EDUCATIONBRIDGES

Partnership Grant -- Expression of Interest

Collaborative Learning Environment

 Training, Implementation, and Site Maintenance

Purpose

To provide support for innovative collaborative learning environment projects. Applicants should represent a partnership of varying interests and skills, preferably but not necessarily from different educational institutions, groups or companies. The intention of these grants is to support individual educators by connecting them to a larger community.

Expression of Interest Guidelines

The purpose of the expression of interest is to allow teachers who are potentially unfamiliar with the granting process or with educationbridges to get a sense of the community and the grant process. The questions should be answered informally but as completely as possible. Complete honesty is the best policy. Applicants who clearly state their ignorance of 'server technology' for instance, stand a far better chance of funding than those who might try and ignore the subject or worse exagerate their competency.

This is a community process. It is as likely that you will be encouraged to join an existing community as be funded to start your own. All content that is posted on this website is licensed creative commons and will be accessible to all who wish to register. We are in the business of deceminating knowledge, not in protecting it.

Questions.

• Briefly describe the main goals of your project.
  
  This description should not exceed two reasonably sized paragraphs.
  
   
  
• How would funding of your project help your team in your work and contribute to the communities that you currently work in?
  
  One paragraph here should suffice.
  
   
  
• Who are the members of the partnership and what roles do they fill as part of the team?
  
  Please include a one sentence description of the role and either a link to the person's work or a one paragraph description. Personal qualities are at least as valuable as professional qualities.
  
   
  
• What resources (people) and technology do you need that is not currently in your partnership?
  
  Don't worry too much about the details for this question. It is meant to give us a broad understanding.
  
   
  
• What similar projects have you found to the project you are considering, and how is your project similar and what differentiates your project.
  
  This is a tricky question. It is not meant to imply that being 'different' is necessary. It is a context building question. The more our community knows about what you find interesting and how your see yourself, the easier it will be for us to understand your question.