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Mr. Dodd from Brooklyn, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mr. D's Recording Pods

My students need 8 recording microphones to create powerful, clear, informative, and helpful tutorials (Podcasts).

  • $538 goal

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Mr. Dodd has another project! Donate to Science Garden: Insight and Curiosity to help his classroom.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Empowerment in the 21st century: what if students were able to listen to high quality and age appropriate tutorials? What if students were able to develop their writing by first recording their ideas? What if iPods and mp3 players were used as tools for learning?

All of our students are expected to pass the New York State Regent's exam.

Most come into high school with atrocious expressive written language skills. Many of our students are designated students with special needs, English Language Learners, and have their own iPod/mp3 player listening devices.

My Project

We are requesting microphones to be used to record podcasts (tutorials and interpretations of specific subject content) and as a device to develop individual student writing. The most positive aspect to creating podcasts is that students will be actively engaged in the learning process by explaining their understanding. Meanwhile, other students will benefit from listening. Some students need to have information translated into their own language and others simply need information translated into their own lingo. Other students will be using the microphones to record their own ideas as a step to develop their own writing. Once they have their ideas recorded orally, they can then replay their own words until they have more developed writing pieces. In many cases a students' mind moves faster than their hand writing skills. Given a microphone, the student can record her/his ideas and develop her/his ideas, and ultimately write it down.

By developing more powerful written pieces the students will be empowered and have a better sense of their own potential.

In addition, many students will be able to have access to content that they cannot read on their own. They will be motivated to listen because their peers helped develop the tutorials and summaries in "their" language.

Mr. Dodd Enterprise Bus & Technical High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
USB HEADSET PADDED VOLUME/MUTE CONTROLS BLACK • Abilitations, Inc. $47.30 8 $378.40

Materials cost

$378.40

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.84

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$456.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.63

Total project goal

$537.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $537.55

3 Donors

-$98.00

Donations toward project cost

-$83.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.70

match offer

-$439.55

Match offer toward project cost

-$373.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$65.93

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