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New Technology Integration Grants for 2008

We now have two groups of technlogy integration grants that the Technology Services Department is sponsoring.  The first group of 12 teachers from schools accross the district have been awarded laptops and are attending 10 trainings designed to take them from the beginning levels of technology use and curricular itegration to more advanced levels.  Check out our staff develpment Workshop page to see descriptions of the classes.

Then trainings for the next round of grants will begin in April for our Digital Storytelling group.  This group of 12 teachers will be awarded digital cameras and have the opportunity to attend image manipulation and digital storytelling classes.  They will revceive training and support as they implement digital storytelling projects with their students. One of the main goals of this grant is to keep technology project based learning opportunites going in our district.  If you have any questions about these grants contact Dan Weiser, Instructional technology Coordinator at (831) 786-2129.

Technology Integration Grants from 06/07

These grants are in their second year of implementation.   Teachers continue to implement great technology based projects with their students with the support of the Technology Services Department. As these teachers attend trainings and get coaching from their Technology Liaison and other district staff, they make great strides while keeping technology project based learning alive in our district.

Grant Orientation Meeting Agenda

 

Grant Implementation Meeting Agenda

 

Grant Winners

School	Project	Teachers
Lakeview	Participatory Action Research	Linda Kusanovich/Gina Rodriguez
PV High	Developing Environmental Stewardship Across Content Areas	Genevieve Goldstien/Rich Moran
Aptos Jr.	From Colas to Coasters	Susan Chollar/Nicole Silva
Rio Del Mar	Digital Newspaper-Past and Present	Linden McNeilly/Jeff Bryant
Radcliff	The Math Downtown	Gerardo Palafox/Susan Tabrah
Ann Soldo	Social Studies & Literacy Project	Danielle Cruz/Jamie Marks

 

 

Download the full grant description in Word format pdf format

Download the grant application template in Word format Grant flyer

Download the project scoring rubric in Word format pdf format

 

Grant Description:

Teacher Pairs with a common standards based curricular need in their classroom will work together to write a project based technology proposal. The proposal will explain how they will use technology to meet the identified need in their classroom.  All Projects should have an ELD component and incorporate academic language. Six project proposals will be selected to receive this grant.  The six pairs that are selected will receive a cart with an LCD projector, 2 laptops, 2 digital cameras, and 1 digital video camera.  Two technology packages will be awarded per zone, one in elementary and one secondary.

 

Technology Project Design Resources:

http://www97.intel.com/en/ProjectDesign/Design/

The Intel Education-Designing Effective Projects site has some detailed project design information as well as some sample project-based units.

 

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/edproj.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators-Educational Projects and Internet Integration site on the discovery school web site has a lot of great resources that connect students with experts in various fields.

 

http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/index.html

The Project Based Learning with Multimedia has a lot of great resources to help teachers develop and assess teacher generated multimedia projects.