2009 ACTFL Video Podcast Contest Winners
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2009 ACTFL Video Podcast Winners
 

View the winning entries online at www.actflvideocontest.org!

 
Elementary School
 
Title:                Urgent! Public Service Announcement
Award:             1st Place Winner-Judges Category
School:            Desert Willow Elementary, Cave Creek, Arizona
Teacher:         Cristina Marchica
 
 
Title:                My First Project-Medium
Award:             1st Place Winner- Popular Vote Category
School:            Robert L. Puster Elementary, Fairview, Texas
Teacher:         Lisa Hempkins
 
Middle School
 
Title:                FMG Brittany Michael Jeff
Award:             1st Place Winner- Judges Category
School :           Florence M. Gaudineer School, Springfield, New Jersey
Teacher :        Bonnie Borton
 
 
Title:                 NDP Spanish Project 1
Award:             1st Place Winner- Popular Vote Category
School:            Notre Dame Preparatory School-Middle, Towson, Maryland
Teacher:          Elizabeth Pennington
 
High School
 
Title:                Is it really that Important? Silent Film
Awards:          1st Place Winner- Judges Category (tied)
                       1st Place Winner- Popular Vote Category
School :          Nettleton High School, Jonesboro, Arkansas
Teacher :        Rachel Johnson
 
 
Title:                Languages for Life Energy Drink
Award:            1st Place Winner- Judges Category (tied)
School:           Loveland High School, Loveland, Colorado
Teacher:         Toni Theisen
 
Post Secondary
 
Title:                Priceless
Awards:          1st Place Winner- Judges Category
                       1st Place Winner- Popular Vote Category
School:            University of Miami at Ohio
Student:          Robin Purdy
 

Thank You Judges!

Elizabeth Hoffman, Nebraska Department of Education (retired) and ACTFL Past President

Laura Franklin, Northern Virginia Community College and Chair, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Lynn Fulton-Archer, Richmond Drive Elementary School, Rock Hill, South Carolina and Chair, Advocacy Committee for the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (judged in all categories except elementary)

Adam Stryker, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA and Past President, Greater Washington Area Teachers of Foreign Languages (GWATFL)

Mikle Ledgerwood, State University of New York, Stonybrook and President-elect, International Association of Language Learning Technologies (IALLT)

Melissa Ferro, Doctoral Student, George Mason University and former intern, ACTFL

Also, special thanks to the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University and staff Dennie Hoopingarner, Joy Campbell, and Vineet Bansal.

View the winning entries online at www.actflvideocontest.org!