New Media Awards and Honors
The projects listed below were engineered, developed and programmed by Jonathan Adams and are copyright protected by Pilot Media Inc., or by copyright held by the respective owners.
A select number of these productions are available for download. FILES ARE NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION.
2006 Parent's Choice Award
This production was recognized as the Gold Award Winner
Project Name: Brain Cogs (educational software)
Role: Senior developer - Software engineer.
2005 International Broadcast Education Association Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts, Student interactive Multimedia competition, educate and inform category.
This production won 3rd Prize.
Product name: You Can Too.
Download the program (Key words: children's, education, games)
Role: Producer / game designer & programmer. I designed, developed and programmed the interactive story book game, the coloring game and worked with the student to create the introductory animation for this production
Project description: This production is an interactive storybook featuring games and activities co-authored with a graduate student, James Richardson.
This production was also peer-reviewed in the following venues
2005 Interactive Annual 11, Communication Arts Multimedia Division, fixed-media education category.
2003 Horizon Interactive Awards.
This production won the Bronze Medal in this prestigious international conference.
Production name: Diabetic Foot Disease.
Download the program (Keywords: health education)
Role: Producer / master’s project director.
Project description: This production is an educational overview of foot care for diabetics, co-authored with graduate student, Ana Lacativa.
Award Notes: “The Horizon Awards is a prestigious international competition recognizing outstanding achievement among interactive media producers. The awards showcase the best web sites, cd-roms, dvds, video, kiosks, video games and other interactive media.” (http://www.horizoninteractiveawards.com/)
2003 Broadcast Education Association Faculty International Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts Competition.
Winner of the “Award of Excellence” in the Persuade/Sell category, fixed media. This award has the equivalent of a 19% acceptance rate (of entrants in this category).
Production name: Interactive and New Communication Technology Program.
Role: Product Design and Software Developer (sole author). Project Name: Florida State University Interactive and New Communication Technologies program. Authored with Katrina Ferguson, a master's student with the College of Communication at the time of the event.
Award Notes: “Faculty entries are evaluated in a blind review process, similar to published research articles. A festival Competition Chair, who coordinates each specific competition category, works with faculty and professionals across the nation to "jury" the work. The Festival Review Board has been organized and operates like an editorial board for a scholarly refereed journal. People making up the review board constitute a large group of nationally recognized professional and professors, who may be organized into panels, for judging individual faculty entries. Individual entries are sent to the judges, by the co-chair, much like research articles are sent to the reviewers.” (http://www.beafestival.org/accept.html).
This production was also peer-reviewed in the following venues.
2003 Interactive Annual 10, Communication Arts Multimedia Division, fixed media self-promotion category. Production name: Florida State University Interactive and New Communication Technology Promo CD-ROM.
2002 -03 Multiple New Media Awards.
Production Name BrainCogs™ .
Download the program (Keywords: test prep, young adult, education)
2006 Parent's Choice Award
2003 Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award, Winner
2003 Association of Educational Publishers Golden Lamp, Finalist
2002 Media & Methods Award Portfolio, Winner
2002 District Administration's District Choice Award, Winner
Role: Lead programmer / software engineer, instructional activities designer.
Project description: This production is designed to guide junior high school students in developing test-taking strategies for standardized achievement and advancement exams.
Award Notes: These awards are the most prestigious educational software awards, the judging process is described below. The value of any awards is not typically measured in acceptance rates. It is generally understood that the difficulties of creating the concept, collecting the necessary volume of content, selecting the right graphic design (look and feel), ensuring navigation is clear and easy and completing the review process is extremely difficult. (For more information see http://www.edpress.org/awards/judging.htm and http://www.media-methods.com/awards/index.php)
The Parents' Choice Awards
Committees, comprised of moms, dads, teachers, performing artists, librarians, and yes, kids themselves, search out and recommend products that help kids grow - imaginatively, physically, morally and mentally - fairly priced products that are fun, safe and socially sound. Children's media that helps children.
The multi-tiered evaluation process is as true to its integrity today as it was when Parents' Choice Foundation was established twenty-eight years ago. The Parents' Choice Awards Committees evaluation process offers objectivity, respect, and expertise – and all with a sense of humor. Learning is fun – and we want kids to know that.
The Parents’ Choice Awards evaluation process is a lengthy and confidential one. We don’t offer “feedback” to producers or manufacturers because we don’t work for them. We work for parents, caregivers, librarians and educators.
Approximately 20% of those items submitted to the Parents’ Choice Awards program receive a commendation in one of the six award levels: Classic, Gold, Silver, Recommended, Approved, and Fun Stuff, underscoring the influential and celebrated achievement of being honored with a commendation from the Parents’ Choice Awards program.
Distinguished Achievement Awards
All products submitted undergo a rigorous two-tier judging process by highly qualified individuals who are experts in their respective areas. Products that are selected by the initial screening judge will go to final judging where a panel of certifying judges will review and certify finalists and winners. At the end of the process, all entrants may ask to receive the judges feedback for use in self-evaluating their products.
Golden Lamp
At the judges’ discretion, an exceptional piece may be elevated for Golden Lamp consideration. In addition to encompassing content and design that transcends the best in its category, Golden Lamp pieces are critiqued on their fulfillment of their educational mission. To ensure that your product is judged as a Golden Lamp, you must enter this program separately from the Distinguished Achievement Awards.
Selecting Judges for the Distinguished Achievement and Golden Lamp Awards
Judges are selected from a pool of educational publishing professionals (writers, editors, designers, educators, product developers, and marketing directors), who have themselves received accolades for their work. Each year, the pool of judges grows and changes, according to interest and availability. The judges are given a period to review entries that apply to their designate area of expertise. They are provided with specific evaluation criteria and guidelines that have been developed and are updated each year by an advisory committee.
Media & Methods
The 2005 results represent releases of cream-of-the-crop educational resource products produced for K-12 schools. Educators served as judges to make product selections based on: comprehensiveness, versatility for different learning abilities, ease-of-use, innovativeness, level of motivation, interest, strengths and weaknesses. Media & Methods Magazine applauds and acknowledges the commitment of these winning companies for their development of quality materials, resources and instructional tools. These products certainly deserve the title of Cream-of-the-Crop in the field of education
2002 Broadcast Education Association Region II Faculty Interactive Competition.
This production won a top prize and Invited presentation in the fixed media category.
Production name: Activities in Depth. (Regional Award).
Download the program (Keywords: mine waste, health, environmental protection)
Role: PI, programming, graphic design, interface design, digital photography and information design.
Project description: This production was developed to demonstrate research and pilot projects developed by scientists and engineers working on cleanup and management of mine waste sites. The production was designed to run professional presentation slide shows the scientists had created to demonstrate their research. There are approximately 1200 slides that are distributed among 50 slide shows with all content provided by the Environmental Protection Agency in cooperation with MSE, Inc. and Montana Tech at the University of Montana. The production is internally distributed inside the federal government and EPA.
1999 Massachusetts MultiMedia Interactive Council (MMIC)
Top Award for Best Multimedia Training Title.
Production Name: Reprint Ready.
Download the program (Keywords: training, sales, health)
Role: Lead programmer, instructional designer and interface designer.
Project description: This production was developed to teach pharmaceutical salesmen to improve on their ability to interpret and utilize a medical industry reprint during a sales call. This production features video vignettes, an “objections handling” unit (response practice), and a quiz engine. The quiz engine is a version of Test Pilot that has been re-purposed for this production. Content was provided by Total Learning Concepts.
Award Notes: “The prestigious MIMC Awards are the highest honor given to companies and professionals in New England's Internet community and one of the largest technology award showcases in the country. Entries were judged by industry professionals representing various disciplines who are distinguished in their fields including media representatives, industry analysts, creative directors, designers, technologists, investors and business professionals.” (www.mimc.org)
1999 Massachusetts MultiMedia Interactive Council (MMIC)
Runner up for Best Educational Multimedia Title.
Production Name: @ History. (See MIMC awards description above).
Role: Lead programmer, instructional designer and interface designer.
Project description: This production is a commercially distributed CD-ROM. This production was developed as a tool to be used in secondary history classes. The production features a keyword search engine, a full-text search engine, a database of 1200 media assets, Slide Pilot (a slide show engine to allow teachers to create slide shows), web connection and a printable software notepad. Content was provided by Houghton Mifflin Publishers.
1995 Multiple New Media Awards.
Production Name:¡Dime! Interactive.
1995 Invision Gold Medal Award
Best Education Production in the Young Adult Education Application category.
1995 New Media Portfolio Issue
Seal of Merit Recognition for Finest and Highest Quality Educational Title.
1995 Media and Methods Awards Portfolio.
Recognized.
Role: Interactive designer and lead programmer.
Project description: This production is a Spanish language learning CD-ROM set containing four separate disks on each of three levels. ¡Dime! 1 –2 was the first disk in the series of 8 disks. This disk won the most prestigious award in the multimedia industry. I worked as a programmer (levels 1&2, levels 5&6), lead programmer and developer (levels 7&8) on three of the Dime disks. The CD has utilizes an extensive array of learning strategies, video and open-ended self-evaluation practice activities. Content was provided by DC Heath Publishers.
Award Notes: In 1995 there were 851 entries for the Invision award, with a total of 18 awards given in 6 categories. Two additional awards are given for Best of Show and Best of Online. The productions are judged by multimedia professionals, educators and journalists, with dozens of sponsors including Apple Computers, Softbank / Comdex, Microsoft, Macromedia, Strata Adam Software and Aimtech.
1994 Multiple New Media Awards.
Production Name: Discovering French Interactive.
1994 New Media Magazine Award of Merit Multimedia
Best Programming Award in the Technical and Creative Excellence Category.
1994 New media Magazine
Invision Award of Excellence
1994 New Media Magazine
Gold Medal Multimedia Award in the Best K - 12 Education Application category.
Role: Programmer
Project description: This production is a French language learning CD-ROM set featuring content developed by the Valettes. I participated in the development of three levels of DFI, working as a programmer on the core development team of four people. DFI utilizes an extensive array of learning strategies, video and open-ended self-evaluation practice activities. Content was provided by DC Heath Publishers.
Award Notes: see above.