Teachers' Favorite Awards:
Best Content Providers
In the spring of 2012, Berrien RESA hosted Teacher's Favorite Awards to select the Best Content Providers for the 2011-2012 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.
2012 Teachers' Favorite Awards
These providers received the top votes in their category (usually 20-60% of the vote).
- Best Zoos & Aquariums
- Best Space Science Museums & Organizations
- Best Gardens, Nature Preserves, and Parks
- Best Science Museums and Organizations
- Best Art Museums & Organizations
- Best Music and Performing Arts Museums and Organizations
- Best Authors and Experts
- Best American History Museums & Organizations
- Best World History Museums & Organizations
- Best War Museums & Organizations
- Best U.S. Government Museums & Organizations
- Best Career, Media, and Entertainment Museums and Organizations
- Best Ecology and Earth Science Museums and Organizations
- Best Multidisciplinary Museums & Organizations
- Schools, Education Centers and Consortiums
- Best United Kingdom Providers
- Best Canadian Providers
- Best Australian and New Zealand Providers
- Best Other International Providers
2012 Teachers' Favorite Honorable Mention
These providers received at least 10% of the vote in their category.
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
- AT&T Park, Home of the San Francisco Giants HEC-TV
- ATHENA Excellence in Cities Education Action Zone
- Author Ben Mikaelsen
- Bass Performance Hall / Performing Arts Fort Worth
- Battleship New Jersey
- Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
- Brad Tassell
- Center for Puppetry Arts
- Cleveland Institute of Music
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- Denver Museum of Nature and Space
- Distance Learning Solutions, LLC
- East Central Ohio Educational Service Center
- Fort Mifflin on the Delaware
- Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
- Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge
- Global Education Motivators
- International Wolf Center
- Kigluait Educational Adventures
- LEARNnco (Andy Campbell)
- Lee Richardson Zoo
- Manhattan School of Music
- Megaconference Jr., USA
- Michigan State University Museum
- Mote Marine Laboratory (SeaTrek)
- Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center
- National Archives (UK)
- National Baseball Hall of Fame
- National Museum of Australia
- Ohio Historical Society
- Polycom Special Events
- Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology
- Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Space Center Houston
- The Holocaust Memorial and Education Center of Nassau County
- The Works
- Vanderbilt Virtual School
This year we had 340 votes from 25 U.S. States and Canada. Highest voting states were Michigan, Ohio, and Texas.
Thank you to everyone who completed the survey. Polycom randomly awarded prizes to the following people from the contact information entered at the end of the survey. Polycom sponsors the Berrien RESA-Polycom VC Content Providers Database.
Questions? Contact Joshua Bridges , Instructional Technology Consultant, Berrien RESA.
