Industrial+Technology

=**Welcome to my Industrial Technology Page!** = = = I currently facilitate an Industrial Technology class in a middle school educational environment. There has been somme recent discussion ofmoving away from our curent modular classroom to a more traditional technology class. This page is meant to facilitate this change as well as provide information about our current lab.

My Goals:
 1. To create a collection of resources which will allows me to modify the middle school technology department as the need arises. 2. To demonstrate the importance of technology in the middle school insdustrial technology setting. 3. To develop a site which frequently provides discoveries into new and innovative technological resources for the industrial technology classroom.

Blogs:
[|Free Technology for Teachers] This blog provides some excellent information about new technology teachers can use in their classrooms.

[|The Teacher Chronicles] This blog is an excellent resource which not only contains locations of 2.0 tools, but gives insight into the integration of technology into the classroom.

[|DigiGogy] A blog about how pedagogy is moving into the digital age.


[|Moving Forward] Wiki which contains a listing of blogs by discipline.




[|Brain Pop - Technology] Technology website aimed at students.

[|Instructables] A website which provides ideas for small projects which can be made in all educational content areas, not just tech.

[|Pitsco Education] A website which provides resources for the Synergistic modules used in technology classrooms.

Web 2.0 Tools:
[|Blender] Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the **GNU General Public License**.

[|Google SketchUp] Free 3-D modeling software provided by Google.

[|Jing] Software which allows one to capture video or a digital image of their computer screen and share it instantly over the web, IM, or email.

[|Flickr] Flickr is an online collaborative tool that can be used to organize photos and videos and share them with others. [|Edublogs] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This blogging tool can be used by teachers and students to share information. Blogs can be customized and include photos, videos, and podcasts.

[|Ning] Tool which is use to create and join social networks pertaining to a specific content area or interest.

[|Picnik] Software which is used to edit digital images.

[|Podbean] Free podcast hosting.