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.
Role: Producer
/ game designer & programmer.
Designed, developed and programmed the interactive
story book game, the coloring game and colloborated
to create the introductory animation for this production
Project description: This production is an interactive storybook
featuring games and activities co-authored with James Richardson.
2004 Horizon Interactive Awards. This production won
the Bronze Medal in this presetigious international conference.
Production name: Diabetic Foot Disease.
Role: Producer / project
director.
Project description: This production is an educational overview
of foot care for diabetics, co-authored with 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. Production name: Interactive
and New Communication Technology Program.
Role: Pilot Media sole authored
this production, lead programming, production, interface design,
information design, digital photographer and game design (see
Gator hater).
Project description: This production was a contribution to
the College of Communication Interactive and New Communication
Technologies program.
Award Notes: “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 professionals 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 award has the equivelant of a 19% acceptance rate (of
entrants in this category)
2002 -03 Multiple New Media
Awards. Production Name BrainCogs™ CD-ROM.
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 dfeel), 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 designated 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.
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.
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.
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 for 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.
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.
