Guidelines
The Open Source Portfolio application is relatively new. As such, teachers participating in the grant will be innovators and early adopters and will need to be flexible and open to change.
As part of FY08-09 grant, school building(s) within a district may apply for up to $20,000 with a plan for how ePortfolios will be used to integrate technology and support the state academic content standards. At most one building per district may be awarded. Priority will be given to those districts in academic emergency, academic watch or continuous improvement.
If selected, all teachers participating in the grant will be expected to:
- Attend the face-to-face orientation on February 5, 2008, at the eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference in Columbus;
- Participate in several professional development (PD) offerings on Sakai and OSP provided by eTech Ohio;
- Use technologies to document and save samples of learning through the creation and saving of audio files, video files and text files; and, if necessary, seek and participate in professional development in the use and integration of technologies to document and save samples of learning through the creation and saving of audio files, video files and text files;
- Participate in focus groups for template development to be used in OSP;
- Create and use ePortfolios in OSP to document technology integration and student use of OSP and use the supported browsers/OS combinations (See Appendix C);
- Implement ePortfolios, using OSP, in the classroom with a selected number of students;
- Share findings, reflections and artifacts within the teacher ePortfolio via the eTech Ohio website;
- Complete a final impact report;
- Attend several events in Columbus including, but not limited to, February 5, February 22, June 17 and August 14, 2008;
- Present findings at the 2009 eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference, February 2-4, 2009.
Allowable Expenditures include:
- Purchase of hardware and/or software related to implementation of grant
- Professional development and graduate credit associated with the grant
- Professional development support materials (may include items such as books, videos and/or CDs associated with the professional development required to complete the ePortfolio project)
- Stipends for work outside teachers' and/or technology coordinators contractual hours
- Expenses directly related to the grant including mileage and substitutes for participants to attend the face-to-face orientation, professional development and the 2008 and 2009 eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conferences
- Warranty for the hardware purchased for the grant
Non-Allowable Expenditures include:
- Furniture
- Food and drinks
- Consumables (For example: paper, printer cartridges)
- Any other item not specifically identified above as an Allowable Expenditure.