Career Information for LKSD High School Students

Compiled by Frank Odasz for Cliff Andrews 1/25/02
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com

The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
http://wings.avkids.com
Select beginner, intermediate or advanced reading level
See also lesson levels at http://wings.avkids.com/Curriculums/Aerodynamics/index.html

Allstar Network
 http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/history1c.htm
Aeronautics learning laboratory for Science, Technology and Research

Aeronautics Hot Links
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/links.htm

Lone Eagle Hotlist of Mentoring Programs
http://lone-eagles.com/mentor.htm   and I've just updated it with some new
Judi Harris resources and several great listings of mentoring resources.

Lone Eagle new project-based learning resources
http://lone-eagles.com/pbl.htm  
Includes a master listing from the George Lucas Foundation. They have a free print
newsletter I highly recommend called the GLEF Blast.  www.glef.org

Mentoring Resources
http://www.ppv.org/content/reports/mentoringrecruiting.htm

Recruiting Mentors
http://www.ppv.org/
Public/private ventures. Articles for youth and workforce development education
See also http://www.ppv.org/content/reports/mentoringtraining.htm

Training Mentors
http://www.ppv.org/content/reports/mentoringsupport.htm

Supporting Mentorships
http://www.ppv.org/content/reports/mentoringrelationships.htm

Assessment Tools
http://www.jobweb.com/catapult/assess.htm

Careerkey
www.ncsu.edu/careerkey/

Job Search Sites
http://www.jobweb.com/resources/favorites.htm

Job Outlook 2002
http://www.jobweb.com/joboutlook/default.cfm

Salaries for College Graduates
http://www.jobweb.com/employ/salary/01springss.htm

Online Career Fair
http://www.jobweb.com/employer/matrix/wells_fargo.htm

Family and Consumer Sciences
http://testext.usu.edu/coop/marriage/more/more.htm Marriage

Related Links to Marriage
http://testext.usu.edu/coop/marriage/links/links.htm

Clear Network
http://www.dmtcalaska.org/cpath/index.html
K-6 integrated career lessons

Occupational Handbook
www.bls.gov/oco/oco1008.htm

Project Based Learning
http://breakingranks.org/whatworks/pbl.taf?_function=detail&layout_0_uid1=23&_UserReference=91F3399D41E66509BF1BC0CB

Integrated Career Lessons from Utah
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/tlc/integrated.html

Core Career Connections K-6, 7&8(UTAH)
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/stc/ccc.html

Netscape Find the Job
http://home.netscape.com/business/packages/jobhunting/findthejob.html

Professional Development: Learning from the Best
NCREL Toolkit http://www.ncrel.org/pd/toolkit.htm
To help districts and schools plan and evaluate professional development

enGauge from NCREL
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge
To help districts and schools plan and evaluate the system-wide use of educational technology

Profiler from High Plains RTEC
http://profiler.scrtec.org
To improve teacher/student collaboration to improve technology skills

Technology Project Evaluation Instrument from SEIR*TEC
and the North Carolina Dept of Public Instruction
http://www.seirtec.org/eval.html
Created to assess Technology Literacy Challenge Grant projects but also applicable to assessing district technology programs.

Star Chart from the CEO Forum on Education and Technology
http://www.ceoforum.org/starchart.cfm
Provides benchmarks against which K-12 schools and colleges can assess and track their progress in technology integration.

Learning with Technology Profile Tool from NCRTEC
http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profwww.htm
Helps teachers rethink both their general teaching practices and their approach to technology uses.

Professional Competency Continuum and the PCC Assessment Tool
http://www.mff.org/publications/publications.taf?page=58
The assessment tools helps educators assess their status along a professional competency continuum (PCC). The PCC represents research- and classroom-tested approaches to deveoping the skills in teachers and administrators necessary for effective integration of technology in learning.

 

University of Kansas Community Tool Box
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/tb-toc1.html  
Includes a "troubleshooting guide" to improve effectiveness in community
action:  http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/assistance/MegaTools/Trouble  

The Benton foundation has a toolkit http://www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit/
and a listserv offering "Toolkit updates." See also http://benton.org and http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org  

The Children's Partnership Foundation has created a couple toolkits
http://www.childrenspartnership.org   such as their Young Americans Toolkit
http://www.childrenspartnership.org/youngamericans/index.html

Digital Divide Sites likely to have career listings:
AOL's http://helping.org  

American Connects Consortium
www.americaconnects.org

Lone Eagle Hotlists of Career information listings
http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks2.htm  

Ecommerce Start-up Training Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks.htm
Note the youth entrepreneurship resources.

The Digital Equity Toolkit
www.nici-mc2.org/de_toolkit  
The National Institute for Community Innovations (NICI) wishes to share
with you  a free resource for increasing digital equity. The Digital Equity Toolkit is a
guide for educators who want to integrate e-mail and the Internet into their classroom
or project.

Community Development Toolbox
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~lced/toolbox/

Youthlearn Resources and Guide
http://www.youthlearn.org 
Just announced a great new "YouthLearn Guide - A creative approach
to working with youth and technology" to creating after school technology
programs, many resources of interest to youth can be found here, too.