Congrats to all involved!!!
ISTE Announces Winners of 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Awards Eugene, OR 97401-3003 May 5 2008 The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE(r)) has named the winners of the 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Awards. Sponsored by ISTE’s Special Interest Group for Telelearning (SIGTel), the Online Learning Awards recognize creative educators worldwide for their pioneering use of telecommunications networks to provide innovative learning opportunities for students in grades K-16. The awards will be presented at the National Education Computing Conference, to be held June 29 through July 2 in San Antonio, Texas.
This year’s SIGTel Online Learning Award winners have been selected from a field of outstanding international submissions. All projects were evaluated through an online process provided by Global SchoolNet. Judges assessed projects on the quality of the online learning activity from planning through evaluation, specifically the degree to which the project enhanced regular classroom activity, its achievement of goals and objectives, and the entrant’s reflections about the project.
The 2008 SIGTel Online Learning Award winners are the following:
* First place: Monica Cougan, Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration, Indianapolis, Ind., United States, with Tammy Parks, Lynne Sueoka, Debora Birdsong, and Christie Rickert for the “KC3 Project.”
* Second place: Lisa Parisi, Denton Avenue Elementary School, New Hyde Park, N.Y., United States, with Christine Southerd, Brian Crosby, and Martha Thornburgh for the “Mysteries of Harris Burdick Collaborative Writing Project.”
* Third place: Anne Lambert, John Muir School, San Diego, Calif., United States, with Harry Konnor Tetteh, Isaac Immanuel Opuni Frimpong, Julius Selasi Komla Adjor, and Gideon Sarpong for the project “Doors to Diplomacy: Jazz.”
* The following projects were highly commended:
*Kelly Cua, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, for the “Hawai’I Nei” project.
*Wendy Drexler, Shorecrest Preparatory School, St. Petersburg, Fla., United States, for the “Many Voices for Darfur” project.
*Kelly Dukelow, Kamehameha Schools Virtual Strategies and Distance Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, for the “Ku’u Kupuna Profile Project.”
*Leaunda Hemphill, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Ill., United States, for the project “Looking at Technology Integration Issues in the K12 Classroom: A Cross-Cultural Collaboration.”
*Margaret Lloyd, School of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia, for the “Land Yachts” project.
*Jody Meacher, Global Learning Institute, Eastern Townships School Board, Magog, Quebec, Canada, for the project “Dragons: Good or Evil?”
For more information about the SIGTel Online Learning Awards, visit www.iste.org/sigtel.
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