How Tech4Learning can help you meet the requirements of the Enhancing Education Through Technology Grants  

The federal government has established guidelines for how Enhancing Education Through Technology grant funds are to be spend in order to improve student performance. Tech4Learning can help you meet these guides:

Increasing accessibility to technology

Using technology to promote parental involvement and foster communication among students, parents, and teachers

Acquiring connectivity linkages, resources, and services for use by students

MediaBlender, a web-based multimedia authoring tool allows you to deliver an authoring tool to your students wherever they are. You can encourage a home and school connection by having students begin their projects at school, and then continue working and sharing class work at home. A license for MediaBlender on your school computers gives students access to the software online. This allows students to author projects from any computer connected to the Internet, without ever having to install the software, helping schools break down the barriers of computer accessibility and the digital divide.

This process of building and sharing multimedia projects with classes, family and the community requires students to transform information into dimensional representations, determine what is important and what is not, segment information into nodes, and decide how to represent ideas.

Expanding applications of technology to enable teachers to increase student academic achievement, including technology literacy, through teaching practices that are based on the review of relevant research

Implementing proven and effective courses and curricula that include integrated technology

Preparing one or more teachers in schools as technology leaders who will assist other teachers

ProjectLearn is a research-based resource for using a project approach to integrating technology into the curriculum. This subscription web site provides insights into the process of developing successful technology-infused classroom projects, making it an indispensable resource for integrating technology in the classroom.

ProjectLearn is the perfect resource for both classroom educators and staff development professionals.  ProjectLearn provides educators with an outlined process they can use to implement successful technology projects, instructional strategies and coaching techniques, reproducible worksheets, and assessment ideas and templates.  ProjectLearn helps districts create professional development opportunities that immerse educators in the student learning environment, encourage future technology exploration and are customized training to meet individual learning goals.

Preparing one or more teachers in schools as technology leaders who will assist other teachers

Developing, enhancing, or implementing information technology courses.

The Recipes4Success help schools and districts create a customized on-site technology professional development library. With print and digital training materials for all of the most popular software tools used in schools today, the Recipes4Success help schools address the learning styles of your entire faculty. 

Designed specifically for educators, the Recipes4Success provide technology skills in the context of a classroom project, providing a rich, meaningful and relevant learning experience. Learning technology skills in a classroom context provides a "why" for every skill learned. Users see the application of the technology at the same time they learn the skills needed to make that technology effective in the classroom.