ThinkQuest: Competition 2012

This international competition challenges students to solve problems using technology. Participate in 3 exciting events:

1. ThinkQuest Projects: Students develop a website in ThinkQuest Projects.

2. Digital Media: Students produce an online journal/blog, a stand-alone website, photo essay, animation, public service announcement, video or some combination of these items.

2. Application Development: Students develop an interactive application or game.

Entry Deadline: April 25, 2012


Prizes


1. 1st and 2nd place team members receive a laptop computer and a trip to ThinkQuest Live, a once-in-a-lifetime educational experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
2. 3rd place team members receive a laptop computer.


MORE ON

http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/

Blog Evaluation Coming

Get your blog ready to be evaluated by December 18th.

Grading scale:

1. Design (overall and for each posting) 1 point

2. Extra features (gadgets, members) 1 point

3. Postings: 7 points
5 compulsory:
1. Diary entry
2. Screencast: My experience...
3. Screencast: Comparing 2 photographs
4. Argumentative writing (mini-essay)on a given topic
5. Never again! (In more than 80 words describe something that you did once, but won't do it again.

2 of your choice (Suggestions: poems, game / book reviews)

A productivity blog to check

The Good Habits Blog covers good habits you can follow to help ensure your academic success.
http://www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com/blog/

"Linguistic Kangaroo"Competition

The contest will take place on January 26th.
Deadline for enrollment: December 20th
Enrollment fee: 16 RON

The contest has 2 stages:
1. Mass stage for all students who enroll
2. National stage: only a number of selected students who performed excellent at the mass stage will participate.

Prizes: participation in trips and camps, books.

The objective is to motivate students to learn and master European languages.
The competition has a form of a multiple choice test with 50 questions.
The test duration is 60 minutes.
Each participant will receive a certificate of participation.

More on www.cangurul.ro

New competition

Evaluation in Education, School year 2011-2012

Check this site for enrollment conditions and evaluation centres.
Deadline: November 19th

http://www.evaluareineducatie.ro/disciplina-engleza/start/

My experience in...

BEWARE! HALLOWEEN IS APPROACHING!

Your wish is finally granted!
We'll throw you a Halloween party this year and it will be the Monster event everyone will be talking about (hope that not during my classes!!!).
We need your Wicked minds pop up with ideas on what to get ready for the party to keep the Madness out (contests, costumes, music, etc.)

Competition: Shakespeare School

Answer the question, "What's your favourite word in English?"and you can win a module in the bimonthly conversation club, Ënglish over a cup of tea".

Read more at http://www.prokid.ro/concurs/concurs_shakespeare_school_-110/

Good Essays

I have just got into an interesting essay on family written by Melissa Jackson (no clue who she is, but she has a clear talent for writing). The classic writing on family is re-thought into a 'shot-story' kind of writing both descriptive and entertaining.
Click here to read it.

COMPETITION: Super Blog 2011

PCNews, one of the most popular blogs in techology in Romania has lauched the annual contest for bloggers and blogs. Today is the last day to enter your blog in the competition, so go here, read the terms and participate. Do not worry if your blog is not quite ready, you'll have a couple of weeks to make it work the way you like.
Enter competition http://superblog.pcnews.ro/join.php
Terms and conditions http://pcnews.ro/superblog2011/Regulament%20SuperBlog%202011.pdf

GOOD LUCK!