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Looking for a place to surf the World Wide Web? Try these sites.
Regional Associations are encouraged to provide links here to their
sites.
Region 6 Brazos Valley TEA web site
www.info.conroe.isd.tenet.edu/~rbaxter/bvtea_index.html
ITEA - The International Technology Education Association web site:
http://www.iteawww.org
Download the ITEA Power Point Presentation.
http://www.iteawww.org/J5.html
UT Tyler has a new department of technology homepage: http://www.uttyler.edu/technology/index.html
UT Tyler has set up a job bank on the World Wide Web for Technology Education Teachers. You can look for jobs or send information about a job vacancy that you might have. It can be accessed at: http://www.uttyler.edu/technology/jobs.htm
TENET has it's Web site online and looking good at: http://www.tenet.edu
The Technology Students Association has it's site at: http://www.tsawww.org/
TEA has a Web site that has the TEKs documents, as well as a large amount of information about Technology Education. It can be accessed at: http://www.tea.state.tx.us
Waltrip Sr. High School, in Houston, has it's own web site. It is maintained by the Technology Department The Webmaster is Richard W. Lipham, it can be found at: http://hs.houstonisd.org/waltriphs
Sites submitted by: Mary Lorenzo
General Reference
Yahoo search engine -
http://www.yahoo.com/
Essential Links .com -
http://www.el.com/
Find a Phone number - http://www.555-1212.com/
Movie Fone. com - times, dates, locations of movies in your
town http://www.moviefone.com
/
The Weather Channel -
http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
Mapquest - find a map to anywhere and print it out
http://www.mapquest.com/
Tech. Ed.
FutureCity competition -
http://www.futurecity.org/
A world in Motion - The Society of Automotive Engineers -
http://www.sae.org/STUDENTS/awim.htm
Texas Technology Education Curriculum materials -
http://www.texastechnology.com/
FAQ about Technology Education -
http://www.trenton.edu/~teched/faq.html
Safety info
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/menus/topmach.html
http://www.ehs.ufl.edu/general/shop/shophome.htm
http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/machineguarding/index.html
http://server-mpo.arc.nasa.gov/Directives/Docs/AHBs/AHB1700.1.html
http://www.edfacilities.org/index.html
http://MSDS.PDC.CORNELL.EDU/issearch/MSDSsrch.HTM
http://www.hazard.com/
Professional Organizations
Association for Career and Technology Education -
http://www.acteonline.org/
Epsilon Pi Tau -
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/technology/ept/index.html
National Science Foundation -
http://www.nsf.gov/
Tea Information
Texas Education Directory -
http://AskTED.tea.state.tx.us/org-bin/menus/ORG_MAIN_B
TEA TEKS information
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/#Chapters
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/index.html#tac
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/handbook/index.html
State Board of Educator Certification -
http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/sbec/rules/ruleindx.htm
http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/sbec/rules/index.htm
http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/sbec/rules/230q.htm
US Department of Education -
http://www.ed.gov/
Fun Sites
Satellite photos viewed for free -
http://www.terraserver.com/
Center for the Easily amused -
http://www.amused.com/
How Stuff works - http://www.howstuffworks.com
General Education
The Blue Web -
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Learn2 .com - http://www.learn2.com/
The Master Teacher -
http://www.masterteacher.com/index.html
Discover Texas .com -
http://www.discover-texas.com/
Classroom connect .com -
http://www.classroom.com/
Texas Parks and Wildlife -
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
Computer Help
ZD Net - http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/
Houston area League of PC Users -
http://www.hal-pc.org/
DataFellows - http://www.datafellows.com/
Symantec -
http://www.symantec.com/us.index.html
WinFiles.com - http://www.winfiles.com/
Kim Komando's computer clinic -
http://www.komando.com/
Scotty's surfin shack for tech ed.
http://www.igs.net/%7Emascott/
THE journal (Not the ATTE Journal)
http://www.thejournal.com/
Technology education index home page
http://www.technologyindex.com/
Automotive learning on line
http://www.innerbody.com/innerauto/
Tech directions magazine http://www.techdirections.com/
The technology education lab
http://www.techedlab.com/main.html
These are some general Education sites that are really interesting:
General Education
http://www.discovery.com/
http://www.discover-texas.com/
http://www.artteacher.com/res/
http://www.englishteacher.com/
http://www.scienceteacher.com/
http://www.innerbody.com/
http://thechalkboard.com/
http://www.mathteacher.com/
http://www.historyteacher.com/
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/
And it never hurts to have some general reference pages:
Houston. sidewalk.com http://houston.sidewalk.com/
essential links http://www.el.com/
http://www.555-1212.com/
http://www.movielink.com/
Weather channel home page
http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.mapquest.com/ aol.com
name check http://www.idot.aol.com/search/
These pages are for computer help and have been invaluable to me:
win95 updates and utilities
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/legacy.htm
Houston area league of PC users - you do not have to be a member to attend
meetings http://www.hal-pc.org/
Datafellows world wide web server - virus protection
http://www.datafellows.com/
32 bit hardware driver updates
http://www.winfiles.com/drivers/
inside win 95 software drivers
http://www.cobb.com/w95/software/drivers.htm
Kim Komandos Komputer Klinic - this one is great!
http://www.komando.com/
Fun site include:
The center for the easily amused http://www.amused.com/
Jokes http://www.hardyharhar.com/
News from Key West, FL. http://cyberconch.com/
DOGZ - a cute virtual pet you can down load - the students just love it!
http://www.pfmagic.com/
30 Design Briefs
On the left side menu, click on "Gallery" to find some very good middle
school level activities (design briefs) in a .PDF format. Designed by
a teacher in Florida, he created and used these to augment his modular lab.
He states that the 30 design briefs can be useful to teachers because:
1. use to augment module equipment, materials, and software to their maximum
potential not just the vendor's recommendations
2. increase lab flexibility of different grade and ability levels,
3. incorporate new materials,
4. introduce their own teaching methods and individualize their program.
http://teched.vt.edu/ElectronicPortfolios/ReedP.ep/HTML/ReedIndex.html
Microsoft has recently produced some very good student activities that
teach basic desktop software skills.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ctn/classroom/default.asp
The Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network has a good variety of online resources
for both teachers and students.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/ctn/default.asp
Great site on aerospace Education for all grade levels
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/
The Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program (FMF) is designed to provide
American primary and secondary school teachers and administrators with opportunities
for fully-funded short-term study programs in Japan.
http://www.iie.org/pgms/fmf/
How Stuff Works
A fascinating site that will explain in plain English how just about anything
works. Set your students loose! They will spend hours lost in
these easy to understand explanations.
http://howstuffworks.com
Creating a Web site can be a great project to help students synthesize
and demonstrate their learning in any subject, and an excellent way to develop
skills in written and visual communications. More and more teachers are
adding "Web site" to their list of choices for student assignments, with
excellent results. If you would like to see some of the amazing Web sites
that K-12 students have been creating, check out this month's Surf Report
at
http://www.ecb.org/surf
Wisconsin WebFair and other student Web site contests provide a ready-made
structure for you and real motivation (i.e. prizes!) for students to do excellent
work. Entering a contest can be a great way to motivate your
students and have some fun while integrating technology into your curriculum.
This month's Surf Report also features links to several Web contests you
and your students can enter. Don't miss it!
http://www.ecb.org/surf
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www.kidsway.com
America's leading provider of business, Entrepreneurship, career, and
investment education for youth ages 8-18.
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Global Water Sampling Project
http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/waterproj/
The Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Improved Engineering and
Science Education (CIESE) has developed this project for middle school and
high school students around the world to team up and test fresh water. Educators
may use this project to demonstrate the dynamics of scientific collaboration.
Students will be required to
identify organisms, assess water quality, and look for larger relationships
and trends based on overall global findings. Over the
course of the project, participating classes are required to submit a letter
of introduction, data, and a final report. The project will run every spring
and fall with the next run occurring between March 6 and May 26, 2000. [KR]
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http://www.techreview.com/free.htm
Congratulations! You've found the magazine devoted to innovation,
investment, and invention. Technology Review: MITs Magazine of Innovation
is written to serve your forward-thinking spirit. No other publication matches
Technology Review's cutting-edge coverage of the Virtual Marketplace, Internet
Politics, Biotech, Software Development, Infotech, and much more. Technology
Review covers the confluence of technology, innovation, and business
better than any publication in the world. We urge you to take advantage of
our free offer. You have nothing to lose...and everything to gain.
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eFunda http://www.efunda.com/
eFunda, which stands for Engineering Fundamentals, provides a single source
for mechanical engineering reference information. Managed by a group of
PhDs and others with extensive experience in the working world of mechanical
engineering, the site is divided into six main areas: Materials, Processes,
Formulas, Design Center, Units and Constants, and Mathematics. Among the
useful material at this site, the Materials section provides a convenient
listing of mechanical and
thermal properties for different types of steel. For another example of
the material found here, the Formulas section contains quick reference and
refreshers for beam equations, and formulas pertaining to fluid mechanics
and heat transfer, among others. This comprehensive, searchable site is neatly
organized and should be a handy source of information for mechanical engineers.
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http://perth.uwlax.edu/globalengineer/
Welcome to the Global Engineering Web Site. The purpose of this site
is to allow high school students from different countries to cooperatively
work on designing a bridge. This site was developed as part of a grant
from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in conjunction with the University
of Wisconsin- LaCrosse and the School District of La Crosse.
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ENC Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators
http://www.enc.org/focus/
From the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, located at The Ohio State
University, Focus is a free "electronic magazine for K-12 classroom teachers
striving to improve mathematics and science education." In the current issue,
a variety of articles and Web resources explore topics like The Reality
of Change (about the challenges of change math and science teachers face),
Integrating Technology in the Classroom, Inquiry and Problem Solving (about
how teachers around the country have attempted to foster the desire for
inquiry and problem solving in their students), and Innovative Curriculum
Materials
(includes articles on how educators are "creating, choosing, and using,
unconventional and innovative science and math resources"). With a grants
section, an Internet resources section, and free subscription to the print
version, this site is a useful and informative source of ideas for science
and math educators at the K-12 level.
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Tunneling Under the Hudson River
http://www.tmk.com/books/tunnel/tunnel.shtml
Though we rarely call our readers's attention to pages sponsored by individuals
(rather than institutions), Tunneling Under the Hudson River_, by S.D.V.
Burr, A.M., originally published by John Wiley and Sons in 1885, is a fascinating
historical record of an engineering feat. The illustrated, online book,
made available on Terrence M. Kennedy's Consulting Page, provides a first-hand
account of the engineering challenges, difficulties, and experience gained
from undertaking a tunneling venture of such magnitude in the late 1800s.
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The National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC), part of the non-profit
National Engineers Week, is an exciting high school engineering-based program
in which teams of students design, build and demonstrate a working model of
a new product. NEDC challenges students to apply mathematics, science, and
technology education to a real-world engineering situation. For more information
check out the web at http://www.asee.org/jets/
or call Leann Yoder 703-548-5387
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Celebrating Technology Education - National Science & Technology Week
(NSTW) is held each year at the end of April. The NSTW packet of activities
will include everything from posters to great resources and materials.
Teachers this is a great program to add to your lab activities. To receive
your free teaching activities packet, check out the web at
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nstw/start.htm
and contact the regional network contact person assigned to your location.
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Opportunities - If you have the computer hardware (Mac or PC), then here
is a great deal you don't want to miss. The Microsoft Corporation teacher.training@microsoft
Program. (Formerly called the K-12 Education Professional Development Partnership
Program.) The purpose of teacher.training@microsoft (t.t@m) is to support
and enhance K-12 training
programs across the US by providing Microsoft products, for the sole purpose
of training. Through this program, Microsoft will supply K-12 training sites
with Microsoft software and ancillary support materials. You will then conduct
teacher training in your county. Speaking from experience, this is a great
way to get teachers from other disciplines in your facilities and make
those necessary partnerships to further the growth of technology. It also
demonstrates to your administration that you can find resources that will
benefit the facility and train them for the future! To get the whole story
and the application, point your browser to
http://www.teachertraining.com.
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Designing a new lab? You will want to order Design Handbook For Technology
Education Facilities. The handbook has been developed to assist teachers
and administrators in planning and implementing Technology Education facilities,
it also provides up-to-date thorough coverage from initial facilities planning
to post-occupancy evaluations. To obtain your free copy call the
DOE at 1-800-342-9271 and reference Product Code TE101 when ordering.
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http://teched.vt.edu/GCC/
Established in 1997, GRAPHIC COMM CENTRAL has become "the HUB" on the Web
for Graphic Communication /Printing Management teachers and students, industry
trainers and personnel, and others interested in any and all
aspects of the printing and publishing industry. In October 1999,
the GCC Project was honored with the prestigious "1999 Excellence in Education
Award: Innovation in Online Education and Training " by the Electronic Document
Systems Foundation. The Project is supported by the Graphic Arts Education
and Research Foundation and directed by Dr. Mark Sanders at Virginia Tech.
The GCC Web site offers an incredible range of educational materials and
services,
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The URL for the Work Keys portion of the ACT web site is
http://www.act.org/workkeys/
. Choose the "Job
Profiling" link and then the "Occupational Profiles" link. There is a lot
of great information on this site regarding the Work Keys Assessment Program
and the skills the business community feels they need in employees.
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HAPPY ENGINEERS WEEK!
As part of the annual celebration for engineers, the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) asked each of the engineering societies to submit nominations
for engineering achievements with their field of expertise that had the
greatest positive impact on life in the twentieth century. As
a result, an esteemed panel of judges released a list of the top 20 engineering
achievements across the disciplines. We are happy to note that IEEE
members are involved in 17 out of the 20 achievements listed. The
following Website lists these in order of significance and provides a great
deal of ancillary materials related to all the achievements. Teachers may
find this material useful as a resource and engineers should be very interested
in learning what national leaders have singled out. This site is chock full
of GREAT INFORMATION! www.greatachievements.org
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/srtm/index.html
STS-99 Mission Status Reports
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/index.html
With these sites, users can track the remaining days of the mission and
view some samples of the extraordinary images being produced. At the SRTM
homepage, users will find news updates, background information, some quick
facts, related links, an
overview of the mission's equipment, and a list of acronyms used at the
site. The German Remote Sensing Data Center site features some of the latest
images in standard and high resolution as well as related information. Finally,
the STS-99 Mission Status Reports site contains the latest news from Mission
Control.
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An Orientation to the US Department of Education's Website [MS PowerPoint]
http://www.ed.gov/Welcome/tour/
Originally presented at the October 1999 Blue Ribbon Schools Conference,
this orientation was recently placed online at the
request of conference participants, "who wanted to use the slide show when
making presentations to other educators and parents." The slide show consists
of 37 segments, which may be viewed in order or individually from a table
of contents. In an effort to ensure that the information is current, most
of the slides offer a link to a live Webpage. The slide show is in the
public domain, and users may modify it to suit their needs. Users can also
download the original MS PowerPoint presentation at the site.
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With support from the Technical Foundation of America and the Council on
Technology Teacher Education (CTTE), Vincent Childress--Assistant Professor,
Technology Education, North Carolina A & T--and two graduate students
have
developed an elaborate "packet" to be used to introduce students to careers
in Technology Education. The "packet" includes Lesson Plans, Student
Activities (including a Scavenger Hunt on the Web), a Brochure, and
some Overhead Transparency Masters. The packet is free to all, and accessible
from the CTTE Web site (it's one of the "NEW" links on the main page at
http://teched.vt.edu/ctte/
). It's in PDF format, so you may download, print, and distribute
it freely (in either hard copy or in PDF format) to your students, high school
teachers in your state, colleagues, etc. The Web based scavenger hunt
activity is intended to introduce students to the world of technology education
and open up to them the idea of a career as a Technology Teacher.
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http://www.utc.edu/~careered/catalogindex.htm
Career Exploration on the Internet
A collection of career exploration sites for Elementary Schools, Middle
Schools, High Schools and Beyond
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This might be useful for an Engineering Graphics or Manufacturing Systems
class. or with the Civil component of an Architectural graphics class.
The Civil Engineer's Mega Bookmark
http://techdirections.com/Bloede.pdf
Hosted by the Civil Engineering Library at Lund University (Sweden), this
recently updated metasite boasts links to over 1,000 online resources of
interest to civil engineers, many of them annotated. Resources are
grouped in nine categories, including Research/Education, Subject-Based Resources,
Civil Engineering Journals, Organizations/ Institutes, and Discussion
Forums, among others. The site also offers a guide to finding building
codes, regulations, and standards in fifteen countries. Surprisingly, there
is no internal search engine, but on the whole, the site is a well-organized
and very useful resource for civil engineers and engineering librarians.
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This is a link to a hovercraft project
http://techdirections.com/Bloede.pdf
If you are really interested in this project, I have a set of plans for
the full size hover craft. My students built this particular one twice and
had great success with it. It will take an above average middle schooler about
6 months, working afterschool, to build the craft.
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Our portal offers various MSDS related services including our MSDS
search engine. This engine, containing over 1 Million different MSDS
sheets, is available for Free.
http://thearmylink.iwarp.com/safety.html
If you have an interesting web site that you like, email the address to: lipham@aol.com and I will gladly promote it for you
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