Tech+grant

NYSCATE will award grants of up to $2500 each to NYSCATE members for a project consistent with the NYSCATE Mission Statement as well as the NY State Learning Standards and the NETS Standards.

Application Guidelines

1. Grant applications should contain this page as a cover, the abstract and project description page. Additional sheets can be included up to a maximum of two pages. The project description must address the items on the following page. These forms must be typed or word-processed with original signatures on at least one copy. Six copies of the grant application must be mailed (one with original signature).

2. All applicants **//__must__//** be current NYSCATE members, please include membership # if you have it. Membership application and payment may accompany the application. Membership application is available on the NYSCATE website ([|http://www.nyscate.org]).

3. Return the **//__six copies and one original__//** completed signed application forms, and all other supporting documents, postmarked no later than April 30, 2007 to:

NYSCATE 2007 Grant Program Sarah Martabano 30 Old Farm Road South Salem, NY 10590 (914) 299-7483

Send the completed application electronically to: smartabano@optonline.net


 * 1) A e-mail submission will be allowed on the deadline date, but must be followed by mailing of an official application with signatures.


 * 1) Questions may be directed to Sarah Martabano at 914-592-4203 ext. 411 or smartabano@lhric.org.

Applicant Information
Name: _____Virginia Killmore_____________________ NYSCATE Member #_______ Email Address: Vkillmore@tully.k12.ny.us____________________________ 1 Home x Work Home Address: 4168 Bussey Rd, Syracuse NY 13215____________________________ Home Phone: 315-492-4576________________________________________________ Position: Art Teacher_______________________________________________________ Applicant Signature: _______________________________________________________ Project Title: Students become the Educators____________________________________ School or District: Tully Jr. Sr. High School_______________________________________ Street Address: PO Box 628 Rt 80___________________________________________ Town/City, Zip ______Tully NY 13215______________________________________________ School Phone: 315 696 6235_______________________________________________ Principal/Supervisor Name: Mr. Cardamone_____________________________________ Principal/Supervisor Signature:_______________________________________________ Project Abstract and Description Page
 * NYSCATE Grant Application**

(Attach up to two additional pages if necessary.) This project entails using technology to create a “Digital Darkroom” for a high school that due to its size and staffing situations would be unable to have a photography curriculum without computers. In addition students will use there new found skills in technology and digital photography to share with the greater community how to create photography using a “digital darkroom”. The beauty of this process is that instead of having yet another test to prove student assessment; Assessment will take place by creating a workshop where students are demonstrating knowledge and application of learned information by teaching it to community members using the same digital darkroom the grant creates!
 * Project Title: “Students Become the Educators  as an alternative assessment Tool”**
 * Grant Writer(s): Virginia Killmore**
 * School/District: Tully jr. Sr. High School**
 * Project Abstract:**

The Tully Central School District is located in rural Upstate New York, about 15 miles south of Syracuse. The school district services an area of 82 square miles and a district population of about 6,500. District enrollment is 1,250 students. Ours is a rural district within which dairy farms, apple orchards, row-crop agriculture, and small woodlot forestry are very prevalent. There are many large, active farms and dairy operations within the district, and agriculture in general is a part of the daily life in the community. The High school presently has one fulltime Art teacher teaching art at the upper levels. Technology plays an important role in maximizing her efforts and allowing students to have a variety of experiences in the art room. Having graphic intensive computers in the art classroom would allow more students access thereby multiplying the effect for more students. The ease and the accessibility of digital photography have created an explosion in digital media. Smaller school districts that could not afford a photography program can now with new technology run a photography program with a few computers and photography software. Utilizing Digital technology and creating a photography program that would only be available at larger school district. This program would give students access to digital media lacking in smaller school districts. Tully students are eager to enter the digital age but the art room needs specific computers to make this happen.
 * Project Description:**
 * Tully** **School District**

The community greatly supports the athletic programs in the district and has a strong interest in what happens at the school. If art students have graphic intensive computers they would be able to create workshops for community members that would enrich the greater community. Art students generally go unrecognized because of the process of making art; community involvement will showcase their talents and learned skills. In a day and age of constant testing and accountability another test is the last thing students want or need. Assessment of learned knowledge can take many forms. The workshop creates an alternative assessment process that enriches not only the student but also the community at large and allows students to experience first hand the joys of teaching and show case their new found skills.
 * Process/Timeline**
 * 1) Purchase of graphic intensive computers will create a “digital darkroom” for the Tully Jr. Sr. High school.
 * 2) School will provide software and tech support as well as Digital photography instruction for students.
 * 3) Grant will allow students at Tully Jr. Sr. High school to take classes in digital photography during the 2007-2008 school year. //NETS1,3,6//
 * 4) Students will learn how to “process digital film” using computer technology.
 * 5) Students will create Photos from with skills learned from computer technology.
 * 6) As part of the course student assessment will take place in the last 3 weeks of the course. Students will teach the digital technology they learned as part of class assessment. They will create a lesson to teach at a community workshop on Digital photography and familiarize community with a “digital darkroom”. //NETS 3,4,6//
 * 7) Student lessons will be recorded digitally and down loaded to the web for future reference by community members creating a permanent record of student assessment. //NETS 3//
 * 8) Teacher will work with other teachers in the district to share technology for recording lessons and uploading them on the web so that technology is shared.
 * 9) Community members will be invited via the web and ads the students will create in the school newspaper to take mini workshops on digital photography. //NETS 3//
 * 10) Teacher will facilitate the workshop in part to facilitate process but also to serve as the assessor of student skill level as well as digital vocabulary//.//
 * 11) An art show in the spring will showcase both student and community members’ photography created using computers purchased with grant.
 * NYSCATE Grant Application**
 * Budget Worksheet**

(not to exceed $2,500.00)
 * Project Title : Students Become The Educators an alternative assessment Tool”**
 * Grant Writer(s): Virginia Killmore**
 * District:: Tully Jr Sr high school**
 * Amount Requested::** $2500.00

Ram intensive computers and monitors Comp usa 3 $800.00 $2400.00 Photo paper and supplies M&Q Photo supplies 300 sheets of photo paper $100.00 $100.00
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$2500.00

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