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Mrs. Bauman from Salt Lake City UT is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Supercharging Bookshelves

My students need 3 Apple iPad Mini's for the library -to enable them to access QR codes, which will energize and infuse technology into the in-house book collection.

  • $1,351 goal

This project expired on November 28, 2013.

This project expired on November 28, 2013.

My Students

There is an epic battle starting: traditional books vs technology. Cue dramatic music. Help us build a bridge between the two factions in our Library Media Center!

In our school, I teach all 360 students both Information Literacy and Technology Literacy in the Library Media Center, this includes three classes of Special Education Students.

Our students are constantly engaged in producing technology based projects, both in their classroom and in the library media center. These kinds of projects build invaluable skills for the technology rich future that is before them. Here in the Library Media Center students create a wide variety of projects on the computers; everything from PowerPoint's, to Photostories, to animated movies via Xtranormal, talking reports via Blabberize, and more. The information they present is often curriculum based research, book trailers, re-tellings of classic stories, book reviews, and even creating dialogue for silent movies! While students take these skills with them, the actually finished products, many incredibly creative and useful, are graded then discarded. Help me to make use of them!

My Project

QR codes are part of the answer to integrating those student technology projects into the traditional bookshelves. A QR code is a kind of barcode that, when scanned, links the user to additional information hosted on the Internet. This can be a website, a document, an image, video or audio file. Student created projects that benefit library users directly such as book trailers, book reviews, and genre information presentations can be assigned these QR Codes. The code is printed and affixed to the relevant book or book shelves. This is where the iPad Mini's come in, they read QR codes, and instantly access the information they represent which is hosted online. Students browsing the library resources with one, would come across a QR code, say on a book they were interested in. They could then instantly watch a book trailer, created by a fellow student, about what to expect from this book. Pow! In you face instant information: created, presented, watched, and used by all our students.

Todays students live in a multi-media rich environment, so this project serves to drum up greater excitement and engagement, beyond reading the description on a book jacket.

It builds a bridge between the bookshelves of the past and the technology of the future. Its not only a way for student created technology projects to be continually useful, but these transactions serves as a dynamic and engaging way for students, browsing the library, to access a rich world of information via technology

Mrs. Bauman
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Apple® iPad® mini Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 6 - 32 GB - 7.9 • Best Buy for Business $429.99 1 $429.99
Apple® iPad® mini Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 6 - 16 GB - 7.9 • Best Buy for Business $329.99 1 $329.99
Apple® iPad® mini Wi-Fi - tablet - iOS 6 - 16 GB - 7.9 • Best Buy for Business $329.99 1 $329.99

Materials cost

$1,089.97

Vendor shipping charges

$12.00

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,148.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$202.64

Total project goal

$1,350.96

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