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	Hitachi StarBoard® Summer School Contest

Hitachi Software welcomes all creative teachers this summer to submit their best interactive lessons and activities for a chance to win Hitachi home electronics and StarBoard interactive tablets for use in the home or classroom!

Increase student performance and inspire other educators to make the most of their interactive technology by sharing your resources. It’s not the hardware or software that makes a whiteboard interactive, it’s the teacher, and you can make that difference by inspiring others with your examples.

Our open online resource center provides a space for educators across the globe to share a vast amount of interactive lessons, activities, and documents. Reach beyond your classroom and inspire students with customized lessons created by you!

In appreciation of your resource submission(s) you will have a chance to win quality electronics such as a 50” Hitachi Plasma HDTV.

Prizes

(1) 50” Hitachi Flat Panel Plasma HDTV
(1) 42” Hitachi Flat Panel Plasma HDTV
(3) 8 GB Hitachi Hybrid DVD & HDD Camcorder
(5) StarBoard BT-2G Wireless Tablets

3 Easy Steps to Enter

1. View basic guidelines and best practice below
2. Design & Create your lesson(s)
3. Submit Resources Online (acceptable formats below)

StarBoard® .yar

Microsoft Office®: Word®, PowerPoint®, or Excel®

JPEG

Adobe® PDF

Best Practice for Interactive Lessons and Resources

Look & Feel - Try to make lessons visually pleasing: page layouts, formatting, fonts, sizes, images, colors, etc.

Title Page - Create a title page that includes the title of the lesson, author, grade levels, and curriculum or subject area.

Lesson Information & Teachers Notes - Create a second page that has the following information:

Objectives:
What new tasks will students be able to perform when the lesson is completed.

National Standards or State Standards:
National and or state academic standards covered in the lesson (multiple standards can be listed if relevant).

Instructions:
Instructions on how to deliver the lesson should be included. These can also be added on subsequent pages as needed (page notes). Example: “Select boxes and move them to reveal the answer”

A+ Quality for an Interactive Lesson:

Pedagogically sound, informative, and accurate information with correct grammar and spelling

Allows for student interaction with the content using an interactive whiteboard

Utilizes special tools to increase participation and interaction (erase, write, reveal, ruler, protractor, and moving objects) (StarBoard file, PowerPoint; Excel or Word macros).

Links to related educational sites that are interactive (Flash, Video, etc…)

Original Work

Your submissions must be your own original work. They cannot contain any copyrighted images, video, or text taken from third parties without written permission. If written permission is obtained, sources must be cited either on the "Title Page" or on a "Works Cited" page at the end of the lesson.