Software Plan
Grade(s) / Content Area(s) / Software / Web Link / Description of program / Use for the ProgramK / Language Arts / Literacy Center / www.literacycenter.net / The Literacy Center provides resources for preschool and kindergarten teachers including early learning and educational material for preschool / Practice with recognizing letters and making them. Is in both English and Spanish.
K / Language Arts/ Mathematics / Sesame Street / www.sesamestreet.org / Sesame Street has free online educational games for toddlers and children, featuring all your favorite Muppets! / Interactive games for kindergarteners to use to recognize letters, numbers, and shapes.
K-2 / Language Arts/ Reading / Starfall / www.starfall.com / A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books / Interactive games for students to use for beginning reading and phonic sounds.
K-2 / All / Sheppard Software / www.sheppardsoftware.com / Hundreds of fun educational games and activities for kids to play online. Topics include math, geography, animals / Activities for every subjects that is interactive.
K-2 / Art / Funschool / www.funschool.com / Funschool offers free online educational elementary games for kids as well as printable activities, coloring and crafts that will help kids learn / ideas for art and crafts. Interactive games for the students to play too.
K-5 / Language Arts/ Math/Reading / Internet For Classrooms / www.internet4classrooms.net / An educational portal with free resources for teachers and their classrooms as well as students and parents / Interactive games for LA, reading and math. Each subject is divided into specific subjects. Games are listed for each topic.
K-5 / All / ABCya / www.ABCya.com / Free kids educational computer games and activities. / Games for children to play and learn about computers, shapes, math, etc.
Grade(s) / Content Area / Software / Web Link / Description of program / Use for the Program
1-5 / Spelling / Spelling City / www.spellingcity.com / Teaching spelling is easy with SpellingCity.com. Input spelling lists for your students to use for free spelling help. Students can learn spelling words / Fun way for students to learn their spelling words each week.
1-5 / Reading/Phonics/ Language Arts / Sadlier-Oxford / www.sadlier-oxford.com / Family Center · Games & Activities · Print Email Share Sadlier-Oxford Home » Phonics Student Online Components. Use your knowledge of letters, sounds / Reading site for reinforcement of phonics and reading.
2-5 / Keyboarding Skills / Dance Mat Typing / http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ / A fun colorful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11. / free fun keyboarding site
3-5 / Writing/Reading/ Language Arts / Read Write and Think / www.readwritethink.org / Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction / Interactive for students to work on reading and writing
3-5 / All / Brain Pop / www.brainpop.com / Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids / Interactive way for students to learn about social studies and art, music and lang. arts
3-5 / Language Arts / Brain Pop ESL / www.brainpopesl.com / BrainPOP ESL is an educational resource featuring games, lesson plans, activities and animated movies. BrainPOP ESL is designed for all English Language Learners. / Program for ESL learners.
All / All / Adobe / www.adobe.com / Provides a range of products for digital media creation and editing, multimedia authoring, and web development. Includes documentation and support for all / Any site that uses digital media.
Grade(s) / Content Area / Software / Web Link / Description of program / Use for the Program
All / All / Photostory / www.microsoft.com/ / Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows: make show-n-tell cool again. ... Need inspiration? Check out these stories created with Photo Story 3 / can be used with any subject to produce a photo story
All / All / VLC / www.videolan.org/vlc / VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player / Multimedia player
All / All / iTunes / www.itunes.com / Music, movies, TV, shows and now friends. Get connected on iTunes 10 / music and movies, tv shows to watch
Teacher / All / SmartBoards / exchange.smarttech.com/search.html / Find Lesson Plans for Your SMART Board and Connect with Teachers .... Lessons and activities about figurative language fore reading and writing / Free ideas for use of interactive white board.
Teacher / All / JC-schools / http://jc-schools.net / Jefferson County School resources for all subjects. / Ideas for teachers to use for subjects.
Teacher / All / Engrade / www.engrade.com / Free online gradebook for teachers including a free online grade book, free homework calendar, free student messaging, free attendance, and more / Free grading system that teachers can use and parents can see if given a login.
Hardware Plan
Year / Name of Item / Cost of Item / Recipient(s) / # of Units / Total Cost / Total/Year / 3 Year Budget(1000 x $365) x 2 / $730,000.00
1 / SmartBoard / $1,282.00 / All Classrooms / 41 / $52,562.00 / $677,438.00
1 / Epson 84 LCD projector / $644.00 / All Classrooms / 41 / $26,404.00 / $651,034.00
1 / ELMO TT-02RX / $570.00 / All Classrooms / 41 / $23,370.00 / $627,664.00
1 / Extra LCD projector bulbs / $400.00 / School / 5 / $2,000.00 / $625,664.00
1 / Dell Laptops / $498.99 / All Teachers / 41 / $20,458.59 / $605,205.41
1 / Dell Desktops / $843.17 / Gr. 4/5 Classrooms (X2) / 24 / $20,236.08 / $584,969.33
1 / Student Responders / $1,899.00 / Gr. 3/4/5 Classrooms / 3 / $5,697.00 / $579,272.33
1 / Mobile Lab #1 / $498.99 / School / 35 / $17,464.65 / $561,807.68
1 / iPad Lab / $499.00 / Gr. K/1 Classrooms / 150 / $74,850.00 / $486,957.68
*Increase of 5% inflation for year 2 Total Year 1: $243,042.32
2 / Extra LCD projector bulbs / $420.00 / School / 5 / $2,100.00 / $484,857.68
2 / Dell Desktops / $885.00 / Gr. 1/2/3 Classrooms (X2) / 36 / $31,860.00 / $452,997.68
2 / Student Responders / $1,995.00 / Gr. K/1/2 Classrooms / 3 / $5,985.00 / $447,012.68
2 / Mobile Lab #2 / $525.00 / School / 35 / $18,375.00 / $428,637.68
2 / Netbooks / $440.00 / All Gr. 4/5 Students / 300 / $132,000.00 / $296,637.68
2 / iPad Lab / $525.00 / Gr. 2/3 Classrooms / 150 / $78,750.00 / $217,887.68
*Increase of 5% inflation for year 3 Total Year 2: $269,070.00
3 / Dell Desktop / $930.00 / Gr. K/Non-Core Classrooms (X2) / 16 / $14,880.00 / $203,007.68
3 / Extra LCD projector bulbs / $441.00 / School / 5 / $2,205.00 / $200,802.68
3 / Student Responders / $2,095.00 / Gr. Non-Core Classrooms / 5 / $10,475.00 / $190,327.68
3 / Mobile Lab #3 / $552.00 / School / 35 / $19,320.00 / $171,007.68
3 / iPad Lab / $551.00 / Gr. Non-Core Classrooms / 100 / $55,100.00 / $115,907.68
3 / iPad Lab / $551.00 / Gr. 4/5 Classrooms / 200 / $110,200.00 / $5,707.68
Total Year 3: $212,180.00
Final Costs: $724,292.32
Remaining balance to be used as emergency funds: $5,707.68
Hardware Plan Description
We began designing our hardware plan structured around obtaining SmartBoards, ELMOs (electronic document viewers), and LCD Projectors (which additional replacement bulbs) in every one of the 41 classrooms of the school. This will enable every teacher to have the same technological resources available to them throughout the school day and year-round. The next step was to assign every teacher their own laptop. This is beneficial in many ways since teachers would now be able to access and utilize all needed information both at school and while away. To introduce students to technology, we incorporated iPad labs into the Kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. This will allow for students to thrive in an innovative educational setting at the same time as prepping them for future technology devices in upcoming grades. We also added 2 desktops into each 4th and 5th grade classroom, since those students are more experienced in using computers and technology, while the younger grades receive student responders so they may electronically communicate during lessons and presentations. Since 2nd grade did not receive any additional technology materials directly at this time, we have provided a mobile lab accessible to the entire school. All mentioned steps are necessary in the first year as it will immediately increase productivity and communication, along with the production of cohesiveness with our technology mission statement.
In year 2 our hardware budget plan, we continued to furnish the remaining curriculum classrooms with desktop computers and student responders. We also extended the iPad labs into the 2nd and 3rd grades as well, which will prolong the knowledge of the device usage since the younger students have already been using them for an entire year. Another mobile lab is added for school use, while every 4th and 5th grader receives his/her own Netbook. This takes our mission statement a step further by allowing students to becoming 21st century learners both in and outside the classroom and preparing them for upcoming technological uses in middle school.
In the final year, desktops, student responders and an iPad lab are all added to the Special Education, Resource, and Non-Core Exploratory classrooms. These rooms were saved for last so that students may become accustomed to the new technology in their every-day curricular classrooms throughout the previous years. The 4th and 5th graders receive an iPad lab so that they may continue what they have learned since being introduced to the devices in kindergarten, as well as a final mobile lab addition.
The hardware budget plan ensures that all teachers and students have the ability to reach our school’s technology mission statement.