TEAP Online Newsletter

Dear Technology Educators & TEAP Members,

Welcome to the December edition of the TEAP-Online Newsletter! This newsletter was to be sent out before the New Year, but holiday hustle and bustle did not make that possible...

2004 TEAP Calendar & 2003 TEAP Conference Act 48 Information

The 2004 TEAP Calendar is now available at TEAP-Online filled with Technology Education events throughout the state in the coming year. If you have any important dates to add for the good of the membership, please feel free to forward them for addition to the list. Please note one event not yet added to the calendar... The PACTEC Conference will be held June 23-26th at Seven Springs.

Thanks once again to all of you who attended this years TEAP Conference. Act 48 hours for the 2003 Conference have now been uploaded to PDE. Visit https://www.tcs.ed.state.pa.us/, click on continuing education progress, and enter your SS# in the appropriate location and format, and you can view your current Continuing Education Progress.

Thanks For the Lessons...Keep 'Em Coming!

Again I would like to extend my thanks to all of the students from California University of Pennsylvania who sent a number of great Elementary Technology Education Lessons as well as to everyone else out there who was gracious enough to provide me with these great documents! If you haven't already, please consider sharing one of your lessons with other teachers by submitting them to our lesson plan email.

You can also visit http://icontechlit.enc.org for more information about the ICON Website, as well as browse their extensive list of lesson plans, including those housed at TEAP-Online.

Great Sites Online!

Below are links to some other great online resources that may be useful to you in your day to day classroom activities. If you have any suggestions to be added to this area of the newsletter each month, please forward them at your convenience...

- How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com
- West Point Bridge Design Contest http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
- NASA Facts: Space Spin-offs - http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-012-HQ.html

Yahoo! Groups

Please consider joining the TEAP-Online Yahoo-Group. This service provides it's members with the ability upload files, and chat using Yahoo chat services, as well as providing another form of communication for your the members of our association. For more information visit http://www.teap-online.org/join.htm.

If you have additional questions or items to include in the next TEAP-Online Newsletter, please email us with the subject header: TEAP-News Items. In your email, please include your name, school name, and your email address in addition to the newsworthy item. Please feel free to also send us links to useful online resources if you have any not included at TEAP-Online for the benefit of it's members! Please contact us if you no longer want to receive these newsletters.