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Teacher Ryder Duffey from Lake Mary, FL is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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In Today's News....Students ARE learning as Journalists!

My students need a camera and SD cards for photos and protective cases for the laptop and cameras we have. We also need a printer with color and black ink for our paper.

  • $1,061 goal

This project expired on September 12, 2010.

This project expired on September 12, 2010.

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Teacher Ryder Duffey Lake Mary High School
Lake Mary, FL Grades 9-12

My Students

My students aspire to understand history, current events and public policy. One way to help kids understand these things in context is by having them tell a story as a student journalist. Letting students decide what should be recorded and what story should be told is an engaging way to learn.

I teach in a high poverty, high needs school district with a deficit budget.

A large percentage of my students, 88% percent, are on free or reduced lunch. I have to reach students any way I can to compete with a young persons world that is full of technology and information in a second. My students are motivated and intelligent. We have worked on mock legislation at the state capital and it has made students question what is going on in their community, their state and their country. My students need a good camera, SD cards and a good printer so they can report on events, trends and issues for our class paper. I teach my students to be student journalists for history so they learn essential skills for writing while preparing for college

My Project

As student journalists, my students will work to empower their community. Students will improve academically as student journalists when they research, record, report and form opinions on several themes we are working on this year: how to end poverty, how to reduce the rape rate in our community and how to regulate payday loans. Journalists are needed to help the public think about how public policy will be used to solve social problems. Like John Dewey believed, journalists spark debate and the best ideas bubble to the surface. Having the students complete oral interviews, collect photos and work to report all the sides of issues will bring my classroom to the highest possible level of student learning. They will construct and destruct ideas that had about they key issues and problems solve and create summaries of what they have researched. We will present our ideas at a local law school and a state conference and make suggestions for public policy.

Students will learn about the importance of the truth in reporting and how a journalist must help the citizens with the concerns and issues of today, It will teach students the discipline of verification and the perspective of sources.

Students will have a chance to think about what is interesting and relevant to people today and how their words have power. It will allow students to develop a personal conscience and look at the collective memories that make up history while teaching journalism.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

100 students impacted
Teacher Ryder Duffey Lake Mary High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lake Mary, FL View local requests

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

100 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Nikon Coolpix L110 digital camera • CDW Inc. $279.95 1 $279.95
HP Officejet 6500 198 99 50 Savings 148 99 ends 5 14 • CDW Inc. $148.99 1 $148.99
HP 920 print cartridge • CDW Inc. $19.99 4 $79.96
HP 920 Combo Pack print cartridge • CDW Inc. $27.99 5 $139.95
Wenger Swiss Gear ANTHEM Notebook Computer Slimcase • CDW Inc. $33.91 1 $33.91
Olympus Neoprene Sport Horizontal Case case for digital photo camera • CDW Inc. $10.96 2 $21.92
Targus Expedition Mini Camera Case case for camera • CDW Inc. $12.96 2 $25.92
Kingston MobileLiteG2 card reader Hi Speed USB • CDW Inc. $9.97 1 $9.97
SanDisk Standard flash memory card 2 GB SD • CDW Inc. $10.96 4 $43.84
Nikon COOLPIX L Series Neoprene Case Red • CDW Inc. $11.96 1 $11.96

Materials cost

$796.37

Vendor shipping charges

 $79.64

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$922.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.91

Total project goal

$1,060.87

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