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Ms. Stumb from Jamestown, NC is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Stumb's classroom raised $509

Podcasting About Literature

My students need a digital recorder that is podcast ready along with an instructional book on podcasts with which I will help them. They will also need an assortment of 24 new, high interest book titles including from "Girls from Da Hood" to "Cirque du Freak", mostly graphic novels and urban fiction, to add to our classroom library so they have interesting topics about which to podcast.

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Ms. Stumb Ragsdale High School
Jamestown, NC Grades 9-12

Technology is the future for our students, but advances in technology have far surpassed many of our schools' resources and readiness. I teach tenth grade in a diverse school with a high population of free and reduced lunch students. My students love technology, but most of them have limited access to it at home.

My students enjoy reading high interest fiction, but our library has limited resources. I have done what I can with our classroom library, but our curriculum is full of books about people who do not look like or have the same cultural practices as my students. My students also have enjoyed blogging about their books and creating an online environment where they can rate books and read other students' opinions about them. Many of them have talked about their passion for radio, music, and technology, but our school has limited resources. This worries me because I feel that my students from high poverty backgrounds are being left behind their middle and upper class peers in their college readiness. My graduate school experiences have been full of online chat meetings with classmates, listening to podcasts of lectures, answering blog topics. I do not see many traditional classroom teachers spanning the gap between the haves and have nots.

My students currently blog, as I mentioned, and I have created an in depth classroom webpage, but considering my students' interest in new technologies, broadcasting, and music, I thought creating podcasts about our class and having students create their own radio show to be linked off my webpage, would tap into their enthusiasm. To do this, we need a digital voice recorder, a instructional manual on podcasts, and fresh titles depicting characters who face choices similar to my students so that they have something about which to podcast. In a digital age where technology literacy will become the norm for students entering college, my students desperately need an opportunity to engage in those forums that will be utilized in their higher education.

Your help will ensure that my students do not fall behind their peers in their college preparedness. The students may not have access to technology at home, but through your contribution, I can bring new technologies to them. The best part is that students will be able to use their enthusiasm for the creative areas of literature and music to create a product that their friends and family can listen to and help spread their understandings of tenth grade English.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

90 students impacted 11 donors
Ms. Stumb Ragsdale High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Jamestown, NC 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

90 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper, Adam Lowenbein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Begging for Change Sharon Flake • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Money Hungry Sharon Flake, Tk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives Sharon Flake, Tk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Bang! Sharon Flake, Colin Bootman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Bloom Elizabeth Scott • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) Sapphire • Barnes and Noble $10.40 1 $10.40
Girls from Da Hood Nikki Turner, Roy Glenn, Chunichi • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. Sanyika Shakur • Barnes and Noble $11.20 1 $11.20
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King Reymundo Sanchez, Rey Sanchez • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
SONY ICD-SX700 DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER -- Sony Digital Voice Recorders; ICD-SX700, With Sound Forge Software • Quill $149.99 1 $149.99
Double Dutch Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39
Darkness Before Dawn (Hazelwood High Trilogy #3) Sharon M. Draper • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Cirque du Freak, Volume 3: Tunnels of Blood Darren Shan, Takahiro Arai (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79
A Piece of Cake: A Memoir Cupcake Brown • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
Me & My Boyfriend Keisha Ervin, Kathleen Jackson (Editor), WWW Apollopixel Com (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.00 1 $12.00
Nancy Drew Boxed Set: Graphic Novels Volumes 1-4 Stefan Petrucha, Sho Murase (Illustrator), Vaughn Ross (Illustrator), Based On Work by Carolyn Keene, Carolyn Keene • Barnes and Noble $23.96 1 $23.96
The Looking Glass Wars (Looking Glass Wars #1) Frank Beddor • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment James Patterson • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque Du Freak Series #2), Vol. 2 Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Cirque du Freak, Volume 1 Darren Shan • Barnes and Noble $8.79 1 $8.79
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms Will Richardson • Barnes and Noble $26.05 1 $26.05
Vampire Knight, Volume 2 Matsuri Hino, Matsuri Hino (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Vampire Knight, Volume 3 Matsuri Hino, Megan Bates (Editor), Matsuri Hino (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09
Vampire Knight, Volume 1 Matsuri Hino, Matsuri Hino (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.09 1 $8.09

Materials cost

$384.59

Vendor shipping charges

 $1.50

Sales tax

 $16.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$417.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.58

Total project goal

$508.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $508.79

10 Donors

-$492.33

Donations toward project cost

-$417.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.46

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