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Mr. Chapin from Lahaina, HI is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Journalism Text Books and Transcription Recorders

Help me give my students voice recorders, and books about writing for the knowledge and means to change their campus and give their fellow students a voice.

  • $2,145 goal

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My Project

Our student paper, Ka Lama Hawai'i has only recently gone live and our first class of student writers has begun to pitch their story ideas for the semester. The purpose of our paper is to amplify student voices on campus. Yet, currently, we have only two recording and transcription devices to share between 9 student journalists. Moreover, those devices are tablets with software that can be awkward to transport and hold. The widespread integration of AI technology this year has made recording and transcription more convenient than ever. We need an easy and effective way to capture the thoughts and opinions of students on campus and these seem to provide that.

The recording devices will help our Journalism students amplify the voices of their peers and more copies of our course texts books will ensure that their message is clear and effective.

Before now, I only had three copies of these texts for the News Writing Club to use. Now that the paper is maintained by a class, we clearly need more.

These texts are essential to our studentsʻ learning. All together, they provide a theoretical understanding of the news and its importance, technical information about news writing in different genres, and stylistic and technical advice for activities like generating interview questions and producing journalistic prose with a literary purpose. Guided by these lights, and enabled by new technology, our students are sure to become skilled and purposeful communicators who seek the right kinds of change in their communities. Please help them get there!

Mr. Chapin Lahainaluna High School Grades 9-12

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
iFLYTEK Voice Recorder with Playback, Digital Voice Recording Device with Transcription to Text, 2-inch Touch Screen Recorder, Audio Recorder Zoom Recorder Device for Lectures, Conference, Interview • Amazon Business $229.99 5 $1,149.95
The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide • Amazon Business $18.00 10 $180.00
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University • Amazon Business $13.02 10 $130.20
The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 4th Edition: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (2021) • Amazon Business $12.59 10 $125.90
The Associated Press Guide to News Writing, 4th Edition • Amazon Business $10.69 10 $106.90

Materials cost

$1,692.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $74.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$25.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,822.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$321.68

Total project goal

$2,144.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,144.51

9 Donors

-$1,671.33

Donations toward project cost

-$1,420.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$250.70

Matching donations from our partners

-$473.18

Match offers toward project cost

-$402.20

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.98

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