Technology Education Resources

International Technology Education Association

The International Technology Education Association's World Wide Web Homepage in Reston, Virginia. ITEA is an educational association working on behalf of technology teachers in our schools, supervisors/administrators, and university personnel dedicated to improving our educational system.

Tech Directions Online

Tech Directions Magazine: Visit their Web site and explore the information listed below.

  • What's Up - An expanded news page with a calendar, scholarship opportunities, competitions, and developments in the field.
  • The TD Online Marketplace - Now even easier to find the vendors you need.
  • Tech-Niques Online - Frequently updated for teachers to share ideas.
  • Links to top vo-ed and tech ed sites - New links added often.
  • Tech Directions Books.

FIRST Robotics

This is the site for FIRST, the national robotics engineering design competition that teams up high school students with engineers from business and higher education in the design and construction of technologically sophiscated robots. The teams and their robots compete at regional competitions and a national championship. We have found FIRST to be a great way of promoting school-business partnerships and creating greater awareness and interest in technology education. It really turns kids on to science and technology and exposes them what the world of work is like in engineering and other technical fields.

Teaching Students to Effectively Use the Internet

An excellent site to help students evaluate information on the web. Searching and evaluating information on the internet.

School of continuing education

The UMW School of Continuing Eduction (SCE) creates innovative and accessible lifelong learning opportunities that support individual, organizational and community development through educational programming, consulting and applied research.

Technology Education at Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth¡¯s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 30,000 students and manages a research portfolio of more than $450 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia.

Scotty's Unofficial Center for Technology Education

They claim to be an ever-evolving center for Technology Education. Tech Ed has long ago evolved into a dynamic and high tech paradigm that mirrors, if not anticipates, society itself. We are applied arts, applied business, applied math and applied science. Our mandate is to provide the students of today with the tools and skills to be the leaders and change artists of the 21st century. Check out this site to see what the future of education is.


The Web sites collected on this page reflect the author's interest in the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching.


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