Payment is negotiable.

We are hoping to have the training sometime between late February and early June 2012.

Please contact Maureen Majury at maureen.majury@belleveucollege.edu or 425.564.4229.

Meet Steve Fox, Director (DPE) at this year’s IT Futures Summit at Microsoft. He’ll discuss what is new with SharePoint, his latest book, and how you can incorporate new innovations into your daily classroom. He’s just one of multiple sessions and speakers who are waiting to share with you what latest creations, iterations, and innovations Microsoft has waiting for you!

Register for this year’s Summit.  It will be held on Friday, May 20, 2011, from 8:00 am until 3:30 pm at the Microsoft Conference Center (Building 33) in Redmond, Washington(Directions to the Conference Center).

Session Topics for the 2011 IT Futures Summit:

• SharePoint 2010: What’s New?
• Office 2010 Features for Faculty
• Mobile Application Development (Window’s Mobile applications)
• Monetizing Mobile Applications
• Web Design and Development (Web Matrix)
• Microsoft Research
• How to Refresh Your IT Program (Microsoft IT Academy)
• Bringing the Cloud to Your Classroom
• Environmental Computing

Grand-prize: A Kindle and also a drawing for ITune and gift cards (funded through non-state dollars).

About the STEM Summit: This two-day Summit will introduce you to K-20 best practices in education focusing on innovative teaching and learning in STEM.  As attendees, you will be examining curriculum for incorporation of best practices in STEM teaching and learning.

This free event includes lunch and snacks, materials, and fun giveaways.

• Your educational colleagues will be sharing their strategies for incorporating STEM in the classroom
• Industry professionals from allied health, aerospace, construction, information and computing technology, and manufacturing will highlight emerging technology and workforce trends.

The STEM Summit is proud to announce that Dr. Arthur Benjamin, professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College will be the keynote speaker.

He earned his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Benjamin’s dissertation focused on “Turnpike Structures for Optimal Maneuvers”.His research papers, presentations, memberships, referees for journals and book series, service on editorial boards, and services to the profession are substantial.  He is a renowned national and international scholar and expert in mathematics.

We have reserved the Hotel Sierra, a premier boutique hotel, a less than five minute walk from the N-Building at Bellevue College, for you at the rate of $139.00 per night, plus tax.  Visit the Hotel Sierra to reserve your room now.  After Friday, February 18, 2011, the room rate may no longer be available.  Mention or use the code “STEM Summit” to get this rate.  Contact us if you have any questions.

Day One: Industry and Emerging Technology Trends (Aerospace, Construction, Energy, Information and Computing Technology, & Health) aligned to STEM (Part I)

Thursday, March 10, 2011

8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. – Check in

9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. – Keynote presentation

10:00 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. – Break

10:10 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. – Industry presentations

12:10 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Lunch (student presentation)

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Panel Discussion (Q&A)

2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. – Break

2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. – Round Tables (at 3:00 p.m. distribute evaluations, presentations of all “best practices”- nomination)

Day Two:  Educator Best Practices in STEM (Part II)

Friday, March 11, 2011

8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. – Check in

9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Educators Presentations

10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. – Break

10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Educator presentations

12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Lunch (student presentation)

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Panel Discussion (Q&A)

2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. – Break

2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Round Tables

Sponsored by: The Centers of Excellence for Aerospace & Advanced Materials Manufacturing, Allied Health, Construction, and Information and Computing Technology.

Hosted by: Bellevue College, 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., N201, Bellevue, Washington 98007

Download the STEM Summit announcement here.

For more information or questions contact Maureen Majury, M.Ed., Director for the Center of Excellence for Information and Computing Technology at maureen.majury@bellevuecollege.edu or 425.564.4229.

Looking Ahead, John Perera, General Manager, Educational Marketing, Microsoft

Web 2.0 Technologies for Your Classrom, Jean Kent, North Seattle Community College

Online Collaborations: SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps, Web Services, Lance Baldwin, Business Development Manager, Education Product Groups, Microsoft

Shared Source, Windows Academic and Faculty Curriculum Resources: Supporting Teaching and Research World-Wide, Arkady Retik, Director, Windows Group, Microsoft

Productivity in the Age of Information Overload: Office 2010, Scott Kennedy, Solution Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

The 2010 Washington State IT Futures Education Summit is scheduled for Friday, May 21st, 2010, at the Microsoft Corporate Conference Center. Register for this free events so you can join your technical and workforce development instructors and colleagues across the state in discovering new and innovative ways to improve IT education. This one-day free event features several industry and education speakers in various disciplines of IT to share the impacts, challenges, growth and demands of technology.

Session titles are listed below. Included within the day’s activities are drawings for great giveaways (books, a seat to the 2010 Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institute, a Kindle, a Xbox 360, and a portable DVD player funded by the BC Foundation. Morning and afternoon refreshments will be served, as well as lunch, and parking is free.

Session #1:

• How to Refresh Your IT Program (Microsoft IT Academy)
• Productivity in the Age of Information Overload (Office 2010)
• Web 2.0 Technologies for Your Classroom

Session #2:

• The Evolution of the Windows Kernel Architecture (Windows 7 and beyond)
• Software Development (Visual Studio 2010)
• Adobe Creative Suite 4

Round Table Lunchtime Sessions:

• Cloud Computing (Azure) – Microsoft
• Virtualization (Hyper V, Virtual PC and server)
• Online Collaboration (SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps, Windows Live Services)

Session #3:

• The Washington Health Care Authority (HCA) designating Bellevue College as the Lead Organization for state ARRA initiatives in the area of “Information Technology Professionals in Health Care”. This responsibility can include health informatics curricula development; student recruitment and retention and establishing a bridge program to a university.
• The federal Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement on November 25^th.
• The Center and HCA are working on consortium building, and the application, on behalf of Washington’s CTC’s; 11 Washington CTC’s participated in Healthcare Informatics curriculum training November 17 -18, 2009 at Bellevue College.
• With the curriculum for the 18-credit health IT certificate for dislocated IT workers complete, three colleges begin implementing all or part of the 18-credit Healthcare Informatics curriculum in winter quarter 2010.
• Three colleges are offering the new health IT certificate program in winter quarter with one additional college planned for summer 2010.
• Six WA CTC’s are using the OIT Electronic Medical Record Simulation Laboratory in winter quarter
• Four WA state colleges are being included in Bellevue College’s federal health IT grant proposal.