Big Ideas: In planning for our future-

• develop 6 or more themes that we can ask for support from the county as offered by our visitor, L.Brooks Patterson. www.emergingsectors.org

sustainability, “smart” materials, biotechnology, renewable energy, green architecture

• Focus on a hands on session, maybe a split day with debriefing after lunch at the OSMST center after a morning at one or more lab settings making things.
• determine dates for meetings
• grant writing
• guest speakers from the emerging sectors
• PTC ProEngineer/windchill

EcoTech

Abu Dhabi Carbon Neutral City

Wii Hack for interactive whiteboard

The Story of Stuff

Calculate your carbon footprint! Consumer Consequences is an interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth.

Go to “write a post” and scroll down to the upload window. Browse for your file and follow instructions and it will appar as a link like this.

Energy Jammers Rubric

Oh, now I see that instead of the ability to publish this post directly, I have to “submit for review” which presumably means that me, as blog administrator, will have to accept postings made by contributors. Maybe I will change you all to “authors” and then you can post directly. The point of doing a blog instead of a website was that no one of us would have to maintain anything and we could all post freely.

For assistance with program development:

        ·      Curriculum

   ·       Instruction

        ·       Program review and alignment with the Standards for Technological

       Literacy:Content for the Study of Technology

Contact Jeff Bush

   Design and Technological Studies

   Curriculum and Instruction Consultant

   248.209.2376

   jeff.bush@oakland.k12.mi.us

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/140-hot_wheels.html

Thanks for participating!

Gina Sartor

Here are some notes from our meeting:

• bloglines.com is a way to keep track of all the blogs you want. A one stop shop that will allow you to check all the new entries in any blogs you subscribe to.

• http://community.discoveryeducation.com/
• 

• become a STAR Educator    http://community.discoveryeducation.com/star/index.html

• is a small company dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of wind energy science education throughout the US.  While we believe the web is a useful to we try to promote inclusion of wind energy in science classrooms through 1 - 4 day workshops where teachers can get their hands on wind energy! 

• What is Ed.VoiceThread? It’s a web-based collaborative network that is simple, powerful and safe. Specifically designed for K-12 educators and students, Ed.VoiceThread enables rich collaboration around multimedia in a secure environment. More like a pencil than a software platform, Ed.VoiceThread is a space for creating digital stories and documentaries, practicing language skills, exploring geography and culture, solving math problems, collaborating with other students, or simply finding and honing student voices.
• A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.
• K12Grants.org Resources for grants.
• http://del.icio.us  A great way to access all of your favorites from any computer and easily share with others.
• www.teachers.tv A UK based site that has 15 - 30 min videos on many topics including Design and Technology

Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy www.nap.edu

The ITEA is the International Technology Education Assoc. and they have published the standards and benchmarks that have re-defined how tech ed is delivered across the country. To see more about the details of the association, follow the link.