2008 SIGMS Award winners
2008 Elementary School Award Winner
 
Kathy Sanders (left), Library Media and Technology Specialist, and Gwen Pavelski (right), Second Grade Teacher, Taylor Prairie Elementary School, Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, for Weather Watch: Making History
This year’s record-breaking snowfall provided the catalyst to engage nineteen second graders and forged a collaborative partnership between their teacher and the library media specialist. Weather Watch: Making History is a multidisciplinary project where second graders researched a natural event in their community and met multiple learning goals in an authentic way. The learning goals of the project addressedWisconsin’s core content standards as well as the NETS–S and the AASL standards. (http://makinghistorysnowadventure.googlepages.com/)
Honorable Mention, elementary school:
- Journey North by Stony Creek Elementary, Noblesville, Indiana
- Project SuperCharge at John Glenn Elementary, San Antonio, Texas
2008 Secondary School Award Winner
 Terri Vest, Spanish teacher, and Cawood Cornelius, Library Media Specialist, Sonoraville High School, Calhoun, Georgia, for Spanish Project
This collaborative project began as a means to address the need for authentic experiences in which students could be immersed in the language and culture of Spanish-speaking countries. Although students have access to a small local Hispanic community, immersion in the culture happens sporadically or not at all. This project gave an in-depth study of Spanish-speaking countries of the world to a first year Spanish language class using available instructional methods combined with new presentation methods.
Honorable Mention, secondary school:
- Middle East Project, Portage Central High School, Portage, Michigan
- Advanced Placement Project, T.R. Robinson High School, Tampa, Florida
- Celebrating the Twentieth Century, Westmont Junior High School, Westmont, Illinois
- Library Chat with Bibliocat and Readers' Choice Roundabout, Gettys Middle School, Easley, South Carolina (http://gmsmc.blogspot.com http://choicebooks.blogspot.com)
First place winners will receive a one-year ISTE membership for two team
members, $1,000 cash award payable to their school’s media center, a $500
travel stipend to attend NECC as well as NECC registration, a $1,000
professional library from Linworth Publishing and a one-year subscription to
Library Media Connection magazine for each team member. Additionally,
winners will be featured in an article to appear in ISTE’s Learning and
Leading with Technology and inLibrary Media Connection magazine.
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