If technology education wishes to attract a diverse population, organizational culture must fit individual personalities, perhaps more than modeling gender, race, or ethnicity. Challenging and changing the legacy of industrial arts-era culture requires serious commitment from all. (SK)

Describes the steps of analysis, design, production, testing, and delivery/maintenance in the process of developing multimedia instructional materials for technology education. (SK)

This student learning activity explores the history and evolution of packaging technology and concerns about plastics and other packaging materials. (SK)

Provides a rationale for using modular education and discusses how it can be used in the technology education classroom. Suggests that teacher-developed materials are more useful than those developed by vendors. (JOW)

Provides ideas for technology-education teachers and students who want to publish materials electronically and are seeking avenues for designing home pages. Offers basic requirements, a glossary, and Web site design ideas. (JOW)

Looks at how a new laser machining center is being used for technology education at Ball State University. The ideas are also applicable for high school technology education. (JOW)

Discusses how students can apply the concepts from the communications component of their class with instruction in the manufacturing component. Includes goals and objectives, materials and resources, and procedures and outcomes. (Author/JOW)

Provides an example of interdisciplinary integration by identifying a variety of concepts that span disciplines based on a high school photography course. (JOW)

Describes a model curriculum project funded by the Connecticut Department of Education to develop a standards-based model curriculum using the national Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. (JOW)

Suggests that educational researchers could learn much from the instructional practices of technology educators. Indicates that there are four critical principles for enhancing learning through instruction: (1) learning in context; (2) learning from peers; (3) activity-based practice; and (4) reflective practice. (Author/JOW)

Alternative certification is a means of increasing the pool of qualified individuals to teach technology education. Potential participants include military personnel, midcareer downsized managers, and older adults. (Author)

Describes Internet and World Wide Web sites that offer information about funding opportunities for technology education. Includes information about funding agencies, research funding opportunities and administration, and useful resources for grant writers. (JOW)

A project was designed to infuse technology education into the first-grade classroom. Students learned bird identification, read fiction about birds, built bird feeders, learned about binoculars through birdwatching, and wrote a book about the experience. (JOW)

Describes the partnership between Levi Strauss & Co., the largest brand-name apparel manufacturer in the world, and Custom Clothing Technology, the developer of software to customize jeans for female customers. (JOW)

Technology educators have an obligation to keep pace with the changes taking place in materials science by changing their instructional content to provide students with the knowledge and skills in materials and processing methods that will be used in manufacturing for the 21st century. (JOW)