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Find up-to-date grants and other opportunties offered by
various agencies including government and or private corporations.
For recent iEARN news, opportunties and resources click HERE and for iEARN US News Archive click HERE.
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SIGTEL ONLINE LEARNING AWARDS
Deadline: March 31, 2008
"Have you and your students been involved or are you involved in an original, online learning activity? If so, we encourage you to enter the 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Award competition. Awardees will be announced in April 2008. All awardees will receive an invitation to present their project during a web poster session at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, Texas in June/July 2008. Awardees will need to provide project information and photos for online and/or conference publications; deadlines to be provided when awardees are announced..." Read more
FILM YOUR ISSUE GLOBAL COMPETITION
Deadline: April 14, 2008
USA Today, the United Nations, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other organizations and media leaders have joined forces to engage young adults (14-24) in contributing to the public dialogue on pressing social issues using the power of the Internet and user-generated content. In its 4th year, FYI - Film Your Issue has grown into a global Internet-based competition that invites high school and college students in the United States and around the world to express themselves on pressing contemporary issues by creating and uploading short two-minute films on issues that impact them and their generation. Learn more
2008-2009 GLOBAL CITIZEN CORPS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Deadline: April 15, 2008
 The Global Citizen Corps is a national network of high school student leaders who educate and mobilize their schools and communities to fight global poverty. Every year, Mercy Corps selects 200 Global Citizen Corps Leaders to gain the knowledge and skills to become effective anti-poverty experts through in-person and online trainings. Throughout the year, Global Citizen Corps Leaders organize Global Action Days to inform and inspire their classmates to take action on poverty and related issues like hunger, HIV/AIDS, climate change and access to education. Learn more
May 2008
TOYOTA INTERNATIONAL TEACHER PROGRAMS: GALAPAGOS PROGRAM
Deadline: MAY 9, 2008
The Toyota International Teacher Programs are fully-funded, short-term international professional development opportunities for teachers. Educators of different disciplines, grades and backgrounds are selected to travel together, study program themes, and bring these experiences home to their classrooms. The Galapagos Program is a 12-day study program from November 22 – December 6, 2008 geared toward international and environmental study. Participants work together to create an interdisciplinary environmental lesson that is shared with teachers on the Galapagos Islands. Applications for the 2008 program are available now. Learn more or email toyotateach@iie.org
ONGOING (NO DEADLINE)
FULBRIGHT CENTER IN NETHERLANDS LOOKING FOR USA TEACHERS FOR EXCHANGE
The Fulbright Center in The Netherlands announces a great opportunity for high school teachers in the USA who want to set up a high school educational exchange with a Dutch high school. In The Netherlands there is a lot of interest in cooperation with an American high school, but most teachers find it difficult to find a partner school. The Fulbright Center wants to mediate in these contacts. Please send an e-mail if you want more information or if you want contact with a Dutch high school teacher. Contact Marlies Eijsink, Program Coordinator of the High School Cooperation Program.
LOWE'S INTERNATIONAL PAPER AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
LAUNCH OUTDOOR CLASSROOM GRANT PROGRAM
Up
to $20,000 will be awarded to schools or school districts for proposed
outdoor learning environments for K-12 students in the United
States.... Click HERE for more.
EDS TECHNOLOGY GRANT PROGRAM
 The EDS Technology Grant Program "helps teachers of children ages six through eighteen and school librarians purchase information technology products and services that will improve their students' ability to learn." For more information, click HERE.
GENERATION YES
 Generation
YES provides curriculum and online tools for schools to promote
student-centered, project-based technology projects that improve
technology use in their own schools. Generation YES students learn to
provide quality tech support, assist teachers with technology, and act
as peer mentors. Research-based and proven in over 1,000 schools,
Generation YES programs have a ten-year track record of empowering
students to improve their own schools through technology.
Please click here for more information or contact Sylvia Martinez at (888) 941-4369 x107.
NATIONAL INDIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
First Annual NIEW President's Technology Award
Sponsored by
Educational Options, Inc. This award is designed to assist American
Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Teachers bring more
technology to their classrooms. NIEA will make two awards of $500.00 to
innovative projects that incorporate technology in the classroom. The
selected awardees will be invited to the 2006 NIEA Convention to
present onhow their projects were implemented and the resulting impact
on their students and school. Consider how technology could help
improve the future for your students and tell us how you would use the
$500.00 award to use or promote technology use in the classroom for a
chance to win! For more information on how to enter, please click here or call our office at (202) 544-7290.
OLYMPUS AND TOOL FACTORY CLASSROOM GRANTS
Olympus and Tool
Factory will award ten grants to educators whose classroom projects and
curriculum ideas illustrate "effective and creative use of digital
cameras and software resources." Grantees (five in winter 2005 and five
in spring 2006) will receive $3,550 in prizes, including three Olympus
D-545 4.0-megapixel digital cameras, Tool Factory project-building
software, thirty digital camera workbooks, and $500 cash.
Click HERE to complete an application
FULBRIGHT MEMORIAL FUND TEACHER PROGRAM (FMF)
FMF
is designed to increase understanding of Japan among K-12 educators in
the United States. To that end, at least two fellowships will be
awarded to K-12 teachers and administrators in each of the 50 states
and Washington, DC. Recipients of the FMF grant will travel to Japan to
participate in three-week group programs that feature an orientation to
Japan followed by visits to primary and secondary schools,
teacher-training colleges, cultural sites, and industrial facilities,
as well as meetings with teachers and students while living with
Japanese hosts. Additional information is available online, click HERE or via email at fmf@iie.org.
Read a story about one South Dakota teacher's experience as a Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Fellow at Edutopia online HERE
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