Support Technology in my Classroom

Hello-- My newest project proposal on donorschoose is live.  I have successfully gotten one laptop for my classroom, and am hoping to build a collection so we can form a classroom lab for writing and sharing writing online, doing research, learning web tools, etc.

The one laptop I've gotten is used almost daily now by my students.

Please click on the link, give what you can, and share with friends!  I plan on having my students promote these proposals as a project, and I'm interested to see whether it makes a difference in how quickly they are funded.  Freshmen will create promotions in a project that emphasizes habits of mind, and juniors will work more from the angle of persuasive writing.

Here is a shortened URL you can use to share the project:  http://tinyurl.com/3h4lokc

Thanks for your help in creating 21st Century writers!

Laptops for Learning-- Please Donate!

Please consider donating to my current Donorschoose project. It is my most ambitious proposal yet, and if it doesn't get funded I will have risked 4 of my hard-won points (earned by completing other successful projects) for nothing.

Laptops for Learning



The idea is to get some laptops for use in my classroom at Tucson High Magnet School, to support the writing process as well as our online learning community (a Ning site.)

This proposal will get us 10 mini Dells with wireless internet capability. Sweet.

Our local TUSD override election, props. 401 and 402 failed in November, which, paired with crippling budget cuts at the state level, means that there will likely be few to no computer upgrades and inadequate maintenance for years to come. However, the techs at our school know that I created this proposal and they have offered tech support for any computers I get for my classroom.

Please help if you can, or at least spread the word!

Thanks!