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Century Link classroom technology grants available

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ipad appsThe CenturyLink Foundation and Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency are working together to award technology mini-grants to Iowa educators who are interested in fostering innovative classroom uses of digital learning tools. The goal of the CenturyLink Teachers & Technology Grant Program is to provide support to educators who wish to utilize digital technologies to foster deeper thinking and greater agency by students.

The purposes of this competitive mini-grant program are to

  • improve student learning through the innovative use of digital learning tools;
  • enhance the development of students’ deeper thinking and problem-solving skills;
  • foster greater student agency, control, and ownership of their learning; and
  • increase educators’ understanding of how to best integrate technology into student learning experiences.

All grants are to be utilized by educators to benefit students in their classrooms.   More information is available at:  http://www.centurylinktechgrants.org/about2015/

 

Also be sure to check out our 10 tips for writing a classroom technology grant.

Featured on WordPress.com Education

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Our district’s tech blog was recently listed in two articles from WordPress.com:  Create an A+ Site with WordPress.com Classrooms  & Make the Grade: Classroom WordPress Sites   I’m excited to see WordPress extend their reach into classroom/educational usage.  They’ve even added new security features to allow teachers to select certain pages/posts to be password protected, which will be helpful for classroom lists and student directories.

Our district has been a huge advocate for WordPress – as we’re not only using WordPress for our district tech blog, as our entire district website (www.wdmcs.org) is also a WordPress site.  In addition, we’re working our way through each of our fourteen schools to shift them to the usage of WordPress as well.  Check out our school web sites that are now using WordPress:  Clive Elementary, Westridge Elementary, Jordan Creek Elementary