iLife Educator Award Winners: Possible GenYES Projects
At one time Apple sponsored a contest called the Apple iLife Educator Awards. This was created to recognize the most innovative uses of iLife, an integrated suite of Apple’s award-winning software for digital music, photography, moviemaking and DVD creation, in the classroom. Below are some of the 2003 award winners. These examples are a great addition to the GenYES projects that you can show GenYES students and partner teachers when they are thinking of engaging and unique technology integrated projects. Even though all of these projects were produces using the Apple iLife series, the ideas and concepts transfer to whatever platform you may be using.
I feel contests are a great way to get students and other teachers involved, engaged and excited about technology. Here are some other contest I found on the Education World site that range in grade level and technology experience. Check them out because the first deadlines are coming up.
URL: http://www.interwritelearning.com/contest/
Who Can Participate: The contest is open to all teachers and students in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia (still up for discussion) who can creatively show how they are using technology in the classroom or how they would like to use technology in their classroom.
Deadline: October 21, 2007
Competition Name: Portraits of Learning
URL: http://www.techlearning.com/portraits/index.php
Who Can Participate: All K-12 students may submit digital photos taken between January 1, 2007 and October 19, 2007.
Deadline: October 19, 2007
Description: Technology & Learning invites K-12 students to participate in the sixth annual digital photography contest. The competition challenges students to capture and share their unique vision of the world in a “Digital Diary –Through My Lens.” Prizes include a digital camera, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and more.
Competition Name: ThinkQuest International
URL: http://www.thinkquest.org
Who Can Participate: Students between the ages of 9 and 19, working in teams of three to six students and supervised by a teacher-coach, are eligible to enter.
Deadline: Registration began August 15, 2007. Web sites must be submitted by April 16, 2008.
Description: In this competition, sponsored by the Oracle Foundation, students work in teams to create educational Web sites that explore globally relevant topics.. All entries are published in the ThinkQuest Library; winning teams receive a variety of prizes, including laptop computers and a trip to ThinkQuest Live. A special award is presented to the team best demonstrating global perspective.
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