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Wasmer teacher receives grant to buy technology equipment
Wasmer Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Patty Brown has received a $2,000 "Teach Award" grant from Best Buy to purchase four iPods and a laptop computer for her classroom.
Wasmer will have a school assembly at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, to celebrate receiving the grant, Principal Betty Desaire said.
Brown plans to use the technology for a number of purposes, including helping students improve their reading fluency.
Students will take home an iPod and a book, then read it aloud and record themselves. The recording will allow students to evaluate their fluency, the grant application said. The recording will be saved for a personal CD of each student's reading for the year, allowing the parents to also hear the student's growth.
CDs will also be burned of the stories the students have recorded and attached to library books. This will be very helpful for parents who are unable to read to their children and for those students for whom reading is difficult. Students will use the computer to burn their CDs and also for communicating with e-pals in Nebraska and California. Students will also use the computer to process digital photographs, create Web pages, and work with video.
Brown is the only Grand Island Public Schools teacher to receive the grant, which is awarded annually.
For more information, contact: Patty Brown, fourth-grade teacher, Wasmer Elementary School, 318 S. Clark St., (308) 385-5920,
pbrown@gips.org; Betty Desaire, principal, Wasmer Elementary School,
bdesaire@gips.org
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