to faculty and students.

TAKING CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT
TO NEW HEIGHTS
Matthew Busser, Handheld Computer Specialist
Scantron Corporation

Classroom Wizard utilizes the simplicity and efficiency of handhelds and a web-based application. After a teacher easily creates a quiz using the program, students enter their answers on handhelds and beam the data for instantaneous scoring and analysis of results.

VISION OF THE FUTURE CLASSROOM REALITY: THE TABLET PC, SPEECH, AND HANDWRITING RECOGNITION
Presenter: Karl Barksdale, Author & Teacher
Cosponsored by Plantronics, Acer America, and SpeakingSolutions.com

Come see the power and potential of the Tablet PC as it relates to the courses you teach. The Tablet PC and its new accompanying input technologies — speech recognition and handwriting recognition — are hitting the business and academic worlds with all the force of a tsunami. The Tablet PC proves that the handwriting/speech interface is a very-soon-to-be reality for all of the students in our schools. These dynamic, wireless PCs have the power to change the very definition of computing itself

SPEECH AND HANDWRITING RECOGNITION:
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Presenter: Karl Barksdale, Author & Teacher
Cosponsored by Plantronics, Acer America, and SpeakingSolutions.com

Speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and the Tablet PC are driving change in IT and Business education today. But, the question remains, “How do we teach these advanced Tablet PC input technologies in today's traditional computer labs!” Come find out in this 3.5-hour hands-on session featuring Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7.0, Microsoft Office XP, and Wacom handwriting tools. Learn how you can give your students this competitive edge!

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ONLINE SECURITY CLASS

Three components:
June 2-3, 2003
June 2 – June 25, 2003
June 26th and 27th

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A UNIQUE ONLINE STAFF DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
Sponsored by Ascolta Training Company

Since 9/11/01, security has become a major priority for all organizations for all employees at all levels regardless of the role they may play in the organization. these online courses are being offered to all employees of companies. therefore, they seem to be naturals for all our students regardless of the classes they may be teaching.

This opportunity will have three components:

1. A one-hour online session that will be offered three times
2. three online 30-minute courses are available 24 x 7
3. one more one-hour synchronous online session