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Mr. Gasteli from Miami, FL is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Showing Not Just Telling Your Life Story Through Digital Multimedia

My students need an iPad mini to access Microsoft Sway to be able to actively depict their stories and bring to life their animations, pictures and other media that will bring to life who they

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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

We are a Title I school and my students are excited to explore, to learn and to expand and broaden their horizons just to be given the opportunities that other children take for granted.

My students are sons and daughters of first generation immigrants who struggle sometimes to find the right path to success but they put forth maximum effort when given the right motivation.

They are unique in the sense that they are high achievers, despite facing the typical immigrant population challenges. Our overwhelming Hispanic population needs support but, given the right tools, will perform at a high level.

My Project

Students will use the iPad mini to access Microsoft SWAY and create in a matter of minutes a presentation with pictures, Power Points, Animations, and their unique and personal narrative that depicts who they are and where their family came from in order to understand who they are and share by presenting to the class. The story created will require multimedia my students will present it in class using an Apple adapter to connect to a projector. This activity will help them create --focusing on grammar, inventiveness and originality-- but at the same time it will afford them the opportunity to be presenters and innovators, developing skills such as public speaking in the target language, as well as developing their technological abilities. My students will use SWAY (a Microsoft application) to unify their narrative using all kinds of multimedia including sounds, pictures, videos and avatars in order to bring together their life experiences and share with the rest of the class. For instance, instead of just writing an essay about their life, my students will use words and sentences as a mere departure point that will include multiple representation of information (multimedia) to design, create and bring all the information in a cogent and coherent manner that will show and not just tell their unique story.

Mr. Gasteli Dante B Fascell Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Miami, FL View local requests

More than half 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

180 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple iPad mini 4 (128GB, Wi-Fi, Gold) • Amazon Business $343.00 1 $343.00
STM Dux Rugged Case for iPad mini 4 - Red (stm-222-104GZ-29) • Amazon Business $45.75 1 $45.75

Materials cost

$388.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$424.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.93

Total project goal

$499.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $499.51

1 Donor

-$212.29

Donations toward project cost

-$212.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$249.75

Match offer toward project cost

-$212.29

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.46

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$37.46

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 $0.00

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