Multimedia

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1. Suggest we create a purpose for the multimedia not just for this contest. For example - something they will use in another class or serve a purpose for helping others. As part of their introduction they state what their purpose is so it's easier to follow that purpose through the presentation.

2. Copyright is important and you have some who have avoided that issue all together and some who are confused by "Fair Use" vs "Copyright". I had to give 4s to those who had no concern about copyright and 1's to kids who did use outside material but only followed fair use guidelines. One student out of 32 actual had taken all the steps to use copyrighted material ... but he got a 4 alone with someone who took their own pictures. Like to see a way where students have to be able to show they have an understanding of copyright whether they use copyright material or not.
 * In my opinion, ALL assets included in a competition should be declared by source - those that are original and those that were used with permission. It would be made very clear in the rules that original or with permission are the ONLY way any assets can be used because Fair Use doesn't apply to their entry into the competition. I know it says that Melinda, but it also puts the burden on the advisors and not the kids. We don't judge the advisors so the kids are who suffer from poor instruction. I think we should have a form that must accompany each entry with the name of the kid or team, their school, the name of their entry, and all of their assets declared by source. [|Multimedia Mania] competition has several good rubrics and entry forms that might help us as we refresh KSTL.

3. It was difficult to judge students who allowed the technology present the material vs. the student who presented it. If we are looking to judge students ability to present I believe the rubric needs to take off for presentations where the student only introduces and then answers questions. Or create two sub-categories.

4. I understand why we had 8 presentations within 30 minutes at 7 minutes each. But that does not allow time for questioning. I would suggest building question time in and some general questions that should be asked of each presentation. Then include this as part of the rubric.

Ok enough for now. : ) We will always have time constraints with the number of students that want to participate.

I agree that we need to have a "PRE DETERMINDED" set of questions that are asked in all catagories.