{"id":7251,"date":"2017-01-19T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:46:35","slug":"bay-area-regional-citd-attends-winter-ict-educators-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/bay-area-regional-citd-attends-winter-ict-educators-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Regional CITD Attends Winter ICT Educators Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/ICT-Winter-2017-Conf-photo-01-05-06-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7273 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/ICT-Winter-2017-Conf-photo-01-05-06-2017-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ICT Winter 2017 Conf photo 01 05-06 2017\" width=\"207\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ICT-Winter-2017-Conf-photo-01-05-06-2017-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ICT-Winter-2017-Conf-photo-01-05-06-2017.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>Yvonne Reid, Director, Center for International Trade Development and Regional Deputy Sector Navigator began the New Year at the 2017 Winter ICT Educators Conference. The conference was hosted by the Western Academy Support and Training Center (WASTC), Cisco Systems, &amp; CCC ICT\/Digital Media Sector Navigators.\u00a0 The quality sessions covered topics from: Teaching IT Essentials to At-Risk Students, Strategies on the Integration of Robotics into Programming Classes to Cyber Attack Threats on Advanced Manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Participants engaged in discussions with Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research, Salesforce, Laura Chappell, Protocol Analyst, Wireshark, \u00a0CCC ICT\/Digital Media Deputy Sector Navigators, Richard Grotegut and Steve Wright, CTE faculty, Workforce Development Directors about Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics and their impact on our daily lives. Participants collaborated on strategies about the need to improve motivation and interest among students at-risk of failing school and dropping out. Hands-on Workshops were conducted to demonstrate how to set up classrooms with a combination of resources and strategies to implement in order to increase motivation. \u00a0Program offerings and instructional design strategies were offered that could help aid in student academic IT readiness, progress and success across industry sectors; within and outside of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned as CITD will be hosting its 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Annual, \u201cConnect to Thrive Global Summit.\u201d It will be held at Skyline College, March 23-24, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Bay Area Regional CITD events and activities, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayareacitd.org\">www.bayareacitd.org<\/a> or contact Yvonne Reid, Director CITD, at 650-738-7098.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Author Lygia \u201cGigi \u201c Isaacs | Photos by Yvonne Reid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Reid, Director, Center for International Trade Development and Regional Deputy Sector Navigator began the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}