Tech Integration

DonorsChoose.org is one of those sites you can hear about soon enough. All teachers spend a plethora of cash out of their own pockets, and would spend more if they had the chance. All teachers have those projects they wish they could do, but can’t due to funding. Donors Choose is a site to help bring those projects and ideas to life. Donors Choose has partnered with companies such as Barnes & Noble and Sonic in order to help teachers fund classroom projects. Teachers are allowed to place projects on the site for people to donate, and all that is asked in return is a thank you note from both teacher and students, as well as photos of the project in action. To make this step even easier, Donors Choose sends the self address enveloped when the project materials are delivered, with a disposal camera to take the pictures! Once you have a project funded, and return the thank you packet, your allowed to submit another project!

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Classroom Use

Donors Choose makes it painless to seek funds for classroom projects. From class book sets for novel studies, to digital cameras for video and podcasting, many different projects find funding. They have integration with both Facebook and Twitter for easy social sharing, as well as a teacher page hosted on Donors Choose (find mine here). Also, students get involved and take ownership when they write the thank you packets and work in the photos of the project taking place.