Overview of "Judging"

The aim of judging is to come up with awards for multimedia artifacts. This is to be done using the prepared rubrics in combination with an online form (in order to identify outright 'winners').

The Project in a Nutshell

How would you go about making a video with a team of people you have never met before, you may never meet face to face and using the power of the Internet? The Flat Classroom Project will include over 200 students from 10 classrooms around the world.

Basically, students work in groups from different schools and different countries to produce content on a wiki page from which they create an individual digital artefact (video), including out-sourced video or multimedia from another student, which they embed into their team wikipage. The students have to use loads of different tools and develop amazing skills: file compression, editing, sending files, working in different time zones.....
The Flat Classroom Project is a global collaborative project founded by Vicki Davis (Westwood Schools, USA) and Julie Lindsay (Qatar Academy, Qatar) in 2006.

It uses Web 2.0 tools to facilitate communication, interaction and collaboration between students and teachers from all participating classrooms. The topics studied and discussed are real-world scenarios based on 'The World is Flat' by Thomas Friedman.One of the main goals of the project is to 'flatten' or lower the classroom walls so that instead of each class working in isolation, 2 or more classes are joined virtually to become one large classroom. Read more about the Flat Classroom Project,

How does the judging work?

All Videos will be posted on the Master List with each video having a distinct number.
The master list is locked at a date to be specified (Sometime around middle of June, 2009) -- only videos that are turned in on time on the master list will be judged.
We have 2 judges per Topic with about 8-10 videos per pair of judges expected.
Criteria is based on the rubrics for Design and Technical Quality as well as Synthesis and Construction of Ideas
All judging teams are asked to fill in the online survey and determine their choices by June 20, 2009.
Review all videos first and choose your top 3.
Complete one survey form for each of these 3 videos only, there is no need to fill in a survey for every video.
Each judge has the option to nominate a personal favorite for an award (included in the survey.) This is called your "Judges Choice" award.
Results are tallied and winners are announced (Date tbc is the Awards Ceremony)

Meta-Judging

The meta-judge for this project is Torsten Otto, a flat classroom teacher from Germany. Torsten led a class through a Flat Classroom Project earlier this year. As meta-judge he will be deciding the top 3 multimedia responses from all classrooms.

Who is qualified to judge?

We encourage educators interested in learning to assess higher order thinking skills to be involved. We want people who can give feedback on the methodologies employed to move towards improving our assessment of such projects.

How do I sign up to judge?

Click Join in the top right hand corner of this wiki to join our flatclassroomproject.org private label wikispaces
After approval, log in then come back to this wiki page......Click "Join this Space" in the top left corner of this page.
As you put in your information, make sure that you complete the comment box with your name, location, and the group that you would like to join. (This will send us your e-mail address and all information submitted is private.)
Wait for approval - you will receive an e-mail noting your approval.
If you are already a member of this wiki, continue with the following points.
Join the FCP09-2 Judges Group on the Flat Classroom Project Ning to get announcements and updates.
Return to this page.
Add your information to the topic of your choice below (first to wiki it gets it! include a hyperlink to your bio).
Be available to review/judge videos from June 15 for up to 1 week.

Leadership

Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis are co-coordinating this project. Julie is primarily responsible for team assignment of judges. Vicki will handle the survey and tallies. To contact them, leave them a comment on the Ning or a private message on the Ning.

Judge Meeting

There was a meeting in Elluminate to update on procedure and timeline for forthcoming judging. If you did not make the meeting we suggest you listen to the recording. Many thanks everyone!

List of Judges and Links to wikis

REMEMBER: All Videos will be posted on the Master List with each video having a distinct number.
Some videos may not have been embedded on the wiki topic pages, so please refer to the Master List first for a complete set.
Deadline for judging: June 20, 2009

NOTE: this is a small project and we will have 40 or less videos to judge only. Therefore I have put the same pair of judges down for 2 or 3 topics. Each judging team will have about 10 videos (or less) to watch in total.

1. Connecting the World Online (CWO)

Judge #1 - Cheryl Lykowski, Monroe Road Elementary School (5th Grade) & Lourdes College (Instructor,Graduate School),
Judge #2 - Minhaaj ur Rehman, Educational Consultant

2. World Wide Web (WWW)

Judge #1 - Cheryl Lykowski, Monroe Road Elementary School (5th Grade) & Lourdes College (Instructor,Graduate School),
Judge #2 - Minhaaj ur Rehman, Educational Consultant

4. Uploading: The Changing Shape of Information (CSI)

Judge 1 - Craig Union, Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University
Judge 2 - Chris Edge - English teacher, Crestwood High School, Sumter, SC

5. Web 2.0 (W20)

Judge 1 - Craig Union, Ph.D. Candidate, Walden University
Judge 2 - Chris Edge - English teacher, Crestwood High School, Sumter, SC

6. Globalisation and Outsourcing (G&O)

Judge 1 - Suzie Nestico , Mt. Carmel Area High School, PA, USA, 21st Century learning Social Studies Teacher
Judge 2 - Marie Coleman, Media Specialist, Lorenzo Walker Tech HS & Institute of Tech, Naples, FL, USA

7. Google (GGL)

Judge 1 - Suzie Nestico , Mt. Carmel Area High School, PA, USA, 21st Century learning Social Studies Teacher
Judge 2 - Marie Coleman, Media Specialist, Lorenzo Walker Tech HS & Institute of Tech, Naples, FL, USA

8. PLEs and Social Networking (PLE&SN)

Judge 1 - Suzie Nestico , Mt. Carmel Area High School, PA, USA, 21st Century learning Social Studies Teacher
Judge 2 - Marie Coleman, Media Specialist, Lorenzo Walker Tech HS & Institute of Tech, Naples, FL, USA

9. Mobile and Ubiquitous (M&U)

Judge 1 - Bill Campbell, educational technologist, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Judge 2 - Dr John Turner, international educator, currently in Melbourne, Australia

10. Virtual Communication (VCom)

Judge 1 - Bill Campbell, educational technologist, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Judge 2 - Dr John Turner, international educator, currently in Melbourne, Australia

11. Wireless Connectivity (WCon)

Judge 1 - Bill Campbell, educational technologist, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Judge 2 - Dr John Turner, international educator, currently in Melbourne, Australia

3. Workflow Software (WFS)

This topic is not included in this project

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