The Great Package Race Prizes: Apr 2004-Dec 2004


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The Great MLX Package Race Prizes: Apr 2004-Dec 2004 Thanks to our software friends... for their previous contributions to the MLX Great races Nov 2002 - Feb 2003, Mar 2003 - Sep 2003, and Oct 2003 - Mar 2004. Our colleges are responding well to encouraging MLX contributions, so this portion of the MLX "Race" is beong retired. We will still list on our race "scoreboard" the college contributions for your informational (and competetitive) benefit. Through generous contributions of our sponsors listed above, we have incentives for the top individual contributors. These items for their own computer use, at home or at school. First place gets first choice... Individual Prize (to 3 individuals) Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 "Build professional web sites and applications. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, enabling developers and designers at every skill level to create visually appealing, standards-based sites and applications quickly. From leading support for CSS-based design to hand-coding features, Dreamweaver provides the tools professionals need in an integrated, streamlined environment. Developers can use Dreamweaver with the server technology of their choice to build powerful Internet applications that connect users to databases, web services, and legacy systems." (more...) 3 prizes ($399 value) prize made available via discount purchase via New Media Consortium membership Individual Prize Macromedia Director MX 2004 "Develop high-performance multimedia content and applications for CDs, DVDs, kiosks, and the Internet." Author once and deploy anywhere with Director MX 2004, the proven multimedia tool for building rich content and applications for CDs, DVDs, kiosks, and the Internet. Director handles the widest variety of media and offers powerful new features, including two scripting languages, DVD-Video support, cross-platform publishing, and Flash MX 2004 integration." (more...) 1 prize ($1199 value) donated by Macromedia

Random Packages These may have already been counted!

3 Packages

1. One College,Two Campuses: A Model for Our District's Future
All employees of Mesa Community College pulled together to open a first for MCCCD: a new campus that will remain part of a current college as its second comprehensive anchor....

2. Using the Jeopardy Game for Fun Learning!
The Questor Game available through MCCD is a program similar to the Jeopardy game on television. This is a visual game that students are familiar with. The game is fun learning whe...

3. Using Innovative Writing Projects to Teach and Assess
This package provides one mode of assessment that places students into a problem solving context, requires them to work as a team, communicate mathematically, and connect multiple ...

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Thanks to our friends, supporters and sponsors...

Oh dear, the last race ended December 8, 2004. The Great Race Incentive programs are over, so please consider collegial reasons why you might share things in the MLX.

Latest from the marketing department... "The Third Great Package Race is going on right now, through December 8, 2004. See the current standings for colleges and individual contributions.

More Individual Incentives
Individual Prize
Apple iSight

"Sight is a state-of-the-art video camera thatąs the easiest way to video conference with your colleagues, friends and family over broadband. Featuring an autofocusing autoexposure F/2.8 lens which captures high-quality pictures even in low lighting, iSight also includes a dual-element microphone in its stylish compact aluminum body. Apple brings award-winning product design to iSight ‹ and itąs like no other camera available today. A versatile, durable, lightweight and portable camera capable of delivering high-quality audio and video, iSight features a strong aluminum-alloy exterior which protects sophisticated electronics and its autofocus lens. A single FireWire cable streams video and audio and also delivers power to the camera." (more...)
1 prize ($149 value) donated by Apple Computer, thanks to Bob Lewis

What is the Great Package Race? It is an incentive program we launched in late 2002 to encourage Maricopa employees to contribute items to the MLX. From November 2002 to the end of March 2003 we tracked how many items were contributed by each Maricopa College, and posted updated score sheet. Scores are normalized by the total number of employees per college, and prizes were offered to the colleges that had the top 3 scores. This was repeated for March 2003-September 2003, and October 2003-March 2004.

Previously, we awarded software prizes to the highest MLX "package per employee" (ppe), e.g. number of packages contributed divided by the full time employee count for that college, but for the current race we are warding just the individual efforts.

(more about the race...)