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Quick index: Week 1 ; Week 2 ; Week 3 ; Week 4 ; Week 5; Weeks 6-8 ;General
In terms of pace, overall, each step will require 8 or 9 hours of activity (a week's worth of homework), but those hours may be spread out over many weeks. The last step for larger grants can require activity spread out over several weeks.
- Create a web page(s) to log your Professional Contact Time and log of course activities.
- Maintain a course notebook including documentation indicated in the syllabus and at each step.
Complete a grant concept paper(s)with budget(s). Steps 1. - 5.
Each concept paper must receive the instructor's signature before proceeding to the next step.Complete and submit a grant proposal(s) to a funding agency. Steps 6-11.
Upon completion of the course, hand in your grant proposal(s) within your course notebook. It is required that the submission requirements for your grants be included with the finished grant proposals.
Issues are used to define more specific needs which then require specific resources to address them. This in turn provides the foundation for draft grant proposals. So what are the major issues?
- What are the major educational needs as seen from the national perspective? Read and research relevant educational literature, including an examination of ERIC for relevant information. These views greatly influence the way in which grant agencies distribute funds. The most recent report on the state of education has just been released as of June 1 by the Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
- Examine and study
National Trends The Condition of Education Reports, focusing on the latest release, June 1, 2004. "The Condition of Education 2004 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report, which is required by law, is an indicator report intended for a general audience of readers who are interested in education. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. The 2003 print edition includes 44 indicators in six main areas." To examine and study does not mean to read every word but to skim for areas and interest and relevance and then focus to read for more detail on relevant sections.
State Technology Trends Visit and study e-NC.org for current issues.
- In the post your response elements below, click on the link, and Post a Reply using the empty boxes provided. Ignore the team name request by leaving it blank. To learn more about how to use this system, note the help links in the left margin of the page. Return to these same in links after you have posted your response to read the comments of other course participants.
- 1. Post your response. Based on your study of the Federal publication titled The Conditions of Education 2004, which of the 44 indicators are most germane to the needs of your school district and why?
- 2. Post your response. Based on your other readings and research, what are any other most significant issues on the state, national or international scene that are germane to the needs of your school district?
- What are the major information technology needs of your institution as seen from the perspective of the lead educators (teachers and administrators)? Over the next week or so, visit by phone or in person and in every other way you can think of to determine the overall information technology needs of your institution and their relationship to questions 1 and 2.
If there are recent documents, white papers or published summaries, collect and read them and add them to your grant notebook.
Your postings and responses from week 1 indicate a need for greater detail about your educational technology systems. Complete the 20 question survey immediately as a kind of first draft response, then reconsider the questions and let's debate which questions you would delete, add or modify to make a 20 item survey for your school building or district. These steps and our conclusions will be extended in future assignments and used to make decisions about how best to write grant proposals that best direct grant resources. The survey is a modification of the survey found in an excellent book by Lawrence A. Tomei. (Tomei, Lawrence A. (2002). The Technology Facade: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Instructional Technology. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.)
My intent in this survey is to provide ideas for formative development, and not for the purposes of summative evaluation and comparison with different school districts or buildings for which more careful quantifying in the questions and items would be needed. You will be asked to answer questions that require you to summarize information based on the best knowledge that you have at this time. Though you might want to call some school building or district people to ask for more detail, this is your survey, not a survey that you should distribute to others to complete at this time. A future survey may need to be completed by a large number of teachers and administrators in a school building or across the entire school district to better increase the odds of successfully receiving a grant.
Read the survey. Note the links to additional explanatory information. Skim or read those in-survey links depending on how well you know the information on those pages and watch carefully to make sure that you reached the end of the article or web page.
4. Post your response. What questions do you have about completing any element of the survey or which areas require further explanation? Multiple postings are fine.
Print it out and complete it. Then open the survey in Netscape Composer and using this editor, insert the numbers for each question and complete the analysis at the end. Do not enter any data in the colored cells. Save this file by the file name of lastnamesurvey1.html or for me that would look like houghtonsurvey1.html and send this survey file to me as an email attachment. Keep your print out as I hope to have an online database running to receive this data but it is still not working at this time.
5. Post your response. What questions would you modify, add, or delete for a 20 question survey of educational technology for your educational setting? Multiple postings are fine.
6. Post your response. How would you change the scoring analysis at the end of the survey to summarize the overall development of a school's educational technology program? Multiple postings are fine.
7. Post your response. Noting
your school's greatest educational technology development based on your
survey data, what national education themes raised in week one's study
would pair best with which of your greatest educational technology needs?
Multiple postings are fine.
See this separate web page for weeks
6-8 assignments.