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Mrs. Kaplan from Staten Island, NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Upgrade Newspaper Software

My students need an Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Student Edition in order to make our newspaper and news room multimedia.

  • $554 goal

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I teach in a New York public school. My students are selected for our school based on a lottery, and all classes are heterogeneously mixed. Furthermore, my journalism class is a bridge class of students in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. Our newspaper, which we publish 6-8 times a year, is international in that our articles have a global focus, students collaborate with students in other countries to write articles together, and we have a network of schools from around the globe with students who report for our newspaper.

Our newspaper, which is award winning, has grown from a 4 page to 16 to 20 page layout with a staff of 50 students from all grades. As we are an international studies school with reporters in schools around the globe, we need to move forward technologically to become a multimedia online newspaper. A multimedia newsroom will allow for differentiation in that students who are technologically savvy will play an integral role in publishing a live online newspaper complete with podcasts and video segments.

In order to move forward technologically, our news room needs the proper software. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Student Edition is a program that combines Indesign, Photoshop CS4 Extended, Illustrator CS4, Flash CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, and more. Such a program will allow all students to benefit both in the newsroom, school and international community, as everyone will have access to our newspaper.

Your help will ensure that my students are able to move our school publications, our newspaper and literary magazine to a new level by adding 21st Century technology. This software will allow students to work as news reporters with cutting edge technology.

Mrs. Kaplan
Grades 9-12
    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

    This project will reach 400 students.

    8 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Adobe(R) Creative Suite(R) 4 Design Premium, Student Edition • Office Depot Inc. $399.00 1 $399.00

Materials cost

$399.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $39.90

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$453.88

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.63

Total project goal

$553.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $553.51

7 Donors

-$553.51

Donations toward project cost

-$453.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$99.63

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