| The DonorsChoose deal | [Sep. 30th, 2007|07:55 pm] |
Honestly, the lj_biz post is kinda tl;dr, and I didn't get all this on the first skim. So, to recap:
- You can get a $30 certificate to benefit a proposal for children's school supplies
- You get to choose which proposal of many to apply it to
- It is no cost to you
- Presumably, you must still have an LJ, which I'm sure many of us do. It doesn't say anything about the paid/unpaid status of your account, that I could find, but I didn't read all the comments
- Non-Americans may participate, however:
- The gifts only benefit American schools
Just to address some of the comment wank taking place in the lj_biz post: yeah, only American schools. I'm American, and I'd still do it if it was only New Zealand schools (or something) benefitting. Also:
- It costs LJ and/or their sponsors money and time, so it can't be all bad
- Deadline to request a certificate (not to "spend" it) is tomorrow, Monday, Oct 1, 5pm Pacific. (1am Tuesday Greenwich or 8pm Monday Eastern)
- A couple people I know have pending proposals for their classes, but no hard data on that yet. Will update when their proposals are up.
Edit:
"I have a student who has some serious problems with reading. At the end of last year I made a deal with her that if she would read them with me I would buy her a copy of each Harry Potter book, and that we would try to read all seven by the end of the year. At the start of this year I thought what was an even better idea was to get a small group together, all classmates and friends, some strong readers and some with weaknesses, and we'd read it as a circle.
Despite quietly asking around who might be interested, word got out and now many, many students want in. Worse yet, there are three other teachers who want to be involved.
And this afternoon, the worst thing of all happened.
I was talking to the tenth grade English teacher (the one I was supposed to be working with this year) and somewhere in this utterly insane conversation we realized that with four teachers involved we could split the kids into four groups.
And since there are four houses at Hogwarts...
That's right, folks, we're going to sort the students and have four "houses" in competition to see who can read furthest into the series by the end of the year. I think we'll also find a way to discuss the books with the groups based on the philosophies of the houses.
I need to stop having these ideas." |
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