Nominations  are still open for TxDLA’s Best and Brightest!!!– Deadline: January 22, 2010

 

This is the time of year that TxDLA seeks nominations to honor the best and brightest leaders in distance learning. Nominations will be open on the website:  http://www.txdla.org/awards.asp

Please take the time to nominate the brightest and best in Distance Learning in your entity.  We need your nominations to find those that make a difference in Distance Learning!

 

Outstanding Commitment to TxDLA , Individual, Instructional, and Corporate

These awards fall into three classifications: individual, institutional, and corporate, for outstanding service provided to the organization during the past year. They go to the most committed individuals and organizations-those who put their noses to the grindstone and “made things happen” for TxDLA.

 

Outstanding Commitment to Excellence and Innovation in Distance Learning

This award is for the person, institution, or corporation who has done the most to benefit and advance the applied practice of distance learning, in the opinion of our members, during the past year. For example, an innovative teacher who has passed knowledge and skills on to other teachers in the field or the most innovative solution to applied problems developed within an educational institution or private corporation.

 

Don Foshee Award for Outstanding TxDLA Leadership

The late Don Foshee was a founding member and first President of TxDLA. This award goes to a TxDLA Board Member, Officer, or Committee Chair who has shown a strong personal commitment, given generously of their time, and provided vigorous support for other TxDLA members to become leaders in the Association.

 

John A. Baker Memorial Award For Excellence in K-12 Distance Learning –Nominate a teacher in your district that is working hard to promote DL!

In memory of John and in recognition of his lifetime commitment to excellence in teaching, TxDLA established the Annual John A. Baker Memorial Award. We hope that through this award, K-12 teachers will be recognized for their work in the distance learning arena and will be given more opportunities to reach students through the use of educational telecommunications and distance learning technologies. Any K-12 teacher working in public, private, or charter school settings in Texas is eligible and will receive $500 cash, complimentary registration to the Annual Meeting/Conference and Awards Dinner, and complimentary TxDLA membership for the year.

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Hall of Fame and Don Foshee Memorial Grant – Deadline: January 22, 2010

The Texas Distance Learning Association is now accepting nominations for induction into the TxDLA Hall of Fame and applications for the Don Foshee Memorial Grant.  Deadline for submission is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 22, 2010. Please visit http://www.txdla.org/awards.asp  to submit your nominees.

 

Hall of Fame

The Texas Distance Learning Hall of Fame recognizes long-term distance-learning practitioners or advocates whose careers are characterized by exceptional commitment, outstanding achievements, and enduring impact.

Honorees will be individuals who clearly possess most or all of these attributes:

a successful distance learning career of practice or advocacy for a substantial duration of time accomplishments of exceptional noteworthiness and lasting value benefiting large numbers of Texas citizens innovators who have pushed the envelope pioneers who have paved the way for others advanced distance learning as a career field or mode of instructional delivery exceptional commitment to distance learning (overall impact) The recipient(s) will be recognized at the 2010 TxDLA Annual Conference March 21-24 in Houston.

 

Don Foshee Memorial Grant

The purpose of the Don Foshee Memorial Grant is to recognize exceptional ideas and talents to be applied in a thoughtful, fun, and creative manner delivered through distance learning. Funds are directed toward the motivation of finding your “backyard treasure” in the spirit of our founding father Don Foshee.  The awardee(s) will be announced at the 2010 TxDLA Annual Conference, March 20-24 in Houston.  Recipients will receive $2,000 for their proposal and be required to present on their project at the following year’s TxDLA conference.

 

For more information and application forms please visit:

TxDLA Hall of Fame:  http://www.txdla.org/award_HOFinfo.asp

Don Foshee Memorial Grant:  http://www.txdla.org/award_MG.asp

 

Please direct any questions and requests for documents to Rhonda Blackburn at past-pres@txdla.org.

 

Deadline is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 22, 2010.

Nominate someone today at:http://www.txdla.org/awards.asp