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New Hampshire
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund
The state has been engaged in a major restructuring of the TLCF program's focus in round four. State officials have designated one-third of its TLCF funding for school districts to purchase one of three professional development product offerings focused on integrating technology in the classroom. The remaining two-thirds is being specifically aimed at hardware for those school districts which had failed to reach a 10:1 student to modern computer ratio. TLCF is the principal source of technology funding resources, other than local district funds for technology in schools. State officials have learned rom the results of a technology survey that the student to computer ratios are not showing significant progress, possibly due to the fact that individual schools were permitted to design their own projects in rounds one through three. Many of the funds for those projects were going for incidental costs which might be more appropriately assumed by the school district. The state decided to focus funding solely on the much needed hardware. There were over 300 school buildings (out of 450) in our 1999 survey which had not reached 10:1. New Hampshire now estimates that this number has been reduced to about 100 school buildings.
The three professional development products offered in round four included Connected University which involves on line courses that school personnel can take for graduate credit or clock hours. The second product was a set of three CD ROMS from Vital Knowledge called Teachers Tech Tutor. These CDs contained individualized training modules that linked to the Vital Knowledge web site and then out to web sites appropriate to the application being taught. The third product was district-wide face-to-face training with specific modules relevant to different subject areas as well as across disciplines. Although New Hampshire's school districts only started using these products late last Spring, there is already a great deal of positive anecdotal data that suggests a high rate of utilization.
Contact
Chrys Bouvier
Educational Technology Consultant
Office of Educational Technology, NH Department of Education
101 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-8049 (p) 603-271-1953 (f)
E-mail: cbouvier@ed.state.nh.us
PT3NH: Project NewTEACHERS II
In June 2000, New Hampshire received a PT3 Catalyst grant to fund Project New TEACHERS II (PNT2). This project is a natural expansion of a capacity building grant from the previous year. Led by the NH Department of Education, this statewide consortium of 42 partners involves all higher education institutions with teacher preparation programs, several PreK12 school partners, educational organizations, and businesses. The project:
- engages higher education faculty in collaborative dialogue during hands-on integration sessions and provides support for additional activities to ensure faculty become comfortable and proficient technology users
- supports alignment activities at each institution to ensure that technology standards are aligned to course and program standards
- supports research teams at higher education institutions targeted to project goals
- supports collaboration between higher education faculty and mentor teachers at K12 partner sites.
Contact
Cathy Higgins
Educational Technology Consultant
New Hampshire Department of Education
101 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2453 (p) 603-271-1953 (f)
E-mail: CHiggins@ed.state.nh.us