Digital Wish Grant - Digital Wish

Grant Name: Digital Wish Grant

Funding Organization: Digital Wish

Grant Cycle: The 15^th of every month

Website: http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/grant_awards

How to Apply: Register your classroom at Digital Wish, Write a Lesson Plan - Login to your Digital Wish account and submit a technology-based lesson plan for a chance to win over 50 different technology grants (see judging criteria below.) In addition to serving as your grant application, every lesson plan you enter will be automatically added to your classroom's profile, allowing you to share technology integration ideas with colleagues and fellow educators across the country!

Software Available:

Apply for the Video Editing and Production Grant for a chance to win a free Tool Factory Movie Maker Network Site License! To apply, simply develop and submit a lesson plan demonstrating how you would use Tool Factory Movie Maker in your curriculum. The most creative and fun lesson plan that best utilizes the software will win! ABOUT TOOL FACTORY MOVIE MAKER:
Video production has never been this easy! Edit together video clips, photos, text, and sound effects to create your very own studio-quality movie production. The simple click-and-drag interface allows you to easily browse for clips and add them to the movie timeline. Select from a myriad of transitions to craft an easy flow between video scenes. Enhance your project using fun effects such as blur, black-and-white, fade in/out, emboss and more. It's easy to rearrange and crop your video clips using the drag-handles along the movie timeline. Preview your production in the movie preview window, or view the show as large as your computer screen will allow. This is also a fantastic program for creating claymation or Disney-style animation. Browse for a whole group of sequential images and insert them all at once onto the timeline. Click the 'play' button and watch your sequential animation come to life before your eyes!

Apply for the Elementary Zone Grant for a chance to win a free subscription to Elementary Zone! To apply, simply develop and submit an elementary level lesson plan that incorporates technology. The most creative and fun lesson plan utilizing technology will win! ABOUT ELEMENTARY ZONE: This premier Internet subscription service provides nearly 100 exciting educational activities and games. Kids will have so much fun, they won't even know they are developing skills in literacy, science, and math. The site is jam-packed with colorful graphics and animations. Each activity has been carefully designed so that students can navigate the site by themselves. There are two zones, one for school use and one for home use, each designed for children aged 4 to 11. The School Zone is designed to address the educational needs of students in the classroom. Teachers will love the ability to configure the subject areas, and select individual activities. There are teacher's notes available for every activity with helpful classroom suggestions. The entire school can log in with one account. The Home Zone includes nearly 100 activities in English, Math, and Science (all those listed below). Kids can navigate through the activities by themselves, plus parents will find lots of suggestions for additional activities away from the computer. If you have more than one computer, the entire family can use the Home Zone at the same time!

Apply for the Clip Art Station Grant for a chance to win a free Network Site License of Clip Art Station! To apply, simply develop and submit an elementary level lesson plan that incorporates technology. The most creative and fun lesson plan utilizing technology will win! ABOUT CLIP ART STATION: A subscription to http://www.clipartstation.com gives you access to a great collection of photos and sound clips to use in projects! Subscribers get instant access to the full library of artwork posted on Clip Art Station. Download images and sounds and get busy building class projects. Never worry about copyrights again. Subscribers are welcome to use any image, as long as it's used for viewing purposes or decoration of a school project, printed matter, or website production.

Want some great new ideas for incorporating technology into your curriculum? Apply for the Adventures in Technology Grant for a chance to win a free copy of the Adventures in Technology! Incredible Lesson Plans for the Classroom book/cd set! To apply, simply develop and submit a lesson plan that incorporates technology. The most creative and fun lesson plan utilizing technology will win! ABOUT THE ADVENTURES IN TECHNOLOGY! INCREDIBLE LESSON PLANS FOR THE CLASSROOM BOOK/CD SET: Introduce new and exciting ways to integrate technology into your classroom curriculum! Adventures in Classroom Technology includes 32 lesson plans designed to stretch students’ imaginationSand get them thinking creatively about the curriculum. Aligned to work independently or as a supplemental tool to Tool Factory Podcasting, Tool Factory Movie Maker, Tool Factory Workshop V3, and Flip Video technology tools. A bonus companion CD of editable worksheets lets teachers tailor every activity to their own curriculum. More than half of the lesson plans were inspired by original ideas from educators all across the country! Each lesson plans will demonstrate how everyday classroom curriculum can be enhanced using technology tools. Peak your students’ interests using the tools that they aspire to use!

Ring in the new year with a brand new, student-friendly office suite! Submit a New Year-themed lesson plan incorporating Tool Factory Workshop for your chance to win a free Network Site License of the software! To apply, simply develop and submit a New Year-themed lesson plan demonstrating how you would use Tool Factory Workshop. The most creative and fun New Year-themed lesson plan that best utilizes the software will win! ABOUT TOOL FACTORY WORKSHOP V3: Tool Factory Workshop has been cited as "the most child-friendly office suite ever built!" It's fully configurable to the age level or learning ability of any student. Each program uses the same interface, so students switch from one application to another with ease. Get all the critical software tools for your technology program, meet all the technology standards. An important precursor to more complex office suite programs, Tool Factory Workshop establishes core knowledge that lets students transition easily to the most common adult programs, plus it’s completely adaptable for special education! Tool Factory Resource Bank is available from every application. Get hundreds of clip art files and easily edit, create, and archive new banks of clip art. Customize any of the existing banks, save multiple versions of each bank, or create new banks altogether. The resource bank helps you organize existing content, or archive images taken from the internet. Since the banks are searchable, it's easy to compile materials specific to a particular subject. Tool Factory Workshop includes: •Tool Factory Word Processor – Use tools for word-wrapping, animation, and character speech to craft impressive book reports, journals, presentations, and posters. •Tool Factory Spreadsheet – Drop a spreadsheet anywhere on the page. Connect the tables using simple algebraic formulas, then watch the answers play out dynamically. •Tool Factory Database –Organize data with pictures, numbers, drop-downs, then have every student in the class enter data into the same file. •Tool Factory Math Draw – Craft scaled drawings using layers, virtual protractors, rulers, measuring tools, scales, grids, and hundreds of stamps and fills. •Tool Factory Resources Bank – Get hundreds of copyright-free clip art files and templates. •Free Online Training Program – Visit www.toolfactory.com Use the programs interchangeably to achieve curriculum goals. Students and teachers alike can create exciting illustrations, write lab reports, and craft instructional worksheets with the programs in Tool Factory Workshop. Tool Factory Math Draw has a fantastic grid feature for crafting scale drawings of experiments. The rotating ruler’s scale will automatically pick up the same grid scale. Automatically measure for any edge, area, or perimeter. Use the database to log data from experiments, then write up reports with the word processor! Dynamically show angle measurements as you move objects around on the screen. Log the results of experiments in Tool Factory Database, then use Tool Factory Math Draw to craft instant diagrams for lab reports. Switch to Tool Factory Spreadsheet for charting and graphing the results. Use it with a Whiteboard! Switch the program's toolbars to the bottom so that younger students can reach them. Activate the Whiteboard controls and instantly gain access to the “right mouse” and “CTRL” icons from the toolbar. Online Support Materials are free and always available at www.toolfactory.com. We've created a visual presentation for every application which anyone can download and immediately use for student instruction. There's a printable tutorial for every single feature of every single program in the suite. Construct your own class manual by printing free how-to instructions for your daily lessons. Visit the copy machine and dash to class! There is free clip art, lesson plans, printable worksheets, and classroom activities.

Judging Criteria: 

• Guideline adherence. Lesson plans must follow the directions outlined in each grant's description.
• Coherency. Lesson plans must be well-organized and well-written.
• Proper Grammar Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling. Lessons should contain no grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors.
• Curriculum Relevance. Lesson plans must be curriculum-oriented.
• Creativity and Fun. Lesson plans must be unique and exciting to implement.
• Student Involvement. Lesson plans must encourage student participation.
• Technology Integration. Lesson plans must incorporate technology.

Lesson plans may cover any subject area. For monthly recurring grants, you don't have to reapply to be considered. Relevant lesson plans will be stored and reevaluated each month.

Other Important Information:

Digital Wish is a non-profit on a mission to help teachers solve technology shortfalls in their classrooms. Apply for grants, create a wish list of technology your classroom needs, and share lesson plans and fundraising ideas with fellow educators across the country. Digital Wish also provides a searchable library of grants and a myriad of ideas for fundraising. The entire site is designed to empower teachers to find funding for technology for their classrooms.