Virtual Classroom

Конкурс веб-сайтов Школьных Команд успешно действовал в течение нескольких лет - 1996 - 2000.

См. http://www.virtualclassroom.org/history.html

The original Virtual Classroom program was launched by AT&T in the fall of 1996. During the period of 1996 through 2000, over 19,000 students from dozens of countries around the world used it to collaborate, communicate and learn about themselves, and about the Internet.

Описание 1997

Virtual Classroom. Информация пришла из школьного сектора. Special Thanks. Проект тоже не новый - года 2 или три назад он уже звучал и отзывы были приятные. Сейчас организаторы здорово продвинулись. Довольно навороченная процедура, когда тебя сначала проверяют, а потом ты смотришь на заявленные в проекте школы и выбираешь те, что особенно нравятся. Потом списываешься с ними и кто-то (у нас это был американец) заявляется как лидер в оргкомитет. После чего на их сайте ты уже отмечен, как matched. Вот тут то и начинается самое ужасное - к тебе обращаются с такими заманчивыми предложениями, что начинаешь локти кусать. Старт с 30 сентября - пока мне все там нравится. Очень основательный подход. Предварительная информация на сайте "Почемучки" - http://why.botik.ru/vc98/ - здесь пока только фотографии нашего класса и виды из переславского дендрария - мы делаем общий виртуальный музей, где будут представлены растения, насекомые, рыбы наших стран..."

Judging Criteria

The six Judging Criteria, weighted as indicated below, will be used for all Category Awards.

1. 10% - Technological Diversity among Students’ Schools
   • The Judges will consider significant differences in available technology among the student team members’ schools, as well as each school’s readiness to use that technology. This "School Technology and Readiness" (STaR) assessment will be made by using the STaR Assessment methodology which can be found on the ThinkQuest server in the "Q&A’s." The greater the difference between the highest and lowest student team members’ schools STaR assessment score, the more points the Judges will award. For a school to be eligible for the School Award, an appropriate professional school employee (teacher, technology coordinator, principal, etc.) must complete this assessment on the ThinkQuest server. For organizations other than schools, an employee of the organization must provide this information. All such information will be subject to verification if and when the entry becomes eligible to be a finalist. Home schooled students should complete the HS-STaR Assessment Chart on the ThinkQuest server.
2. 10% - Team Collaboration
   • In order to encourage collaboration by students with different skills, resources, and backgrounds, the Judges will evaluate:
     • (a) How successfully team members collaborated on their entry by sharing their individual knowledge, skills, effort and contributions with other team members, and
     • (b) Other factors (such as the different languages, nationalities, genders and ages of the participants) that influenced the collaboration.
   • In the entry form, each team should provide detailed information about its student team members that is relevant to this criterion.
3. 25% - Educational Value
   • In order to encourage teams to create entries that have significant educational value, the Judges will evaluate:
     • (a) The importance of the educational objectives of the entry,
     • (b) The extent to which the entry meets these objectives in (a) above,
     • (c) The originality, innovation and artistic presentation of the entry and its material, and
     • (d) The extent to which the entry fosters the "Internet Style" of participatory, active learning by users.
4. 25% - Entry Quality
   • In order to encourage students to create high-quality entries, the Judges will evaluate:
     • (a) The technical quality of the entry, including its reliability, ease-of-use, internal consistency, robustness, and its ability to perform quality checks on data submitted and to work efficiently as the number of students and schools that use it grows, and
     • (b) The quality of the content of the entry, including the accuracy and completeness of information (formulae, propositions, text, illustrations, etc.), the expressiveness and clarity in communication of ideas, and the appropriateness of the attribution(s) of the work of others.
5. 20% - Growth Potential
   • In order to encourage each team to create an entry which encourages others to enhance the value of the entry as a result of its use, the Judges will evaluate whether an entry:
     • (a) Allows for participation by others,
     • (b) Permits the sharing of data, ideas and experiences, and
     • (c) Encourages others to incorporate data, ideas, and materials that can enrich the overall value of the entry.
   • In the entry form, each team should describe how its team members believe the entry will create collaboration among other students by enabling them to share data, ideas, views and experiences, and how this sharing will enrich the value of the entry.
6. 10% - Entry Usage
   • The Judges will determine whether an entry has been, and is likely to be, highly used by others. This evaluation will be based on:
     • (a) The valid frequency of use of an entry, the nature of its use and users, and the comments of other users about the entry, and
     • (b) The expectation that other students will heavily use the entry.

Consequently, factors students should consider as they build an entry include:

• The Entry’s appealing nature
• Its breadth of potential users
• Its educational effectiveness
• Its originality, appropriateness, and clarity
• The number of languages used, and
• Its ability to work on a variety of platforms and browsers.

Students should also plan how to effectively and appropriately inform potential users of the merits of their entry, and how to implement their plan once the entry is made available for use by others.

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