You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Austin’s Classroom Edit display name

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/4886396 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
We want to provide our students with experiences in science, history, arts, and culture found around the world. Several of our classes have collaborated and purchased the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset. It’s important to us that students have access to technology that could facilitate their learning beyond the classroom. VR is an engaging way to understand static science diagrams that fail to capture a student's imagination. VR Education has a bright future and it has been proven that some material is easier to learn when it is visualized and the learner is able to interact with it and manipulate variables. VR Educational programs are vast in subjects and highly engaging. We have purchased a computer and Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset. However, we need a display monitor and mouse that meets the requirement to run the Oculus Rift headset. As an instructor, I will be using the Oculus Rift to provide short, structured lessons to support instruction. Students will use the virtual environment as a training tool to learn how to practice and refine a skill. We will use virtual environments, like Minecraft and Second Life, in which students create things adhering to prescriptive rules of user behavior and also Virtual Reality for Education, conducive to deeper, more creative learning.

About my class

We want to provide our students with experiences in science, history, arts, and culture found around the world. Several of our classes have collaborated and purchased the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset. It’s important to us that students have access to technology that could facilitate their learning beyond the classroom. VR is an engaging way to understand static science diagrams that fail to capture a student's imagination. VR Education has a bright future and it has been proven that some material is easier to learn when it is visualized and the learner is able to interact with it and manipulate variables. VR Educational programs are vast in subjects and highly engaging. We have purchased a computer and Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset. However, we need a display monitor and mouse that meets the requirement to run the Oculus Rift headset. As an instructor, I will be using the Oculus Rift to provide short, structured lessons to support instruction. Students will use the virtual environment as a training tool to learn how to practice and refine a skill. We will use virtual environments, like Minecraft and Second Life, in which students create things adhering to prescriptive rules of user behavior and also Virtual Reality for Education, conducive to deeper, more creative learning.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":4886396,"teacherId":4886396,"teacherName":"Ms. Austin","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-4_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21023275,"followAbout":"Ms. Austin's projects","teacherVerify":-9540935,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Austin","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/4886396","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=4886396","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":2,"numSupporters":2},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.