Career Information for LKSD High School Students

Compiled by Frank Odasz for Cliff Andrews and the Lower Koskokwim School District

Some links will have changed. Major career resource updates are underway: April 1st, 2009.
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com your site corrections and additions.

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.