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Donors Choose for your Classroom

A few years ago on a lark I asked my wife to buy me a ukulele for Christmas. After almost two years of noodling with it at home and at school (modeling learning to my students) I decided that I wanted to start a ukulele club at school. I talked to my building principal about it and she was very supportive. With money always an issue I told her that I would like to try Donors Choose, a site where teachers can ask for money to be used to fund projects.

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Facebook Changes and the MSTA Page

Have you noticed that MSTA’s posts aren’t showing up in your Facebook newsfeed lately?

As usual, Facebook has made some changes and now requires "liked" pages, like ours to pay to promote our content to all of our fans. If we don’t promote our posts, only about 10 percent of those who like us receive our updates.

You can make changes to your newsfeed so you see all MSTA’s posts. Go to our Facebook page and hover your mouse over the "Like" button (if you've already liked us, it will say "Liked"). In the pop-up select Add To The Interest Lists.


Then create an interest list by clicking New List.


In the window that comes up next, make sure Missouri State Teachers is selected (with a check mark and outlined in blue) and click next.


Now you’ll need to name your list (MSTA, Fan Pages, whatever you’d like!) and select who you’d like to be able to see the posts from us (Public – everyone, Friends – just your friends, Only Me – just you.   We suggest friends, which was the original default). 


Now, you can see all MSTA posts by clicking on Interests on the left hand side of your news feed (about two-thirds down the home page).

You can use the above instructions for any Facebook page you care about, so you can continue seeing all the posts from the pages you like.

Please let us know if you have any questions.