Chromebooks Support a Journalist's Investigative Journey
Help me give my students an awesome Lenovo Chromebook C330 2-in-1 Convertible Laptop!
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Pond, M.Ed.'s classroom raised $333
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our school community contains a diverse array of students whose backgrounds and needs are as unique as the families and cultures that proudly support them. We are a school community that is extremely rich in pride, strong in support, and filled with a passion to succeed.
As our school community continues to grow, our classroom continues to be a place where a high degree of emphasis is placed on engaging, innovative, and relevant learning.
Each year, I am so proud of the maturity that my students develop when it comes to their learning and personal growth as young adults. It is truly a passion of mine to offer the supplies, resources, and technology that will allow my students to gain the knowledge, as well as practice the skills, needed for success in their future college and career journeys.
I remain thankful for the support of citizen donors as well as corporate sponsors/foundations who continue to impact our classroom and transform it in inspiring ways!
My Project
Chromebooks are a perfect fit for our English Language Arts class and the budding journalists that are within our classroom because they are light, portable, and cost-effective for a large group. In this day and age, journalists/writers have to be mobile and able to connect to many cloud-based mediums and as we are a cloud-based classroom in which 99% of the programs and tools that we use are cloud-based ones such as Microsoft Word Online, PowerPoint Online, Nearpod, Microsoft Office 365, CommonLit, etc., this 2-in-1 Chromebook is perfect for us! Chromebooks align with our fast-paced classroom because they start-up quickly, the wi-fi connections are strong, the operating system is intuitive, and ALL of the programs and tools that we use to write and collaborate work best when accessed through the Chrome browser. As writers/presenters/journalists, having this versatile piece of technology at our disposal has been a great benefit and adding more will continue to increase our connection to meaningful instructional tools and technology.
The ability to support all of my students' learning through a 1:1 Chromebook classroom will inherently impact our classroom environment in a positive manner.
Possessing suitable technology that will help my students cultivate an environment of research, design, exploration, and creation will be such a powerful force as they strive to pursue their dreams and be successful in life as students, journalists, and beyond.
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
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