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Technology Liaisons Network

2007 Technology Matters Institute

Application Deadline: March 2, 2007
To submit your application, go to: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/events/176


Application Overview

The purpose of the application is to help the facilitation team plan an institute that is responsive to the needs of those attending and to select a diverse group of participants. In addition to responding to the application questions (2–3 pages), please be sure to provide complete contact information for each member of your site's two-person team when you submit your application.

The institute facilitation team will review all applications received by March 2, 2007, and will notify applicants of their status by April 2007.

Application Guidelines

The application process requires

Note: The person submitting the application must have been designated as the site's technology liaison for at least one year, attended an invitational summer institute, and attended at least one strand of technology liaison workshops at an Annual Meeting during the past six years.

Please respond to the following in a Word (.doc) or text (.txt) document (2-3 pages).

  1. What role(s) do you play at your writing project site? Describe each team member's role separately. How long has each of you been in the position you hold (e.g., teacher consultant, technology liaison, inservice coordinator, co-director, director, etc.) and what are your responsibilities? When did each team member attend an invitational summer institute? When did the technology liaison on your team attend the technology liaison strand of workshops at the Annual Meeting?
  2. Briefly describe current goals and priorities at your writing project site. (They do not necessarily have to focus on the use of technology.)
  3. In what ways has your site used, or how does it plan to use, technology to support any or all of these goals and priorities?
  4. What questions about technology, writing, and the work of your site would your team like to explore with a group of NWP colleagues?
  5. Please indicate that you can both attend the full institute, from 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, to departure on Sunday, July 22, 2007.
  6. For each participant on your team, please provide the following contact information:

Letter of Support

This application requires a brief letter from the director of your site, indicating support for your team's attendance. Once you submit your application, an email will automatically be sent to your site's director asking for confirmation that she or he supports your application. A director's note of support is necessary owing to the site-related context of this retreat and the costs associated with sending a team.

If you are not your site's director, please ask your site's director to respond as quickly as possible to the email inquiry he or she will receive. Your application will not be complete until we receive the letter of support.

Selection

The pool of participants chosen will be as representative as possible of the geographic, racial, and ethnic diversity of the writing project. Sites will be notified of their status by April 2007.