Past projects 4
Encouraging Young Makers!
Funded Mar 12, 2014Thank you so much for your support in getting our 3D printer project funded! I set it up almost immediately in my Art room and the students were drawn to it like insects to a porch light! They ooh-ed and ahhh-ed and asked "can we use that?" "Of course, I told them. It's for YOU!" We have been learning about how 3D printing works, and we learned how to access Thingiverse to look at designs and get ideas. We also learned how to use TinkerCad to build our own designs. A week after we hooked up the machine, a group of students stayed after school until 5pm to design and print their creations! We now have a list of students in line to print and the energy is palpable!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Hertz
Making Multimedia Magic
Funded May 1, 2012Thank you so much for your support. My students were overjoyed to see the new headphones and they were amazed at how much easier sound editing was while using them to create songs in GarageBand. Your generous donations will help my students be creators of content rather than just consumers and they will help them stay in step with their peers in wealthier schools and districts. My students will have a chance to create a variety of multimedia projects much more successfully than before, and hopefully through the process they will also get to explore and discover interests and passions in movie making, sound editing and collaboration while creating projects that will be shared with people all over the world.
Again, on behalf of myself and my students, thank you for your support!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Hertz
Building Literacy Skills
Funded Oct 11, 2010Thank you so much for helping this project become a reality! We have been using the headphones nearly every day. My little ones are listening to stories and practicing their reading and letter sounds and my older students have been editing movies, recording their voices and listening to each others projects.
I don't know how we would have accomplished all that we have without your help! To see what we've been up to you can view our SchoolTube channel, which I can't give out here, but if you want to personally contact me I can send you the link.
Thanks so much!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Hertz
Making a Commercial
Funded Apr 9, 2009Thank you so much for providing my students with such a valuable tool! We were able to complete our commercial in the Spring and now my students are recording interviews for a history project about our school! It is amazing how quickly they were able to learn how to use the camera, frame shots and zoom in/out when necessary. It has made our project exciting and the students are really engaged with the topic. They are able to re-watch the interviews and by watching themselves on the screen, they have been learning how to improve on their delivery, intonation and body language to become better public speakers.
I look forward to using the camera with many more classes to come. It has really added a spark to the classroom!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Hertz