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3/6/10
Web page update...
Have a look at the new button on home page
School News. This page will have links to
news stories regarding schools.
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3/6/10
Hovercraft Workshop...
Sponsored by CTEA, Hosted by Manchester High School
April 8th, snow day the 9th 2010
Manchester High School
Presenters, Beth Penny and Jim Benini
Registration $20
Lunch included
Registration form Return to
Gkane@aol.com
by April 1, 2010
Greg Kane
For CTEA
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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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3/6/10
Have you joined the CTEA Forums
yet?...
Click
here for info.
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2/23/10
Johnson & Wales tour update...
Hello CTELC & CTEA
Members!
We have something
cooking….
Our group will be
joining CTEA in offering members a tour of the Technology Department of
Johnson and Whales University at NO
COST to you. You will be
able to enjoy a campus tour and a dinner at their Culinary Arts facility.
Please see the attached
flyer and contact Greg Kane at
Gkane@aol.com to register.
For Map
Quest directions, use
3000 Main Street Glastonbury
CT.
As of 2-27-10, ONLY 9 Seats Left, Sign up
Today!
Sue
Coco
CTELC Membership Chair
scoco@cheshirect.org
860-302-2143
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2/27/10
Conference news...
If you look at the conference schedule on the
Conference page, you will see something
new:
8:00 am – 8:45 am
Teacher
Competition w/Prizes
This will be a 30 minute
problem solving activity where you will
be in competition against other T.E. teachers.
Have you registered for the
CTEA conference
yet? May 13 2010 at CCSU
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2/27/10
Another site update...
Check the
Newsletters page for a couple of
newsletters just uploaded.
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2/24/10
Web site update...
The
Certification page now has a link to the CT
Dept of Ed. page that has the forms to get initial teacher
certification, and upgrade your
certification (Initial to Provisional & Provisional to Professional etc.)
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2/23/10
Legislative update...
I was able to get a bill introduced to
allow teachers to purchase additional time
for programs such as summer school and alternative education/after school
programs to
count towards teacher retirement. It will be a difficult battle because the
state TRB is
not excited about it. Please check this link out, pass this on to your union
reps, and
have them get in contact with me.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/CGABillStatus/CGAbillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB5069
Feel free to pass along to others...
Chris Prytko -
MEA Legislative Liaison
CTEA Legislative Liaison - CTEA 75 Years!!!
Technology Education
Manchester High School
134 East Middle Turnpike
Manchester, CT 06040
Email
B11prytk@ci.manchester.ct.us
Main # 860-647-3521
FAX # 860-646-3727
~ Technology Education - "More Than Just Computers" ~
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2/23/10
New cool video...
Have a look at the updated
videos page
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2/18/10
Have a look at the MassTEC
Express...
The
MassTEC Express is a Tech. Ed. newsletter
from
Massachusetts.
Take a look at what they are doing.
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2/11/10
CTEA Conference news...
Have a look at an early list of
scheduled conference workshops!
Darien High School
High School Woodworking Will Kick Your Ash
Ralph Riello
Video Production Basics
Jennifer Caffrey
School of the Future Competition
Beth Penney / Jim Benini
Building and Flying Hovercrafts
Technology Education Concepts Demo 3-D Printer
Have you registered for the
CTEA conference
yet? May 13 2010 at CCSU
I look forward to seeing you at the
conference.
James Brochinsky
CTEA Conference Chair
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2/10/10
Web site changes...
A few new pages have been added to the
CTEA site, "Standards"
on the Resources page and "Places
to Visit"
on the Events page. I've moved Cool
video and Cool sites from the resources page to a new "Cool
stuff" page.
The Cool stuff page also has a two new
pages, "Free
software" and "Games",
Pay Pal is now working for both
membership and conference registration payments. On the jobs page, I’ve
added
a new link to jobs that are posted on the CEA site. While I was adding
pages, it made sense to put the left side
buttons in alpha order.
As this is a “learn by doing work in
progress”, revisit the site often to see what’s new.
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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.
E.
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2/6/10
Robotics training
...
Have a look at the
Workshops page for info. on robotics
training, both VEX & NXT-G
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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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1/24/10
Hovercraft news...
Presently I need to work out the details
with Riverfront Recapture, but the goal is to compete during Riverfest
this year, which happens on July 10th. As soon as I have more details about
it, I will send them to you for the web
site. At this point, Parish Hill H.S. Manchester H.S., Daniel Hand H.S., and
The Morgan School are racing;
Coginchaug and Fairfield said they wanted to as well, but I don't know if
they started building a craft yet. I hope so!
There could be a dozen or so Entry Level hovercrafts racing on the
Connecticut River this year!
If anyone needs information on this please
e-mail me
Jim Binini
JBenini@parishhill.org
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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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