Budget: Include a detailed budget with an entry for each significant budget item, including, but not limited to, software, hardware, student labor, travel, and conference registration fees.
We facilitate by providing the curriculum, classroom framework, hardware, student recruiting and volunteer training.
Idaho is going beyond what other states have done in decreeing what hardware students and teachers should use and how they should use it.
David Garner: Hardware (students and teachers with wireless MacBooks and iPads) and software allow for more variety in working and learning styles, and place vastly more resources at everyone's fingertips.
"In the first years, we spent this money on hardware and students," Minsky told me.
That is because schools are increasingly providing some sort of hardware to students, she said.
He thought they presented an advance over earlier classroom technology, which he said had focused on providing hardware to students (desktop computers, laptops and printers, for example), or helping teachers deliver lessons ("smart boards" and projectors).
"The BSF money would have been spent almost entirely on upgrading some of the servers and a substantial amount of software and hardware for students and staff, such as handheld technologies," says head Ian Andain.
Beyond merely supplying hardware to students and teachers, the start of the academic year also entails choosing the best learning tools that will help students, parents and teachers have a productive and enjoyable learning experience.
"[Educational services staff] are focusing on grades four to eight, to focus on technology and get kids more literate in all aspects". In Glendale Unified, Frank Schlueter, director of education technology and information services, said the $171,000 will either provide new hardware for students, staff development or training for parents to access academic information through the Web.
Using materials from a hardware store, the students built and tested an effective platform to make their data collection possible.
