Funding for Day School Technology Initiatives

This just in from the Lookstein Announcements list:

AVI CHAI is looking for new and innovative ways to apply technology to enhancing the teaching of Judaic studies in day schools. To that end, the foundation is providing seed funding for a diverse range of projects with the ultimate goal of learning about and identifying promising educational technology initiatives for Jewish education.

As a first initiative in this area, the foundation has allocated funding to support technological solution to pedagogic challenges. Competitive grants of $2,000 to $10,000 are available for those educators who have identified and developed innovative approaches to using technology in their teaching. Proposals guidelines and forms are available at www.avichai.org. and are due by November 25, 2006. For more information, go to www.avichai.org, and follow the Educational Technology Experiments icon on the home page.