My students need two cameras to produce original digital storytelling projects.
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When students come to the table with a burning desire to tell their stories, the creative spark, and the grit that my digital storytelling students show up to class with, we've just got to support them with tools that enable them to realize their vision.
Our middle school serves an underprivileged population of students, over 75% of whom are on free or reduced lunch.
Most of our students are children of immigrants or are immigrants themselves. Many come to us two to three grade levels behind in core subjects.
One thing we have discovered is how critical it is, especially for students who are struggling to express their full potential in the core curriculum, to have other avenues of expression and development in arts, technology, music, and sports. I have many students who can not yet write a grade level essay, yet they demonstrate excellence in producing a story or documentary on video. This success then translates back to the core curriculum as these students see their own potential. My students have produced tremendously powerful and well-structured documentaries, stop motion films, and PSAs.
But my students need your support. Our discontinued cameras have died, and we need cameras for students to produce original work.
My Project
With these two new cameras, our students will be able to produce original work that they then edit on their Macs using iMovie and Garageband. The projects these cameras will enable our kids to produce include stop motion films, documentaries, interviews, PSAs, music videos, a school news report, and recording of school events, among others.
One of the projects we could not complete without the quality sound recording and reliability of these cameras is for our students who come from a wonderful diversity of backgrounds to produce documentaries about their heritage by interviewing their family members and documenting family artifacts. Then we will hold an assembly with parents and view the student films.
This documentary type of project is critical for my students because their lives have been so turbulent and split between their native culture and U.S. culture. They need this type of project to give them a way of celebrating their heritage and honoring their families and their own life stories.
Your help in donating these two cameras will make a tremendous impact in the lives of many students.
They will be used by approximately 50 students per year in my two Digital Storytelling classes and will enrich the whole school and the whole community as their work is shared.
Please help provide our students with the tools they need to discover their own potential and build skills that enable them to make their dreams come true.
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
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