Capture the extraordinary moments in your classroom, and win with SMART

Show us the wow in your classroom

Here’s a chance to showcase your students’ ingenuity, intelligence and all-round awesomeness. SMART Technologies is teaming up with TeacherTube to offer the Extraordinary Moments Video Contest. We’re looking for 30-second commercials that best answer this question:

  >> How do SMART products help you create extraordinary moments in your classroom?

Creativity counts. So does technological wizardry. But most of all we’d like to see how you and your students use technology to create a fun, interactive learning environment.

The Extraordinary Moments Video Contest is only open to educators in North America. The contest starts April 21, 2008, and runs until May 31, 2008. The winning commercial will be announced and debuted at National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2008.

Win a SMART Board and attend your own premiere

The winner of SMART’s video contest will be honored with a red carpet premiere of their commercial and a trip to San Antonio, Texas, to attend NECC 2008. NECC is the largest educational technology show in North America and takes place from June 29 to July 2, 2008.

You’ll see the latest SMART products and will get a new SMART Board interactive whiteboard to take home with you.

Grand prize description and approximate value

One first place entry will win a trip to attend the NECC 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, to attend the premiere of their commercial, whereby SMART will pay up to a value of USD$2,000 for costs related to airfare, hotel accommodation and NECC 2007 registration fee. The winner will also receive a SMART Board interactive whiteboard, valued at approximately USD$3,500.

The total grand prize package is valued at over USD$5,000. All shipping costs associated with the delivery of the prize to the winner's designated beneficiary school will be paid for by SMART.

The winner will be notified the week of June 9, 2008.

About SMART

SMART Technologies is an industry pioneer and global education market segment leader in user-friendly ICT products and group collaboration tools. The award-winning line of SMART Board interactive whiteboards is the most widely installed in the world because of its unsurpassed product quality, versatility and ease of use. The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is used to teach over 18 million students in more than 600,000 classrooms in more than 100 countries around the world. To learn more, please visit http://education.smarttech.com.

About TeacherTube.com

TeacherTube is an online community for sharing instructional videos. TeacherTube seeks to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. Most importantly, TeacherTube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. To learn more about TeacherTube’s online community, please visit http://www.teachertube.com.