20% Project

When this project was assigned in the beginning of the semester, I really thought I would have no trouble with it. Picking anything I wanted to spend 20% of my class time on.  How hard could it be?  Boy was I wrong.  So many possibilities and no guidelines I realized I couldn't do.  I need a set vision to stick too, to help me along the way.  I finally decided on writing a grant.  I hoped by doing this I would be able to possibly receive money for my school to purchase ipads/ipod touches.  When I began, I started to realize I bit off too much.  As my sister said, "don't they pay someone to write the grants for schools".  I was getting more and more stressed with the process, until I was talking to another teacher about the project.  I mentioned what I was doing and how much harder it was then I thought it was going to be, and that's when she mentioned donors choose.  Donors choose is a program where public school teachers can post projects for their classroom and then people can choose to give donations to different projects.  I began to look into this and knew immediately this is what I would do my 20% project on.  The whole process of beginning the project was very easy.  Donors choose gives very clear directions and explains clearly what the teacher must do.  I was able to set it up in a couple days asking for 3 ipod touches, 3 chargers, and 3 covers.  After they reviewed everything I got an email letting me know everything was ready to go and I could start letting people know as ell as it would be posted on their website.  I'm very excited to hopefully receive enough donations in the 5 month limit they have to receive the ipod touches to use in my class.
Below is the link to check my information out.
http://www.donorschoose.org/we-teach/1167305.2096174462