Note this up-coming professional learning opportunity from the folks at SITE.

REGISTER BY OCTOBER 14 Developing Effective Strategies to Get that Grant This workshop will be led by professionals with decades of experience in successful grant procurement, exploring strategies to develop sound grant proposals. Additionally, effective procedures to manage funded grants will be examined. Participants will be guided in the assessment of their personal grant experience and skills, with an eye toward enhancing their expertise in the process of grant development and management. Attention will be paid to both government-based and private funding opportunities and strategies. Through a collaborative approach, workshop participants will develop a toolkit that can be used for current and future grant opportunities. Resources on funding opportunities and strategies will be provided. Workshop participants are encouraged to share any grant activities in which they are currently engaged. This Workshop is FREE with your SITE Interactive 2021 Registration! PLUS Workshop participants will be provided complimentary enrollment in the LearnTechU online course: “Developing Effective Strategies to Get that Grant.” Register Today! Michael Searson,  Ph.D., is a retired professor of education from Kean University, serving 37 years in a number of faculty and administrative positions. Recently he has served as Vice President of Likeda Educational Technology in Shanghai, where he focused on STEAM education initiatives. He currently serves as Chief Academic Officer for AACE’s LTU project. During his career, Searson has authored or co-authored about $12 million in grants. Most of these grants focused on educational technology initiatives and were often targeted to underserved communities. Commonly, his grant projects have involved numerous collaborative partners. Funding sources ranged from government-based agencies, such as the US Department of Education and the NSA (National Security Agency) to private-based foundations and funders. In many cases, grant initiatives led to sustained, institutionalized projects. Gerald Knezek, Ph.D. is Regents Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas and Co-Director of the Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching & Learning ( IITTL) at UNT. He is Past President (2008-2011) of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE). He is Lead Principal Investigator for UNT’s NASA Space Science Education Consortium STEAM Impact Research grant (NNX16AL63A, 2016-2021). He was Lead PI for the US National Science Foundation ITEST Project Going Green! Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World (#0833706 & #1312168, 2008-2017), and was Co-Principal Investigator for a US Fund for Improvement for Post-Secondary Education project titled simMentoring (#P116B060398, 2006-2010). He was Principal Investigator of the U.S. Dept. of Ed. Technology Innovation Challenge Grant R303A99030 External Evaluation for 1999-2004 and Lead Principal Investigator for the U.S. Dept. of Ed. Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) Millennium Project Capacity and Implementation Grants (P342A990474 & P342A000123A) for 1999-2003. Dr. Knezek was doctoral program coordinator for Educational Computing from 2002-2004. He held the Matthews Chair for Research in Education at the University of North Texas from 1995-1997. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Japan ‘s National Center for University Entrance Examinations during 1993-94 and shared time between Texas and Ecuador on a Fulbright Senior Specialist appointment during 2006-07. He is completing a similar Fulbright Senior Specialist appointment in The Netherlands during 2011-12. Learn More The LIVE online format allows real-time participation and interaction. Workshops and concurrent sessions will utilize our proven online format. We strive for the same sense of community as the face-to-face SITE conference, with the added convenience and flexibility of being online. All accepted and presented papers receive publication and proof of participation.

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