I ❤️ Donors Choose!

So I work at a school that is very fortunate when it comes to technology. We each have interactive whiteboards, document cameras, laptops, computer clusters and a set of net books. I love using technology in my classroom, especially at work stations. I felt like my classroom was missing one station and piece of technology. I had seen other people blogging about using iPods at their listening stations to replace those old school cd and cassette players. I searched for options and sadly my district budget was just not an option, so I looked elsewhere. This is when I discovered www.donorschoose.org! I love this website and it's amazing to see how many generous people there are in the world!

So I took the first step and created my account. You can check out my page here:
www.donorschoose.org/MissCoulombe

They link you up with one of their vendors and you go shopping. Once you post your project and it gets approved, donations can start pouring in. In 2 weeks my project was totally funded and my iPods and headphones were shipped to me.

So once you receive your items, it's your job to take 6 pictures of your students using the materials, have the kids wrote thank you notes and you have to write a thank you letter to the donors. It is a very  small task considering all that you get!

To use these iPods as a listening center, I had to open an iTunes account and sync all of my books on cd onto iTunes. Then I just created a listening response page and off the kids went!

You can find my listening response sheet on teacherspayteachers here:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Listening-Center-Response-Sheet-1123480

I hope you enjoyed this! If you follow my blog, I'll send you my listening center response sheet for free!

Jessica :)