Please listen to the Judges meeting held in Elluminate April 1
Overview of "Judging"
The aim of judging is to come up with awards for multimedia artifacts as listed on the
Awards wiki page.
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 (Friday April 3, 2009) -- only videos that are turned in on time on the master list will be judged.
- We have 2 judges per team with about 8-10 videos per team 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 Friday, April 10, 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 (April 13 is the Awards Ceremony)
Meta-Judging
By John Turner, Digital Educator from Melbourne, Australia who presented the project keynote at
Video 'FCRkeynotejtFeb09'
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 to join our flatclassroomproject.org private label wikispaces
- After logging in then......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 FCP09-1 Judges Group on the 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 April 1 for about 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
Please listen to the Judges meeting held in Elluminate April 1
The meeting in Elluminate provided an update on procedure and timeline for forthcoming judging. If you could not make the meeting we suggest you listen to the recording linked above.
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: Friday April 10
The following judges will review EIGHT videos from Group 1 and 2 as found on the Master List
The following judges will review TEN videos from Group 3, 4 and 11 as found on the Master List
- Judge 1 - Hariklia Hearn-Kokkinos, Beijing, China
- Judge 2 - Leon Ward, Canada
- Judge 3 - CraigUnion, Walden University
The following judges will review videos EIGHT videos from Group 5 and 6 as found on the Master List
The following judges will review NINE videos from Group 7 and 8 as found on the Master List
The following judges will review NINE videos from Group 9 and 10 as found on the Master List
