In adjusting to this season of unprecedented changes, your sacrifices, steadfastness and ability to “change on the fly” have been noted, appreciated and admired! We understand your struggles and would like to help.
As an extension of our Training Partner Tuesday social media effort (#TPTuesday), we would like to introduce Training Partner Tuesday Remote Learning. Our training partners have agreed to offer their expertise and are willing to teach through various webinars. These remote learning sessions will be designed as a collaborative series of webinars to be held each Tuesday, at 6PM Eastern, to augment teaching and training despite the current national circumstances.
created with the assistance of Platinum Level Training Partner Graybar.
Lesson 3 in the Blueprints Level-II course titled “Understand Job Costs and How to Do an Actual Takeoff” allows for the opportunity for students to do a small take-off on a Residential job. This helps the students to get a feel for the work done by NECA contractors in securing work of the IBEW members who work for them. This is an eye-opening lesson for most students. (This price list is also used in the Residential Job Information 2, Level I, (Based on the 2017 and 2020 NEC) – Lesson 7.) (more…)
Do you own or work from a personal computer running Windows 7? If so, keep reading. As presented at the past two NTI’s and all regional seminars, the end of support for Windows 7 has come upon us. Beginning January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide support for the Windows 7 operating system:
No tech support for any issues
No software updates
No security updates or fixes
Although a Windows 7 computer will still function, it will be at a much greater risk for viruses and malware. Not good. So, we do recommend that if you own or work from a Windows 7 computer that you upgrade to Windows 10 before January 14, 2020. Optionally and depending on its age, you might consider purchasing a new computer. Can you believe when Windows 7 was released, the iPhone 2 was one of the new cool gadgets?
The landing page of the LMS will soon undergo an upgrade and while this upgrade occurs, one of the changes to note will be the devices that are considered recommended and compatible. Windows 7 will no longer show as compatible and changes to what is deemed recommended will come soon as well due to the system continuing to become more system agnostic everyday.
For more information for Windows users out there, check out this video for a full explanation of what it means when Microsoft ends support for one of its Operating Systems and how to prepare.
Microsoft Windows 7 End of Life Support site
Thanks for reading and have a wonderful Holiday Season!
The electrical training ALLIANCE is proud to announce, the 2020 Significant Changes to the NEC® in collaboration with NECA eBook and printed book are available now and the PPTs will be by the end of the month. For the new Code cycle, the PPTs will be available on a flash drive and not a CD.
The National Electrical Code® (NEC) is the most widely used electrical standard in the United States and is being adopted more globally as electrical codes and standards evolve internationally. This authoritative text is written by leading industry experts to inform electrical contractors, Electrical Workers, maintenance personnel, inspectors, engineers, and systems designers of the most significant revisions and new requirements in the 2020 NEC. Coverage of changes provides readers with insight and detailed information about the reasons for the change and how these changes impact electrical installations and one’s daily work and business operations.
eBooks
The eBook version of the textbook comes with all the bells and whistles a professional eBook rightly should. The user will be able to access this information wherever they are, because wherever they are, their smartphone is likely very nearby. They will also be able to efficiently search the reference, make notes, and highlight from either the device they downloaded the eBook to or via use of the web app from any device.
For purchase, distribution and access details regarding eBooks from the electrical training ALLIANCE please review this Blog post. Included are two videos to help explain how to go about this process and some of the important highlights.
NECA and the IBEW, with collaboration from theelectrical training ALLIANCE are excited to announce the deployment of our new ProTech Skills Institute mobile application. As mentioned in our previous announcement, IBEW and NECA created the ProTech Skills Institute to offer new tools and resources to serve your needs. Streamlined services and tools with high functionality have been requested by you and this new mobile application was designed to do just that.
We are launching this now in time for NTI. On it you will find all NTI tools for a great experience in Ann Arbor including maps, the event guide, your personal schedule, communications and much more. Beyond NTI, this mobile application will be a central location for accessing upcoming and future service tools and resources without need of downloading new apps each time. This newly architected solution will become a single-stop location to access all of the many resources you have requested of NECA and the IBEW to support you with.
Please take a moment and watch the video announcement above of this new application, where to access and download it and how it will be a primary tool for use at our 30th Annual NTI.
It is the mission of the electrical training ALLIANCE to develop and standardize training to educate the members of the IBEW and NECA contractors to insure and provide the most highly trained and highly skilled workforce possible. To be effective and competitive in the electrical industry, we must constantly improve our processes and enhance our services for you. You have told NECA and the IBEW the areas that need focus and you have been heard. Please take a moment and view this exciting announcement of how NECA and the IBEW have created the new ProTech Skills Institute.
Registered Apprenticeship sponsors are required to take steps to foster workplace environments where all apprentices feel safe, welcomed, and treated fairly. Toward that end, the apprenticeship Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulations require sponsors to provide anti-harassment training to apprentices and other individuals who work regularly with their apprentices.
The new on-line Test Generator (TG) is now active for all Inside JATC Training Centers. Until the Training Director has initiated the TG and activated the instructors, the new Assessments button will not provide any functionality.
The 2019 Catalog is ready for download! Uploaded to the electricaltrainingalliance.org website on Friday April 12th, 2019, this catalog is ready to purchase from starting July 1st, 2019. While purchasing from this catalog must be delayed to July, the planning for the 2019 calendar school year can begin immediately!
The electrical training ALLIANCE is pleased to announce the availability of a new trainer. Over the last several months a console based on a Programmable Logic Relay (PLR) has been developed. This system may seem familiar as you may remember seeing the prototype at NTI. (more…)
In adjusting to this season of unprecedented changes, your sacrifices, steadfastness and ability to “change on the fly” have been noted, appreciated and admired! We understand your struggles and would like to help.
