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July 31, 2007

Cherokee Elementary gets grant for new technology

By Cathy Spaulding





Muskogee Cherokee Elementary School students soon will be able to answer questions as if they were on a game show or Academic Bowl team.

Cherokee has received a $65,000 OK-ACTS grant from the Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust, said Derryl Venters, Muskogee Public Schools assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.

Cherokee Principal Clevetta Haynes said the school will use $40,000 to get new technology equipment and $25,000 to train staff on how to use the equipment.

She said the grant came from the Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust.

Haynes said Cherokee will use the grant money to buy hand-held devices that allow students to click-in answers to questions on electronic display boards. The school also will get new interactive chalkboards called SMART Boards and video editing machines.

“With the video editing machines teachers will be able to video-tape lessons, and students who are absent can get the lessons on compact discs,” Haynes said.

She said Cherokee teachers are going to Jenks to get trained on the technology this week.

Haynes said she does not expect the new technology to arrive when the school year starts Aug. 15, though it could arrive in September. Cherokee, along with other Muskogee Public Schools sites, also will get new technology through the bond issue passed last March.

In past years, Sadler Arts Academy, Ben Franklin Science Academy and Tony Goetz Elementary School got technology through OK-ACTS grants.



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