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Mrs. H. from Wellsboro, PA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flash To The Future

My 28 students need USB Flash Drives.

  • $629 goal

This project expired on September 8, 2008.

This project expired on September 8, 2008.

Mrs. H. Wellsboro Area High School
Wellsboro, PA Grades 9-12

I teach 12th grade English and composition in a rural area in Pennsylvania. In the past, I have included an autobiography project, which is due at the end of the year. We take time each week to do projects for this autobiography. However, this “fun” project gets lost throughout the year as I have to put the autobiography on hold occasionally, due to incorporating state standards into my lessons. The autobiography is an idea I got about nine years ago from reading a newspaper article from Dear Abby and collaborating with my mother (a retired teacher) on an assignment I could use for my classes during "down time." I started doing this project because a favorite theme I had heard from returning alumni was "I remember when." I also like to reminisce from time to time, and realize how much I have forgotten from high school. This year, the autobiography is not only a graded project, but it also gives students something in which to contain their memories for future perusal. Every Monday of a full week of school, we work on our autobiographies. Entries currently include: 1. A written timeline from birth to current day 2. A drawn, painted, colored, etc. timeline (on colored paper) 3. An interview done in class with a partner 4. Favorite Firsts (2 sentences for 14 favorite or most memorable firsts in students’ lives) 5. Favorite Firsts essay (a one page essay about one of their favorite firsts or most memorable moment) 6. After School Essay (what they do to fill up time after they go home from school) 7. Mirror Image (a packet of 6 sheets, front to back -- all about them) 8. Friends (an essay about their friends) 9. When You Were Little (an essay of their first memory, or most important memory) 10. Mystery Person (an essay about the person in the room whose name they draw out of a basket) 11. The final project must include pictures, certificates, letters, notes, drawings, etc. This year, I have decided to transform the way I teach to incorporate more technology to better prepare students for the future. I have realized that by using technology and the autobiography, I can engage students to read and write, while making English FUN! In our district, it is not rare to see students eager to get on their cell phones or put their iPod earphones in their ear at 3:00. I am trying to use technology to get these students from a underprivileged background to be successful in our ever-expanding high-tech global world. In using technology, I noticed this year that students are more interested in the autobiography than anything else I have done with textbooks. I have used more technology with the autobiography assignments, including laptops to write our one-page essays (personal experience, expository, persuasive, research, etc), while keeping with the state standards. Unfortunately, in this depressed area, many students do not have access to some of the technology that others do. One of the areas in which my students could use help is saving information to take home to work on, or being able to save work from their home computer to bring to school. Another way to assist would be to have students without the access of computers at home, save work from my room and take it to the computer lab, or another room to work on during their free time. To do this, the students need to be able to save their information on portable storage devices. You will empower my students to use the technology that they might never get a chance to use. Together, we can use USB flash drives for each student to transfer information from school to home or vice versa, download pictures to bring in, or store and share their personal information. I will collect these flash drives at the end of the year to use in subsequent years.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 120 students impacted
Mrs. H. Wellsboro Area High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Wellsboro, PA 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

Never Before Funded 120 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
256mb Usb Flash Drive 1 Color Custm Logo • Best Buy $15.00 28 $420.00

Materials cost

$420.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $42.00

Sales tax

 $25.20

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$515.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$113.05

Total project goal

$628.05

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