Rules

===** 1. All apps that you request must be from projects and/or tools that you have used during the current school year. In order to earn an app, try completing this sentence: "I (or My students) created a _...I should get an app for that!" If you can't complete that sentence, then your task/technology use is not worthy of an app. For example, would you say, "I created an email.." Email is technology, but is it app-worthy? Or something you want to brag about? Apps should be projects and/or tools that you want to show everyone that you're using - NOT day to day tasks, such as email, installing printers, MS Word, DRA spreadsheets, etc. Still not sure what qualifies for an app? Visit the MISD Tech Star Wiki for tools you can try. **===

===** 3. Apps will be awarded based on project, not tools. Example: You use Glogster EDU and create a glog for your professional wiki (that parents/students view.) You then complete a project with your students and your students create glogs for their research project presentations. You would earn TWO apps for Glogster EDU - one for the glog you made and one for the glogster project with your students. **===

** More guidelines for earning apps for the same tool: ** ===** -You may earn up to 5 apps for the same tool - such as 5 Glogster EDU apps, but each app must be for a different project. Also, make sure that at least 2 of the 5 apps are student created, not teacher created. Therefore, you may have 3 apps that are strictly teacher created (having no student involvement in the creation of the glog). Your students and parents still use or benefit from the glog, but didn't help create it. **===

===** 5. You are encouraged to display your projects on this wiki by creating your own wiki page. //We will have a training teaching you how to do this.// If you are not a member of this wiki, please request membership. The most effective way to share your projects is to link them to your wiki page so other teachers can see them. The tech star program is MUCH more powerful if we share our projects and learn from each other. **===