competition

There are three days left until the competition deadline on Wednesday, October 15. If you plan to apply, but haven't started yet, now's the time. Here are three useful URL's. The homepage of the Competition site is: www.dmlcompetition.net. The application page: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/fastapps/login.php It's an online application. You can register, answer some questions, leave the site, and then return later, again and again, to finish, edit, change, anything. And if you have questions, please ask them via the Contact box: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/contact.php. Good luck, everyone!

If you prefer to get your information about the 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition in multimedia format, check out Program Coordinator Mandy Dailey's concise, right-on-the-mark, to-the-point, and eloquent information session on the HASTAC YouTube Channel or below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPBa0yxpbKY

 

After the close of the first Digital Media and Learning Competition, I wrote a number of posts discussing ways to make one's applications as competitive as possible.  Here's a reblog of one of those posts, called "Writing to Win."

http://www.hastac.org/node/1237

The Digiteal Media and Learning Competition closes on October 15 . . . that's a little more than a month away. My advice to anyone who is applying: register NOW. You can start your application, check out everything you need, fill out part of it, and come back to it later . . .it will be waiting for you. But if you wait until the end, it might be too late to gather everything you need. Start applying NOW at www.dmlcompetition.net!

Shaping Youth, a website and organization founded and run by Amy Jussel, that includes a forum on media and marketing's influence on kids, has just run a wonderful, wonderful post on the Young Innovators Competition. You can see it in the RSS feed from Shaping Youth that comes into Needle, our information commons, or you can read it reblogged here. Thank you, Amy!

Here is a great article on the Planetizen site about the Black Cloud environmental game, set in LA and soon to move to Cairo too, that was one of the winners of the 2007 Digital Media and Learning Competition. A fantastic project!

PRESS RELEASE The MACARTHUR FOUNDATION $2 MILLION DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE HASTAC VIRTUAL NETWORK, OPENS TODAY, FOCUSING ON PARTICIPATORY LEARNING. AND WE'RE GOING INTERNATIONAL! We're counting down to the opening of the Competition . . . Stay tuned!

Check out the Digital Media and Learning Competition winners' blog to see what these 17 great projects are up to . . . A new Competition will be announced in late August. For a glimpse of some participatory learning in action, check this out now: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/blog/

A video presentation by Professor Paul Bloom, of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Fuqua School of Business at Duke, and a well-known authority on social entrepreneurship.