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Ms. F. from Rock Hill, SC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flipping for a Foreign Language

My students need 3 Flip Video camcorders to create video flash cards and create their end-of-unit performance assessments using the technology that will engage them most.

  • $702 goal

This project expired on March 7, 2010.

This project expired on March 7, 2010.

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Ms. F. Richmond Drive Elementary School
Rock Hill, SC Grades 3-5

I'm an elementary Spanish teacher in South Carolina who is excited every day to have the opportunity to teach Spanish to students in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.

In the elementary language program in my school, communication is the core goal. I use only Spanish to teach 245 students in grades 3-5 and try to create activities and learning scenarios which build their confidence in using the language. However, face-to-face communication is no longer the only means we have to interact with one another. My students are surrounded by video and technology outside of school but don’t have access to it in school where we can use it to make communicating with their classmates in Spanish more engaging and meaningful. Even though the main classrooms are equipped with an electronic white board, I have little access to kid-friendly video technology. The one video camera that we can check out from the media center is big and bulky, requires a special videotape, and is not usually available when I want my students to demonstrate their learning in a 21st-century style!

So, what’s the best solution? Flip video camcorders! These small cameras fit into little hands, are lightweight, easy to use, feature “point and shoot” technology, and have large clear buttons that will make using them simple for my 8, 9 and 10 year-old students. Having our own camcorders will allow my students to create video flashcards of unit vocabulary items when it fits into our curriculum and not when the school video camera might be charged and available. The students themselves will become the stars of our regular lessons as I use their video flashcards to enhance my instruction every day. And the Flip video camcorders will make it easier for students to practice their Spanish when I set up classroom centers to help differentiate instruction and address the needs of all my students. At the end of our units, students will be able to complete their performance assessments and tape them so that we can share them with each other and with parents via our class web site.

Your donation to this project will help my students become 21st century learners! You will make it possible for them to take a more active role in helping structure lessons and the language learning process and give them the opportunity to show what they have learned at the end of a unit in new and engaging ways!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 245 students impacted
Ms. F. Richmond Drive Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Rock Hill, SC View local requests

Nearly all 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

Never Before Funded 245 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
PURE DIGITAL FLIP MINO CAMCORDER, WHITE -- Flip Video Camcorders; Mino, White • Quill $161.99 3 $485.97

Materials cost

$485.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $48.60

Sales tax

 $24.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$575.16

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$126.25

Total project goal

$701.41

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