Capture the News: Empower Lincoln Students with New Video Equipment

Funded Dec 2, 2024

Your donations of news props, green screens and microphone sets have made an instrumental difference in our student-led work. Our students have moved beyond just daily news stories and into profiling members of their community and compiling interviews that are meaningful to students to share during teacher professional development and more. It is now a common routine for student leaders to find me with student feature ideas and voices to highlight and I am happy to check out equipment and let them lead the way, with me behind them as support.

When we first recieved all the sets, students were overwhelmed with the idea that now many groups can collect many voices at once. We quickly created a charging station and check-in/check-out system of devices. I used class time to create a few assignments that were interviews with a purpose and guided them through basic video editing. This is the Tiktok generation, so many of them found editing intuitive, it was softer skills of prepping for interviews and inclusive skills of adding captions that needed work. Once we got that work down and they felt confident in their ability to tell a story - the sky was the limit.

I am beyond proud of them and the work they are doing. This would not have been possible without our donors. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!”

With gratitude,

Ms. Tafoya