Whoa awesome offer swill!
I would love this board to show my students the various kinds of boards there are out there
I teach the computer science class at my school and have been bringing in my personal boards for them to try. I have fallen in love with this hobby and way of life, and have been charing as much as I can with my students during typing days. We start actual coding this week and so far they have seen the CM QFTK, the realforce 87ub (55g), and the rubber Dell boards at school. I have been letting them use my personal boards every once in a while, but I would like them to have more options to try out. They haven't tried the HHKB yet since I don't actually have my hhkb in right now.
I have not started an individual incentive program, which is a point system for those who embody our class values (teamwork, honesty, creativity, fun, achievement), but I have been thinking of ways to make learning more fun in our classroom. I would love to have classroom sets of boards for the students to be able to use when they show the school or class values above and beyond expectation, such as helping out a classmate, really trying to work hard, or creating a fun and creative environment, etc. As many of you know, it is hard to get students to be engaged and interested in class, and having a good incentive program is part of this. So far it is:
1. Listen to your own music during individual work time.
2. Choose songs for the class to listen to.
3. Homework pass.
4. Positive note home
5. Positive call home
You would be surprised how much the students love positive calls home and positive notes home. There is also a class incentive where if they reach 200 points they get a party as a class, other points along the way are small treats, slides of embarrassing pictures of me or pictures of me at their age, etc.
I would love to have another incentive (probably a new third one) to be able to use one of the boards that we have in the class. Moose just donated a Model M to the class so I will be able to lend that one out to them. Many of them have shown a huge interest in using this "clicky keyboards" and have been asking me a great deal of questions since I bring them in and am on GH during my breaks. Having the JD40 would mean that they would have an awesome board that they could really fight over using, meaning that they are embodying our culture and values and, hopefully, eventually it becomes a part of them. I want to be able to bring in a 60% board, 75% board, and my hhkb at some point. So I will be buying cheap boards as I see them come by for my students to use!
(RIP my poor teacher salary) The goal is to have 5-6 boards for the class so that tables can compete against each other to use the boards each day. Ideally: 40%, 60%, 75%, model M, full size, and maybe a second 75% or ergodox. Some sort of combo with those!
In return, I could have the students write a thank you letter, create a thank you video (they love making videos, ex:
http://youtu.be/5CDZxLQkQz8), I also have pet supplies that I could send out from the family pet store, or maybe some gasmask caps. Thank you for reading this super long post!