Megan+Penfold

Megan E. Penfold Alpine Elementary, IB World School Project Proposal

This project started with an intreguing e-mail I received last year from my principal, Dede Frothinghan, about an oppertunity fo write a grant for an IWB through the M... Family Foundation. I was instantly intrigued by this as writing grants was not something that was new to me. (All teachers like getting things and not having to spend their own money on them). So, I talked to Dede about this opportunity and she said that I needed to find myself a partner in crime, as it was a partnership grant. So, off I was to find someone that was willing to spend some time to not only write a grant but to be dedicated to devoting themselves to the long journey that this would take us on. I decided it would be good to ask someone at a different grade level to join me as it would be good to have this technology offered to students at other grade levels. I then found myself a partner and together we spent the weekend writing our grant to present to Dede the following Monday morning. Much to our suprise, and with a little bit of editing help from Dede, we were granted the IWB's for each of our classrooms. Wahoo!!! Due to this wonderful opportunity being granted to us we were given the chance to interact and learn some really great tech "stuff" through the trainings we took part in. While at one of the trainings our dear friend "Bud" asked if I had signed up for cybercamp...I hadn't. Needless to say I did that afternon and that is where this journed really began.
 * Project History**

My application for Cybercamp had stated that I was going to be creating flipcharts and learning more about Active Studio to use with my IWB. However, after some reflection and conversations with colegues from my school I have decided to change my project to something completly different. I chose to make this change based on the needs of the parents and students at my school. So, now my goal for CyberCamp is to learn more about Atomic Learning and create an interactive parent/student webpage. I am hoping that this will be a benificial tool for all that use it throughout the year.
 * Purpose**

Some of the things that I have already accomplished are...
 * Already Accomplished**
 * 1) Started to create my Atomic Learning page for parents and students to use.

The things I still see that need to be done...
 * Future Tasks**
 * 1) I have a list of additional items that I would like to add to the site before the project it completed.
 * 2) CSAP information & Practice
 * 3) Homework activies and spelling activies
 * 4) Vocabulary for different subject areas
 * 5) Kids current events
 * 6) Work on adding events to the calendar
 * 7) Daily 5 resources
 * 8) Hopes, Dreams, Fears


 * Resources:**

I will need to have this together by the beginning of school, so I can implement the information in the first few weeks of school.
 * Timeline:**