US teachers have flooded school-centric charity website DonorsChoose.org to snap up Chrome notebook computers Google made available to classrooms for just $99 each. DonorsChoose said on December 11 that it was no longer taking Chromebook requests from instructors since the allotted supply was exhausted due to the "tremendous response" to the offer.
DonorsChoose is a website where people can donate money to back class projects or provide gear needed in cash-strapped schools based on needs or goals laid out by teachers.
"For many students and teachers, the hassles of traditional computing often prevent them from making the most of technology in the classroom," Google group product manager Rajen Sheth said in a blog post.
"Schools that have adopted Chromebooks, however, have been able to bring the web's vast educational resources - whether it's conducting real-time research or collaborating on group projects - right into the classroom." More than a thousand US schools use Chromebooks in classrooms, according to Sheth.