The Technology Teacher articles from May 2002

The Technology Teacher archives from May 2002

New CS website. (In The News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The ITEA Council for Supervisors has a new website at www.iteawww.net/CS. If you are a technology education state, provincial, or local supervisor, a school or district administrator, or a department head or chair, consider becoming an...

Free software for educators. (In The News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Parametric Technology Corporation, better known as PTC, is offering free software for middle and high school technology education programs. PTC's Design & Technology in Schools Program provides free Pro/DESKTOP 3D design and collaboration...

Funding information. (In The News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The U.S. Department of Education has changed the rules related to its grant application review process to improve the quality of the process through a "multiple tier review system," and to provide inexperienced applicants with greater...

New books. (In The News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Craig Vogel, FIDSA, and Jonathan Cagan, IDSA, recently released a new, cutting-edge book, hailed as the first book to zero in on and explain modern product development, Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program...

Online resources. (In The News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Learning Network, http://learningnetwork.com, the Internet's largest educational website for parents, teachers, and students, and the National Science Teachers' Association (NSTA), the world's largest science teacher organization, are combining...

Calendar. (In The News & Calendar).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... May 20-21, 2002 The Connecticut Technology Education Association (CTEA) conference will be held in Waterbury, CT. For information, contact Paul Hoffman at phoffman@snet.net. May 28-June 2, 2002 The Society of Manufacturing...

You & ITEA.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Summer Graduate Internet Course CATTS ITEA/CATTS, in conjunction with Illinois State University, will offer a 4-week, Internet-based graduate course designed to prepare classroom teachers to develop and teach standards-based technology...

Building and controlling your PLC-controlled robot from the workbench.
May 1, 2002... Introduction The technology education teacher of tomorrow must be prepared to expose his/her students to many fields of study related to technology. Some of the potential career paths for which we need to prepare our students include...

Become a weather wizard! (The Space Place).
May 1, 2002... In some places--maybe where you live--weather is a very important part of planning, especially leisure time planning. For example, in looking forward to your weekend, wouldn't it be nice to know it was going to be sunny and clear on Saturday,...

Achieving technological literacy in Minnesota: (if you don't know where you're going, you will very likely end up somewhere else ...).
May 1, 2002... Standards For Technological Litera cy: Implementation Design MTEA has managed to maintain an annual membership of around 400 teachers, about one-third of the approximately 1200 technology education teachers statewide. Through both journal...

Distance learning: teaching technology online. (Resources In Technology).
May 1, 2002... It has been a little more than 25 years since the Apple II computer was mass-marketed to the world of education. The familiar "buzz-buzz, clack-clack, and beep-beep" opened a new paradigm in teaching and learning that would not be realized for...

An introduction to universal design: a hand tool project. (IDSA).
May 1, 2002... In this installment in the ongoing series about industrial design, I'd like to introduce the concept of universal design. First, however, it makes sense to define the terms "industrial design" and "universal design." It also makes sense to...

ITEA/Gallup Poll: interpreting what others think of technology teaching.
May 1, 2002... The ITEA/Gallup Poll gave us a snapshot of what the general public knows about, considers, and thinks when dealing with technology. The results represent good news for technology educators, although there is considerable work to be done to...

Thanks for coming. (ITEA 2002 Columbus 2002 March 14-16).(Illustration)
May 1, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vincent Lombardi, Jr. gives a unique perspective on personal achievement at the First General Session. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] International Luncheon speaker, Hidetoshi Miyakawa. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

See you in Nashville. (Nashville: ITEA 2003 Conference March 13-15).(Illustration)
May 1, 2002... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2002-2003 ITEA Board of Directors [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FTE Spirit of Excellence Speaker, Michael Scott. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Winners of the Teacher Excellence Award. [ILLUSTRATION...

2002 professional recognition awards.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Professional excellence Awards Academy of Fellows Thomas A. Hughes, Jr. Award of Distinction Charles A. Pinder Lockette/Monroe Humanitarian Award Steven W. Moorhead, DTE Wilkinson Meritorious Service Award Harold E....

Thank you to our advertisers.
May 1, 2002... ITEA wishes to thank the following companies and universities for their commercial advertising support in The Technology Teacher during the 2001-2002 school yeaR. We encourage our readers to do business with these companies, which continue to...

TTT/TTTe index--2001-2002.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2002... TITLE INDEX 2002 Leaders to Watch, March 2002, pp. 37-39. Achieving Technological Literacy in Minnesota, May/June 2002, pp. 16-20. Applications and Tools for Design and Visualization, April 2002, pp. 7-11. Assessment...