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

Digital Cameras and Visual Literacy

My students need a class set of digital cameras and flash memory to take pictures of their world and then write about.

  • $864 goal

This project expired on February 17, 2015.

This project expired on February 17, 2015.

My Students

I still remember the first time that I held a 35 mm camera in my hand. I was in college, taking a photography class for the first time. The feeling that I had when I developed those first pictures and saw the stories that they told was profound.

My students are fun, curious typical middle schoolers.

They think that photography is a selfie and that everyone is a photographer. I teach in an urban school in the middle of a rural area. Most of my kids are eligible for free and reduced lunch and have limited knowledge, access and unfortunately, interest in the arts.

My Project

Through photography, I hope to teach my students to look at their environment differently, in an artistic way. I want them to see that we all have stories to tell, no matter who or where we are. I hope to collaborate with my student's English-Language Arts teachers to motivate our students to write about the thing that they know the best-themselves and their world. Students will work individually or in pairs, students will learn about composition and taking thoughtful pictures, not just 'happy snaps'. I want them to be able to see that, as cliche' as it sounds, every picture truly does tell a story.

I hope that through their photographs, students will see the beauty in their world.

I want them to realize that their experiences are as valid as everyone else's and just as important. I want them to be able to express themselves through a new medium and to think about the things that they see every day in a different, artful way.

Ms. Smith
Never Before Funded Grades 6-8

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Olympus Stylus VG-180 16 Megapixel Compact Camera - Red • Amazon $58.49 10 $584.90
SanDisk 8GB Class 4 SDHC Flash Memory Card, Frustration-Free Packaging- SDSDB-008G-AFFP (Label May Change) • Amazon $5.95 10 $59.50

Materials cost

$644.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $50.26

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$734.33

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$129.59

Total project goal

$863.92

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