Archive for Contests
If you’re looking for opportunities to take your students’ videos to beyond the classroom, check out this contest from the Digital ID project:
Digital Citizenship PSA Contest
Tell us/show us, as a (digital) citizen, how you exercise your rights and act responsibly.
To help make your declaration public, we’ve created an online opportunity. Check it out!
(Up to) 90-Second Video Contribution
All students in grades 4-12 are warmly invited to contribute a video to our Digital Citizenship PSA Challenge Contest. Teachers may submit up to 3 student-generated videos. The rules are simple:
- Video must address authentic issues relevant to digital citizenship (cyberbullying, intellectual property, digital footprint, protecting privacy)
- Video must be appropriate for a mixed audience (from grade level to school board)
- Video must follow appropriate copyright guidelines
For more information on the contest, along with guidelines to help building an award-winning PSA, visit the Digital ID – PSA Challenge page.
If you have questions, please contact Gail Desler at gdesler@egusd.net.
If you’ve attended any of our Web 2.0 workshops, then you’ve probably heard us talk about the many reasons why we believe VoiceThread is an awesome PreK-Adult, cross-curricular tool.
If you’re new to VoiceThread and are wondering how your school site might benefit from having a VoiceThread School Account, we recommend taking a quick tour. Start with an in-district project from a group of Prairie Elementary School 4th graders. With over 20,000 visitor’s to their Letters from the Internment Camps VoiceThread, these students have invited a worldwide audience to reflect on and document an event that overnight changed the history and demographics of the Elk Grove-Florin community.
Need more examples of how VoiceThread can extend learning across the curriculum? Head into the VoiceThread Library and browse the projects or scroll through the Ideas for Using VoiceThread.
So here’s the good news: The wonderful developers of VoiceThread have offered to provide all EGUSD schools with a free trial account for the remainder of the school year. But wait…there’s more! One site will win a year-long school account for the 2011-12 school year!
Here’s how to bring your site into the contest:
- Take this quick survey.
- Forward the survey link to any teachers at your site you think would be interested in adding VoiceThread to their teaching toolkit
- Each time you create and integrate a VoiceThread into one of your lessons, please leave a comment on the VoiceThread below. Be sure to include your full name and school site as part of your comment.
The 2011-12 VoiceThread School Account will be awarded to the site that makes the best use of this year’s trial offer. The contest ends on June 15, 2011. We’ll announce the winning site on June 30.
Want to learn more about VoiceThread before entering the contest? Join our next class on Monday, March 14th, 2011 or Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the EGUSD Technology Services Annex.
VoiceThread Tutorials
Getting Started With VoiceThread
Creating a VoiceThread Video Tutorial
The Elk Grove Unified School District, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, has selected the winners of the Internet Safety Video Contest. The video contest is one component of Elk Grove Unified’s Internet Safety Initiative, which involves a three-pronged approach to educate staff, parents and students about cyberbullying, online predator strategies and other online Internet safety issues. The Elk Grove Unified School District and U.S. Attorney’s Office have partnered on the contest to increase awareness about Internet safety.
The 2011 Internet Safety Video Contest is an innovative example of how Elk Grove Unified has taken the initiative to be a leader in the importance of Internet safety outreach. The initiative includes professional development classes about Internet Safety and Web 2.0 technology, 2Webwatcher’s blog and cyber ethics for staff and Internet safety classes for parents.
Most recently, students in grades 4-12 were invited to produce a PSA video that promotes the safe and ethical use of the Internet. Winners and honorees were selected at the elementary and high school levels. The students were recognized at the EGUSD Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. The following students were recognized:
Elitha Donner/Foulks Ranch Elementary School
Back Row (l to r): Michelle Prince, Gail Desler, Kathleen Watt, Charlie Chatten, Jorge Arvizu, Chris Perris, Mary Beth Kropp, Jim Bentley, Al Rowlett – Front Row (l to r): Elizabeth Graswich, Dominick Williams, Andrew Mirazo, Kyle Gilliland, Jordyn Wong, Lawayne Clark, Thao Pham, Alex Catlett
Elk Grove High School
Back Row (l to r): Gail Desler, Kathleen Watt, Michelle Prince, Al Rowlett
Front Row (l to r): Elizabeth Graswich, Cathy Guy, Gina Pompei, Briana McClurg, Jennifer Moore, Jorge Vina, Tyler Steege
The winners for the contest are as follows:
1st Place Elementary School (tie) – Foulks Ranch Elementary School
Cyberbullying
Kay Salas
Ariana Murray
Alex Catlett
Thao Pham
Nicole Skinner
(Teacher/Supervisor – Jim Bentley)
1st Place Elementary School (tie) – Elitha Donner Elementary School
Texting and Driving Don’t Mix
Kyle Gilliland
Dominick Williams
Lawayne Clark
Ryan Dunbar
Andrew Mirazo
(Teachers/Supervisors – Chris Perris, Charlie Chatten )
1st Place High School – Elk Grove High School
Behind Closed Doors
Brianna McClurg
Jorge Viña
Tyler Steege
Gina Pompei
(Teacher/Supervisor – Jennifer Moore)
>>>>>>>Click here to view the winning PSA videos<<<<<<<
The Elk Grove Unified School District, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is proud to announce the 2010 Internet Safety Video Contest. Students in grades 4-12 are invited to produce a PSA (public service announcement) video that promotes the safe and ethical use of the Internet.
All entries are limited to one minute. Video titles and credits are not included in the time limit. Awards will be given in three grade-level divisions – 4-6, 7-8 and 9-12 – at an awards ceremony at the January Board Meeting.
We invite you to download the contest flyer, guidelines, and entry form – and get started with your video production! Please leave us a comment if you have questions or need additional information about the contest.
Is your principal or vice principal out there in the edublogosphere? If so, wouldn’t it be awesome to have an EGUSD administrator join the ranks of bloggers who have been added to Scott McCloud‘s growing Moving Forward wiki, such as elementary school principal Vincent Baxter, middle school principal Chris Lindholm, and high school principal Patrick Larkin?
If your EGUSD principal or vice principal is not out in the edublogosphere yet, how about nominating him/her for a free Edublogs Supporter Level account? We (2WebWatchers) will provide any training and support needed.
The nomination process is very simple. Click on our comment link, and complete the statement below – inserting his/her name and why you think he or she would make good use of this powerful web 2.0 technology tool.
I nominate ______________ to become an Edublogs Supporter because I know he/she will __________________________________________________________.”
We will be selecting three winners from your nomiations. Good luck!
PS – We moderate (approve) all comments, but within a few hours, you should see your comment go “live.”
EGUSD student filmmakers were honored the evening of December 16, 2008, for their participation in the district’s First Annual Internet Safety Video Contest.
U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott and the EGUSD Board of Education recognized 27 EGUSD students for their work on their Internet safety videos. First place and honorable mention awards were given for Elementary, Middle and High School categories.
Based on the success of this year’s contest, we look forward to it becoming an annual event.
To view the winning videos, please visit the Spotlight story on the EGUSD website.
The entry deadline for our EGUSD Internet Safety Video Contest is October 31, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. Entries must be submitted to the EGUSD Communications Department located at Robert L. Trigg Education Center, 9510 Elk Grove‐Florin Road, 95624. For more information, please view our original contest post.
If you have any questions about the contest, email us at 2Webwatchers@egusd.net.
The Elk Grove Unified School District, in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, is proud to announce the 2008 Internet Safety Video Contest. Students in grades 4-12 are invited to produce a video that promotes the safe and ethical use of the Internet.
Students can choose from four categories – PSA (public service announcement), School News & Events, Instructional/How To and Documentary. All entries, with the exception of PSAs, cannot exceed three minutes. A PSA entry cannot exceed one minute. Video titles and credits are not included in the time limit. Awards will be given in three grade-level divisions – 4-6, 7-8 and 9-12 – at an awards ceremony on December 16, 2008.
We invite you to download the contest flyer, guidelines, and entry form – and get started with your video production! Please leave us a comment if you have questions or need additional information about the contest.
