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7/29/10
2010 Summer
Training Sessions
Our 2010 Summer Training Sessions for
Mastercam and SolidWorks were once again a great success. We had a total of
28 teachers in our sessions this year and eveyoone was delighted with the
level of training they received.
We will be meeting shortly to decide on
places and dates for the workshops we will host during the 2010-2011 school
year. Look on our website for the new schedule in about a month. Please
contact us if you have any requests or suggestions.
What is SolidWorks 2D Editor?
A replacement for DWG Editor . . . .
Starting with SolidWorks 2010, Service
Pack 3, the 2D editor formerly known as DWGeditor has been removed from the
standard installation and media along with its documentation, and has been
renamed. Its new name is SolidWorks 2D Editor, and it is only available to
licensed SolidWorks customers via the download section within the SolidWorks
Customer Portal.
Then what is DraftSight?
Welcome to a better way to read, write
and share DWG files – and the place to do it all.
Download our free CAD software * and
start working with your DWG files. Then start sharing, connecting and
interacting with the 3DSwYm DraftSight™ community members. Social networking
anyone?
The DraftSight 2D CAD Product. Public
Beta is Now Available.
DraftSight is a professional-grade, open
2D CAD product for users who want a better way to read, write and share DWG
files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD
users, students and educators to download and activate for free.*
Based on advanced architecture,
DraftSight has a small footprint, should take less than a few minutes to
download, and runs on multiple operating systems, including Windows XP®,
Windows Vista® and Windows® 7.
It's FREE as a stand alone, unlimited
product. It can be ordered as a classroom network license for a small fee.
Chief Architect version X3 is here!
Chief Architect is 3D architectural
software for residential and light commercial design. Discover why millions
of educators use Chief Architect as the design software product of choice
for 2D and 3D design courses.
It's extremely powerful and easy for
students . . . .
STEM Academy is unveiled . . . .
The STEM Academy, a national
not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) program, officially unveiled the latest offering.
Developed by educators for education.
The STEM Academy prepares students to be competent, capable citizens in a
technology-dependent society through comprehensive student assessments
including traditional tests, project based learning presentations and
portfolios. This STEM centric program is focused on standard based
foundations, gender awareness, socio-economic concerns and general learner
needs to engage as many learners as possible. Program develops engineering
pipeline by featuring a main line education approach providing STEM
education for all students.
Program maps to the following national
standards:
International Technology Education
Association - ITEA
Accreditation Board for Engineering and
Technology - ABET
National Science Teachers Association -NSTA
National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics - NCTM
The offical website is
www.stem101.org
We are proud to be their New England
consultant.
Frank Gregorio Technical Education
Solutions, 64 Benz Street, Ansonia, CT 06401.
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7/14/10
The Tweel
Airless Tire
click
Here
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7/14/10
Results for the 2010 State
Conference
click
Here
Maggie Kaiser
CT State TSA Advisor
860-796-8039 (c)
Margaret M. Kaiser
Technology Education
TSA Advisor
Sedgwick Middle School
128 Sedgwick Road
West Hartford, CT 06107
860-570-6500 vm#1120
maggie_kaiser@whps.org
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5/16/10
New State TE Consultant...
Attendees of this years CTEA Spring
conference had the opportunity to meet our new CT state TE consultant,
Harold Mackin.
Mr. Mackin is interested in visiting as
many TE programs as he can before the school year is over. If you are
interested in him visiting your program, please contact him and welcome him
to CT.
Mr. Mackin is also interested in building
an e-mail distribution list. Please send him an e-mail so he can add you to
his list.
Updating our CT TE standards is a front
burner item. If you have an interest in getting involved with this, please
contact Mr. Mackin.
You can also visit his CT DOE web page
from the button on the top of our CTEA home page
"TE
Consultant"
Harold Mackin, Associate Education
Consultant
E-mail:
harold.mackin@ct.gov
Phone: (860) 713-6779
Facsimile: (860) 713-7018
Major Responsibilities:
Consultant, Agricultural Science and Technology
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5/16/10
Hovercraft
workshop...
For those who didn't get the change to
attend the hovercraft workshop at Manchester H.S., have a look at some
video of it.
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5/16/10
Human Powered vehicle contest...
Have a look at the
Link for some info. on this years CCSU
Human Powered Vehicle competition.
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5/13/10
Connecticut Invention
Convention...
The Connecticut Invention Convention is a
non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to the goal of
promoting creative problem solving and enhancing critical thinking skills in
children ages K-8. This program is the beginning of the pipeline for
the state’s future scientists, engineers, doctors, and visionary workers of
the 21st century. The problem-solving skills learned in this program tap
into all the core curriculum topics that students have learned to date, and
students apply them here to solve real-life problems that they discover for
themselves.
The Invention
Convention is the culminating event of over 100 local invention conventions
state-wide and is the forum for Connecticut's school children to demonstrate
thinking skills through the art of inventing. It is also an opportunity to
recognize students for creative problem- solving. Students from schools
across the state meet, compete, and collaborate.Through the
Convention, many students discover that engineering and science careers are
real possibilities for them.
CIC provides
TEACHER TRAINING SESSIONS
as a means to LEARN
and EXPERIENCE our new k-8 Curriculum firsthand. This year's fall workshop
is October 16th, at Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon. Cost is $40, 2
for $50.00. In our workshops, we will help you learn the basic steps of how
to conduct a CIC program. In just one day you will:
·
Get
resources & practical suggestions to conduct a proven learning activity for
K-8;
·
Link
"inventing" directly with state and national standards for science inquiry;
·
Learn
how invention addresses higher order thinking skills, learning styles, and
multiple intelligences;
·
Meet
fellow teachers, exchange ideas and concepts of learning;
·
Get a step-by-step guide to
conducting an invention convention, and go home with our curriculum
New schools' annual registration fees are
waived. Subsequent years cost only $125 per school to participate at
the state level.
If you need more
information, download our
Brochure by clicking on the icon below: or
email
helen.charov@ctinventionconvention.org.
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5/9/10
Legislative news...
Forwarded from Ralph R.
Dear All,
Today’s Big News and possible call to quick action for many recipients of
this e-newsletter is the HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENT BILL, which has
already passed the CT Senate and may come before the Connecticut House for a
vote as early as tomorrow (!) The current language of this bill (see below)
includes a requirement specifically in the arts.
Given the timeline, if you have an opinion you would like to express about
this bill you should act immediately. There are a few legislators who have
stated that they would like to eliminate the arts requirement from the bill.
You can find contact information for your state representative at:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/CGAFindLeg.asp
The following is the graduation requirement language passed late last week
by the Senate:
(c) Commencing with classes graduating in 2018, and for each graduating
class thereafter, no local or regional board of education shall permit any
student to graduate from high school or grant a diploma to any student who
has not satisfactorily completed (1) a minimum of twenty-five credits,
including not fewer than: (A) Nine credits in the humanities, including not
fewer than (i) four credits in English, including composition; (ii) three
credits in social studies, including at least one credit in American history
and at least one-half credit in civics and American government; (iii) one
credit in fine arts; and (iv) one credit in a humanities elective; (B) eight
credits in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, including not
fewer than (i) four credits in mathematics, including algebra I, geometry
and algebra II or probability and statistics; (ii) three credits in science,
including at least one credit in life science and at least one credit in
physical science; and (iii) one credit in a science, technology, engineering
and mathematics elective; (C) three and one-half credits in career and life
skills, including not fewer than (i) one credit in physical education; (ii)
one-half credit in health and safety education, as described in section
10-16b; and (iii) two credits in career and life skills electives, such as
career and technical education, English as a second language, community
service, personal finance, public speaking and nutrition and physical
activity; (D) two credits in world languages, subject to the provisions of
subsection (g) of this section; and (E) a one credit senior demonstration
project or its equivalent, as approved by the State Board of Education; and
(2) end of the school year examinations for the following courses: (A)
Algebra I, (B) geometry, (C) biology, (D) American history, and (E) grade
ten English.
You’ll see that I highlighted above the portions of the bill that would
require students to complete one credit of arts study for high school
graduation, and would also allow students to take an arts elective to
fulfill a one-credit humanities elective. Students might also choose
arts-based projects to complete the “one credit senior demonstration
project.”
What is less clear at this point is whether arts classes might be used to:
· fulfill a technology elective in the STEM section (i.e., graphic design,
stage technology, electronic music composition, etc.) or
· apply to electives under “career and life skills” (i.e., theatre course to
train students in public speaking, dance course to support physical
activity, or any arts-related course that might prepare for careers in the
arts).
The following is the link to the entire bill, which combines a large number
of proposals affecting education (several of which may interest you), and
bears the somewhat deceiving title “An Act Concerning Charter Schools.”
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/lcoamd/2010LCO04541-R00-AMD.htm
More info on the status of this bill can be found at:
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=438&which_year=2010&SUBMIT1.x=17&SUBMIT1.y=11
OTHER HELPFUL STUFF
Expert music/arts advocate John Benham provides wise advice for all arts
education supporters and teachers – regardless of arts discipline – in his
column on supportmusic.com:
http://www.supportmusic.com/drjohn/archive/2010-04-01.mhtml
Benham’s article includes advice on how to form local arts
coalitions/booster groups.
Rich Wells recently reminded me of the attached document entitled
“Multimodal Literacies,” which is relevant to recent discussions of Common
Core ELA standards and the need to consider the arts as important forms of
literacy.
Note attached info about Hartt’s music education summer term. I try to
maintain a current link to summer in-state university music education
programs on my web page, which is accessible from the Arts Web Page (see
link below).
Scott
Scott C. Shuler, Ph.D.
Arts Consultant
Connecticut State Department of Education
Bureau of Accountability and Improvement
President-Elect
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
www.menc.org
165 Capitol Ave., Room 221
Hartford, CT 06106
E-mail:
scott.shuler@ct.gov
Phone: (860) 713-6746
Fax: (860) 713-7023
Arts Web Page: Standards, Guide, Common Assessments, Advocacy, Survey, etc.
Model Units/Tasks:
http://www.CTcurriculum.org
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4/20/10
Have a look...
Have a look at the latest leadership tour
video
of the Johnson & Wales visit from Jeff Goodin.
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4/7/10
Forum news...
I have shut down the forums for now. We are in between
software updates from our web host that prevent us
from the latest forum
software. Our current software is allowing 500 plus bogus users to try to
register in a few
weeks.
Watch for news for the forums to be turned on again.
Watch for news of a CTEA Face Book page
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3/6/10
Have you renewed your CTEA
membership?...
Don't forget to renew your CTEA
membership. You can now do it either on line, or by mail at
membership.
Paul Hoffman
CTEA Membership Chair
phoffman01@optonline.net
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2/6/10
Having trouble opening newer MS
Office files?...
If you are still using Office 2003, and
people send you attached files from Office 2007 (Windows Vista & 7),
there is a patch available to help. Have a look
here for more info.
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1/24/10
Retired teacher group...
Calling all Retired Technology Education Teachers
After retiring I decided to try to establish a Connecticut Retired
Industrial Arts/Technology Education teachers
group as a social organization. I was thinking we could almost do a daytime
organization like the existing CT
Leadership Council that meeting five nights a year to tour facilities and
have a meal and short meeting.
Using this as a model, I was going to try to organize a daytime trip to the
United States Submarine Museum in
Groton and a lunch after at the Submarine Veterans Association Club House
also in Groton.
To start the group I needed to collect email addresses for retired teachers.
So if you are interested in possibly
joining such a group, finding out more about the groups plans or have
suggestions for such a group, please send
your email address to
Gkane@aol.com.
Greg Kane
Retired State Consultant for Technology Education
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12/11/09
Web page & forum news...
If our
CTEA Forums ever go down again, please look
to this web page for info. Likewise if this CTEA web page ever goes down,
please look to the CTEA forum for info.
E.
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Please contact
Everett
if you find errors or have
information to post.
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