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NEW
LINKS: Updates are new as of June 30, 2007
● The Distance Education Clearinghouse,
located at the University of Wisconsin Extension, is a comprehensive and
widely recognized web site bringing together distance education information
from Wisconsin, National, and International sources.
Discover this site at:
www.uwex.edu/disted/index.cfm
The National Council for Continuing
Education and Training (NCCET), is a community college focused
website for NCCET. This organization provides leadership for continuing
professional education, community services programming, workforce and
economic development and contract training professionals. The goal of
NCCET's award program is to highlight individual and organizational
excellence throughout the country. Best practices, exemplary programs, and
outstanding leadership are showcased in publications and at an annual
conference.
Discover this site at:
www.nccet.org
The Internet Public Library,
located at the University of Michigan, is a resource for Vocational
Educators, and includes numerous links useful to educators.
Discover this site at:
www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/edu60.00.00/
The National Workforce Center for Emerging
Technologies, is an NSF Advanced Technology Education Center in
Information Technology, located at Bellevue Community College, in Bellevue,
Washington, and posts numerous informational articles, podcasts, and
conference presentations related to Emerging Technologies and Information
Technologies.
Discover this site at:
www.nwcet.org
The About.com: Career Planning website publishes
a free newsletter about career planning and career re-entry.
Discover this site at:
http://careerplanning.about.com
The Chronicle of Higher Education
publishes a newsletter (there is a hot button called, Get the Chronicle 4
Free so cost of the newsletter is currently unknown), apparently for
community college educators, and has a wide variety of topics in newsletter
run weekly.
Discover this site at:
http://chronicle.com
The National Research Center for Career and
Technical Education, is a website maintained by the University of
Minnesota that lists and describes 77 useful Websites for Career Technical
Educators. Categories of listed websites are: Teachers, Students,
Government, Non Profits, Research, and Resources.
Discover this site at
www.education.umn.edu/nrccte/CTEWebsiteLinks.html
The League for Innovation in the Community
College, maintains a website listing Higher Education Resources on
the Web useful for community and technical college students, faculty and
staff.
Discover this site at:
www.league.org/resources/hied_resources.htm
The U.S. Department of Education's Office
of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) Community College website
has sections that describe and provide linkages to: OVAE initiatives focused
on Community Colleges, Topics in Community Colleges, Facts and Figures, and
related links to National Organizations and Journals & Periodicals of
interest to community college faculty and staff.
Discover this site at:
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/cclo/index.html
The USA Today.Education ONLINE/Career and
Technical Section is a free online educational resource using USA
TODAY content to help students prepare for the world of work. USA TODAY
focuses on hot workplace issues and careers at every level.
Discover this site at:
www.usatoday.com/EDUCATE/careertech/index.html
The AT&T Education Knowledge Network Explorer
website, when searched for vocational education, found 55 website linkages
for educators. This network explorer assists educators seeking lessons,
webquests, and general or industry specific information.
Discover this site at:
www.kn.att.com/wired/bluewebn/contentarea.cfm
● The Center for
Teaching and Learning (CTL) is a website provided by Bristol
Community College in Massachusetts as an aid to its faculty has an extensive
listing of web-based linkages that could assist 0900 faculty.
The main linkage groups are:
Centers
for Teaching and Learning... a list of faculty web resources found
on other college websites.
Teaching
Resources... an extensive listing of general resources, tips, and
guidelines for faculty.
Online
Journals... review, journals, and general literature listings found
online.
Technology...
information and standards for technology education
This website has a notice
that materials on the website cannot be copied or distributed, so individual
faculty would need to receive permission from the college/center before
utilizing this information in a class, however the use of internet material
for training purposes only could be requested from the college/center.
Discover CIT at:
www.citelad.mass.edu/ctl/links.htm
● Production
Technology News is an online manufacturing digest of the latest
information related to the general field of manufacturing.
Discover Production
Technology News at:
www.manufacturing.net
● Faculty can find free
publications about industrial and manufacturing technology by completing an
online registration form. This could open the door to over 85 individual
magazines that are devoted to a specific technical field at no cost to the
faculty member.
Discover how to subscribe
at: www.allyoucanread.com
● The National Science
Foundation (NSF) funds over thirty Advanced Technology Centers
across the country, each of which focuses in different areas affecting 0900
educators, and each of which has created extensive websites for
dissemination of materials.
Discover NSF Center
websites at www.nsf.gov
● The Center for
Occupational Research and Development (CORD) is a national
non-profit organization dedicated to leading change in education through
projects and programs that prepare students for the technological world of
today and tomorrow.
CORD is currently posting these resources: Check out
the latest Professional Development courses
Download free research Reports in our
Publications Section - Under Current News:
Adult Career Pathways:
providing a second chance in public education
CORD establishes the National
Center for Optics and Photonics Education
Career Pathways: Education with
a purpose
CORD has also posted the following individual web
pages:
Career Cluster Curriculum Development
Career and Technical Education Mathematics
Professional Development Program
Teaching Styles Inventory
The AT &T Professional Development Academy
for Community College Faculty
What is Contextual Learning?
Contextual Teaching Exchange
Using Themes to Capture Student
Interest
Technical Reading and Writing
Guided Note Taking
A Checklist for Editing
Technical Writing
Mathematics Classroom Resources
Project Based Learning
Online Courses
Publications
Discover CORD at
www.cord.org
● The National
Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) has a newly enhanced
website with a very comprehensive collection of information and teaching
tools for the 0900 faculty member. Opening the home page allows you to
select 1.) What's New: a collection of recently added resources, recently
added upcoming events, and recently added links. 2.) a comprehensive
collection of web linkages covering all areas within the 0900 area. 3.)
links to Engineering Technology websites across the country, and 4.) MERC
Online, a comprehensive compendium of information in the areas of:
Manufacturing
Processes
Materials
Technology
Automation
Systems
Quality
Management
Design for
Manufacturing
Production and
Inventory Control
Manufacturing of
Electronic Products
Manufacturing
Enterprise Management
Manufacturing
Information Systems
Technical
Science
Plant
Engineering and Facilities Management
Professional
Skills in Manufacturing
Safety,
Industrial Hygiene, and Environmental Management
Manufacturing
Curriculum, Instructional Design, and Novel Pedagogies
The site has detailed
information on Manufacturing/Industrial & Technical Education oriented
Professional Organizations, Trade Associations, Certifications, Equipment
Vendors, ATE National and Regional Centers, Grants and Foundations, ABET
Colleges with Manufacturing Programs, Secondary Education, and other
informational resources. The site also contains an extensive list of website
linkages for educators across the country in the 0900 TOP Codes areas.
Discover the MERC Online
website at www.ncmeresource.org
● The National
Engineering Technology Education Clearinghouse NETEC, another of the
NSF ATE Centers focuses it's web efforts on the dissemination of model
programs, educational strategies, and instructional curricula and materials
via electronic clearinghouses and organized
activities for the
Engineering Technology Community. This site is a great resource for all
technology and engineering students, faculty, and industry, and you can find
exemplary materials in the field of Engineering Technology from course
materials to journal articles in the digital library, get connected with
experts and programs through professional services, and join the online
forum. The technical information search function on this website is quite
extensive.
Discover NETEC at
www.neteconline.org
● The California
Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education
(CREATE), a joint effort between a consortium of seven California community
colleges and over 50 large high tech engineering/technology employers, has
developed a website that offers resource links that includes:
an open ended site
rich with content that makes finding and applying to a school in California
a snap.
Weblinks
Maps and Directions to participating colleges
College
course outlines and on-line learning programs from participating
colleges.
A.S. and
B.S. Degree and Certificate pathways within the participating
colleges
Publications
Downloads Events
Meetings
Training
Discover CREATE at
www.create-california.org
● The Manufacturing &
Technology News publishes an on-line magazine that offers
significant information within the 0900 TOP Codes areas. First time visitors
to the website can receive the current issue free of charge, after which one
must subscribe, however if you care to examine the content of back issues
that are in an on-line library, this service (at this time) is also free of
charge, and there is a free on-line newsletter.
Discover this magazine at
www.manufacturingnews.com
● The National Council
for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) publishes a weekly information
service that provides information on Federal Policies and National Trends in
Manufacturing (the NACFAM Weekly), and you could try contacting them to see
how you could receive this weekly news update.
Discover this website at
www.nacfam.org
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