Agenda

8:30am Breakfast

9:00am Welcome Ed Pittarelli

Director of Technologies, Bergen Community College

9:15am Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
Anita Verno
Assistant Professor of Information Technology, Bergen Community College CSTA Board of Directors and CSTA Curriculum Chair

9:40am Tackling the Next Program: Using Design to Problem Solve*
Steve Cooper
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Saint Joseph's University

1O:55am Is Vista on Your Horizon?*
Ed Pittarelli
Director of Technologies, Bergen Community College

12:00 Lunch and Business Meeting
After lunch, time permitting, we will tour the new West Hall on campus
*Descriptions on next page
Visit http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/pages/1690.asp for directions to Bergen Community College
 
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Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
Anita Verno
Assistant Professor of Information Technology, Bergen Community College CST A Board of Directors, CSTA Curriculum Chair

The Computer Science Teachers Association supports and promotes the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines at the K-12 educational level. We will explore the issues for K-12 computer teachers, the move by the CSTA to promote a national computer science curriculum for K�12, and consider why we must commit to support K-12 computing education.

Bio: Anita Verno is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Information Technology at Bergen Community College, in New Jersey, where she has taught since 1999. Anita has over 30-years experience teaching and working in business and educational computer technology. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and as Chair of the CSTA Curriculum Committee where she is fundamentally associated with two major computing reports1,2 at the primary and secondary school levels. Anita has presented at several computer and educational events including the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). Verno holds dual teaching certification in Elementary Education and in Data Processing. A more comprehensive vita can be found at www.bergen.edu/faculty/averno

Tackling the Next Program: Using Design to Problem Solve
Steve Cooper
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Saint Joseph's University

How can introductory computing students use design to solve problems? In this talk, we will explore traditional techniques (flowcharts, state diagrams, data flow diagrams) along with more modem tools (such as those used in UML), and even some non-traditional tools such as storyboards. After the presentation, we would like to open this topic up for discussion: What types of design diagrams and tools do you use? For what types of projects do they work well ( or not)?

Bio: Steve Cooper is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Saint Joseph's University and the Director of the Center for Visualization. His research areas lie in program visualization and semantics. He has been developing Alice-related curricular materials since 1998, and has conducted numerous Alice professional development workshops and lectures throughout the United States. He has been working with Dr. Wanda Dann (Ithaca College) and Dr. Randy Pausch (Carnegie-Mellon University). Along with Dann and Pausch, he has written many technical papers on Alice, as well as a textbook, Learning to Program With Alice (2006, Prentice-Hall).

1 A Model Curriculum for K-12 Computer Science: Final Report of the K-12 Task Force Curriculum Committee, CST A (Computer Science Teachers Association), Association for Computing Machinery, October 2003.
2 The New Educational Imperative: Improving High School Computer Science Education, CST A (Computer Science Teachers Association), Association for Computing Machinery with support from NSF.
 
Is Vista on Your Horizon?
Ed Pittarelli
Director of Technologies, Bergen Community College

The topic of this talk is the impact of Vista on students, faculty, colleges and universities, and the business marketplace. What issues arise when a community of well over 15,000 students, faculty, staff and community and business partners consider deploying a major new operating system, along with major new application suites and course management systems?

Bio: Ed Pittarelli is Director of Technologies at Bergen Community College. Areas of responsibility include Information Technology, Distance Learning Technology, Records Management, Television and NY Technology, and Classroom Scheduling. He has been Vice President at BroadSoft, a VoIP startup, and Managing Vice President at Lucent Technologies, where he was responsible for Professional Services on a global basis. Ed has also been an executive consultant in Business Process Management. He has a B.S. in Physics from Long Island University and an M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Southern Methodist University.
 
 

Community College Computer Consortium (CCCC)
Meeting Agenda for Friday, November 2, 2007
Raritan Valley Community College,
Lamington Road (Route 28)
North Branch, NJ 08876
Room: West Building - Room W-310 - by Parking Lot #2

Meeting Agenda:
8:30 AM - Continental Breakfast - Conference room W-220

9:00 AM - Welcome to Raritan Valley Community College - Room W-309

9:10 AM - Introduction to AJAX

-What is it and why should we care? Room W - 309
-Rick Anderson from Rutgers University in New Brunswick
-Division of Continuing Education and Outreach
-This isn't your parent's HTML AJAX
-Web 2.0 - Social networking

10:15 AM - Break � Book Publisher Exhibit - Upper Floor of West Building

10:30 AM - Discussion Facilitated by RVCC Adjunct Instructor Andy Mayo

Room W - 309 Discussion Topic:

-How Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 will drastically change the Windows Application Environment.
(It is as drastic a change as the migration from DOS to Windows.)

10:50 AM - Film: The Future of Instructional Technology Room W - 309

11:05 AM - Information Sharing: RVCC's experience switching to
Windows Vista, Office 2007, VOIP, new building, and WebCT 6 all at the
same time. Plus other educational technology used at RVCC.

Room - W-309

11:30 AM - Lunch and Business Meeting - Student Lounge Upper Floor (3rd Floor)
Tour of the brand new West building that houses the Computer Science
Department, which has the latest technologies in the classrooms and labs.