REQUEST FOR SCAP FUNDING 2006-2007
Deadline
for submission – October 31, 2006
Name Kimberly
Rombach Date
10/28/06
Department C/EC Phone # 753-5687 E-Mail rombachk@cortland.edu
Request for Software:
Description:
None. I’m requesting handheld technology devices. Please see
below.
Estimated Cost:
Required Hardware (if any):
Description:
I am writing this SCAP grant to apply for funding to
purchase 12 handheld Global Positioning System units to use with my
undergraduate and graduate Teaching Elementary Social Studies classes. I would
like to use the units in the Cortland area and when I take my students to Camp
Huntington in Raquette Lake, NY.
I have chosen the Garmin Rino 110 units because they offer
global positioning, mapping and two-way radio capabilities (for more
information, please see: http://www.garmin.com/products/rino/
).
Estimated Cost:
Each unit is approximately $200. Therefore, the estimated
cost is:
$2,400.
Use by Students:
Class(es) and Number of students enrolled:
EDU 375: Teaching Elementary Social Studies ~ 25 students
enrolled.
EDU 514: Teaching Elementary Social Studies, Graduate class
~ 25 students enrolled.
EDU 647: Social Education in the Digital Age ~ 10 students
(I’ve occasionally taught this course).
How will your request fulfill SCAP guidelines to benefit
students by increasing their personal hands-on access to computing, computing
equipment, and instructional applications of computing?
This grant will
provide funding to purchase GPS units so future teachers can explore and
practice using hand-held technology in nature while developing social studies,
mathematics, science and technological skills.
When preservice
teachers participate in future activities that use GPS units, they can be guided
to contemplate ways that similar activities could be planned and implemented
into elementary school classrooms. Ultimately, I would like to use the GPS
units to have my preservice teachers plan and implement lessons for elementary
school students. In this way, the elementary students will also be able to use
the GPS units.
In order for the
GPS units to be available to students when not being used for instructional
purposes, I will create a sign-out system for them to be borrowed by small
groups or individual students.
If you are requesting software for a particular computer
lab, please specify which lab
None.
Additional
Comments:
Department Chair Comments:
Please electronically return completed forms to: apir@cortland.edu
by October 31st