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Ms. W. from Jamaica, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Student BookTalks Need Sounds!

The cost of this proposal for an Apple iPod and protection plan that will enable the Tech Club students to experience and participate in music and sound editing to accompany videos they make about books they're reading and life at their school is $566, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

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Our school, PS 116, is an elementary school located in an impoverished section of Jamaica, Queens, New York. Approximately 86 percent of our students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Our Tech Club students are inventive and have been making video "booktalks" using our Canon mini dv camera. These video booktalks are then shown to the kindergaten and first grade students for them to read aloud with. The students get very excited about seeing their friends and family members on the screen, and they are helped in their reading. The tech students feel a real sense of accomplishment when they complete a booktalk. We would very much like to add different types of music and sounds to our student created video booktalks through the use of an Apple iPod. I am asking for funding to purchase an Apple iPod. My tech students would benefit greatly from learning how to use the Apple iPod. We are not allowed to download music directly, but we do have the use of iTunes on the Apple computers within the school. With an iPod, we can download sounds and edit them easily. The students would learn to import music and different sound effects, for example a sound for the turning of pages, and add them to our booktalks. This would allow the students a chance to use the iPod and the Apple computer to create just the right background music and sound effects to produce a really "professional" finished project. Ultimately, I would hope we might be able to show some of our booktalks to the entire school. Additionally, the students could use this equipment to create special presentations, displaying photos with added background music, to be shown at the moving up ceremonies, and we would also like to add music to our Powerpoint presentations which we share with the parents and family members at PTA evening meetings. These student-centered presentations offer the children at PS 116 a chance to learn something about the new technology and the chance to see themselves as participants in the broader world of media. Thank you.

Ms. W. PS 116 William Hughley Grades PreK-2

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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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
ipod • Apple.com $349.00 1 $349.00
Applecare Portection Plan • Apple.com $59.00 1 $59.00

Materials cost

$408.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$435.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$95.63

Total project goal

$531.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $531.26

2 Donors

-$485.00

Donations toward project cost

-$446.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$59.63

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 $0.00

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