Posts Tagged ‘CTC Community’
Results Are In — Summer Working Connections
The National CTC’s first in-person Summer Working Connections since July 2019 has ended and the numbers are in! Final headcount, 107 faculty members participated — 55 in-person and 52 online. We were delighted to celebrate its 20th anniversary with friends near and far, including a visit by Collin College President Neil Matkin to share his…
Read MoreCCN Focus Feature: Shawn Lampe, Kirkwood Community College
For the past three years, the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) has featured blogs that introduced some of our professors and instructors in the Convergence College Network (CCN) community. The CCN is a select cohort of community colleges and universities from across the country that connects IT educators with a wealth of resources to enhance…
Read MoreCTC’s Student Spotlight: Shannon Martensen, Kirkwood Community College
As a part of the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) featured blog and videos, we would like to introduce IT students attending our Convergence College Network (CCN) schools. The CCN is a select cohort of community colleges and universities from across the country that connects IT educators with a wealth of resources to enhance their…
Read More𝗖𝗧𝗖 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 & 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗖 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝘁𝗮𝗵
The National CTC will have a huge presence at the upcoming High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HITEC) in Salt Lake City on July 25-28, 2022, which will be held in person for the first time since July 2019. The CTC will be hosting two pre-conference workshops – one on AI and digital literacy, one on…
Read MoreCTC’s Student Spotlight: Amy Tong, Collin College of Frisco, TX
As a part of the National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) featured blog and videos, we would like to introduce IT students attending our Convergence College Network (CCN) schools. The CCN is a select cohort of community colleges and universities from across the country that connects IT educators with a wealth of resources to enhance their…
Read MoreStrategies and Tools for Successful Online Teaching
The National Convergence Technology Center’s (CTC) recently hosted its second “Brown Bag” webinar of the spring. First launched in 2020, this series offers special topic presentations via bite-sized, 30-minute segments on both technical and employability topics. To date, these webinars have been attended “live” by over 300 people with another 800 views of the recordings…
Read MoreThe CTC is Going to Utah
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) will have a huge presence at the upcoming HITEC conference (High Impact Technology Exchange Conference) in Salt Lake City, which will be held in person for the first since July 2019. If you’re unfamiliar with HITEC, it’s a fantastic event for STEM technical educators and industry vendors. There are…
Read MoreOngoing classroom Impact of Summer Working Connections
The National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) recently conducted its annual longitudinal survey of attendees from the past three years of Summer Working Connections events. Faithful blog readers know that Working Connections offers cutting-edge, cost-effective professional development opportunities to current IT faculty. This helps teachers get the newest technologies and latest industry trends into their classrooms.…
Read MoreCelebrating 20 Years of Cutting-edge, Cost-effective Professional Development – Working Connections
On July 11-15, the National Science Foundations’ National Convergence Technology Center (CTC) will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at Collin College in Frisco, TX! From the first set of classes in 2002, Working Connection has been making the newest technologies and industry trends available to attendees, as well as encouraging the kind of networking…
Read MoreIT Faculty Question of the Day – Q4
This week, the National CTC is featuring question number four of the “IT Faculty Question of the Day” series, “What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started teaching?” This series consist of six videos from four Convergence College Network (CCN) faculty members. We encourage you to view all the videos…
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