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Posted by Anna on
Thursday,
October 20, 2011 at 9:51am
In the next few weeks, the guys of DonorsChoose.org will embark on a four week journey. There will be highs. There will be lows. There will be times when they want to give up. But ultimately, they will push on. Because it will be for the kids.
What is this journey, you ask?
It’s Mustaches for Kids!
Mid-November through Mid-December, more than 500 guys around the country will grow sweet ’staches to help students in need through DonorsChoose.org. Mustaches for Kids Chapters will compete at www.donorschoose.org/m4k to help the most kids and look the best doing it. Last year, Mustaches for Kids helped more than 200,000 students get the resources and materials they needed to learn. Let’s see if they can top that this year!
Want to GROW or start your own Mustaches for Kids Chapter? E-mail us at m4k (at) donorschoose (dot) org
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Posted by Anna on
Tuesday,
October 18, 2011 at 11:33am
Baltimore men are back for another year of “growing a ’stache and raising some cash”! Baltimore’s Growing Season will run November 1st through December 3rd. Interested in throwing your ’stache in the ring? Join Baltimore Growers for Shaving Day!
Where: Field House Bar in Canton, Baltimore
When: Tuesday, November 1st at 7 pm
What: Come shaved, or be prepared to shave at the bar!
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Posted by Katie on
Monday,
October 17, 2011 at 11:23am
This spring, we held a Hacking Education developer contest, where we opened up 10 years of data and invited developers and data scientists to create apps and make discoveries. The results were awesome! We announced winners in seven technical categories.
.NET category winner: Jeremy Kratz, who created DonorsChoose.org Factbook.
DonorsChoose.org Factbook details: On this user-friendly and dynamic dashboard, you can slice and dice the org’s historical data by a number of facets, including date range and state.
Every year, a group of science bloggers descends on DonorsChoose.org, helping out thousands of students, and amazing us with their ability to mobilize their readers.
There is a handful of bloggers who’ve been involved in blogger challenges since the very first one in 2008. Today, we’d like to recognize the bloggers who have been helping students year in and year out:
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Posted by Katie on
Sunday,
October 16, 2011 at 4:35pm
From now until December 1st, The Colbert Report is hosting a photo show, with 45 images from the last 6 years on air. You can view the photos in person at Chelsea Market in New York City, or you can view and bid on them at www.donorschoose.org/colbertphotos.
The winning bidders will receive DonorsChoose.org gift cards in the amount of the proceeds from their auction lot, so they can choose which classroom projects to support.
Below are several images from the auction; you can click on them to place a bid:
The photos in the show were taken by The Colbert Report staff members, Andrew Matheson, Kristopher Long, and Andro Buneta, as well as photographer, Scott Gries.
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Posted by Anna on
Friday,
October 14, 2011 at 5:02pm
Just two weeks in, and 50 of our favorite science bloggers have already helped more than 5,000 students through Science Bloggers for Students! We’re so impressed with their blogging and tweeting to help students in need.
We’re also impressed with Carolina Biological Supply, who joined the fun by offering prizes for every single blogger who participates. Thanks Carolina Biological Supply!
Science Bloggers for Students will continue through October 22nd. Let’s see if they can top last year’s success!
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Posted by Kasey on
Wednesday,
October 12, 2011 at 3:52pm
Have you noticed that there are more than 200 teachers requesting iPads? Have you ever wondered how those teachers and students are using them? It turns out the answer is for almost everything; in English classes they are being used for reading books, drafting documents and for phonics applications; in mathematics, students set math goals, learn while playing apps, and monitor their progress; science studentscan see macroscopic and molecular chemistry information in 3D, do calculations and practice worksheets. The iPads can also be used to great success in history, geography, art, music and in many other subjects. Teachers are also coordinating iPads with other classroom technology, like smartboards and document cameras, to ensure that every student in the class is benefiting.
Apps one teacher has uploaded to her class iPad.
Here is some feedback from teachers who are using iPads to engage their students:
Wow! What a wonderful back to school gift for my classroom… when we go out to the outdoor classroom, [we can] collect samples from the stream on the school campus as well as other field activities…, collect and record the data and then we can bring it back to the classroom for further analysis.
… I’d like to thank you for helping my students. They now have a tool at their disposal that has changed their educational live …One app that I downloaded which has really bridged the gap between classroom curriculum and sign language development is the “Sign 4 Me” app… one of my second grade students, while learning social studies, did not know what the word continent was. Instantaneously, I was able to look up the sign for the word continent and teach it not only to him, but to his entire class…I then downloaded a continent and world geography game onto the iPad. He now knows the sign and the names of all 7 continents.
This tool is invaluable to my students. It excites them, motivates them and most of all taps into their most natural way of learning. I can’t thank you enough for the generosity and support you have shown to these exceptional students.
Outside of the App Store, options such as iBooks and iTunes U provide a transportable library of books, videos and podcasts; and inbuilt technology enables the creation of video, audio, text and presentations. Creative teachers are doing great things in our classrooms! You can help concepts come to life for students by supporting a teacher today!
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Posted by Dan on
Tuesday,
October 11, 2011 at 2:39pm
This fall, our friends at CenturyLink sought to support K-12 education in the communities they serve, through running a Double Your Impact campaign on DonorsChoose.org. CenturyLink contributed $200,000 towards classroom projects throughout their service areas on the condition that individual donors, like you, contributed a matching $200,000. In the blink of an eye (10 days!), you responded and helped bring a whopping 1,065 classroom projects to life, impacting 102,000 students.
As CenturyLink has grown and evolved into the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States, their commitment to the local communities they serve has remained consistent. And that has certainly been resoundingly evident over the past 10 days.
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Posted by Kirk on
Friday,
October 7, 2011 at 4:37pm
Looking to add some anti-bullying lessons in your classroom? Thanks to the amazing generosity of Townsend Press, bullying education projects are getting some much needed support. There are two ways you can benefit:
1. Bullying education projects requesting the new Townsend Press book “Bullying in Schools” as an integral part of the project will qualify for a special Almost Home offer.
2. Other bullying education projects will qualify for a Double Your Impact offer.
Check out these fantastic examples of how your fellow teachers are working bullying education into their classes:
For both funding offers, projects must cost less than $600 total (including shipping and fees) and serve students at a high poverty school. Projects will be added to the campaign weekly at the discretion of the grantor.
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Posted by Anna on
Thursday,
October 6, 2011 at 3:02pm
On Sunday, more than 40 science bloggers kicked off the annual Science Bloggers for Students challenge. They’ve already helped more than 2,000 students by blogging and tweeting up a storm!
