Industrial Arts Links

AUTOSHOP-Online!
Get expert advice on automotive repair, maintenance, and operation.  This is "the United States' largest independent car and truck repair helpline. Since 1987, our automotive experts have helped professional mechanics solve over a half-million difficult repair problems. Through AUTOSHOP-Online, you now have direct access to experts and information for solving your automotive problem."  --Source.

Automotive (Leisure and Recreation) 
Get web links to many automobile web sites, periodicals about cars, discussion groups, and more from Galaxy, "the professional's guide to a world of information."AUTOSHOP-Online!
Get expert advice on automotive repair, maintenance, and operation.  This is "the United States' largest independent car and truck repair help line. Since 1987, our automotive experts have helped professional mechanics solve over a half-million difficult repair problems. Through AUTOSHOP-Online, you now have direct access to experts and information for solving your automotive problem."  --Source.

Basic Electronics
Get some basic lessons in electronics here.

BETA test, Experimental Drafting Classes on the Internet, The first lesson is FREE!
"We are building a Virtual Drafting School on the Internet. This is a BETA test site. Architecture, Mechanical, Survey, Industrial, Steel, and Machine Process. Many other fields to be added soon! The first lesson is FREE!"  --Tim Davis, General Drafter.

THE CAR DOCTOR WEBSITE HOME PAGE
Get tips from Ed Kiely, the Car Doctor, to help students in the Auto Shop course.

ELECTRONICS FOR BEGINNERS
"This Web site is for those people who have recently become interested in electronics and would like some assistance on the practical aspects of the subject." --Source.

ETCAI Products
"We develop training software for use in electricity, electronics, and avionics education. Our CAI material is highly interactive and easy to use. Our programs do not dictate curriculum or require changes to ongoing instructional strategy.  Functional evaluation copies of our programs can be downloaded for evaluation. Select an option for more information about our computer based training programs."  --Source.

Journal of Vocational and Technical Education Mechanical Engineering (Engineering and Technology) 
Computational mechanics, robotics, materials engineering, and many other links from Galaxy, "the professional's guide to a world of information." Occupational Outlook Handbook
You've seen it in print in the Career Resource Room; now see it on the Net.Pitsco's Ask an Expert: Main Menu
Search for an expert to have students discuss any related topic.

The Residential Energy Efficiency Database
"The Residential Energy Efficiency Database is a free service which provides a wealth of understandable information on energy usage, designing, building, renovating and operating, healthy energy efficient residential housing.  REED provides a continually upgraded, on-line educational information source in a self teaching format."  --Source.

School-to-Work National Office
"The National School-to-Work Learning & Information Center provides information, assistance, and training to build School-to-Work opportunities in the United States." --Source.
Technology Education via the World Wide Web
Links are offered here.

Family & Consumer Science

Advertising Law
This site offers text from Federal Trade Commission documents on fundamental advertising principles, advertising law articles, and links to related sites such as the Better Business Bureau.

Federal Trade Commission

Welcome to Netmarket

FinanceNet

Nationwide Insurance

Internal Revenue Service

Global Grocery List
This is a project site for students around the world. They research their local grocery prices, post them, and then compare them to prices gathered by students in other countries.

Julia Child: Cooking with Master Chefs

Cooking Light Magazine
This web site features low-fat and low-calorie recipes, along with health tips.

Star Chefs Web Site
This site features profiles of well-known chefs and their work.

Sally's Place
This food and restaurant compendium features lost of great information and pictures.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

DealerNet

Fashion Net

The Parenting Resource Center on the Web

The Supermarket Shopping Network
Currently, the only thing you can do at this site is check prices. But big plans are in store! When your local markets join the revolution, you will be able to shop online at this site.

Wal-Mart

Industrial Technology

Autocad site

Architectour

Art & Architecture

Carleton University-School of Industrial Design

Association of Women Industrial Designers

McGill School of Architecture's siteX

Wood TrussPros

American Woodworking Academy

Valvoline Garage

Cadillac

Chrysler Technology Center

DealerNet

Precision Agriculture Messages
This is a "Precision farming and Ag Computing" web site discusion group co-sponsored by the Association of Agricultural Computing Companies (AACC) and ag/INNOVATOR newsletter. Questions are being posed by farmers and answered by AACC technical experts and other farmers.

Worldwide Agricultural Public Relations & Mareting Services
This site is known as "The Gateway to AgInfo on the Internet".

Nebraska Games and Parks Commission

From Librarian to TeAchnician

Administrators agree: library media centers are being transformed from static repositories of resources into dynamic information technology centers. Visit this site to discover the path LMS's are taking in their evolution to Teachnicians. Created by Janet Murray, an active LMS at Kinnick High School in Japan.

Learning Spaces in the NetWorlds of Tomorrow

Take a peek into Margaret Riel's crystal ball, and you'll see virtual learning environments built on the latest Internet technologies. Visit Web sites that could provide the foundation for the next generation of virtual teaching and learning tools.

National School Network Exchange

The NSN Exhange hosts the collected contributions of many "wired" educators and organizations. It features links to collaborative projects, telementoring opportunities, Net Curriculum, and research.

NEA: Teaching. Learning, and Technology

The NEA shines its spotlight on forward-looking schools and individuals at this rich site. You'll discover links to educational destinations as posted and maintained by your peers, an interactive message board, and upcoming technology events.

Online Study Groups

Many schools maintain online forums for their students to paricipate in virtual study groups. How do they organize, develop, and then maintain these groups? Use the information at this site to set study goals, deal with time issues, and facilitate on-going interaction.

School Web Sites: What's on the Menu?

Researcher Carl Carlson is on a mission to make your Web site the best it can be. His pilot study of the current spate of school Web sites shows that "whatever the numbers, a tour of these sites leaves the impression that they are mostly inadequate or counterproductive, with a lot of time, energy, and, in some cases, money downright wasted." Learn how to evaluate and fix the problems on your school Web site here.

State Departments of Education

Looking for links to details about your state's technology initiatives, programs, and resources? Click on the interactive map found here to connect to the technology pages of all 50 U.S. state department's of education.

State Technology Plans

Virtually every state has a technology plan on the books. Access this central Web site to explore these documents as they're publishing online. Many are available in PDF (Acrobat) format for easy download and review.

Technology Trade-Offs

What will investments in the latest online technology achieve in your district? Professors Frederick Hess and Robert McNergney urge school leaders to look beyond the Internet hype and "start thinking about the trade-offs implicit in those decisions and how those trade-offs are shaped by the local context."