Today I looked at a website from the resources of Chapter 7. The I looked at a grants website. Chapter 7 in the ISTE book is about planning, budgeting, etc. for technology. This website fits in perfectly because it is completely in line with the chapter with the fact that it is about grants.
This website is made by the Grants Policy Committee. This website is a central storehouse for over 1,000 grants and $500 billion dollars of rewards per year. This website gives an overview of what a grant is, who is eligible, and the highlights of the website along with many other things. This has a section for applicants that takes you through the steps you need to take to apply for a grant. The applicant system-to-system section makes it easy for people applying to fill out automated applications for grants throughout systems. There is also a section for granters, those who are giving the grants. This interested me because I had not thought about how the granters get their grants onto the page; that was something I just overlooked. You can search for different grants and contact people about grants easily from this website. There is also a link to the grants.gov blog so that people can see the latest news on the website and those sorts of things.
This site would be very useful in the future. To me, it seems like a database where I, as a teacher, could go and look for grants that could apply to my circumstances if I am looking to improve technology or other aspects of my school or classroom in the future. Automated applications would make it much easier to apply for more than one grant and hugely cut down on the time needed for the application process in the future.
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