Teachers' Favorite Award: 2007: Best content providers
In the spring of 2007, the Berrien County ISD (now Berrien RESA) hosted Teacher's Favorite Awards to select the Best Content Providers for the 2006-2007 school year.
Berrien RESA has been listing content providers' programs since 2000. As the most comprehensive database of videoconference content providers, it has been used nationally since 2002 and sponsored by Polycom since 2003. The Teachers' Favorite Awards program started in 2006 and runs annually in May.
Please visit the Berrien RESA-Polycom Videoconference Program Database for more details on these providers and other content providers. Or browse the full content provider list.
2007 Teachers' Favorite Awards
- Best Fine Arts Museums & Organizations
- Best Historical Museums & Organizations
- Best Multidisciplinary Museums & Organizations
- Best Science Museums & Organizations
- Best Zoos & Aquariums
- Best Other Organizations
2007 Best New Content Providers
2007 Teachers' Favorite Honorable Mention 
- Alaska Sea Life Center
- Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
- Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Society
- Buffalo Zoo
- Camden Children's Garden
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Challenger Learning Center, Brownsburg, IN
- Challenger Learning Center, Center for Educational Technologies, WV
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
- Conner Prairie
- Discovery Center of Springfield
- Global Leap
- Global Nomads Group
- Indianapolis Zoo
- HealthSpace Cleveland
- Lee Richardson Zoo
- Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center
- NASA Digital Learning Network
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach
Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. Polycom randomly awarded the following prizes from the contact information entered at the end of the survey. Polycom sponsors the Berrien RESA-Polycom VC Content Providers Database.
- Polycom VSX7000s (set-top videoconferencing)
- Alice Chotovinsky, BECON Distance Learning, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Polycom Communicator (for use with Skype & desktop VC)
- Barb Teti, Coshocton City Schools, Coshocton , OH
- Carole Stern, NC School of Science and Math, Durham, NC
- Kelley Bidigare, Roseville Community Schools, Roseville, MI
- Linda McDermon, Rural Hall Elementary School, Rural Hall, NC
- Free Content Programs
- Barbara Skinner, Banff Elementar, Canadian Rockies Public Schools, Banff, Alberta, Canada
- Brian M. Christman, Fruitport Community Schools, Fruitport, MI
- Charles Forty , Rochester School for the Deaf, Rochester, NY
- Suzanne Patzer, Columbus State Community College, Columbus, OH
- Vinnie Anderson, School Lane, Swedesboro, NJ
Questions? Contact Janine Lim, Instructional Technology Consultant, SouthwestNet Distance Learning.
