Testimonials

The students were excited to have this new piece of technology available in my classroom and it proved to be very motivating. It is versatile, compact and durable, allowing students to video different backgrounds and landscapes as they learned new skills. They used the cameras for interviewing and were able to follow directions successfully with increased confidence and skill. The size and portability of these cameras was a vast improvement over other video cameras with good quality results. There was a significant interest in film making skills because of these new cameras. Thank You for enriching our technology classroom!

“We’re teaching kids to go into the industry and work. This is the type of welder they are going to be using in the work place. We’re so grateful. This is something for our students we are going to use for a long time.

We were awarded 30 graphing calculators. This kindhearted gift was utilized daily by our students. They were able to work the much more complicated problems that our new curriculum requires without getting bogged down in all the computation. As our nation moves toward more science, math, and technology education, our Wylie 8th graders will be ahead of the game.

I have used the clavinova to enhance every aspect of teaching music, from songs, to rhythm, solfege, singing, and even keeping a steady beat! The students love getting to hear how high and low the clavinova can play, and they love hearing all of the different sounds the metronome can make. The grant provided by the Wylie Bulldog Education Foundation has proved to be an invaluable gift. Its impact on students, choirs, and audiences will be heard (literally) for many years to come!

Having the Elmo TT-02RX Document Camera has allowed students the opportunity to see clearly, up close and personal, whatever it is that I am demonstrating. The best example I can describe is the improvement this year in the students’ self-portrait drawing. Amazingly, students were able to stay in their seat and see every tiny detail of my drawing demonstrations. The students spent a day learning each individual feature and they clearly understood. I was able to zoom in and out, showing up-close every detail and technique of drawing and shading an eye, for example, and the subtle shadows of the face. Thinking back to the way I used to demonstrate, students needed less one-on-one help because the demonstrations were so large and clear.

These grants have been vitally important to my classroom. The cool stuff is expensive, and I’ve gotten several things I could not have purchased on my own. The district provides everything we need, but we can do so much more if we can get some of those wants. I have been really thankful to get to do that.

We use these desk atlases on a weekly basis and the students locate items using political, physical, and many other types of maps to enrich to student’s knowledge. These atlases encourage independent learning and hopefully a curiosity about our ever changing world. By using the atlases in World Geography, I believe we are helping students have a broader understanding of cultures, governments, climates, and how countries relate to one another. This knowledge will help them when relating to current events in the world and may even help them later in life when choosing a career.

“Breakout EDU is an interactive review game that they can do to practice the skills they have learned. They have to problem solve, figure out where their errors are to break the locks and escape. It’s been fun to do. They have enjoyed it.