Doesn't matter how good your educational technology ideas are, sometimes (usually) your funding is not sufficient to cover your plans. With this assignment, you will have the opportunity to write a grant for funding an actual project in your educational institution.

1. Identify a technology-based instructional project that needs funding. This could be updating your technology lab, developing a keyboarding program for your elementary grades, implenting a technology-based physics program, install an information kiosk, or ???? Look around your school and find a project.
2. The key to good grant writing is good planning. Your book has a well-designed set of preparation sheets for planning grants. (Pages 128 - 142)

These worksheets include:

• Initial Contact
• Cover Letter
• Introduction
• Needs Assessment Statement
• Goals and Objectives
• Functional Components of the Plan (admin, budget, infrastruction, etc)
• Implementation Plan (You do not have to include the attachments at the end)
3. You will use these forms to prepare for writing a grant proposal in response to an actual RFP (Request For Proposals). It is understood that varying RFPs require a variety of formats for submission, but completing these steps will provide a sufficient background for answering any RFP. Find an actual grant source and obtain their application forms and procedures. Check the Grant Resources page to find applicable RFPs.
4. Use your planning information to actually write a grant proposal satisfying your selected RFP.

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Submit:

1. The worksheets that you completed in preparation for writing this grant.
2. An electronic copy of the RFP you decided to answer.
3. The actual grant proposal that you have written in response to your selected RFP. It MUST correspond with the accompanying RFP's information requirements and format. You do not have to provide actual signatures or approval of school/district officials (although if you want to actually submit this proposal, it might save you time and effort if you talk with the administration early in the development.)
4. Zip all of your files and submit them to the Grant Proposal dropbox.
   • The preparatory document and actual grant proposal MUST BE in Microsoft Word format. (I will respond to your work using the Insert Comment utility so format is important.)
   • The RFP may be in Word or PDF formats. You may also refer to the URL at the beginning of the preparatory document if you are using one that is found on the Web. Begin your address with http:// so that it will be "hot" in MS Word.

Evaluation Rubric in .pdf

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This page was last updated by Dr. Z on 4/19/07