Welcome to the MassTEC web site of the month page. If you had seen an interesting site of the month during an earlier visit the previous month's links are listed below. If you have a recommendation for a site of the month feel free to pass it onto the webmaster.
- February 2010 Zamzar is a web site that will convert files and convert a youtube video into a file all free. Click here to try it out at http://zamzar.com/
- February, 2008 A Design and Technology Site. This website contains numerous information sheets and exercises to enhance the study, understanding and teaching of DESIGN and TECHNOLOGY
- October, 2007 NASA Education http://www.education.nasa.gov/home/index.html
From the NASA Education web site- For almost 50 years, NASA has explored many frontiers leading to new horizons of opportunity. Now, as NASA implements the Vision for Space Exploration, which will carry humans back to the moon, on to Mars and beyond, NASA Education is working to lay the groundwork that will make this ongoing journey possible.
- September, 2007 Technizzel http://www.technizzel.com/
From the creators- Technizzel is a website geared toward high school and college students. The purpose is to address the growing concern among educators that there is a lack of American students obtaining engineering degrees. The goal is to inspire young students to pursue interests in science and engineering. We have a team of writers who contribute articles once a week on everything from what a chemical engineer might do on a given day to the software integration in the iPhone. Essentially, Technizzel aims to debunk the myth that"engineering isn't cool". There is an additional link on our Technology Education/Engineering Classroom Resources page, click here for the link.
- May, 2007 The Massachusetts Online Network for Education, Massone http://www.massone.mass.edu/. This site is a powerful resource for teachers on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It offers such options as online storage space, folders for students to pass in assignments electronically and online discussion forms. This is a resource you will want to check out soon.
From a DOE newsletter- MassONE ORIENTATION AVAILABLE More than 400 educators have signed up to take the MassONE Orientation, which. highlights ways that MassONE can enhance classroom instruction. The orientation, which was created by Virtual High School, is available at no cost to all MassONE users. It consists of 10 one-hour modules, which can be completed in any order, at any time. To sign up for the Orientation, go to http://vessunapp3.doe.mass.edu/surveys/take.do?n=841424029.
- February/March, 2007 Teacher Domain, this web site was passed on to MassTEC by one of our members. It has video's (appropriate for class), online classes, and other resources. It is made for teachers and is free. A few minutes to sign up and you are there. We will also have a link to this site on our classroom resources page, click here to see the link.
- November/December, 2006 Want to build a lever and fling some stuff? How about hitting some targets or a box off of the top of a tower? Click here to give it a try, (http://www.forgefx.com/demos.htm) it is the second educational simulation 3D Catapult Designer.
- January, 2006 Inspiring a New Generation of Inventors
Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams is a national grants initiative of the Lemelson-MIT Program to foster inventiveness among high school students. InvenTeams composed of high school students, teachers and mentors are asked to collaboratively identify a problem that they want to solve, research the problem, and then develop a prototype invention as an in-class or extracurricular project. Grants of up to $10,000 support each team's efforts. InvenTeams are encouraged to work with community partners, specifically the potential beneficiaries of their invention.
InvenTeams was launched in 2002 as a pilot program that awarded grants to three New England high school teams for the 2002-03 academic year. It has expanded each year since its inception, and in the fall of 2005, awarded up to 18 InvenTeams grants.
In the future the link will be on our resources page under contests. Click here to go to the link on the resources page under the contest heading.
- April, 2005
TeachEngineering contains units, lessons, and activities that all have an engineering connection. The curricular items are standards based and fully searchable by standards, concepts or key words. Everything shown on this site has a consistent look and feel in order to minimize teacher time spent understanding what is included in the items.
We also have a link to TeachEngineering on our curriculum resources page. TeachEngineering http://teachengineering.org/
- March, 2005
Enhancing Education Through Technology Conferences
The Massachusetts Department of Education invites educators to its 2005 spring technology conferences focusing on how technology supports the goals of No Child Left Behind. These conferences will feature presentations by Massachusetts technology grants recipients, district technology directors, and professional development leaders. Click here to take a look. http://www.doe.mass.edu/conference/?ConferenceID=103
- January, 2005 A great extra credit project for my classes last year was entering and submitted designs in the West Point Bridge Design Contest. This year I have done this activity as a club that meets during school once a week. This contest is held at a local and national level. Students can submit designs and view there ranking at the national level and there is also a local listing of schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The national ranking can be a bit discouraging but if the design is very good the local ranking will be more reflective of a quality structure. The national prizes include a $10,000 scholarship and laptop computers. Prizes at the local level include $100 and scientific calculators. Click here to take a look.
- November- December, 2004 The 2001 and 2004 ITEA/Gallup Polls on
“What Americans Think About Technology”
The first ITEA/Gallup Poll, in what has become a two-part series, was commissioned by ITEA in the spring of 2001 with the intent of finding out how Americans viewed technological literacy. Funding for the second survey in 2004 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ITEA encourages additional research based on the 2001 and 2004 ITEA/Gallup Polls. Click here to take a look.
- September- October 2004
If you want to be aware of important pieces of information from the Commissioner of Education Dr. David P. Driscoll we recommend that you check the commissioners Update. This page is updated approximately every two weeks and contains requests for participation from the educational community, recent DOE postings and many other pieces of important information for educators at all levels. Please note that this link is to the August 20th update. To find the most recent update please use the DOE's main page http://www.doe.mass.edu/ and click on the Commissioners Update.
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