Announcing Awards for Best Use of GALILEO Resources in Georgia Student Media Festival Group and Individual Projects 2010
Do your students know GALILEO is a great resource for their media projects? Photographs, maps, and diagrams in GALILEO can be used in multimedia projects such as PowerPoints and videos. GALILEO helps to clarify the source and authority of the materials and to support the essential skills of information literacy, critical thinking, and copyright awareness in this age of Google, FaceBook, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 disintermediated Internet experiences.
In order to promote recognition of both the resources available to students in GALILEO and of students’ adoption and use of GALILEO resources in their projects, the GALILEO staff will sponsor two awards for the best use of GALILEO resources in projects submitted to the 2010 Georgia Student Media Festival: group project (classroom teacher) and individual (student). In addition to the title, the awards will provide a Flip Video Camcorder to the winning classroom teacher and student. Winning projects must document use of GALILEO materials in their references or bibliographies; the awards will be made at the discretion of the Georgia Student Media Festival.
The Georgia Student Media Festival is sponsored by the Georgia Association for Instructional Technology (GAIT), the Georgia Library Association (GLA), and Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), all of which share with GALILEO an interest and responsibility for development of information skills in Georgia’s students. With the growing emphasis in the Festival guidelines on copyright and fair use requirements, the Festival represents a key opportunity for these constituents to reinforce and support thoughtful use of information resources such as those that are found in the statewide library, GALILEO. For more information about the Festival, see: http://www.gait-inc.org/GSMF/index.htm.
