WWW Links
The WWW now contains BILLIONS of pages of information and it continues to grow at an astounding rate. The GOOGLE search engine has made it significantly easier to locate and refine searches on the WWW for all types of relevant information.
We have identified a select group of WWW resources that we have found to be useful in our work, and post them here for your convenience and consideration.
- Career & Workforce Readiness
- Health & Medical Careers
- Innovation & Invention
- 21st Century Technology
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- Connecticut Career Choices CCC is a Connecticut Office for Workforce Competitiveness initiative focused on the development of curriculum that can be adapted to any type of high school within the state. CCC, with support from the Connecticut Regional Educational Service Centers, CCC partners, and other resources, has developed industry standards-based curriculum and experiential learning opportunities that are the groundwork for a Connecticut workforce ready to meet the demands of 21st-century careers.
- Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing addresses the need for highly skilled workers in the new manufacturing workplace by building programs that provide resources to educators and students interested in learning new technologies in manufacturing. The center is funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education Program and is directed by the Connecticut College of Technology (COT), a virtual organization representing technology curriculum geared toward engineering and technician training offered at Connecticut’s 12 community colleges.
- Educators’ Website for Information Technology The Educators’ Website for Information Technology (EWIT) is a learning community of academic and technical educators and community-based and business partnerships. EWIT supports the innovative use of IT skills and academic standards to enhance learning and to develop IT skills for work.
- National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies NWCET is a National Science Foundation funded Advanced Technological Education IT Center. Located at the Bellevue Community College campus, NWCET’s vision is to be a national leader in developing innovative IT educational programs and tools that prepare the 21st-century workforce.
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique alliance of education, business, and government leaders working to fully address the education needs and challenges of work and life in the 21st century.
Career and Workforce Readiness
- National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education The National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education is a national partnership of individuals and organizations with a vested interest in health science and technology education. Visit this site for more information on the National Health and Medical Science workforce standards and curriculum materials.
Health and Medical Careers
- Creative Think Visit the site of author and creativity consultant Roger von Oech for a creative “Whack on the Side of the Head.”
- Design Engine Check out this comprehensive designers’ resource. Design Engine, Inc. is composed of designers and programmers who are interested, quite simply, in design. They are based out of Chicago with affiliates around the world. DESIGN-ENGINE.COM is a resource for industrial designers to write and publish their ideas. Their target audience is not only ID students, professional Industrial Designers, and Mechanical Engineers, but anyone interested in design.
- Ideo: The Masters of Industrial Design IDEO is an award-winning design company that has created revolutionary designs like the original computer mouse! Visit this site to see examples from a professional product design portfolio.
- U.S. Patent Tracking Office This is the official database of the US Patents Office that contains every patent ever filed, abstracts describing the patent, and relevant invention information related to the teachings and art in the invention. Also contained on this site are search engines for finding trademarks filed.
- 21st Century Careers Hot Jobs As a leader in the online recruiting industry, Yahoo! HotJobs has revolutionized the way people manage their careers and the way companies hire talent. Its tools and advice put job seekers in control of their careers and make it easier and more cost-effective for employers and staffing firms to find qualified candidates. Students and teachers will find many of the features of this site useful for their classroom or career search.
- Mind Tools! The mission of Mind Tools is to help people starting their careers understand the essential skills and techniques that will help them to excel, whatever the chosen profession.
- Monster Technology Visit the premier Web site for anyone interested in a technology-focused career in the 21st century. You’ll find lots of valuable tools, resources, and information for your career education class or your own job search!
Innovation and Invention
- IBM Research Labs Online IBM worldwide research labs work in all areas of information technology, from physics and cognitive science to leading-edge application research. They invent innovative materials and structures and use them to create exciting machine designs and architectures. They create tools and technologies that enable the continued evolution of computing.
- KurzweilAI.net KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today’s big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas. Founder Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, author, MIT Professor, and recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation’s highest honor in technology.
- MIT Technology Review You don’t have to subscribe to the MIT Technology Review magazine to get access to the magazines article and technology news. Visit the Web site to stay on top of emerging technologies and business innovations.
- Pew Internet & American Life The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, healthcare, and civic and political life. The project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.