Technology and Media Services for Individuals With Disabilities–Research and Development Center on Digital Images and Graphic Content in Accessible Instructional Materials — CFDA 84.327B

Timeline

Closing Date: October 19, 2009

Current Application

• Download the application package now:
  MS Word (736K) | PDF (1.2M)
• If you choose to submit your application electronically, you must use the Department’s e-GRANTS application system at http://e-grants.ed.gov.
• For printed applications contact:
  Education Publications Center (ED Pubs),
  P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398,
  Telephone (toll free): 1-877-433-7827, fax (301) 470-1244.
  If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) you may call (toll free) 1-877-576-7734.
  Web site: http://www.edpubs.ed.gov/webstore/Content/search.asp
  E-mail: edpubs@inet.ed.gov

Other Required Forms

You will also need to download the following required Federal forms:

ED Form 424–Application for Federal Education Assistance (Form and Instructions)
ED Form 524–Budget Information, Non-Construction Programs
ED Form 524–Instructions
Standard Form 424B–Assurances, Non-Construction Programs
ED80-0013–Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements
ED80-0014–Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion — Lower Tier Covered Transactions
Standard Form LLL–Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
Survey on Ensuring Equal Opportunity for Applicants

Federal Register Notices

• Federal Register Notice Inviting Applications (August 20, 2009) [PDF (79K)]

Application Contact

Glinda Hill
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4063,
Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202-2550
Telephone: (202) 245-7376
Fax: (202) 245-7619

I am Dr. Punya Mishra, Director of the MAET program at Michigan State University. As we all know, technology is changing at an amazing pace. These changes offer great possibilities but also challenges to us as educators.

Our MAET program, housed in one of the highest ranked colleges of Education, offers teachers a conceptually grounded, hands-on experience with teaching and learning with technology. The emphasis is not just on learning “cool tools” (though that does happen) but rather on developing transformational and creative approaches to teaching subject matter in real contexts. All this is done in an intense but engaging series of experiences led by a select team of instructors who seek to model and scaffold similar approaches in the summer cohort.

I am particularly proud of the East Lansing summer program where you will take classes that will apply towards your master’s degree in Educational Technology.  After completing the Educational Technology Certificate Program, students apply to the Master’s program to join the East Lansing summer cohort.

This hybrid version of the program combines the power of working together in a summer cohort with the flexibility of completing courses during the academic year. Participants come together for two weeks of face-to-face on-campus in East Lansing from June 17 – July 1, 2009 and then meet online from July 2 – July 29. On July 30, 2009 students will reconvene on campus. This makes for a unique and intense experience to work, learn and collaborate with each other and the instructors in a face-to-face setting that is hard to duplicate. Our graduates speak highly of this experience.

We know you have many choices available to you today. Our goal, here at the MAET program, is to offer you a master’s program that help develop ways of thinking and doing that will stand you in good stead as a professional in the years to come.

You can find application materials at

http://edutech.msu.edu/apply_masters.html.

For more information, feel free to contact me or Leigh Graves Wolf at gravesle@msu.edu and check out our social networks where you can interact with current students and alumni:

MACUL Space –
http://maculspace.ning.com/group/msuedutech

Facebook –
http://msu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7822384107

Applications are due soon and we would be very honored to have you as a member of the 2009 summer cohort.

Do let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely

~ punya mishra