Administrators

ü     Meet with character education liaison, library media specialist, and art teachers to discuss the school-based implementation of
the “Beyond Words” Visual Media Challenge.

ü     Designate an art teacher to take a leadership role in facilitating the Challenge.  This person will be your “go to” person for the Challenge and the “go to” person for other teachers and the students who elect participate.

ü     Distribute information about the Challenge to your school and school community through daily announcements, distribution of flyers, parent and faculty newsletters, web address distribution, etc.

ü     Encourage teacher and student participation in the Challenge.

Media Specialists

ü     Provide technical support for all wiki-related information and needs.  The first question you will be asked after "How do I use this really cool tool?" is "How do I manage the email notifications every time any user makes a change?"; the tutorial below shows you how to change notifications.  You can change the notifications for the Beyond Words Challenge wiki to Never because we monitor it for you.

Notification Settings from PBwikiWebinars on Vimeo.

ü     Encourage student participation in the Challenge.  Watch the brief tutorial below to see how to create student accounts:

Classroom Accounts from PBwikiWebinars on Vimeo.

ü     Participate in school-based panel of judges to select five (5) artworks for submission into the school wide challenge.

ü     Take digital images of selected artwork and upload them to the wiki.

All Art Teachers

ü     Encourage student participation in the challenge.

ü     Distribute challenge guidelines and rubric to all students.

ü     Provide opportunities for students to create artwork based on the BCPS Character Objectives either through classroom lessons or by working one-on-one with interested students or groups of students.

ü     Provide students with timeline reminders and challenge updates.

ü     Review intellectual property release forms to ensure that students submitting artwork haven’t opted out.

Designated Art Teacher

ü     Acts as a funnel for challenge information and updates to and from the administration and teachers.

ü     Provides teachers and students with timeline reminders and challenge updates.

ü     Organizes the collection of all art submissions, including written explanations of artwork.

ü     Checks intellectual property release forms of participating students to ensure that students haven’t opted out.

ü     Assembles a panel of judges to critique all art submissions and to select five (5) artworks to be entered into the system wide challenge.

ü     Collaborates with library media specialist in the process of uploading selected digital images.