Show-Me A Movie Winners Announced
Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis is pleased to announce the winning submissions of the 2011 Show-Me a Movie Digital Storytelling Contest. The contest encourages Missouri students to demonstrate their creativity and digital moviemaking skills by creating movies that showcase what they know, care about and are able to do. Movies must be based on curriculum and have a content focus, and are judged by representatives from Cooperating School Districts and St. Louis area schools. The judges review content, creativity and videography, as well as the students' reflections on the movie making process. Students are to provide proper credit and citations within the 2-minute movie.
Movies are judged in the elementary, middle and high school divisions. The movie categories are:
Show-Me Your Creativity: Convey a message (informational or persuasive) using music, drawings, digital photos, and/or clay models.
Show-Me Something New: Make an instructional or how-to movie.
Show-Me a Story: Tell a story about someone special, your school, or your community.
Show-Me a Challenge: Share local environmental concerns and social issues, which promote awareness and public action.
Show-Me Your Community: Recount an aspect of your community/ethnic culture that is unique, significant, promotes a message, and advances a better understanding of it.
The winning movies for 2011 are:
Elementary School Division
Elsberry School District: Clarence Cannon Elementary, Show-Me Something New: The Jaws of Life
Francis Howell School District: Warren Elementary, Show-Me a Story: D.A.R.E.: The Fight Against Drugs
Francis Howell School District: John Weldon Elementary, Show-Me a Challenge: Drugs? Think Again
Normandy School District: Washington Elementary, Show-Me Your Community: The W.E.S. Way
Francis Howell School District: Central Elementary, Show-Me Your Creativity: Mad Media Goes Medieval
Middle School Division
Kirkwood School District: North Kirkwood Middle School, Show-Me Something New: Zombie Make-up Techniques
Francis Howell School District: Hollenbeck Middle School, Show-Me a Story: Show Me the Bullied
Francis Howell School District: Francis Howell Middle School, Show-Me a Challenge: Pushing Through
Rockwood School District: Lasalle Springs Middle School, Show-Me Your Community: Mr. Harry’s Carnival Foods
Pattonville School District: Holman Middle School, Show-Me Your Creativity: Show-Me Using My Planner
Honorable Mention: Westgate Christian Academy, Show-Me a Story: Borrowed Time
High School Division
Ursuline Academy, Show-Me a Story: Serviam- It’s What We Do
Washington School Distict: Washington High School, Show-Me a Challenge: Operation Christmas Child
Francis Howell School District: Francis Howell Central High School, Show-Me Your Creativity: Life of a Stick Figure
These movies and the student filmmakers who produced them will be showcased at the Midwest Education Technology Conference in February. During the ceremony, cash prizes and goodie bags will be awarded to the winners.