Thursday, July 24, 2014

Business

Business Education

Colleges with Business Programs

Collegeboard.com - Use this site to find colleges that fit your criteria. It allows you to search for colleges by major, location, SAT scores, scholarships, etc. You can combine as many factors as you want in order to narrow down your search. Once you've clicked on a school you can link to its web site from there.

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search

Careers

http://www.careers-in-business.com/ - Careers in Business
This site has information on most careers in the field of business (i.e. accounting, finance, marketing...). It includes information about salaries, educational requirements, job availability, etc.

http://careers.wsj.com/ - Wall Street Journal Career Journal
This site has a few great features. You can get a salary report for just about any profession and you can look at job ads with descriptions and salaries for many careers.

http://jobstar.org/tools/career/spec-car.cfm - Career Guides
This site has great links to web sites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook
The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

http://www.careerexchange.com - Career Exchange
You can search this site by job to find detailed requirements and salary information.

If you are unable to locate information on a certain career or college through the listed sites, try using one of the following search engines and web indexes:

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

http://lii.org
http://www.nypl.org

Career and College Section (located under the window, next to Allison Corf's Memorial Garden, in the library)

Web Resources -

Department of Treasury

http://www.treasury.gov/

Social Security Online

http://www.ssa.gov/

Internal Revenue Service

http://www.irs.gov/

Occupational Outlook Handbook

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/

United States Patent Office

http://www.uspto.gov/

Business.com: The Business Search Engine - http://www.business.com

This search engine only indexes business sites. You can keyword search for product information, manufacturer web sites, and sites on the sports equipment industry. I found useful sites when I used broader terms ("sporting goods" & "athletic footwear") as well as more specific terms ("soccer shoes").

CNN Financial - http://money.cnn.com/

This site had good articles on the soccer shoe industry, ad campaigns, etc.

Advertising World - http://advertising.utexas.edu/world

This site is a web index of business topics.

Athletic Business - http://www.athleticbusiness.com/

You have to register to use some sections of this site, but I used the following two sections without registering:

The buyers guide to research was helpful for finding information on different products, brands, and companies. The industry links section was also useful.

Sporting Goods Business - http://www.sportinggoodsbusiness.com/

This site is keyword searchable and contains articles on the soccer shoe/sports equipment industries.

Web Resources - Industry Information

http://www.hoovers.com/free/ind/dir.xhtml - Hoover's Online
This database provides industry and company information. Browse by industry or keyword search by company.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/index.html - Yahoo Finance: Industry Center
Select an industry and find out about trends and companies in it. Includes articles and information on the industry from major news outlets.

http://www.sec.gov/edgar/quickedgar.htm - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Search for company filings and news updates.

http://biz.yahoo.com/p/industries.html - Yahoo Finance: Industry Summary
Compares industries to each other as well as companies within an industry.

http://virtualpet.com/industry/rdindex2.htm - Industry Research Desk
Great links to pages about specific industries and companies.

http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html- Fuld & Company
Scroll down for industry-specific web links.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook
The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information, job availability, and related statistics. Use the index to find your industry of interest.

http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm - Monthly Labor Review Online
This site contains industry projections and employment statistics.

http://stats.bls.gov/ - Bureau of Labor Statistics
Provides economic data and analysis.

French

Colleges with French Programs

This site has great links to websites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

BBC France

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/

Public Domain French Literature

http://abu.cnam.fr/

French Recipes

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/world-cuisine/europe/french/

Facts on a French Country

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Research a French Country

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

Library of Congress Country Guides

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/list.html

Resources For First Time French Speakers

http://www.travelinsurance.org/resources-for-first-time-french-speakers/

Frommer's Country Guides

http://www.frommers.com/

World History In Context - (see library databases or click the link below)

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/litc54093

Colleges with French Programs

http://www.collegeboard.org/

Available in the Campbell High School Library

Reference Books

REF 443 Oxf Oxford Hachette French Dictionary

REF 641.3 JUN Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes

French Story Collections

448 FRE French Stories/ Contes Francais Edited by Wallace Fowlie

448 LA Selected Fables/Fables choisies by Jean de La Fontaine

French Cookbooks

641.5944 BLA Simple French cooking : recipes from our mothers' kitchens Blanc, Georges, 1943-

641.5944 LOC, The cooking of France Locricchio, Matthew

641.5944 W, Cooking the French way : revised and expanded to include new low-fat and vegetarian recipes Waldee, Lynne Marie.

Spanish

Colleges with Spanish Programs

This site has great links to websites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

Spanish Grammar Help

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~annw/gramatica.html

The BBC site for learning foreign languages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

Spanish Food Recipes

http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/society/food/

Facts on Spanish Countries

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Search for a Spanish Country

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

Colleges with Spanish Programs

http://www.collegeboard.org/

Reference Books

REF 641.3 v.4 JUN Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World

REF 463 Col Harper Collins Spanish Dictionary

REF 463 Vox Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary Second Edition

Spanish Story Collections

468 BAR Stories from Spain by Genevieve Barlow & William N. Stivers

468 CUR La Catrina La Novela by David Curland

468 SPA Spanish Stories edited by Angel Flores

More books are being added all the time so check the library catalog

World Book Encyclopedia is also available in Spanish!

Computer Science

Colleges with Computer Science Programs

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search

Careers in Computer Science

http://www.computerscienceonline.org/ Computer Science Online

This site offers career exploration tools, and a database of schools that offer computer science education. This organization is self-funded and noncommercial.

http://computingcareers.acm.org/?page_id=8 - The Association for Computing Machinery

This site has information on most careers in the field of computer science. Broken down by four-career paths so that you can figure out where your interests lie.

http://jobstar.org/tools/career/spec-car.cfm - Career Guides
This site has great links to websites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

http://www.careerexchange.com - Career Exchange
You can search this site by job to find detailed requirements and salary information.

Search engines

http://scholar.google.com/

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

Web Indexes
http://lii.org
http://www.nypl.org

PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/

National Education Technology Standards

http://www.iste.org/STANDARDS

Computational Thinking Tool Kit

http://www.iste.org/learn/computational-thinking/ct-toolkit

History of Technology

http://www.historyoftechnology.org/

Microsoft

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training-FX101782702.aspx

Scratch

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Alice

http://www.alice.org/index.php

Basic Computer Skills

http://www.basic-computerskills.com/

The following books can be found in the library:

Internet Ethics

PROF 371.5 L Student Cheating and Plagiarism

175 BAI Cyber Ethics

For more books on internet ethics click here.

Science & Mass Media

621.38 MIT Digital Video: Moving Images and Computers

363.31 CEN Censorship

354.75 POL Policing the Internet

For more books on science and mass media click here.

Physical Education

College Programs

This site has great links to websites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

Active PE (Mrs. Szepan's class page)

http://www.activepe.com/

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

http://www.aahperd.org/

Sports Know How

http://www.sportsknowhow.com/

National Institute of Drug Abuse

http://www.drugabuse.gov/

National Institute of Mental Health

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml

National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

National Association for Health and Fitness

http://www.physicalfitness.org/

Presidential Youth Fitness Program

https://www.presidentschallenge.org/

NH Physical Fitness

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/exerciseandphysicalfitness.html

The following books can be found in the library:

Sports Health & Nutrition

362.29 D Drugs and Sports

617.1 SHR Peak Performance: Sports Nutrition

796 F Career Opportunities in the Sports Industry

For more books on sports click here.

Sports

796.04 PRO Professional Sports

796.42 HOU Winning Track & Field for Girls

796.4 FIX The Complete Book of Running

796.04 JOH Paralympic Sports Events

For more books on sports click here.

Sport Personalities

796.33 MOL Randy Moss

796.83 STR Muhammad Ali

796.939 YOU Shawn White

921 Jor Michael Jordan

For more books on sport personalities click here.

In case you were wondering...

I am backing up resources I have collected for Campbell High School over the past several years. One of the advantages of having a personal blog is that you can back up the things that are important to you, including information resources for my students.

Technology, Engineering, and Design Education

Why is technology education important?

Watch this video to get a better understanding of why technology education is an important area of study.

Colleges with Technology Programs

This site has great links to websites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges. http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information. Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

Woodworking Projects

http://americanwoodworker.com/blogs/projects/default.aspx

http://www.finewoodworking.com/woodworking-plans/

Online Design Tools

https://games.ciconline.org/coastercrafter/

http://pbskids.org/designsquad

Who is Rube Goldberg?

http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

What is a simple machine?

http://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

Technology Education Careers

http://www.teched101.com/stdnt_tecareerinfo.htm

Resources in the library

Make (online site for this magazine is here)

Fine Woodworking

For an informational blog on Construction Management click HERE

You can find articles about Vocational Education in the NY Times HERE

Family and Consumer Science

Colleges with Family and Consumer Science Programs

These are Links for Consumer Science Research

American Association for Family and Consumer Science

http://www.aafcs.org/

NH Association of Family and Consumer Science

https://www.facebook.com/NHAFCS

Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior

http://www.sneb.org/

Piaget's Stages of Child Development

http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/DLiT/2000/Piaget/stages.htm

PBS ABC's of Child Development

http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/

NH State Library: Family Resource Connection

http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/frc/

Federal Reserve Bank Education Resources

http://www.bos.frb.org/education/index.htm

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

http://www.fda.gov/

Food Safety

http://www.foodsafety.gov/

Recall Information

http://www.recalls.gov/

Consumer Product Safety Commission

http://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/

Let's Move

http://www.letsmove.gov/

Online Exhibitions (Cornell University)

From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/default.html

Not By Bread Alone: America’s Culinary Heritage
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/default.htm

Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays: Home Economists in World War I
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/meatlesswheatless/

Harvest of Freedom: The History of Kitchen Gardens in America
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/kitchengardens/

A Taste for Science: Home Economics Brings Modernity to the Kitchen
http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/scientificcookery/

International Quilt Study Center and Museum

http://www.quiltstudy.org/exhibitions/online_exhibitions/

For cookbooks, parenting and childcare books check the library catalog!

For articles your FACS teacher will love check the databases!

Health

Colleges with Health Programs

This site has great links to websites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance

http://www.aahperd.org/

Sports Know How

http://www.sportsknowhow.com/

National Institute of Drug Abuse

http://www.drugabuse.gov/

National Institute of Mental Health

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml

National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

Government Department of Health Page

http://www.hhs.gov/

United States Food and Drug Association

http://www.fda.gov/

Presidents Council on Physical Education and Health

http://www.fitness.gov/

National association for Health and Fitness

http://www.physicalfitness.org/

The following books can be found in the library:

Bullying
305.23 ODD Odd Girl Speaks Out

302.3 BUL Bullying and Hazing

For more books on bullying click here.

Drugs

362.29 GOT The Facts of Marijuana

362.29 Gra Tobacco Use

REF 349.73 TAK Taking sides: Clashing Views on Controversial legal issues

For more books on drugs click here.

Mental Illness

155.51 Bic Stress

155.9 Gid Coping with Grief and Loss

362.2 ANO Anorexia

362.2 MEN Mental Illness

616.89 L Autism

For more books on mental health click here.

STD's

362.19 Joh HIV & AIDS

616.3 MAR Hepatitis

614.54 CUR Sexually Transmitted Diseases

For more books on STD's click here.