My close friend Victoria is currently in the running to win a Pepsi Refresh Grant to use in her classroom. Please help her out by texting 101134 to PEPSI (73774).
~You can also vote online at http://www.refresheverything.com/nintendoclassroomproject
You can vote by each method once a day. I've posted an overview of what the grant money would be used for below. And just for fun, I've posted an old picture of me and Victoria.. Please don't judge us. We like to dress up in 80s clothes and dance around to The Flashdance soundtrack. Oh, and we also have perfected the Blue Steel look. If you don't know what that means then you need to meet us at the abandoned Member's Only Jacket warehouse for a walk off. If you are still not getting it, you need to watch the movie Zoolander.
Project Overview:
As a technology charter school, we pay special attention to using all sorts of technology in our everyday classroom activities. I piloted this program last school year but hit some road blocks since not all of my students at my Title 1 school have Nintendo DSi's. I have used the pictochat program to practice skills such as: singular/plural nouns, contractions, and possessive nouns. I'd like to ask for a class set of Nintendo DSi machines along with several games to aide their learning in not only Language Arts but in Mathematics. This is a cutting edge way to teach in this fast paced world and parents have been happy with the results. Parents have even been quoting studies where children with ADHD do well with electronic methods of learning/stimulation and have given me praise for using this technology in my classroom. So far, I've seen it do great things, and I'd like to see how much farther my students can go with this excellent form of technology.
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