My students need bar-height stools, a backdrop, press badge holders, and a clapboard to create non-biased video news reports.
$534 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My 8th grade students are an energetic bunch of teens who love to socialize and have fun.
Our Title I middle school is located in a high-poverty, working-class neighborhood in Northern California.
About 60 percent of our student body receives free or reduced-price lunch, and more than a majority of them speak English as a second language.
Although these teens possess many amazing gifts, many of them have enormous hardships to deal with in their lives. They are Bulldogs in name as well as spirit, however: They persevere in the face of these adversities and will triumph over them!
My Project
My middle school journalism class is a one semester course where students learn about evaluating the media for bias, conducting interviews, writing reports, and becoming media literate. It can be tough, however, to engage middle school students in the draft-revise-edit-publish cycle of written news, especially with the deadlines and long lead times involved with printed copy. Students are far more interested in creating video news and blogging, which can be more accessible and current. We have tried using our Chromebook cameras to create our reports, but the resulting videos have been grainy, shaky, and hard to hear. As a result, our videos aren't quite up to snuff. We are asking for a backdrop and lights, bar-height stools, a clapboard, and press badge holders to help us put together a well-lit "set" in our classroom and support our young journalists. The lights would help our videos look better, and students would have a lot of fun learning how to use the green screen background. This project will help us create our in-class "set." (We will still need to get a microphone, tripod, and a camera with another project )
Journalism at the middle school level is not every student's dream class when all you have is a newsletter that comes out a few times per semester.
Video journalism, however, is something that would attract many more students to our journalism program and help them become more media savvy!
LimoStudio Photo Video Studio Light Kit - Includes Chromakey Studio Background Screen (Green Black White), (3) Muslin BackDrops, Umbrella, Softbox, Lighting Diffuser Reflector, AGG1388
• Amazon Business
$164.99
1
$164.99
Aobear 50pcs Waterproof Transparent Transverse ID Label Badge and black Sturdy Lanyard
• Amazon Business
$16.95
1
$16.95
Andoer Acrylic Clapboard Dry Erase Director Film Movie Clapper Board Slate 9.6 * 11.7" with Color Sticks
• Amazon Business
$13.97
1
$13.97
Materials cost
$383.09
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$35.05
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.75
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$453.89
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$80.10
Total project goal
$533.99
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$533.99
3 Donors
-$262.58
Donations toward project cost
-$230.69
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$31.89
match offer
-$262.59
Match offer toward project cost
-$223.20
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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