NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI

(An Autonomous Organization under Ministry of Human Resource

Development, Department of School Education & Literacy)

Govt. of India

A-28, Kailash Colony, New Delhi-110048

F. No. 4-23/2007-NVS(Comp) Dated: 01-12-2008

The Principal

All Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas

Subject : NVS and Intel Joint Contest – 2008 – Awards for the Best Integration of Technology in classrooms – regarding.

Reference : NVS HQrs Letter F. No.4-20/2007-NVS(Comp),dated 11/08/08.

Madam/Sir,

Intel and NVS are organizing a contest for the year 2008 on “Best Integration of Classrooms” among Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. In this contest, there are four categories of awards viz. Student, Teacher, School and Region. The detailed information for participating in this contest has already been circulated vide this office letter dated 11^th August, 2008 (mentioned above) and available on Samiti’s website www.navodaya.gov.in or www.navodaya.nic.in.

As on date number of registration made for the “Best Integration of Classrooms - 2008” contest is more than 550. Many of them have already submitted the requisite entries for the contest. However, some of them could not do so due to some problem in Internet/ communication. They have been requesting to extend the date of submission of entries for this contest.

In view of great enthusiasm seen among the aspirants of all levels for participating in this contest, it has been decided to extend the date of submission entries (by registered aspirants) upto 30^th December, 2008.

The revised schedule of the “NVS –Intel Joint Contest –2008” is as under : -

Last date

Category

Particulars

Sep 30^th, 2008

Teacher category

School category

Student Category

Registration form to be submitted on line at :
www.educationinindia.net/nvs08/teacher_reg.asp

www.educationinindia.net/nvs08/school_reg.asp

www.educationinindia.net/nvs08/student_reg.asp

Dec 30^th, 2008

All categories

Contestants to send Detailed Entry to the above mentioned address or upload it in the template provided

In this regard you are requested to make necessary compliance on the following points:

(i) Ensure your participation in all categories (viz. Vidyalaya, Teacher and Student) .

(ii) Ensure to submit the requisite entries within the stipulated time by the aspirants (all categories) already registered

(iii) Motivate and encourage your teachers and students for participating this contest in large number.

(iv) In case of finding difficulties in registration , uploading or sending the projects/ entries for the contest, you may contact the representative of Intel at usha.bhaskar@learninglinksindia.org or Submit the entries (hardcopy) by post/courier to Intel in the address given below.

You are also requested to look into the quality of projects/ entries for the Contest “Awards for the Best Integration of Technology in classrooms- 2008”, while submitting. The projects/entries should be creative, innovative and aimed to give a message / theme to society/ community.

Yours faithfully,

Sd/-

(Kiran Chandra)

Deputy Commissioner(Acad.)

Copy to :

(i) The Deputy Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, All Regional Offices : with a request for necessary follow up and motivate your Vidyalayas. As such, three regions would be awarded prizes based on the number and quality of entries submitted (to be submitted).

(ii) Intel Teach Program, 1209, Padma Tower – 1, 5 – Rajendra Place, New Delhi – 110 008. (Attn. Ms. Usha Bhaskar – Mob. 09868625207).

Sd/-

Deputy Commissioner(Acad.)

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INTEL^® TEACH PROGRAM
NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI AWARDS
FOR THE BEST INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS

1.Introduction

Intel^® Teach Program and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti jointly announce Contest for “Best Integration of Technology Aided Learning in Class Rooms”. The Joint contest aspires to acknowledge the best Practices of Technology Integration in Education.

The last date for submission of detailed entries is 30^th December 2008. The winners of the contest will be announced in the third week of January 2009.

The contest is divided into four categories:

A. Student of the year Award

This award will be presented to the student(s), who have successfully applied technology in his/her learning process, and thereby have enhanced their learning.

B. Teacher of the year Award

The Award will be presented to the teacher(s) who have enhanced student learning by effectively and innovatively integrating technology supported learning into the school curriculum, and thereby promoted inquiry-based and collaborative learning among their students.

C. School of the year Award

This award will be presented to the school(s), which recognizes the importance of technology in the teaching and learning process, and has successfully integrated Technology Aided Learning (TAL) in the school curriculum for enhancing student learning.

D. Region of the year award

Three regions would be awarded prizes based on the number and quality of entries submitted.

All entries sent by Schools, Teachers and Students from Navodaya Vidyalayas will be evaluated by a panel of judges formed by the NVS officials,Navodaya Vidyalaya Teachers, Teacher Educators from college of Education and Intel^® Teach team.

2.Selection Procedure

A panel of 5 judges will be formed; Intel & NVS will nominate two persons each for the panel and a senior lecturer from the College of Education. The panel will shortlist the candidates as per the criterion specified in Selection Rubrics. Each Judge will receive

A Contest Leaflet with details of the Contest.
Contest Evaluation Rubric on the basis of which the entries will be judged.

3.Evaluation

I^st Round of Evaluation

The Intel ^® Teach team will evaluate the submitted entries as per the criterion laid down in Contest Evaluation Rubric. For identifying best entries per region, the team will evaluate the hard/soft copy of the entries submitted by the participants.

II^nd Round of Evaluation

The Intel^® Teach team will conduct telephonic interview of the short listed participants.

III^rd Round of Evaluation

For identifying the National level winners, judges will evaluate the short listed participants as per the criterion laid down in Contest Evaluation Rubric.

The marks obtained by each Participant (school/Teacher/Student) will be filled in the evaluation sheet. The judge will need to sign the respective evaluation sheets.

4.Results

The results of the contest will be declared on the NVS Website
http://navodaya.nic.in
The winners of the contest will be felicitated in the award ceremony that will be held in the last week of Jan 2009.

5.Roles and Responsibilities

Intel:

Intel will co-host the contest and will be responsible for the certificates and prizes mutually decided upon for all 4 categories.
Intel will conduct the I^st and the II^nd round of Evaluation of the entries received.

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti:

NVS will publish the contest details in their website http://navodaya.nic.in/ and also publicize the same.
NVS will follow up and encourage maximum participation from all schools, teachers and students of Navodaya Vidyalayas
NVS will be part of the Evaluation team during the Final Round of Evaluation.
NVS will publish the final results of all categories in their web site.
The NVS will bear the cost of travel and boarding expenses of the winning participants.

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NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA SAMITI

(An Autonomous Organization under Ministry of Human Resource

Development, Department of School Education & Literacy)

Govt. of India

A-28, Kailash Colony, New Delhi-110048

F.No.4-20/2007-NVS(Comp)

Date: 11.8.2008

The Deputy Commissioner

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti

All Regional Offices

Sub: NVS and Intel Joint Contest-2008 – Awards for the Best Integration of Technology in classrooms.

Madam/Sir,

You are aware a Joint Contest is being organized by INTEL AND NAVODAYA VIDYLAYA SAMITI every year since 2004 to identify “Best Practices of Technology Integration in Education”.

For the current academic session, NVS and Intel have decided to conduct the Joint Contest-2008 for “Best Integration of Technology Aided learning in Classrooms”. This context will have following four separate categories of Awards :

a. Student of the year Award:

This award will be presented to the student(s), who have successfully applied technology in his/her learning process, and thereby have enhanced their learning.

Four National level winners will be awarded prizes and certificates.

b. Teacher of the Year Award:

c. School of the year Award:

Four National level winners will be awarded Certificates and Prizes. The Principal’s of the school will be awarded Prizes and Certificates.

d. Region of the year Award:

Three regions would be awarded prizes based on the number and quality of entries submitted. These regions will be awarded prizes and certificate

The schedules of the Joint Contest -2008 are as under:-

ü The last date Registration (on line) : September 30, 2008

ü The last date of submission of complete entries : November 25, 2008

ü Evaluation of projects /Entries : 2^nd week of December, 2008

ü Announcement of winners/Award ceremony : 1^st week of January, 2009

ü Award ceremony : Last week of January, 2009

The details of the contests Eligibility Criteria, Guidelines, Schedule and Selection procedures, etc. is enclosed for your ready reference, which is also available at www.navodaya.nic.in.

Students/Teachers/Schools/Regions willing to participate in the contest can register themselves on line through a link from www.navodaya.nic.in. Each registered entry will be allotted registration number which may be used by the applicant in all future communications in respect of this contest. The participants are required to submit a detailed write up in the template provided. The supporting documents (Presentation/Word Document not exceeding file size 3 MB) can be uploaded in the link provided in the template viz. Student Detailed Entry Template (for student) / Teacher Detailed Entry Template (for Teacher ) / School Detailed Entry Template - (for School) and Region Detailed Entry Template (for Region).

The complete entries for INTEL – NVS Joint Contest 2008 on “Best Integration of Technology In Classrooms” of all categories should be submitted online. In case of difficulties, participants may submit their hard copies of entries/projects to:-

NVS and Intel Joint Contest 2008

C/o Learning Links Foundation

1209, Padma Tower – 1, 5 - Rajendra Place

New Delhi – 110 008

It is requested that the participation in the Intel - NVS Joint Contest should be exhaustive and should include as many as number of schools as we can. You are therefore requested to issue suitable instructions to all the JNVs under your jurisdiction and ensure their participation in each category i.e. student, teacher and school category in order to make this contest very competitive and in making a NVS –National level platform for the aspirants showing their excellences in the subject.

Yours faithfully,

Encl: As above.

Sd/-

(Mukesh)

Deputy Commissioner(Acad.)

Copy to :

1. PS to Commissioner : -for kind appraisal of Commissioner, NVS

2. Principal of all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas: - With a request to give wide publicity and motivate all the students and teachers of your Vidyalaya to participate in this contest and to visit the website www.navodaya.nic.in to get the requisite information/details.

3. Shri Sanjay Bareja, Assistant Manager, Intel® Teach Program, 1209, Padma Tower – 1, 5 - Rajendra Place, New Delhi 110 008, E.Mail : sanjay.bareja@lerninglinksindia.org.

Sd/-

(P.K.Sharma)

Assistant Commissioner(Acad.)