Budget+Narrative

=Personnel= toc It is the philosophy of the Principal Investigators that every person's contribution to the proposed eTech project is equally valuable. Therefore, all personnel will be paid at the same hourly rate.

Faculty
Faculty roles include setting up the project materials (e.g., website, CMS, workshops, communications); administering the project during the school year; program evaluation; collating, tabulating and analyzing data; collecting materials used during the project timeframe; and writing the White Paper. Faculty stipends inclue salary, tax, and benefits.

Pre-service teacher research assistants
Beyond meeting their course and fieldwork requirements, pre-service research assistants will be collecting and analyzing data, visiting in-service teachers' classrooms, trouble-shooting technology, consulting with faculty about how the project is working and how it might be improved, traveling to classrooms and workshops, and assisting with the writing of the White Paper. The number of pre-service teacher research assistants reflects the Principal Investigators' desire to provide as many different students as possible with this activity.

In-service teacher research assistants
Along with their regular duties as professional teachers, in-service teacher research assistants will be collecting and analyzing data, sharing information with their colleagues, troubleshooting technology, creating an ePortfolio, traveling to other classrooms and workshops, and being part of workshops and distance learning efforts as contributors and learners.

=Professional Development= Professional Development workshops will need to be assembled based on the curriculum for these workshops, current needs of in-service and pre-service teachers, and current learning needs of K-12 students. These workshops will also require handouts and various technological consumables such as blank disks for software, media, and information.

=Technology= As of this writing, we are doing a survey to find out what technology is available within school systems and our university. Final decisions about what will be bought are contingent upon that survey data. The amounts in the budget reflect the types of technologies that will be purchased, an estimate of the numbers of each type, and the resulting total cost for each line item.

Mobile devices such as the Droid tablet or the Apple iPad are not currently widely available in schools and at our university; the number proposed reflects the desire to make this technology as available as possible to project participants.

Peripherals have not yet been determined beyond a figure that represents the top end of spending in this area. These peripherals include items such as network cards, RAM, cords, human interface devices, storage devices, and so forth.

In addition to technology for which grant funds will pay, the project makes use of Open Source software and donated laptops as no-cost means to supplement technology in the classrooms.

=Indirect Costs= Capital University will be administering this grant project and will have expenses related to that administration.