In 2010, at the 14th National Multimedia Teaching Software Competition, two of our department's works won the second prize, achieving a breakthrough in the teaching results award level of the Ministry of Education. This year, the organizing committee of the 15th similar competition has issued a notice, which is now being forwarded. Our department still plans to submit 2-3 items, including one in Japanese. Please refer teachers in the entire department who are interested in such events. Those who prepare to submit, please contact immediately. The preparation work for the competition is open to everyone. We will form an academic working group within the department to select the topics of the submitted works, and finally determine the suitable projects for reporting.
This competition entry will also be submitted to the Hebei Provincial Department of Education for evaluation.
I. Scope of Participants
II. Competition Project Settings and Related Requirements
(a) Project Settings
(b) Project Description and Requirements
(c) Evaluation Criteria
(d) Work Qualification Determination
(e) Work Production
III. Participation Methods
(a) Participation Methods and Number of Works Submitted
(b) Submission Time, Method, and Registration Fee
(c) Submission Requirements
IV. Work Evaluation and Award Settings
(a) Evaluation Methods
(b) Award Settings
V. Organizational Work
(a) Organizational Leadership
(b) Contact Information
Appendix I: Organizing Unit and Contact Information Form
Appendix II: List of Participating Works
Appendix III: Participant Work Registration Form
I. Scope of Participants
Teachers and educational technology workers from all levels and types of schools and relevant ministries, commissions, and industry-affiliated education and training institutions.
II. Competition Project Settings and Related Requirements
(a) Project Settings
The 15th National Multimedia Educational Software Grand Prix (referred to as "Grand Prix") sets up competition projects according to the teaching requirements and characteristics of different schools and different educational stages, divided into Basic Education, Secondary Vocational Education, and Higher Education groups (determined by the first author's affiliated unit).
1. Basic Education Group: Multimedia courseware, integration of information technology and subject teaching examples, subject theme community, one-to-one digital learning comprehensive examples, educational teaching tool software system.
2. Secondary Vocational Education Group: Multimedia courseware, online courses, educational teaching tool software system.
3. Higher Education Group: Multimedia courseware, online courses, educational teaching tool software system.
(b) Project Description and Requirements
1. Multimedia Courseware: Refers to teaching software that uses multimedia and network technologies to organically combine text, images, sound, and video to express and convey teaching content, assisting both teachers and students in teaching and learning to complete specific teaching tasks. It can target certain knowledge points or cover a class period or a teaching unit. Purely instructional media resources do not fall under the scope of courseware.
(1) Production Requirements: Video, audio, animations should use common file formats; the size of the work should not exceed 700MB.
(2) Submission Format: Submit on CD-ROM, easy to install, run, and uninstall; web-based works can be browsed using a general Web browser. If special software is needed for running or playing, please provide it as well.
2. Integration of Information Technology with Subject Teaching Examples: Refers to examples where teachers use information technology in subject teaching, integrating it as content, method, and means into the teaching process to cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical abilities, promoting overall optimization of the teaching process. Includes classroom teaching actual recordings and teaching designs.
(1) Production Requirements: Both classroom teaching actual recordings and teaching designs need to be submitted. The submitted examples should be actual recordings based on teaching design, with key teaching sections having subtitle prompts. Example videos should be in common video file formats, not exceeding 700MB. Each class is a standard class period.
(2) Submission Format: Submit on CD-ROM, two copies. Post-class reflections and teaching courseware content should be submitted together.
3. Online Courses: Refers to the total sum of a discipline's teaching content and implementation of teaching activities presented through the network.
Evaluation works should reflect the characteristics of network resource sharing, interactive exchanges, helping users engage in autonomous exploration, question-and-answer discussions, collaborative learning, etc., and enable tracking, evaluation, and management of the teaching process and results.
(1) Production Requirements: Present teaching content in multimedia format on web pages, i.e., reasonably design and layout texts, animations, charts, audiovisual materials, etc., in lesson plans. Should meet basic conditions for real-time operation on the Internet, such as security, stability, and speed.
(2) Submission Format: Indicate the course URL in the registration form, along with necessary usernames and passwords for login instructions.
4. Subject Theme Community: Refers to a learning organization where learners, based on a particular subject theme, engage in self-directed exploration and cooperative learning activities via the network to promote knowledge construction. Members interact through tools like BBS, chat rooms, blogs, SNS in a shared virtual space to share knowledge and experiences, communicate and collaborate, participate in activities, solve problems together, and build close relationships.
Characteristics: In the community, there is interaction between learners and media interfaces, learners and learning resources, and among learners themselves, ultimately leading to the interaction between new and old concepts of learners. The community should provide various learning activities to promote management and member communication, offer multiple learning resources and search tools, individualized learning methods, and collaborative learning methods.
(1) Production Requirements: Should meet basic conditions for real-time operation on the Internet, such as security, stability, and speed.
(2) Submission Format: Submit the community URL and necessary user instructions in the registration form, while recommending 10 excellent article URLs and replies within the community. On the homepage, display the number of registrations, articles, replies, and messages.
5. One-to-One Digital Learning Comprehensive Example: Refers to a new teaching method where each student owns a digital terminal device, using information technology to conduct self-directed and automatic learning, cultivating students' problem analysis and solving abilities. The participating work should be a complete information resource package reflecting the teaching design and classroom teaching effectiveness of an excellent class.
(1) Production Requirements: Should include teaching design, example recording and explanations, teaching resources, student works (completed during the learning process), and teaching effectiveness evaluations. Among them, the main teaching sections of the example recording should have subtitle prompts, in common video formats, not exceeding 700MB; if it's a longer activity course, only a few key section video edits are required. If the example includes papers, expert evaluations on teaching implementation, etc., they can also be submitted together.
(2) Submission Format: Submit on CD-ROM.
6. Educational Teaching Tool Software System: Refers to a tool software system designed and developed using computer technology, multimedia technology, network and communication technology, supporting or assisting students, teachers, and managers in completing specific educational teaching tasks. Includes courseware creation tools, student self-learning tool software, teaching platforms, educational management platforms, educational teaching evaluation systems, educational teaching resource management systems, etc.
(1) Production Requirements: Should have clear educational design goals, meet teaching needs and learner characteristics, possess educational, scientific, and practical qualities; provide software design documentation and usage instructions. Operate normally in mainstream computer environments, meeting safety, stability, and speed requirements. Application cases and usage reports should be provided.
(2) Submission Format: Single-machine versions should be submitted on CD-ROM, easy to install, run, and uninstall. If special software is needed for operation or playback, please provide it as well. Network versions should indicate platform URLs and necessary usernames and passwords for login instructions in the registration form, with related documents sent via email to the organizing committee.
(c) Evaluation Criteria
1. Multimedia Courseware
Evaluation Criteria
Score
Evaluation Elements
Teaching Design
30
Clear teaching objectives and audience, appropriate teaching strategies;
Reasonable interface design, unified style, necessary interactivity;
Clear textual introductions and help documents.
Content Presentation
25
Rich, scientific content, accurate expression, standardized terminology;
Appropriate material selection, reasonable presentation methods;
Concise, lively language, standardized text;
Appropriate material selection, reasonable structure.
Technology Utilization
25
Smooth operation, simple and quick operational methods, controllable media playback;
Convenient and reasonable navigation, selectable paths;
Effective use of new technology.
Innovation and Practicality
20
Original ideas, imaginative and personalized expressions;
Can be applied in actual teaching, has promotional value.
2. Integration of Information Technology with Subject Teaching Examples
Evaluation Criteria
Score
Evaluation Elements
Teaching Objectives
15
Reflects the philosophy of new curriculum standards;
Clear teaching objectives;
Improves students' information technology skills and literacy.
Teaching Design
25
Teaching context meets the requirements of teaching objectives and audience;
Emphasizes subject characteristics, integrates information technology with subject teaching;
Adopts appropriate teaching models.
Teaching Behavior
25
Faces all students, pays attention to individual differences;
Can use the advantages of information technology to control teaching activities;
Focuses on teaching, promotes students' learning ability development.
Teaching Effectiveness
25
High achievement rate of teaching and information literacy objectives;
Students think actively, participate enthusiastically, fully reflects the cultivation of innovative spirit and practical ability.
Teaching Reflection
10
Provides timely feedback and post-class reflection.
3. Online Courses
Evaluation Criteria
Score
Evaluation Elements
Teaching Design
30
Clear teaching objectives, appropriate content selection;
Reasonable teaching strategy, appropriate selection of teaching media;
Reasonable interface design, unified style, necessary interactivity;
Provides practice, has learning assessment and feedback functions;
Complete teaching process.
Course Content
25
Scientific content, accurate expression, standardized terminology;
Systematic and complete course content;
Rich teaching resources, reasonable presentation structure.
Technology Utilization
25
Convenient and practical teaching management functions;
Has a good teacher-student, student-student interactive environment;
Controllable media playback;
Process controllable, clear and explicit navigation.
Innovation and Practicality
20
Original ideas, imaginative and personalized expressions;
Used in actual teaching, has promotional value.
4. Subject Theme Community
Evaluation Criteria
Score
Evaluation Elements
Teaching Design
30
Clear theme, clear objectives, clear applicable population;
Reasonable functional module structure.
Content Presentation
25
Highlights the theme characteristics, can reflect multi-disciplinary intersections;
Scientific, rich, novel content, encourages original content;
Accurate expression, standardized terminology;
Reasonable organization of resource content, clear hierarchy and classification.
Usage Effect
25
Deep involvement of the learning community;
Has effective interaction and exchange.
Technology Application
20
Reasonable application, emphasizes practicality;
Clear and accurate navigation, convenient and quick use of various functions;
Reasonable color coordination, aesthetically pleasing design;
Controllable media playback.
5. One-to-One Digital Learning Comprehensive Example
Evaluation Criteria
Score
Evaluation Elements
Teaching Design
30
Clear teaching objectives, appropriate content selection;
Emphasizes problem-based learning, differentiated learning, high teacher-student interaction, and mobile learning features;
Reasonable teaching strategy, focuses on achieving subject objectives, cultivating students' independent thinking and problem-solving abilities.
Course Content
30
Scientific, accurate content;
Meets students' cognitive level and needs.
Technology Utilization
20
Reasonable, sufficient, and effective technology utilization;
Reflects integrated learning methods using multiple technical platforms and learning resources.
Innovation and Practicality
20
Reflects the use of technology in exploring differentiated learning, problem-based learning, interactive learning, and mobile learning features in the teaching process;
Has exemplary and promotional value.
6. Educational Teaching Tool Software System
Evaluation Criteria
Score
Evaluation Factors
Design Objective
10
Clear design objective and target user positioning.
Structure and Function Design
25
Clear system structure, high modularity, strong interactivity;
Function design meets educational teaching needs.
Technical Performance
25
Uses mainstream technology, program runs safely and stably;
Simple and quick operations, convenient and reasonable navigation;
Reasonable and effective application of new technology.
Human-Computer Interface Design
20
Reasonable layout, prominent focus, unified style, aesthetically pleasing;
Interaction operations conform to cognitive habits;
Reasonable and quick multimedia presentation methods.
Innovation and Practicality
20
Fresh design, technically challenging, distinctive features;
Obvious practical effects in actual teaching, has promotional value.
(d) Work Qualification Determination
1. Works with political principle errors or disciplinary conceptual errors will lose their eligibility to participate.
2. Plagiarism behavior is strictly prohibited. Once discovered, the work will lose its eligibility to participate or win awards.
(e) Work Production
1. Citations of materials should indicate the source. If intellectual property disputes arise, the responsibility lies with the author of the participating work.
2. For "Multimedia Courseware", "Integration of Information Technology with Subject Teaching Examples", "Subject Theme Community", and "One-to-One Digital Learning Comprehensive Example", each participating work can have no more than 3 authors;
For "Online Courses" and "Educational Teaching Tool Software System", each participating work can have no more than 5 authors.
Works authored collectively under a unit name are not accepted.
III. Participation Methods
(a) Participation Methods and Number of Works Submitted
1. Basic Education Group
(1) Sent by provincial education departments as a provincial unit, each province is limited to submitting 50 multimedia courseware pieces, 20 examples of integration of information technology with subject teaching, 10 subject theme communities, and 10 one-to-one digital learning comprehensive examples.
(2) Sent by planned single-listed city education departments as a municipal unit, each city is limited to submitting 14 multimedia courseware pieces, 8 examples of integration of information technology with subject teaching, 4 subject theme communities, and 4 one-to-one digital learning comprehensive examples.
(3) Preschool education and special education category submission numbers are set separately. Among them, preschool education category submissions are limited to 35 per province; special education category submissions are limited to 15 per province.
(4) No limit on the number of submissions for educational teaching tool software systems.
Note: Personal submissions are not accepted.
2. Secondary Vocational Education Group
(1) Sent by provincial education departments as a provincial unit, each province is limited to submitting 15 multimedia courseware pieces and 5 online courses.
(2) Sent by planned single-listed city education departments as a municipal unit, each city is limited to submitting 8 multimedia courseware pieces and 2 online courses.
(3) No limit on the number of submissions for educational teaching tool software systems.
Note: Personal submissions are not accepted.
3. Higher Education Group
(1) Higher education institution teachers' participating works, after approval and stamping by their respective institutions, can be directly submitted to the Grand Prix Organizing Committee Office.
(2) Participating works from military academies under the General Staff Department of the People's Liberation Army and the Training Department of the Armed Police Force Command are submitted uniformly by their superior departments, with each department limited to submitting 60 works.
(b) Submission Time, Method, and Registration Fee
1. Submission Time and Method: From June 1 to September 1, 2011, log in to the "Grand Prix" website (http://www.mtsa1998.com.cn) for online registration and filling out relevant information (unit-unified submission handled by the contact person). After successful registration, burn the work onto a CD-ROM named with the system-generated work number (excluding online courses and subject theme communities), and send it to the "Grand Prix" Organizing Committee before September 10, 2011 (postmark date).
2. Registration Fee
(1) Each "Multimedia Courseware" participating work requires a registration fee of 100 RMB;
(2) Each "Integration of Information Technology with Subject Teaching Examples", "Subject Theme Community", "One-to-One Digital Learning Comprehensive Example" participating work requires a registration fee of 200 RMB;
(3) Each "Online Courses", "Educational Teaching Tool Software System" participating work requires a registration fee of 300 RMB.
3. Registration Fee Payment Method
Should be paid simultaneously with the submission of the work through postal money order or bank transfer. Postal personal remittances should note the participating work name and the first author's name in the remittance message; Bank transfers should note "Grand Prix" and the participating work name and the first author's name.
After the organizing unit pays the registration fees uniformly, a detailed comparison of the registration fees and the list of works (electronic version) should be submitted.
Note: Works that have not received the registration fee by the time of the list announcement (October 9-15, 2011) will lose their eligibility to participate.
(1) Postal Money Order
Address: No. 160 Zhenxingmen Nei Street, Beijing
Technical Development and Network Construction Department, Central Electric Education Museum
Postal Code: 100031 Recipient: Fu Tao
(2) Bank Transfer
Account Name: Central Electric Education Museum
Bank: Beijing Bank Business Department
Account Number: 01090520500120109074542
4. Registration Fee Invoice
If an invoice (content: review fee) is required, please ensure accurate completion of the unit name and invoice recipient contact information during online registration, otherwise, the Organizing Committee Office will issue a unified participation invoice for archiving and will not issue separate invoices.
5. Submission and registration fee payment status and other related information will be updated promptly in the "Grand Prix" Management Information System, and participants can check on the "Grand Prix" website.
(c) Submission Requirements
1. "Organizing Unit and Contact Person Information Form (Appendix I)", filled out and stamped by the submitting unit for submission.
2. "List of Participating Works (Appendix II)", filled out and stamped by the submitting unit, submitted together with the text version and electronic version.
3. "Participating Work Registration Form (Appendix III)", filled out by the participating author, signed by the author and stamped by the affiliated unit, submitted together with the text version and electronic version.
4. The submitted "Participating Work CD" must be free of viruses and run well.
Note: Please ensure the author information is accurately and correctly filled out, as it cannot be modified after submission.
IV. Evaluation of Participating Works and Award Settings
(a) Evaluation Methods: Divided into technical testing, expert review, and on-site finals.
1. Technical Testing: Includes qualification preliminary review, work installation, and operation testing. Works passing the technical test will participate in the expert review and will be announced on the "Grand Prix" website from October 9 to 15, 2011. At that time, please carefully verify the relevant information, and any issues should be promptly communicated with the Organizing Committee Office; overdue issues will not be accepted.
2. Expert Review: Composed of experts and teachers hired by the "Grand Prix" Organizing Committee to evaluate the works passing the technical test. Special education and preschool education category works will be reviewed separately by the China Educational Technology Association Primary and Secondary School Professional Committee commissioned by the Organizing Committee. Based on comprehensive evaluation, the award-winning level and the list of works participating in the on-site finals will be determined. During the review, the ranking of provincial submissions will not be used as a reference indicator.
3. On-Site Finals: Some award-winning work authors (list to be announced on the website in late October 2011) will participate in the on-site finals and award ceremony in Beijing in late October. Separate notices will be issued.
On-site finals method: Work introduction and Q&A session (5 minutes).
Authors who fail to participate in the on-site finals due to unforeseen circumstances will be considered to have voluntarily forfeited the corresponding award level.
(b) Award Settings
1. Individual Honor Awards
Each participating project will separately set up special prizes, first prizes, second prizes, and third prizes.
Special Prizes, First Prizes: Number of winning works accounts for 8% of the total submitted works in each project;
Second Prizes: Number of winning works accounts for 12% of the total submitted works in each project;
Third Prizes: Number of winning works accounts for 10% of the total submitted works in each project.
2. Group Honor Awards
Set "Best Organization Award" for 25 units. Specific evaluation rules are as follows:
Indicator Sorting Weight Number of winning works of each organizing unit (school)
Sorted by quantity from large to small
0.3
Total number of submitted works by each organizing unit (school)
Sorted by quantity from large to small
0.3
Organization work situation of each unit (school)
Calculated based on technical test results
0.3
Submission time of works by each organizing unit (school)
Calculated based on submission deadline
0.1
3. Certificates and Plaques
(1) Issue certificates to winning authors;
(2) Issue plaques to winning units.
V. Organizational Work
(a) Organizational Leadership
"The Grand Prix" is led by the "National Multimedia Educational Software Grand Prix Organizing Committee" (hereinafter referred to as "Grand Prix Organizing Committee"), guided by relevant business bureaus of the Ministry of Education, and hosted by the Central Electric Education Museum.
"The Grand Prix Organizing Committee" office is located in the Technical Development and Network Construction Department of the Central Electric Education Museum, mainly responsible for specific work.
"The Grand Prix" main information and related matters will be successively published on the "Grand Prix" website.
(b) Contact Information
1. Address: Box 88, No. 160 Zhenxingmen Nei Street, Beijing, Technical Development and Network Construction Department, Central Electric Education Museum Postal Code: 100031
2. Contacts: Shi Feng, Fu Tao
3. Telephone: 010-66490952, 66490951; Fax: 010-66490950
4. Email: [email protected]
Appendix I
Organizing Unit and Contact Person Information Form
Name of Organizing Unit
Contact Person
Position
Communication Address
Postal Code
Telephone
Mobile Phone
Note:
① Please send the electronic version of this information form to [email protected] before April 30, 2011, and submit the original along with relevant competition materials afterward.
② This form is only for organizing units to fill out.
(Organizing Unit