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2017.02.08
[Press Release] 5th Digital Ehon Awards Introduce New Categories: “Digital Educational Materials Award” and “Sesame Street Award”

To Members of the Press

国際デジタルえほんフェア実行委員会

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

  


The 5th Digital Ehon Awards
New “Digital Educational Materials Award” and “Sesame Street Award” Established

 The International Digital Ehon Fair Executive Committee (Taito Ward, Tokyo) has decided to introduce the “Digital Educational Materials Award” and the “Sesame Street Award” to the “5th Digital Ehon Awards,” an event aimed at pioneering and advancing new forms of digital expression.
In addition, Ms. Kiyoko Matsuoka (Deputy Director of the Itabashi City Art Museum) has been newly appointed to the judging panel, which now consists of nine judges who will select the world’s best Digital Ehon.
Submissions for this award are currently being accepted. We look forward to receiving Digital Ehons from around the world.

 

5th Digital Ehon Awards: Awards

In addition to the Grand Prix, Runner-up, and other awards, we are introducing the “Digital Educational Materials Award” and the “Sesame Street Award.” The following awards are scheduled to be presented at the 5th Digital Ehon Awards.

Grand Prize

Runner-Up

Judges’ Special Award

Digital Educational Materials Award (New)

Sesame Street Award (New)

*and others planned

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Digital Educational Materials Award

The “Digital Educational Materials Award” has been newly established this year with the aim of pioneering and promoting the use of digital educational materials in classrooms!
For the Digital Educational Materials Award, teachers and experts active on the front lines of education will select Digital Ehon that serve as high-quality learning tools for children.

*Please check the official website for entry details.

*The judges will be announced as soon as they are selected!

Sesame Street Award

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Judging will be conducted by a producer from Sesame Workshop (Sesame Street), the official sponsor of the Digital Ehon Awards. The digital Ehon books selected through this process will be honored with the “Sesame Street Award”!
Click here for details!

Ms. Kiyoko Matsuoka (Deputy Director of the Itabashi City Museum of Art) Joins the Judging Panel!

 

Ms. Kiyoko Matsuoka (Deputy Director of the Itabashi City Art Museum), who has previously overseen the “Bologna International Children’s Book Illustration Exhibition” at the Itabashi City Art Museum and has been dedicated to nurturing picture book authors, has been appointed as a new judge for the Digital Ehon Award.
A prestigious panel of nine judges, including Ms. Matsuoka, will select the world’s best Digital Ehon.

Judges

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*Excludes judging for the “Digital Educational Materials Award” and the “Sesame Street Award”

                

5th Digital Ehon Award Overview

 

Submission Deadline

Through

April 7, 2017

Awards Ceremony

Date: Saturday,
May 27, 2017
Venue: Fukutake Hall, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Admission: Free

Official Website


http://www.digitalehonaward.net/

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Contact Information for the General Public and Media Inquiries

International Digital Ehon Picture Book Fair Organizing Secretariat
(c/o NPO CANVAS and Digital Ehon Co., Ltd.)
Contacts: Masuda, Ogawa

E-mail: info@d-childrensbookfair.net

国際デジタルえほんフェア実行委員会

International Digital Ehon Fair Executive Committee

http://d-childrensbookfair.net/
http://www.digitalehonaward.net/