Greenhouse Project

Students will be placed in teams for the Greenhouse project. Each team will be required to design their own greenhouse or raise money to purchase a greenhouse. The project will continue throughout the school year. The first two steps to the project are to set up a Web page and design your greenhouse. Each team will create their own webpage to document their progress and record scientific data on the environment they will create. Below is a list of Websites that will get you started with this project. Please contact me, Mrs. Angie, with your team Webpage URL as soon as you have established your site. This is a work in progress which will be discussed in the classroom. In addition, I am available via email for all questions or comments. Happy designing!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Funding Your Technology Dream



One of the difficulties which presents itself to teachers as they consider the transition from the textbook to technology integration is the lack of available funds. Cavanaugh and Blomeyer suggest the most critical recommendation for technology integration is "partner, partner, partner" (Cavanaugh, Blomeyer, 2007, p. 44). They believe it is essential to identify multiple partners and organizations that can assists in technology integration. The key component is funding.

Click on the money in hand to preview possible funding sources.


If you had the opportunity to incorporate any of the new technology you have discovered through your masters program list the first thing you would choose to integrate and why? Then list one possible source for funding. Your source for funding should be based on other evidence that funds have been contributed in the past, please include a link to this source. As you respond to your peers responses consider if the technology chosen by your peers would be beneficial in your classroom why or why not?