Central Illinois
Classroom Robotics Consortium
July 15, 2009
Links & Books of Interest
Organizations
- Robo Development
- First
- RoboCup
- Robots.Net
- Robotics Education Project
Robotic Kits
- LEGO Engineering
- Domabotics
- LEGO Educational Division homepage
- RoboLab homepage
- Pico Cricket
Academic Resources
- Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy
- Robotics Curriculum Clearinghouse
- University of Alberta
- Marshall University
- Sample RoboLab Programs
Girls and Engineering
- Engineer Your Life
- Engineer Girl
- Women’s Work in Science and Technology, Virtual Library
Other Web Resourses
- LEGO Mindstorms NXT Blog
- Robotics
- The Robot Hall of Fame
- Robot
- Apple Education RoboLab
- Robotics Collaborative Project, Canada
The TELUS Learning Connection and Canada’s SchoolNet Grassroots
Program Collaborative Project - Robotics and Learning: Designing and
Building with LEGO
- Review of Children’s Software (Monthly, subscription)
Books
- The Robotics Primer (Maja J. Mataric)
- The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build
(James Floyd Kelly)
- The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build
(Fay Rhodes)
- LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders: Ten Inventions to Spark
Your Imagination
- Advanced NXT: The Da Vinci Inventions Book (Matthias Paul Scholz)
- Classroom Robotics: Case Stories of 21st Century) (Kathleen P King and
Mark Gura)
- Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood
Classroom (Marina Bers)
- Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning)(Allison Druin
& James Hendler)
- 10 Cool LEGO Mindstorms Ultimate Builder Projects: Amazing Projects
You Can Build in Under an Hour
- The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo!: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Building
Animals with the NXT Robotics System