The Technology Teacher articles from September 2005

The Technology Teacher archives from September 2005

New on ITEA's Web site.(ITEA ONLINE)
September 1, 2005... ITEA Web site/E-mail Changes In order to better streamline communications with its members, ITEA has revamped its Web and e-mail addresses. Beginning immediately, ITEA's new Web address is www.iteaconnect.org. For a complete listing of...

Election candidates.(International Technology Education Association)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The 2005-2006 ITEA Board of Directors election ballot will be e-mailed in September. The highly experienced field of candidates is pictured here. Exercise your right to vote by returning your ballot promptly! Electronic voting must take place...

ITEA's 68th annual conference.
September 1, 2005... Be sure to mark your calendars for March 23-25, 2006 and plan to be in Baltimore, Maryland, a city on the move--with new attractions, charming neighborhoods, ethnic and cultural diversity, Chesapeake Bay cuisine, and a wealth of history....

Publications of interest.(NEWS & CALENDAR)
September 1, 2005... * New CTTE Yearbook--The 2005 Council on Technology and Teacher Education: 54th Yearbook, Distance and Distributed Learning Environments: Perspectives and Strategies, edited by William L. and Pamela A. Havice, is now available. For information...

Calendar.(NEWS AND CALENDAR)(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... Sept 30-Oct 1, 2005 The Minnesota Fall Conference will be held in St. Cloud, MN. For additional information, contact Mike Lindstrom at mike.lindstrom@anoka.k12.mn.us. October 5-7, 2005 Technology Education New Zealand is hosting...

ITEA Web site/E-mail changes.(YOU & ITEA)
September 1, 2005... Connecting With ITEA In order to better streamline communications with its members, ITEA has revamped its Web and e-mail addresses. Beginning immediately, ITEA's new Web address is www.iteaconnect.org. ITEA e-mail addresses are...

ITEA member receives invention award.(YOU & ITEA)
September 1, 2005... For his work in the development of mobile robots for use in hazardous environment applications, ITEA member Harry T. Roman was awarded the 2005 Inventor of the Year award by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. Roman's 23 mobile robots...

And the survey says ...(The Technology Teacher's readership survey and feedback)
September 1, 2005... Many thanks for the numerous responses to our Technology Teacher Readership Survey. It is hugely informative to receive feedback from those who read the journal, and having this data enables us to determine what we're doing right, what we're...

Student interpretation of the M.A.S.H. Design Development Tool: students found M.A.S.H. useful as a roadmap to guide their design decisions and remind them of issues that had become clouded by project complexity.(Mechanics, Aesthetics, Sustainability, Human Factors)
September 1, 2005... Introduction The original article describing the M.A.S.H. approach was published in the May/June 2005 issue of The Technology Teacher. To review, the M.A.S.H. mnemonic is a useful framework for generating, tracking, and objectively...

Appropriate technology: value adding application for technology education: students are given more oppotunity to be creative, to think logically, to see and understand a technological problem in total, and to act responsibly as they work to solve problems that are important and intrinsic to them.
September 1, 2005... What is Appropriate Technology? Appropriate Technology (AT) concepts have been discussed throughout this past century by notable leaders and scholars such as Mohandas Gandhi and Julius Nyerere; however, the undisputed founder of the AT...

Aviation insights: unmanned aerial vehicles: millions of people: millions of people fly from city to city or from nation to nation and across the oceans and around the world effortlessly and economically.(technological resources)
September 1, 2005... Introduction If you can imagine thousands of years ago, early humans walked on the earth and probably looked toward the skies, watching birds soar effortlessly and thinking, "... if only I could fly!" Aviation as we know it today is a...

Gas is not very expensive if you get 1,000 miles per gallon!(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The tenth annual IMSTEA Super Mileage Challenge was held at Indianapolis Raceway Park on April 25, 2005. Forty Indiana high schools entered 53 cars in the two classes of competition. This year the field was seeking to crack the 1,500 mpg...

Project Probase: engaging technology for 11th and 12th grade students: Project Probase was conceived to address the shortage of standards-based technology education curricula at the upper high school level.
September 1, 2005... Journal manuscripts and national reports published during the last 20 years (Bensen, 1993; DeVries, 1996; AAAS, 1989; National Academy of Engineering, 2002; ITEA, 1996; Zuga, 1989) presented a defensible rationale for the technology education...

2006 ITEA conference "Designed World" Tours.(International Technology Education Association, technology application analysis)(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... About the "Designed World" Tours Program--One major content area within Standards for Technology Literacy is "The Designed World." The focus is on the application of technology in enterprise models to produce and provide products and services....

Examples of leadership: what we can learn from technology education leaders: we can learn much about leadership by observing models, or examples, of people who are, or have been leaders.
September 1, 2005... Remarks from the Maley Spirit of Excellence Breakfast International Technology Education Association Conference Kansas City, MO April 4, 2005 I am honored to have been invited to share some thoughts and perspectives with you this...