2008 SIGTEL ONLINE LEARNING AWARD WINNERS
The Online Learning Award competition recognizes creative teachers worldwide for their pioneering use of telecommunication networks to provide innovative learning opportunities for school-age students K-16. Awards were presented at the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, TX June 29-July 2.
ISTE SIGTel is pleased to announce the 2008 Online Learning winning projects.
2008
Winners:
- FIRST PLACE: Monica Cougan, Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC), Indianapolis, IN, Beverly Mattocks, Center for Interactive learning and Collaboration, Indianapolis, IN, Tammy Parks, Howe High School, Howe, OK, Debora Birdsong, Stamford High School, Stamford, TX, Lynne Sueoka, Moanalua High School, Honolulu HI, and Jan Zanetis (Tandberg - Supporting Partner), Reston, VA for “KC3 Project” http://kc3.cilc.org/
(From left to right: Trina Davis, Monica Cougan, Beverly Mattacks, Tammy Parks, Don Knezek)
Summary: CLIC were looking for ways to engage students in authentic research, presentation skills and use of technology. They wanted to encourage students to create content, opening the doors to collaboration and learning. In addition, they felt it would be a great way to promote 21st Century Learning skills and technology among our students. Thus, two organizations worked together to support the Kids Creating Community Content (KC3) Contest. There are many contests for students, but this one is unique in nature supporting the use of videoconferencing as a tool for kids to design and deliver content about their communities to others. Since the KC3 content projects had to be created collaboratively between the educator and his/her students, each teacher and group of students impacted a variety of curriculum objectives. The curriculum areas covered in the entire KC3 project included Math, Science, History and Language. Each class that participated in this KC3 project had to support two levels of curriculum objectives - those they were covering for their students, as well as design the project with a focus on the curriculum objectives of their targeted audience.
(From left to right: Brian Crosby, Trina Davis, Lisa Parisi, Don Knezek, Christine Southard)
Summary: This writing project was a collaborative project regarding the book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg. This book is a series of pages with a title and one line from different books. Children ages 9 -12 collaboratively wrote a story that goes along with each page of the book, creating their own versions. There were 14 classes from around the world involved in this project. Each class was paired up with another. Classes communicated through Google docs, email, and Skype. Students were paired up with one or two students from their partner class. Together, they created original stories. They also learned how to communicate effectively with students who were not sitting right next to them. Collaboration was a key skill learned during this project.
(From left to right: Trina Davis, Harry Konnor Tetteh, Anne Lambert, Don Knezek)
Summary: For the past four years, Muir has entered the Doors to Diplomacy (D2D) competition at GlobalSchoolnet.org. “Doors” requires students to teach others about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy. This project has become a graduation requirement and part of the senior exhibition for Grade Twelve at our California magnet school. This year for the second time, Anne collaborated in this project with Harry Konnor Tetteh. His students wrote, “ Our school, Opoku Ware School is ...in Santasi...there are quite a number of internet cafes, a market, a lorry park, and one or two pharmacies.” This jazz project is one of ten projects our two schools completed this year for D2D.
Highly Commended:
- Kelly Kua, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, HI, for “Hawai`i Nei” (http://blackboard.ksbe.edu )
- Wendy Drexler, Shorecrest Preparatory School, St. Petersburg, FL, George Mayo, Silver Spring International Middle School, Silver Spring, MD and Bill Ferriter, Salem Middle School, Apex, NC, for “Many Voices for Darfur” (http://www.manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com/ )
- Kelly Dukelow, Kamehameha Schools Virtual Strategies and Distance Learning, Honolulu, HI for “Ku`u Kupuna Profile Project” (http://www.blackboard.com/resources/connections/kamehameha.html )
- Leaunda Hemphill, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL for “Looking at Technology Integration Issues in the K12 Classroom: A Cross-Cultural Collaboration” (http://98.222.64.193/moodle )
- Margaret Lloyd, School of Maths, Science and Technology Education, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia, Nadine MacAninch, St. Stephens Catholic Primary School, Algester, Australia, Robyn Ford, Hobartville Public School, Hobartville, Australia, Linda Pilkington, Sunshine Beach State School, Sunshine Beach, Australia, and Jonathan Clark, Pallara State School, Pallara, Australia for “Land Yachts” ( http://www.oz-teachernet.edu.au/projects/yachts/ )
- Jody Meacher, Global Learning Institute, Magog, Quebec, Canada and Penny Murray, Parkview Elementary School, Granby, Quebec, Canada for “Dragons: Good or Evil?”
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