Teachers' Favorite Awards:
Best Content Providers
In the spring of 2008, the Berrien County ISD (now Berrien RESA) hosted Teacher's Favorite Awards to select the Best Content Providers for the 2007-2008 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 VC Content Providers Database for more details on these providers and other content providers. Or browse the full content provider list.
2008 Teachers' Favorite Awards
- Best Fine Arts Museums & Organizations
- Best Historical Museums & Organizations
- Best Multidisciplinary Museums & Organizations
- Best Science Museums & Organizations
- Best Zoos & Aquariums
- Schools, Education Centers and Consortiums
- Best Authors and Experts
- Best United Kingdom Providers
- Best Canadian Providers
- Best Other International Providers
2008 Teachers' Favorite Honorable Mention
- Alaska Sea Life Center
- Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
- Conner Prairie
- COSI Toledo
- Indianapolis Zoo
- LEARNnco Andy Campbell
- Milwaukee Public Museum
- San Diego Zoo
- The Mariner's Museum
- Vanderbilt Virtual School
This year we had 388 votes from 29 states and Canada. Highest voting states were Ohio and Texas.
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 PVX (desk-top videoconferencing)
- Dawn Genzlinger, Oak Arbor School, Rochester, MI
- Dean Lowe, Amherst Steele High School, Amherst, OH
- Richard Hooper, Ponder ISD, Ponder, TX
- Polycom Communicator (for use with Skype & desktop VC)
- Amy Hanczaruk, Messmore Elementary School, Sterling Heights, MI
- Elaine Hakes, Mount Morris Central School District, Mount Morris, NY
- Mug
- Robert Uhl, Parkland School District, Allentown, PA
- Glenda House, Roxboro Middle School, Syracuse, NY
- iTouch
- Liz Wysocki, Bastrop ISD, Bastrop, TX
- $50 Gift Certificate
- Marsha Snider, Warren, OH
Questions? Contact Janine Lim, Instructional Technology Consultant, SouthwestNet Distance Learning.
