MST Meeting March 13, 2008

A optimistic day! So many resources that we are learning to share with each other. I am going to try the embedding of video. At this point, you can only comment but I will make everyone a contibutor soon.

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.
  • 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

A few resources from Jeff Bush

STEM Education Coalition: http://www.stemedcoalition.org/

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

Technically Speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology www.nap.edu

Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology www.iteaconnect.org

National Educational Technology Standards for Students: www.iste.org

Learning Institute for Technology Education/LITE: www.litesource.org 

“Shop Class” has benchmarks?

Isn’t it just the place where you make cool stuff?

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.

Making a Catapult

Just one of many approaches-add details about your favorite.

M-S-T Through Design

Welcome to Edublogs.org.

This is the user generated place to share all the good things that come from our work together. Please take advatage of it and upload a few of the great actitives and links that you have collected.