Originally posted on November 9, 2010
After viewing amazing projects on donorschoose.org, I decided to make a
request for my own classroom. There are truly amazing things happening
in classrooms all over the country, and we can definitely use some
additional supplies in our own room. After a great deal of thought, I
decided that my students would benefit enormously from having a document
camera in our classroom. I had one during my last year in Spartanburg
and we used it constantly to enrich read alouds, capture images from
books to project on the promethean board, and to show student work. It
was especially wonderful during a math project in which students
designed their dream houses and shared their designs and area and
perimeter measurements with each other. We have wonderful resources at
our school now, but like every other school in America, we are really
feeling the budget crunch. Our classes are getting larger, but our
budget is getting smaller. Having a document camera would help me expose
all of my students to the materials we do have. Engaging students in
peer editing of their own work using the document camera would be
amazing as well. You can go to this link to read more in-depth and make a
donation, if you're so inclined. Thank you for thinking about this!
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