The following four departments are offered as a service to our readers. Items for inclusion in these departments are solicited from the field.

DATABASE

a review of new books and other educational media for use by technology educators. (Black and white photo of cover plus review copy needed)

RESOURCE CENTER and MULTIMEDIA & SOFTWARE

a review of new products of interest to technology teachers and their students. (Black and white or color photo, slide, or separations no larger than 2"x2" needed, plus descriptive paragraph)

SCAN

a calendar of upcoming events of interest to teachers of technology, design, science and related subjects. (Title of event, sponsor, date, location, contact person and telephone number needed)

NEWS FROM THE FIELD

a review of achievements and breakthroughs that are interesting to students, current, and good conversation-starters for the classroom.

ORGANIZATION OF ARTICLES

1. Title, catchy;
2. Subheading, elaborating on title or explaining subject;
3. Byline, without honorifics;
4. Author data, one line explaining who the author is;
5. Introduction of 50-75 words which put the article in context or explain its significance to the reader;
6. Body of the article, which should be organized into major topics and sub-topics; major topics will be preceded by a major heading, sub-topics by a sub-heading, with no limit to the number of paragraphs within a topic section.
7. Summary/conclusion, one paragraph
8. Design briefs, either several short design challenges or one longer or more elaborate challenge. A design brief should include a short problem/situation statement, a challenge to action (e.g.: "Design a product which will..." Develop a solution for...", "Model a..." ,"Can you discover, assemble, construct, depict...?") which is somewhat to entirely open-ended.

PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

Call us (609) 771-3332 and discuss your potential article. We plan our editorial calendar up to 18 months in advance, and in the interest of balance, may not be able to accommodate all topics. If this is the case, we may be able to steer you to another publication.

If we agree that a topic is timely and appropriate, we'll tell you about our deadlines and ask you to submit a short outline of the article you'd like to write. We'll also stress the need to follow our guidelines.

We'll work with you to meet deadlines and help with editing and acquisition of illustrations in an attempt to publish your article as scheduled. We must reserve the right to change schedules if circumstances require it.

Unsolicited articles are reviewed by the ties editorial staff. If necessary they are sent out for review to subject experts. Juried articles are printed from time to time in ties, after approval from our Editorial Advisory Committee.