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Ms. Ward from Ionia, MI is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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What a Picture is Worth

My students need a quality DSLR camera in order to capture better images for our online student newspaper.

  • $905 goal

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My Students

We've been fortunate to meet with editors from a local college newspaper as well as received help from a local photographer. My journalism students are ready to create our own online space. My students are eager to share their world.

Our high school is situated in a small, farming community.

As we examined some of the award-winning online student newspapers from around the country, we noticed that many of the awarded sites were those situated in urban and suburban communities, schools with large student populations and large budgets. But we have a story to tell. A story that is unique. Many of the students in our class work either before or after school. Some wake early to muck out barn stalls, while others stay up late working at local restaurants. My students are hunters and gamers and 4-Hers and musicians and writers. We have a perspective different from those in the urban and suburban setting. Students have spent time exploring our stories. Who are we as a class? As a student body? As a community? But we need help making sure that our stories are heard.

My Project

As part of our exploration of online news sources, we've discussed how technology has changed our media. We are no longer a print driven culture. To effectively reach our student community and those outside of our community, we must consider not just our written rhetoric, but our digital rhetorical choices as well. A picture really is worth a thousand words, especially if it is a quality image. We were fortunate to receive two DSLR cameras recently from an earlier Donors Choose project. It turns out, we could really use one more! We have relied on student cell phones to capture the images of our community. Adding quality cameras to our classroom would greatly improve how we capture and present our student voices to the world. My students and I were very fortunate to have a local photographer come in to teach us photography basics. And the more we study photojournalism, the more we have come to understand the importance of quality photos.

Adding a DSLR camera to our journalism class is not simply about taking better pictures.

Instead, the camera will help some of my students learn more about the composition skills and choices that go into capturing quality news photography. Using this visual medium will help some of my students also make connections to the choices they are making in their writing. It's all about how you present your story. I want to make sure that my students present their stories in the best possible way.

Ms. Ward
Grades 9-12
  • Ionia High School
  • Ionia, MI
    • 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 80 students.

    2 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canon - EOS Rebel T5 DSLR Camera with 18-55mm and 75-300mm Lenses - Black • Best Buy Education $727.91 1 $727.91

Materials cost

$727.91

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$768.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$135.68

Total project goal

$904.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $904.51

1 Donor

-$97.00

Donations toward project cost

-$82.45

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.55

match offer

-$807.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$686.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$121.13

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 $0.00

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