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EETT stands
for Enhancing Education Through
Technology
ARRA stands for American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act
Rock Falls
Elementary School District #13 is one of 39 school
districts throughout the State of Illinois to receive
the EETT/ARRA Competitive Grant. As a result of
being awarded this grant, we are very excited to start
the process of incorporating lab carts of netbooks into
our 2nd grade, 5th grade, 8th grade and special
education classrooms to be used in daily curriculum
areas. We are utilizing personal trainers to work
one-on-one with the teachers in those classrooms. The
netbooks will be able to access the Internet wirelessly,
since part of the grant is being utilized to install a
wireless mesh to make the netbooks Internet accessible
from any area of each of the three school buildings in
our district.
We have subscribed to
www.atomiclearning.com to help in integrating
technology into the classroom by utilizing their 21st
century skills projects and tutorials. Our teachers are
really looking forward to having assistance in the
classroom in learning these new skills that the students
will then be able to carry forward into the future.
We have also purchased a site license
for ComicLife
which students will use to explore storyboarding
of their various writing assignments, assisting them in
acquiring language skills and as an
easy-to-use tool for creating worksheets,
flash cards, lesson plans and much more.
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