• PierreThiry, MPICT Center P.I., City College of San Francisco

• Michael McKeever, MPICT Center Regional Partner, Santa Rosa Junior College

• Richard Grotegut, MPICT Center Regional Partner, Ohlone College

This material is funded in part by the National Science Foundation Grant DUE 0802284 with a supplemental grant for International Exchange

Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-Paris Presentation Outline

About MPICT International RFP Focus of the Presentation Historical Background Le Centre des Formations Industrielles (CFI) The Project Recruitment of American students ACCENT international The Capstone Course The Trip to Paris:

working at the CFI Telepresence with San Jose visit of 4 French ICT sites

Students’ Feedback Dissemination Lessons Learned Credits & Questions

Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-Paris Gambetta Capstone About MPICT

(Mid-Pacific Information and Communications Technologies Center) f13

MPICT students to CFI-Paris GambettaNSF-ATE Center funded since 2008Mission: coordinate, promote and improve the

quality of ICT Education Region: Northern California, Northern

Nevada, Southern Oregon, Hawaii & the Pacific Territories

Hosted by City College of San Francisco5 Regional Partners Colleges: Santa Rosa

Junior College, Ohlone College, Foothill College, Cabrillo College, Truckee Meadows Community College and Kapi’olani Community College

Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-Paris Gambetta Capstone March 2010

International Supplemental RFP due April 15 ! MPICT students to

CFI-Paris Gambetta“On a competitive basis, NSF’s Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) will consider requests for supplemental funding to ATE Center awards to support high quality international educational experiences for small groups of U.S. community college students and their faculty mentors through active collaboration with counterpart technology educators at their respective international sites…..

For this pilot opportunity, international collaborators and sites must be located in Europe. We anticipate making five supplemental awards, not to exceed $100,000 for activities during the remainder of the active award. “

Focus of the Presentation

This presentation has been prepared for a general HI-TEC audience but will have particular interest for:

NSF-ATE Center representatives considering applying for an international exchange project grant in the future.

Instructors teaching Cisco CCNA looking for a great 2-credit capstone course (available on request) that can be taught in house or in collaboration with another College or School

Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-ParisHistorical Background

San Francisco and Paris have a Digital Sister Accord in place since 2006.

The Centre des Formations Industrielles (CFI) Paris-Gambetta contacted us through the Cisco Networking Academy to establish a collaboration in 2008.

Visit of Pierre to Paris in January 2009 Spring 2009 project: long distance collaboration based on a

Networking project using Moodle and Telepresence.

The Centre des Formations Industrielles (CFI)

Paris-Gambettahttp://www.cfi.ccip.fr

One of the 11 schools of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris Two missions:

2-year technician program: with “Alternance” i.e. 2 weeks in school, 2 weeks in an apprenticeship in industry. (in IT, automotive, HVAC,

Formation continue: evening courses for practitioners

THE PROJECTf1Creation of a Capstone course at Ohlone

College using Blackboard and CCCConfer for a group of students from the US and France. Requirement: have completed or be enrolled in the last (4th) course of Cisco Networking Academy CCNA program.

Delivery of the course simultaneously to 24 US and 18 French students from March 22-May 27.

Visit of 13 students in France from May 23 - June 3 to finish the course during the first week and visit French ICT industries in the second week.

Recruitment of the American students

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The recruitment flyer distributed in 6 partners College.

Selection criteria:

Recruitment of the American Students

ACCENT International

http://accentintl.com Contracted with Accent International Consortium for

Academic Programs Abroad Headquartered in San Francisco: specializes in organizing

study abroad programs for American Universities and Colleges.

Offices and Residences in Paris, Florence, London, Madrid & Rome.

One stop shop: Travel arrangement (Air and transfer) Orientation Lodging & Local Transportation Student ID

CA CC’s and FR CFI school – both CCNA Exploration 1-4

Use live online platform to teach an introduction to 6 “advanced topics” (post CCNA) here and there at the same time Goals:

Show students what comes after CCNA

Add to their skill set and encourage them to continue in their studies

International exchange

Differences in Ed systems, culture and work environments

Team and project management experience

“Soft Skills”

A merger of two companies There are several technical issues

Routing protocols

IP addressing schemes

Static routes

More to discover and create

There are several logistical issues

Communications

Leadership

Roll playing

Time management

More to discover and create

Screenshot of CCCConfer session: 8am PST - 5pm Paris timer

Topics – just a wee bit of… Layer 3 Switching

Multi-area OSPF

EIGRP/OSPF redistribution

IPv6 configuration

Site-to-site VPN IOS CLI configuration

Call Manager Express

And Multi-User Packet Tracer

Labs

Prerequisites

Assignments

The archives of our lectures to the US and French students are available for your use at http://online.santarosa.edu/presentation/page/?98061

Working on the project in class at the CFI

Lunch in the CFI cafeteria

Break cultural

exchange

Telepresence between Paris and San Jose; on Friday 5-27

7:30am San Jose Time. (16h30 Paris Time)

Presentation of final projects.

Industries visits arranged by the CFI and Cisco

the data center of Paris City Hall a switching center of France Telecom (Orange) the IT center of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and

Industry; and the sophisticated network infrastructure of the Société

Générale, one of the oldest and largest European financial services companies.

France Telecom (Orange) At the Société Générale

The capstone course is available to be taught In your class alone

With another Academy in your

City

State

Country

Goals: (the same!) Show students what comes after CCNA

Add to their skill set and encourage them to continuing in their studies

National exchange

Differences in Ed systems, culture and work environments

Team and project management experience

“Soft Skills”

Lessons Learned and Advices

Prepare ahead! Don’t wait for the RFP!

Use a reputable one stop shop firm for the trip

Create a component of the project which can be easily duplicated without the need for a grant

Different time zones are challenging…

Research and teach cultural differences

Foreign language fluency is a plus for at least one of the leaders

Engage an industry partner (for us it was Cisco)

Acknowledgments

NSF – ATE and Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) for offering this fantastic grant opportunity

Michael McKeever and Danijela Bedic for creating and teaching the capstone course

Richard Grotegut, for hosting the course at Ohlone College

The ACCENT Team in San Francisco and Paris The CFI team: Tristan Gillouard, Director; Cécile Montier,

Manager; Christian Chauvier, Rahali Elidrissi & Alexandra Atif, Instructors

The Cisco Academy Team: Christophe Dolinsek, French-Benelux Manager, John Bjerke, Western US Manager & Isaac Majerowicz, Product Manager

and… A great group of MPICT and CFI students

“The three lessons that I've learned as a result of this international experience: First, The balance of life and work, second, communication skills towards non-English speakers and third, the appreciation of what we have in America and the freedom to do what you want and what we want to be.” – SJB

“Everything I needed as a student was available to me at anytime on any computer with a net connection. It is times like this, I really enjoy my field and wish other class were taught like this...” – SK

“The biggest surprise for me was learning how many network jobs were available in France and how high the demand for Cisco trained workers was. This was a big surprise to me and after learning of this I am going to try and get into an exchange program to come and work in France.” – JM

“I found it amazing how alike Americans are to the French when dealing with Technical topics.

I found that the French have an interesting take on life; After the work day is over they forget all about there work life and move on to socialize. I noticed in France that being social and meeting with friends is an essential part of the day. It is almost like they live two separate lives, a work life and a social life.” – JE

“At the end of day two we had a show stopping technical issue (will save the details). In short, we had an issue with routing and had to solve it. There was the hard way and the harder way. I decided the harder way and ran it by the team.

To Michael, Pierre, Daniela, Richard, Grace, everyone at accent I thank you very much. This is one of the moments where a group of people or teachers change a student’s life and I know I am not the only one on this trip. Thank you.” – SK

“I learned that when working on a team project that it is very important to let everyone contribute and to be open and receptive to new ideas and suggestions, even if you do not necessarily agree. Also to encourage those who are reluctant to participate. For everyone to get the most value of the project and teamwork, it is important for everyone to participate. If a person is reluctant, they just may be a little shy and/or not confident, if encouraged, they may open up a little more.” – ESM

“The presentations at Cisco were a great learning experience. Putting together the presentations, getting all members to participate, coordinating speaking parts, then actually presenting it to instructors and Cisco employees was a challenge. With the time difference it was difficult to coordinate time with them to see what they had already accomplished and what parts they felt comfortable presenting. It all happened very last minute, however we wanted the students who made the effort to travel to San Jose to participate and feel a part of the team. I was very nervous speaking in front of a large group, however it is good practice and I think I did OK. Listening to all the other group’s presentations gave a little more insight on the project and problems that we all faced, and all did a little differently.” – ESM