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Understanding crowdfunding

Understanding crowdfunding

From the course: Teacher Tips

Understanding crowdfunding

Hello educators and welcome to another week of Teacher Tips. This week we're taking a look at the idea of using Crowdfunding inside of the classroom. If you're not familiar with what Crowdfunding is, it's essential the idea that we take a lot of people resources and pull them together for single cost. For example in the classroom, if you want to buy some new technology or go on a field trip, well that can be very expensive and as a educator, it can be tough to cover those costs yourself. Well, through a crowdfunding platform, you have the ability to make your efforts known to a larger network of people who can then help pitch in to your cause. Crowdfunding typically happens in a few steps. The first step is creating a project, typically using a Crowdfunding platform. In the next video, we'll go ahead and explore the pros and cons of a few of the most popular educational Crowdfunding platforms. The project you create is basically putting parameters around what you need funding for, for…

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