Computer Information Systems Technology Instructional Faculty Consortium Committee Monday, April 18, 2016 9:30 4:00pm Building H, Auditorium Macon, GA Meeting Agenda Sign in and Welcome 9:30 10:00 George Schramm & Jim Poarch Jim Poarch and George Schramm welcomed all members in attendance. Jim reviewed the agenda with the group and then turned the meeting over to the first presenter. Presentations 30 minutes each: 10:00 11:30 Using Virtualization as a Tool Patrick Riley Patrick Riley gave a presentation on how virtualization can be useful when teaching network classses, operating system classes and security classes. He demonstrated VMWare to the group and briefly discussed the VMWare Academy. Dreamspark for Dummies Dwight Watt Dwight Watt discussed MSDN and DreamSpark which are two resources available to us through a state agreement with Microsoft. MSDN, formally MSDNAA, provides us with volume licenses keys to use in our CIS labs. It also provides us with single use keys for certain software. DreamSpartk Premium is the tool that allows students to download the operating systems and development software for free. Dwight demonstrated how he contacts the students at his college. He will share his presentation on the listserv and offered help to those who need it. Dwight also reported there is a DreamSpartk.com site that is available to all student with an EDU email address however its offerings are much more limited that the DreamSpark Premium. Engaging Students with Apps Terry Hand Terry Hand presented on several apps that are available to help in the classroom. A sampling of those are: LanSchool which allows an instructor to view the monitors of all computers in the classroom Socrative that allows you to poll students as you teach Ninite which is a one stop shop for downloads Terry will share his presentation on the listserv as well. General Session 11:30 12:30 Jim Poarch/George Schamm George Schramm reported on several items of interest: Last year Tech Associates of GA held a Health IT Hack-a-thon. TCSG will participate in that again this year. That may be a good opportunity for our students to participate. Look for information on that to come out soon. Also look for a link to a survey which is primarily about logistic programs but will also be asking questions to learn what influences students to choose a certain major. George encouraged us to share this with our students so we can learn more about why students choose the majors they do. If a school gets a new employee, send their email address to George to be included in the CIS listserv. There is a steering committee which is examining the COMP1000 course. Currently the requirement is that each program must get basic computer competencies in one of three ways: 1. Take COMP1000 2. Take an institutionally developed course such as a first year student class 3. Weave the competencies in to an occupation program course The steering committee sent out a survey about the COMP1000 course and received over 500 responses. It is expected that some changes may be made to the COMP1000 course as a result. Breakout room assignments were made so that after lunch, attendees would report to the program breakout sessions.
Lunch 12:30 1:30 All Program Breakouts 1:30 2:30 Program Groups Program Reports 2:30 3:30 Jim Poarch Computer Support Specialist Computer Support Specialist Murray, Eddie, Chair Coastal Pines Technical Hall, Jan, Co-Chair Georgia Northwestern Technical Caringola, Shelly Collins, Donny O. Early, Shawna Godwin, Anyanwu Haley, John Hall, Helen Johnson, Melody Jones, Eugene Layfield, Laura Lockwood, Wayne E. Parrish, Chris Powers, Jamie Quick, Keisha Stokes, Robert Taylor, Alesia Thomas, Laree Thompson, Tracey Vick, Ron Walker, Eli West, Linda Ogeechee Tech Atlanta Technical Athens Technical Athens Technical Columbus Technical West Georgia Technical Oconee Fall Line Technical Southern Regional Technical Southeastern Tech Augusta Technical Southern Regional Technical Central GA Tech (Warner Robins Campus) Coastal Pines Technical West Georgia Technical Georgia Northwestern Technical Georgia Piedmont Technical Eddie Murray called the meeting to order. Each member introduced themselves. We talked about COMP 1000. One school mentioned that they are offering COMP 2000. Everyone was in agreement that COMP 1000, COMP 1500 or COMP 2000 should be required for Computer Support Specialists. Laree Thomas brought up the need for an Intro to Apple course. This was discussed. Some schools have instructional segments that introduce Apple use in their A+ courses. The new COMPTia A+ certification was discussed. The new A+ certification contains simulations and there are questions about Linux and Networking. Eddie stated that there is a COMPTia Conference in Orlando Florida that would be great for everyone to attend. Several courses were discussed CIST 2921 - Several instructors are not happy with the CIST 2921 IT Analysis, Design & Project Management course or available books. We talked about the possibility of creating a new course with more emphasis on Project Management. That was tabled for now. COMP 1000 and Advanced Office courses Some instructors are unhappy with SNAP. Several schools reported positive reviews using SimNet. CIST 1135 vs CIST 1130 - Many schools are teaching CIST 1135 in the place of CIST 1130. Others are anticipating the switch. CIST 1130, CIST 1135, CIST 1122, and CIST 2122 Instructors discussed software used for these courses: TestOut, CertBlaster, MeasureUp. Most were happy with TestOut. When we convene to the Wrap-Up meeting, it was recommended that we ask when schools plan to move to Windows 10.
Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Poarch, Jim, Chair Strickland, Sean, Co-Chair Ammazi, DR. McDonald Crum, Jimmy Dilligard, Tondrika Ejindu, Dr. Peter Ukuku Hagler, Darren London, Rufus Powers, James Smith, Jen Strawder, Kristopher Strickland, Jason White, Kimberly Augusta Technical Atlanta Technical Chattahoochee Tech Technical West Georgia Technical Atlanta Technical Albany Tech Gwinnett Technical Southeastern Technical Chattahoochee Technical Southern Regional Technical Coastal Pines Technical CGTC Cybersecurity needs to elect a new chair next year, 2017. CIST 2613 instructors are using Certified Ethical Hacker. Discussion occurred about best books, labs, etc. from Testout, Cengage, JBL and a suggestion to start a Cybersecurity List Serve was introduced and approved. CIST 1602 is a universally reviled course and it was suggested to develop its replacement CIST 2603. CIST 2603 will be a security policy writing course where students create a security policy. CIST 2603 will be a 3 credit hour class with 1 hour of lecture and the rest of the time a combination of Lab 2 and Lab 3. The question of workload units in conjunction with adjunct instructors teaching the class might be a concernand will be taken into consideration when developing the course. Coreqs and Prereqs for CIST 2603 were discussed at length. The group settled on CIST 1601 as a prereq and CIST 2601 and CIST 2602 as coreqs. The information about Centers of Academic Excellence was shared with the Cybersecurity group. The state clarified for the Cybersecurity IFCC that coreq and prereqs can be added at the local level and that conversations with Registrars and Deans can be had. Banner and Degreeworks can be mapped to enforce coreq and prereqs for students and advising centers who are now registering without faculty involvement. Database Specialist Database Jones, Michael, Chair Kitchens, Tempie Georgia Piedmont Technical Southern Crescent Technical The Database group met and did not identify any issues to bring before the general session of the CIS IFCC. Gaming Gaming Thacher, John, Chair Drexler, Tim Gwinnett Technical The gaming committee met with members from Gwinnett Tech and Wiregrass in attendance. No changes or recommendations were made. Meeting adjourned. Networking Specialist Networking Specialist
Watt, Dwight, Chair Riley, Patrick, Co-Chair Anderson, Garfield Bullman, Janice Carney, Jan Carns, Gordon Carroll, Michael Clarke, Lorenzo Everidge, Felicia Fritz, Ed Hand, Terry Hartman, Andrew Hood, Perry Howard, Dexter Ingram, Andrea Johnson, Dan Johnson, Joni Jones, Willie Knighton, Shane Martin, Michael Moten, Tara Moye, Stephanie Okere, Cleo Powell, Danny Sather, Robert Scott, Paul Simmons, Ken Thomas, Adriane White, Steven Georgia Northwestern Technical Augusta Tech Gwinnett Technical Albany Technical GA Northwestern Tech Southern Crescent Technical Chattahoochee Gwinnett Tech Southern Regional Technical Ogeechee Technical Columbus Technical Chattahoochee Technical South Georgia Technical Albany Technical Coastal Pines Technical CGTC Columbus Technical West Georgia Technical Southeastern Technical Chattahoochee Technical Athens Technical North Georgia Technical Southern Crescent Tech Augusta Technical Southern Regional Technical Southern Crescent Technical Four items on the agenda: 1. Do we want to start virtualization classes? The group had three volunteers: for developing Virtualization courses. : Felicia Everidge, CGTC Terry Hand, Ogeechee Tech John Taylor, South Eastern Tech 2. Is there a need do develpe convergence of networking disciplines. (data, phones, cable network) classes? It was felt we are already covering it. 3. Our Cisco representative and Joanie wants to meet the TCSG Cisco academies. The group wants to meet in Atlanta on a Thursday. In about a week that we should get a date when the Cisco meeting will happen. It was also discussed that a TCSG academy can be under Joanie and not pay $600.00 yet still get training from Stanley Community. 4. COMP 1000 - do we want to remove it or leave it in the curriculum? The networking group wants to leave it as is. Open Discussion: None. Programming Programing Specialist Shulman, Howard, Chair Hardnett, Charles, Co-Chair Busse, Dave Georgia Piedmont Technical shulmanh@gptc.edu Gwinnett Technical chardnett@gwinnetttech.edu Chattahoochee Technical david.busse@chattahoocheetech.edu
Cantrell, Tony Enz, Ronald Frost, Tammy Henderson, Cassandra Lerch, Prescott Sepielli, Joe Smith, Caren Stone, Deborah Walker, Maylon Willis, Bridgette Georgia Northwestern Technical tcantrell@gntc.edu Chattahoochee Technical renz@chattahoocheetech.edu West GA Tech tammy.frost@westgatetech.edu Albany Technical chenderson@albanytech.edu Augusta Technical plerch@augustatech.edu Augusta Tech jsepielli@augustatech.edu Southern Crescent Tech cdsmith@sctech.edu deborah.stone@wiregrass.edu Georgia Piedmont Technical walkerm@gptc.edu bwillis@centralgatech.edu 1. Meeting called to order 1:30 PM 2. Approved adding the following courses to the Computer Programming Degree (CP23) and Diploma (CP24) all at tier II and all 4 credits a. CIST2382 Mobile Application Development II b. CIST2383 User Experience c. CIST2385 Android Mobile Programming d. CIST2386 IOS Mobile Programming e. CIST2388 Cross-Platform Mobile Programming 3. Approved the following 4 TCCs a. Android Programming: CIST1305, CIST2371, CIST2381, CIST2383, CIST2385 b. IOS Programming: CIST1305, CIST2361, CIST2381, CIST2383, CIST2386 c. Cross-Platform Web Programming: CIST1305, CIST1510, CIST1520, CIST2381, CIST2383, CIST2388 d. Mobile Programming: CIST1305, CIST23x1, CIST2381, CIST2382, CIST2383 4. Elected New Officers: a. Charles Hardnett, Gwinnett Tech, Chair b. Joe Sepielli, Augusta Tech, Vice-Chair 5. After other discussion, adjourned at 2:20 PM Website Design/Development Website Design/Development Prettyman, Steve, Chair Thacher, John, Vice-Chair Cash, Charles Gallagher, Rebecca Harnist, Lori James, Steven Long, Paul Spurlock, Rocky Taylor, John Chattahoochee Technical Gwinnett Tech Southern Crescent Technical Lanier Technical NGTC GNTC Southeastern Technical The committee has recommended the following changes: CIST 1520 JavaScript - Form a subcommittee to change the competencies to reflect the current use of JavaScript in the industry. The programming group will receive a copy of the proposed changes for recommendations because they require the course in some areas.
CIST 2510 Web Technologies Form a subcommittee to change the competencies to include the use of a Content Management System (CMS) such as WordPress in the course. Adjust the requirements for both majors to allow more flexibility and options in courses offered. The listing below shows the suggested format. This new format allows colleges to keep teaching the same courses they are currently teaching or adjust the course offerings using the options shown. New Web Site Design/Development COMP1000 or- Institutionally developed freshman experience or- CIST Elective CIST1001 Computer Concepts CIST1220 SQL CIST1305 Program Design and development CIST1510 Web Development I CIST1520 Scripting Technologies (updated) CIST1530 Web Graphics I CIST2531 Web Graphics II CIST2510 Web Technologies (updated) CIST xxxx Program Language CIST 2550 Web Development II or- Level II Programming Language CIST 2921 IT Project Management (degree only) CIST 2950 Web Systems Project- or- CIST 2991 Internship (Degree only) CIST Electives Choose 3 courses 3/ 9/11 hours Select 3 of the following: CIST1601 Security Fundamentals CIST2580 Interactive & Social Apps CIST1540 Web Animation I CIST2381 Mobile Apps CISTxxxx HTML Canvas (new course to be developed) CIST xxxx Level II or III programming Language New Web Applications COMP1000 or- Institutionally developed freshman experience or- CIST Elective CIST1001 Computer Concepts CIST1220 SQL CIST1305 Program Design and development CIST1510 Web Development I CIST1520 Scripting Technologies (updated) CIST 2921 IT Project Management (degree only) CIST 2950 Web Systems Project- or- CIST 2991 Internship (Degree only) Choose 1 Track 8 Hours PHP CIST 2351 PHP I CIST 2352 PHP II Java CIST 2371 Java I CIST 2372 Java II C# CIST 2341 C# I CIST 2342 C# II CIST Electives Choose 4 Courses 12 hours
CIST1601 Security Fundamentals CIST2550 Wed Development II CIST2510 Web Technologies (updated) CIST2580 Interactive & Social Apps CIST2381-2389 Mobile Apps Courses CIST2510 Web Technologies CISTxxxx Additional Level I or Level III programming language each Wrap up and Adjourn 3:30 4:00 Jim Poarch Jim Poarch wrapped up with several items: Accuplacer will be the new entrance exam testing tool. The presidents have put into place a set of cut scores. However those are subject to change in the future as time will help evaluate whether they are too high or too low. Some schools are already using Accuplacer; others will be following suit. Some schools are using the Attendance module with Banner v9. It quickly allows you to take attendance and also generates emails to the student about their attendance. The attendance module is a nice tool for the retention personnel at the schools. Taking attendance is not mandatory at each school and it is unknown if it will be in the future. Attendees were reminded that pre-requisite / co-requisite set by the state standards are the minimum. A college can set additional pre / co s for their students. George Schramm offered to talk to local deans and registrar about this if needed. The meeting adjourned at 4:00pm.