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I hope your 2005-06 school year is progressing well after a restful
summer. The IDEA board has been working hard to present to you an
excellent 2005 Annual IDEA Conference. Mark your calendars and get
those travel request forms turned into the administration so you can
attend the conference on November 10-11, 2005. We have a great lineup
for Thursday at Illinois State University and Friday at Heartland
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The Thursday, November 10th conference will be held at ISU's Turner
Hall with registration starting at 8:00 a.m. J.C. Malitzke jump
starts us off by presenting the "New Features in AutoCAD 2006".
After lunch we have more great breakout sessions to choose from.
Some examples are:
| * Timed AutoCAD Projects with video solutions - Jeff & Jerry Bartel * AutoCAD 2006, What should we really be teaching in our classrooms? - J.C. Malitzke * Revit: Interactive Demo - Imaginit Technologies * AutoCAD 2006, Most compelling features for educators. - J.C. Malitzke |
Don't forget the IDEA social on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. at the
Chateau! Be there to network, interface, and socialize with other
educators from around the state!
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Friday, November 11th, the conference moves to Heartland Community
College on 1500 W. Raab Road in Normal. There is a new time schedule
for the Friday session. The first speaker session will start a
little earlier at 8:30 a.m. We still have nine presenters as usual,
but all three sessions will be completed before lunch at 12:45. The
business meeting will immediately follow lunch and hopefully send you
on your way home soon after.
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Some Friday speaker and subject examples are:
| * Solidworks - JBH Technologies * What does he look for in CAD grads? - Dan Prokop * Project Lead the Way - Pat Leaveck * 3-D Prototype - JBH Technologies * SIU Archi Boot Camp - Jon Davies * AutoCAD Lsip Files - N. Low * Z-corp 3-D Printing - J. Freeman * Drafting Competition - Ryan Brown and Bill Kolton
| I look forward to seeing you in November! |
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Mark DeJarnatt, I.D.E.A. President
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I am looking for feedback on a very sudden and serious issue facing many
of us CAD educators. Some of us are being threatened by institutional
IT directors with the loss of control of our CAD labs. In my college,
as an example, the IT director wants to not only take control of the
inventory of our CAD software but make himself responsible for its
upgrade installations and lock the systems down to prevent customization
by instructors and students.
| I view this not only as a violation of my academic freedom but a violation of the Carl D. Perkins act our CAD workstations were purchased under. That act states, in part, the purpose of the act is to, "Provide students with strong experience in, and understanding of, all aspects of industry." It further states the act's intent is to, "Develop, improve, or expand the use of technology." For those of us teaching some forms of CAD customization and management in rural areas with Mom & Pop businesses having no director of IT, this power play for control of our labs could prove to be detrimental to our programs. In many instances, our CAD college graduates wear two hats of CAD designer and IT manager! I would like to hear what the IDEA membership has to say on this hot topic. I am angry! Mark Schwendau, IDEA Webmaster | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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