Help me give my students an enhanced distance learning experience by providing us with a computer that supports annotation with a stylus instead of a mouse. Legibility rocks!
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I have over 200 students this year, with a variety of skills and interests. My classes are made up of students in special education, autistic, English learner and honors programs.
To help them access the material I like to draw illustrations and annotate examples.
However, now I am trying to do it with a computer mouse. You can only imagine what my diagrams look like. The kids are great and don't make fun of my drawings, most of the time. They know I am doing my best, but I know some of the images are hard to decipher.
My Project
Annotating a screen with a mouse looks like a mouse did the annotating. I love to illustrate ideas and use math to solve physics problems. While we have been distance learning, my artistic talents have suffered, and my students can't tell if I am drawing an elephant or a car, or a zero or a six.
I am requesting a Surface Pro so that I may use a stylus to clearly annotate drawings and solve physics problems.
When explaining concepts I like to enhance the lessons with pictures and videos. I often stop to draw on the video or picture to help explain science concepts. For example, I may use arrows to signify the direction of a force, or assign values to use as an example for a physics problem. I have two colleagues who are using surface pros, one for math and one for science and they love them.
Currently, I am working from home, but this technology will serve the same purpose in person. There are so many wonderful and amazing resources out there to engage students.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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Microsoft - Surface Pro 7 - 12.3'Touch Screen - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - 128GB SSD with Black Type Cover (Latest Model) - Platinum
• Best Buy Education
$893.84
1
$893.84
Microsoft - Surface Pen - Ice Blue
• Best Buy Education
$86.20
1
$86.20
Materials cost
$980.04
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$89.67
3rd party payment processing fee
$14.70
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$1,114.41
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$196.66
Total project goal
$1,311.07
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$1,311.07
6 Donors
-$1,173.57
Donations toward project cost
-$997.54
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$176.03
match offer
-$137.50
Match offer toward project cost
-$116.88
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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