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Show everyone your classroom’s talent and technology in our video contest! Your song-parody video could be your school’s ticket to fame and $15,000 in interactive classroom technology, plus hundreds of lesson plans and other content—an Interactive Makeover™.
This contest is not limited to users of Interwrite Learning™’s products or members of TeacherTube.com. It is open to all teachers and students who can creatively show how they are using (or would like to use) technology in the classroom.

Video Guidelines

Your music video must:

• Be submitted by a teacher
• Include at least 1 teacher and 1 student demonstrating, discussing or referring to technology in the classroom. For example a song parody that shows:
  • How your class used technology to make a class project better
  • How a class project could have been better with technology
  • How you plan to use technology in a class project
  • How your class uses technology every day to make the learning experience great
  • Your vision of a classroom that is creatively and effectively using technology to enhance learning
• Include “Interwrite™” once in the lyrics of the song
• End by directing viewers to the Interwrite Learning™ website (www.InterwriteLearning.com) to vote for the best video
• Be 3 minutes or shorter

Prizes

A grand prize winner will be named for:

• Grades K-5
• Grades 6-8
• Grades 9-12

Three Grand Prizes (one per school segment) will be awarded to the school listed on each winning Entry: An Interwrite Board, an Interwrite Pad, an Interwrite Cricket, a Mitsubishi XD206 DLP Projector, a Frontrow Pro Digital Sound System, a Pixie control System and USD $1,000. Training and installation are included. The winning school will receive a party with sheet cake valued at up to USD$1,000, where local press may be present. The approximate retail value of each Grand Prize is USD$15,000.

Submission Guidelines

On the entry form for each video, you must include the

• Name of your school
• City and state in which your school is located
• Grade segment of the teacher involved in the creation of the video

The following are the  judging criteria: Effectiveness of demonstrating use of technology in the classroom (40%); The extent to which the entry demonstrates collaboration between the student(s) and teacher(s) in creating the video (40%); and Overall creativity and spirit of the entry (20%).

To enter this video contest click here.

Thank you to www.blogher.org for bringing this contest to my attention.

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