HHL 2008 Awards Finalist

MiLK has been named as a top three finalist in the Secondary Category Innovation Award at this year’s international Handheld Learning conference to be held in London from 13 to 15 October.

Award winners are selected by the public via SMS voting, and everyone in the ACID family is encouraged to vote for MiLK.

SMS MiLK to +447786203140 before October 9 2008!

Votes are cast via standard rate SMS messaging and close at midnight (GMT) on Thursday October 9th.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in London on 13 October.

MiLK project leader, Deb Polson has also been invited to speak at HandHeld Learning 2008 Conference, where she will present on Extending Learning Relationships & Environments during the Mobile Learning and Future Schools session on Wednesday 15 October.

This is great news for ACID and for the MiLK project team… .and all the teachers and students that contributed to the sucess of MiLK!!!

Out of 600 entries MiLK was a preselection finalist for a 2008 ATOM award, ranking MiLK in the national top 10 Best Educational Multimodal Productions!

“As we received an unprecedented number of entries this year, being a preselected finalist is testament to the quality of your work.”

Each year, the ATOM Awards recognise excellence in over thirty categories of Film, Television, Animation and Multimedia and celebrate the very best of Australian and New Zealand production.

Congratulations to the entire MiLK team of Yang Wong, Colleen Morgan, Shu-Min Heng, Sherwin Huang and Dave Wallace. What a wonderful achievement and acknowledgement of your professional efforts and evolutions.

An independent review by leading experts in literacy and game design, Alice Robison and Katie Salen, indicates that MiLK supports best practice in teaching writing skills.

“The MiLK platform and process are ideal for best practices because they involve interactive design and play, continual collaboration, multiple opportunities for revision and practice, and a contextualised understanding of audience, purpose, and motivation.” - Excerpt from ‘Game School Report on Potential Writing Possibilities for MiLK’