Next conference: March 6-7, 2009, New York City
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SCHOOL AWARDS: CHASE "Multimedia in the Classroom"
AWARDS COMPETITION
The Chase Multimedia in the Classroom Awards Competition celebrates
the achievements of teachers and students who are transforming
learning environments through technology. This year we are proud to announce these award-winning schools:
AND THE 2008 WINNERS ARE: Think Globally, Act Locally (A Video Global Awareness Project)
Tamarac Elementary School, Holtsville, NY
After studying polar bears and the ecological damage to their habitats caused by global warming, the students worked to create solutions and used Photo Story to share their knowledge with others.
View Videos Environmental Health (Web Global Awareness Project)
Shelter Rock Elementary School, Manhasset, NY
Utilizing the broad reach of the Internet, students learned to use a wiki to disseminate information on the effect of food choices. They created sample menus and various products to demonstrate the importance of consuming locally grown foods.
View Web Site Comparing Hemispheres (Web Science Project)
Denton Avenue Elementary School, New Hyde Park, NY
Using pictures, photographs, screen casts, and video, Long Island students and New Zealand students created a wiki to compare the different aspects of the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
View Web Site Water Around the World (Multimedia Science/Global Awareness Project)
P.S. 221 The North Hills School, Little Neck, NY
While researching how to increase the world's access to clean water, the students recorded the data and created presentation boards ranking nations in order of quality water per person. They created a DVD presenting the importance of this global crisis with ideas to enhance clean water for all.
The Earthquake Guys (Video Science Project)
MS225 The Theatre Arts Production Company School, Bronx, NY
The Earthquake Guys, students who are experts on the subject of earthquakes, share their knowledge in an engaging, easy-to-understand, and humorous way, using cookies and celery sticks to explain their subject.
View Videos Our Town (Video Science/Global Awareness Project)
South Avenue Magnet School, Beacon, NY
Through research and on-site interviews with experts in specific areas of interest regarding the Hudson River, grade 6 through 9 students created this 30-minute video.
View Videos Darfur...When They Hurt, We Hurt (Video Global Awareness Project)
Wyandanch Memorial High School, Wyandanch, NY
A documentary examining the ongoing genocide taking place in Darfur. Using video clips, photographs and interviews the video examines people's awareness of the problem and offers resources and education in finding ways to help.
View Videos Books of Hope (Multimedia Global Awareness Project)
Massapequa High School - Ames Campus, Massapequa, NY
In a joint project between 6th & 9th graders, 240 students created original ABC Books that they sent to Uganda along with a video and art supplies so that the project could be replicated. The 6th graders wrote the poetry, the 9th handled all the rest, including creation of the linoleum prints, editing, digitally formatting, printing and binding the books as well as creating an instructional book and printmaking video.
Farming the Future (Web Science/Global Awareness Project)
Xavier High School, New York, NY
Students in a Web Design/Programming class collaborated with students in the Robotics class to detail the current state of agricultural robotics, the problems that exist with modern agriculture and create a robotic solution to address the looming global farming crisis.
View Web Site Butterflies Be Free (Video Science Project)
Booker T. Washington Middle School 54, New York, NY
In the spring of 2007 Monarch caterpillars were raised and released upon emerging from their cocoons. In September, students discovered that there were still caterpillars in the garden. Students nurtured and released the Monarchs, hoping for their return in the spring of 2008.
View Videos OUR THANKS TO OUR COMPETITION JUDGES: Kim L. Jasmin, Vice President & Director of North East Community Relations, JPMorgan Chase, Global Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility Dianne Baasch, Executive Director, iMediaSource Towana Bertley, Teacher, Turtle Hook MS Laurence Cocco, Manager, Educational Technology, NJ Department of Education Jim Desimone, Technology Teacher, Mt. Pleasant Blythdale UFSD Rosaleen D'Orsogna, Library Media Specialist, Pulaski Street Elementary School Lorraine Furey, Supervisor, Program Development - Rockland BOCES Rosemary Nieves, Title IID Grant Coordinator, Region 1 Rocco Staino, Director, Mary I. Keefe Library, North Salem MS/HS Ed Susse, Supervisor, Yalow School Institute for Research/Washington Irving HS |
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