April 2008 — News
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Qwest Awards Technology Grants to 4 Schools
"Powell High's teachers came up with an innovative way to not only incorporate technology into their classrooms, but also to apply their project across many disciplines," said Bill Schwan, Powell High School principal, in a statement released Wednesday. "Our teachers' creativity will give students real-world experience they can apply beyond today and into their futures, and we thank Qwest for helping with that opportunity."
The project involves GPS unites and GIS software, which will be used to determine the extent of the pest plant problem.
Thursday, Debby Iverson, a teacher at Coweeman Middle School, part of Kelso Public Schools in Washington, was awarded $10,000. The grant will be used to fund interactive classroom technologies and collaborative tools, including an interactive whiteboard and wireless response system, which will be used in conjunction with videoconferencing and Webcasting technologies.
Iverson will use the project to teach skills and share technologies with students in the school and to connect her eighth-grade social studies students with "authentic, primary sources for projects."
"Digital technologies have the power to bring diverse topics to students in meaningful ways," Iverson said in a statement released Thursday. "Communication with peers around the world is only a click away. I'll know this program is ultimately effective when students view themselves as an interactive part of a global society."
Most recently, Veronica Moore, a kindergarten teacher at Kitsap Lake Elementary, part of Bremerton School District in Washington, received $10,000 to purchase audio and video technology for a digital "show and tell" project, which will introduce students to 21st century skills, allowing them to record activities, then write about them and share their reports on their classroom computers.
"Every child has an inner voice yearning to be heard and validated," said Moore in a statement released by Qwest Friday. "Whether that child is timid, assertive, has a disability or is deaf, we must facilitate all voices by providing age-appropriate classroom experiences enhanced by technology in order to plant the seed for life-long learning."
Further information about the Qwest Foundation in education can be found here.
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