Grant+Writing

1. **Goal Alignment to the Illinois Learning Standards:** 4.B.3a ** Deliver planned oral presentations, using language and vocabulary appropriate to the purpose, message and audience; provide details and supporting information that clarify main ideas; and use visual aids and contemporary technology as support. 1.B.2d ** Read age-appropriate material aloud with fluency and accuracy.
 * 4.A.1d ** Use visually oriented and auditorily based media.

2. **Improving Academic Achievement:** The Ipod Touch will be used for: - skill reinforcement in math, reading, science, and hand writing etc. -monitor reading fluency and expression. -used as a clicker in sites such as poll everywhere for assessment purposes.

3. **Curricula and Teaching Strategies that Integrate Technology:** To promote differentiation, the Ipod could be used for: - centers (listening, podcasting, reading fluency etc.). -Different Apps. and quizzes can be used as assessment tools for each of the subject areas. -With different applications and tools on the Ipod, students have access to a variety of ways to demonstrate their learning or present their learning on a topic.

4. **Improving teacher effectiveness:** By providing in person professional development opportunities and using video podcast on the actual Ipod, teachers could learn to use and implement these tools in the classroom. .

5. **Innovative Delivery Strategies:** The use of the Ipod supports innovative delivery strategies because it uses distance learning through podcasts that can be used anywhere (home or school).

Teachers or students would have the opportunity to become familiar with the apps. on the Ipod. They could view or listen to pre-made podcasts for further learning, and then create their own, using the knowledge they have gained.
 * 6. Integration of Technology with Curricula and Instruction:**

The teachers will first need to learn how to use the Ipods and apps.
 * 7. Professional Development:**

8. **Parental Involvement and Collaboration with Adult Literacy Service Providers:** By uploading student projects, parents are able to comment and view the work that their children are doing in class. Students who are absent can "catch up" on work by viewing/downloading podcasts that are done in class.

9. **Increased Accessibility:** Any of the apps./projects that are on the Ipod can be accessed at home, even without a computer or the internet.

10. **Technology Type and Cost:** 700 Ipods at $300 each will be $210,000 200 microphones at $14 each will be $2,800 20 apps per student at $.99 for 700 students will be $14,000 20 Macbooks (one for each class) at $1,000 each will be $20,000 Half day PD for 20 teachers for 8 months $8,000 Extended Warranties and Up keep $45,200 Total: $300,000