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Criteria for Educators

The Take Your Classroom Global! Contest is your chance to showcase your most creative and collaborative teaching and learning. If youre a teacher, you are encouraged to submit student work as part of your application, but it will be considered as an outcome of your own work as a teacher, such as projects or lessons youve designed. Your students are also invited to separately enter the contest, and their entries will be judged as part of our student contest. Our judges will be looking for the following when they read your responses to the application questions and review your entry links:

  • Collaboration
    • Among students, whether working in teams to complete the project in the same classroom or in different locations
    • Among educators, whether from different subject areas working on projects across the curriculum or in different locations
  • Creativity and Innovation
    • Content and ideas that are fresh, original, and used as tools for learning in creative new ways
    • Student engagement with the project itself and creative problem-solving
    • How other educators can learn from this project and adapt and implement it themselves
  • Global Perspective/Awareness
    • Opportunities for students to gain cross-cultural dialogue and understanding
    • Global issues integrated into core subject(s)
    • Opportunities for student engagement in and out of the classroom
  • 21st Century Literacies (media and ICT literacies)
    • Use of technology, including Web 2.0 tools, to convey information, to support collaboration, and to facilitate student learning and media creation

Prizes for Educators

All winners and runners-up will be featured in the TIGed Best Practices publication to be released at NECC. In addition, prize winners will receive:

  • 1st Prize Pack:
    • Digital camera and photo printer
    • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Membership
    • TIGed School membership (15 teacher licenses)
  • 2nd Prize Pack:
    • Microsoft Presenter 2003, webcam and headset
    • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Membership
    • TIGed School membership (15 teacher licenses)
  • 3rd Prize Pack:
    • Webcam and headset
    • TIGed School membership (15 teacher licenses)
    • A book from the ISTE bookstore
Honorable Mentions will receive TIG prize packs that include individual one-year license to TIGed and Amazon gift certificates!

Criteria for Students

The Take Your Classroom Global! Contest is your chance to showcase your most creative and collaborative school projects. Our judges will be looking for the following when they read your responses to the application questions [link to questions] and review your entry links:

  • Collaboration
    • How you worked with other students, either in person in one class, or by collaborating online from different locations, to complete the project
  • Creativity and Innovation
    • The content and ideas in your project are fresh and original
    • Problem solving and critical thinking leading to new ways of understanding the issues
  • Global Perspective/Awareness
    • Global issues are related to school subjects
    • Student interest and involvement with the issues goes beyond the classroom
  • 21st Century Literacies (media and ICT literacies)
    • Using technology to learn about issues, communicate with others, share information, create media
    • Using social networks and online tools like blogs, podcasts, video, or wikis in creative ways that contribute to learning and communication

Prizes for Students

All winners and runners-up will be featured in the TIGed Best Practices publication to be released at NECC. In addition, prize winners will receive:

1st prize: Digital camera
2nd prize: Nintendo DS
3rd prize: Gameboy Advance Micro

Judges

Idit Caperton
World Wide Workshop Foundation

Bruce Dixon
Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation

Allyson Knox
Microsoft Partners in Learning

Cherrie Kong
University of Auckland

Anita McAnear
International Society for Technology in Education

Sue Roliff
Macklin Public School

Derek Wenmoth
CORE Education