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International Media Festival Results for Liberty County

Liberty County School System had 46 student media festival projects to earn a score of 96 or higher at the Georgia Student Media Festival. Those 46 projects were submitted to the International Student Media Festival at the end of last school year. The results for the ISMF have been posted at http://www.ismf.net/ns/ . A total of 12 of the 46 projects have been named winners! Congratulations! We are looking forward to a new year of projects and more student involvement.

FLE
A Sharp Pencil
Sequential Still
k-3

FLE
Sometimes I Feel
Sequential Still Class Project
k-3

FLE
FLE's Critter Corner
Website
4-5

FLE
It's All About the Water
Sequential Still
k-3

JBE
Mya's Top Ten States
Sequential Still
k-3
Judge's Favorite

LE
Koalas are Sweet
Sequential Still
k-3

LE
My Dad
Sequential Still
k-3

LHE
Tekno-Savvy Kindergarteners
Live Action
k-3

LHE
Life Cycle of the Butterfly
Sequential Stills Class Project
k-3

LHE
Media Madness
Live Action
k-3

TCE
The Adventures of Bad News Bear
Sequential Still
k-3

TCE
Mythical Creatures from Mrs. Parker's Class
Sequential Still
4-5

Blogging at FLE

Dr. Sands and Mrs. Fennell have been working with Blogger as a means to get students excited about writing. Blogging is such a great way to reinforce responses to literature and writing skills. Mrs. Fennell is now using a classroom blog instead of the traditional classroom web site to encourage more communication between school and home. The students have really taken an interest in blogs and many are wanting to create their own! It is so exciting seeing students fired up about writing!

FLE International Student Media Festival Winners

 Jalen Bynum, Christiane Bernades, A’Jenae Pray, Heaven Hedgepeth, Caleb Troupe-Clear, Kayla Kelly

  Winners have been announced!

Students worked on technology projects throughout the year and competed at a school level media festival the February 2009.  Out of the 78 school entries, 30 winning projects advanced to the system competition in March 2008.  At that time, 19 of Frank Long’s winning projects were sent on to state competition.  Eleven projects earned a superior rating at the state level and advanced to the international level and were judged this summer.   Frank Long is proud to announce that four projects won at the International level.   

          Students from grades kindergarten through 12 can participate in the festivals.  Project categories consist of live-action video, animation, sequential stills, interactive stills, websites, single photo and photographic essay.  Instructional, informational, documentary, persuasive/public service announcement (PSAs), story, and entertainment are purposes students may opt to center his/her project around.  Judges are only required to view seven minutes of a production; however, entries may be as long as producers believes fit.  Projects must be created and produced by students and a panel of judges will critique each entry on its own merit.  Judging feedback is offered to participants at each festival level to help foster improvements.  

          International Student Media Festival winners include Kayla Kelly, previously in Mrs. Susan Fennell’s 2^nd grade Class, with It's All About the Water; Caleb Troupe-Clear, previously in Ms. Angela Fair’s 2^nd Class, with A Sharp Pencil.  Two class projects also won at the international level.  Mrs. Catherine Smiley’s previous kindergarten class won with Sometimes I Feel with Christiane Bernades, Jalen Bynum, Heaven Hedgepeth, Isaiah Johnson, Chapmen Kennedy, A'Jenae Pray, Dajahnic Reed, Michael Rigsby, Jordan Rivera, Jaden Rivera, Breonna Speight and Demetrick Threatt contributing to the project.  Mrs. Nikki Lukkarinen’s previous 5^th grade class won with FLE's Critter Corner.

Children's Book Week

When will you be celebrating Children's Book Week? How will you celebrate at your school?

Media & Technology Showcase

The annual Media & Technology Showcase was September 11th at the Liberty County Board of Education. This year close to eighty attendees cruised in to check out the latest products in technology/ media, and participate in media geared workshops.

The following companies where on site to exhibit and demonstrate their products: ByteSpeed, Camcor, Inc., Curious Moon Puppets, EducationCity.com, eInstruction, Follett Library Resources, Learning Through Wonder, Permabound, Rand McNally, S & L Sales Company, Scholastic Book Fairs, Smart Technologies, The Story Ship, Tech4Learning, Tommy Johns Presents, Usborne Books & More, World Book, Inc., and Xerox Audio Visual Solutions.

Attendees participated in three out of the six workshop offerings. The workshops offered included: "A Blogging Safari" presented by Melissa Roberts of the Liberty County Technology Department; "But Wait! There's More! Make Your BookTalks POP!" presented by Tommy Johns of Tommy Johns Presents;"Storytime Antics" presented by Betsy Stow, the Children's Librarian, at the Liberty Branch of the Live Oak Public Libraries; "D-I-I-G-O and Diigo Was Its Name-O"and "30-Minute Podcasts" presented by Daniel Rivera of First Distric RESA; and "Collaboration Corner" was presented by Joanne Newland of Sallie Zetterower Elementary and Jeff Staggs of Liberty County High School.

The vendors and attendees enjoyed delicious snacks prepared by Bradwell Institute's own Tiger Cafe' , sponsored by Debora Stevens. The Tiger Cafe' catered breakfast and a mid-day snack.

Several door prizes were awarded during the event. The largest prizes awarded included: eInstruction raffled off a MOBI. ByteSpeed raffled off a 10" Netbook, EducationCity gave away one year of services to one lucky winner. Tommy Johns Presents and Learning Through Wonder each gave away one half-day of school assemblies to one lucky winner!