Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Blog Number 6- Future Shop Contest

I think that this contest will work against us, because when reading the application it seems like this contest was created to help “schools-in-need” which can’t afford computers of their own, instead of asking to make a video of how our school would use a new renovated computer lab. I think that this contest is the one we should consider last for applying. One idea however, I think, that would assist the IDC class in completing this application is by showing the judges how our school is currently using new technology, and how we can improve and motivate others by being more involved in learning, if we had a bigger fund for proving the students with more technology to use at their disposal. We should also talk about how we have high academic standards, so the technology would be a privilege and an opportunity to increase our academic standards

Blog Number 5- Staples Contest

I’m not too sure on what you mean by brainstorming ideas, but if you are asking how the essay should be written and what criteria we should put on it, then I think that instead of every student writing the same essay on the same topic, the students should break up into groups and write an essay together consisting on how our school is environmentally responsible. We can talk about how one of our own teachers hosts the switch club which provided us with solar panels on top of our school, along with how we have courses at Mackenzie teaching the students about the damages and pressures humans have put on the earth, and how to change them, along with writing about our gardening club. I also think that by entering in this contest we will have the opportunity to upgrade our computer lab, although on aspect of the contest is to write about how we influenced the community, and I personally don’t see how we influenced our community around us. We will however I think be successful with environmental attributes and school and student leadership portion of the essay. Out of the three contests I think the Staples one is the more successful one.