Nominated by Owen Gaede
College Professor at Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, United States

It gives me great pleasure to nominate Mr. Kegelmann for this award. I've known Mr. Kegelmann for over ten years, ever since he attended the "Instructional Design" program at Florida State University (FSU) in 1991. He came to FSU on a one-year scholarship after which he returned to the University of Bamberg, Germany, his alma mater, to complete his teaching certificate.

Presently, Udo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and a full-time teacher at a vocational school, the "Staatliche Berufsschule II" in Bamberg, Germany.

Mr. Kegelmann has been recognized as an expert in the areas of online and multimedia learning in his home state of Bavaria, leading to a teaching position on "Multimedia Didactics" at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and multiple speaking engagements and seminars for business and educational institutions, the statewide education board, and chambers of commerce.

Mr. Kegelmann is a highly motivated individual who loves to teach and engage his students, be it in a vocational school, a college, or a business seminar and use his expertise in online learning to enhance the learning experience of his audience. He comes highly recommended for this award.

Mr. Kegelmann lives with his wife and two children in Bamberg, Germany.

The section below lists the testimonials that have been reviewed and approved by the candidate.

1. Testimonial from Markus Woerle (1)
Other at Seminar Bayern/ ALP Dillingen
Germany

I am a supervisor of “Seminar Bayern” at ALP in Dillingen, Germany, the academy for teacher training and staff development for the state of Bavaria. In particular, I supervise the training of all teachers in the state of Bavaria on matters on traffic safety, driver's education and prevention of violence. I have known Mr. Kegelmann for a number of years and his high quality seminars are an integral part of the ongoing lectures and workshops at ALP. Mr. Kegelmann is well deserving of this prize based upon his competence in subject-matter, subject-didactic and pedagogical competence. He is an innovative, team-oriented and beloved colleague and scholar. Mr. Kegelmann offers his skills and proficiencies in a successfully way and without any level of vanity or arrogance. His design of curriculum modules and workshop is very learner-oriented and covers a range of topics in media pedagogy and media didactics. As a co-coordinator for training courses, his responsibilities include the organization and administration of workshops and optimizes their implementation. Last but not least, I'd like to highlight Mr. Kegelmann's involvement as a lecturer on the national level with his participation at the international conference on media didactics and media design in Cologne, Germany, in December 6th, 2004. Mr. Kegelmann is a driving force in the development and enhancement of our media-based instruction and trains effectively the teachers in our state in the area of media design and media didactics with state of the art methodology. Overall, Mr. Kegelmann is well deserving of this prize based upon his competence in subject-matter, subject-didactic and pedagogical competence.

2. Testimonial from Christoph Kasseckert (2)
Teacher High School/Secondary (ages 14-18) at Realschule Hirschaid
Germany

I know Mr Kegelmann as a speaker and a tutor at my training for becoming a consultant for the educational use of media at school. Because of his ability to teach in a constructive way, I had invited him to offer and lead through a workshop at the "Hirschaider IT-Days" in June 2004. The purpose of this event is to teach students and teachers of schools in the surrounding area of our school in specific IT-sectors which are not demanded in our curriculum. Mr Kegelmann leaded the workshop "Design in multimedia-projects like presentations and websites". The invited students and teachers brought their own projects to the workshop. Mr Kegelmann examined the work of the participants and showed them in an impressive way how to change the design of their projects by means of simple tools (paper and pencil) without losing the individual character of the participants' ideas. The students and teachers were astonished by the results because Mr. Kegelmann succeeded in showing what extraordinary effects can be achieved by using simple but basic methods. Mr Kegelmann is a highly engaged teacher who can motivate and inspire his listeners who at the same time profit greatly for their own way of working efficiently.

Homepage "Hirschaider IT-Days": http://www.it-tage.de/

Award for school activities, among other "Hirschaider IT-Days": http://www.rs-hirschaid.de/info/auszeichnung2004.php

Homepage of our school (Tutor: Udo Kegelmann): http://www.rs-hirschaid.de

3. Testimonial from Annett Klippel (3)
Business at Berufsschule Bamberg
Germany

As a former student at the Staatliche Berufsschule II (Vocational Design School), Bamberg, I'd like to support the nomination of my teacher Mr. Udo Kegelmann, because of his great impact and challenge on young people's lives. In our media-design class he taught us all we had to know about professional design in print and new digital media, e.g. the virtuous use of tools like QuarkXPress, Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop and all the technical background on Mac and PC computers. He also inspired us not only on focusing the workflow in media development and media production, but also to implement our ideas and grafical concepts into a corporate design system for companies and institutions in all ways of commercial media, such as advertisements, webpages, presentations or CMS. In our German class he showed us how important it is to work with creative techniques to come up with slogans and scripts for ads. I'll also never forget our three-days-trip to Cologne, where our class had the opportunity to visit the International School of Design, participating in workshops and presentations at one of the most outstanding and challenging universities of design all over the country. This university holds partnerships with international schools of design in Scandinavia, France, Italy, Australia and the U.S. .While we were there, we got in contact with scholarship-students from the University of Melbourne. So we had an unforgetable time in exchanging our experiences and getting close to thrilling design-projects with the Australians. I really appreciate Mr. Kegelmann's work and engagement, I'm honoured to write this testimonial and I wish good luck and all the best for his nomination.

With regards,

Annett Klippel

4. Testimonial from Peter Vogel (4)
Teacher High School/Secondary (ages 14-18) at Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nürnberg
Germany

I met Mr. Kegelmann for the first time during my training for “Medienpädagogisch-Informationstechnischer Berater”. He gave an impressive lecture on “hybrid arrangements for learning”. He introduced the subject very efficiently and was able to motivate and carry away his audience to the formulation of the questions. Within the scape of my training I attended a meeting where Mr. Kegelmann introduced the subject of media design. In a highly convincing way and with extremely detailed knowledge he analyzed existing websites. I was in particular impressed by his enormous creativity which enabled him to offer spontaneous topical websites. Mr. Kegelmann’s lectures were most helpful for my field of activity. Finally I want to make mention of the fact that Mr. Kegelmann supported me as a tutor when I was developing a CMS based web portal. He helped me with great efficiency and professionally convincing argumentation. Especially his suggestions on web design have not only inspired me again and again, but have also encouraged me to develop my own ideas. I am indebted to Mr. Kegelmann for good progress in my own work on web sites. I would like to support the suggestion of Mr. Kegelmann’s nomination for the “GSN Online Shared Learning Award” explicitly and wish him well!

5. Testimonial from Marco Kalz (5)
Student at Fernuni Hagen, Germany
Germany

Udo Kegelmann was my university teacher in my master class in educational technology. Udo´s subject in this course were didactical and instructional models for E-Learning. We connected those models and theories to practical usage so it was a very vivid class with a broad theoretical background and very interesting E-Learning-Examples. But Udo is not only an expert in his field, who teaches different instructional theories and methods (for educational technology), he integrates them very well in his courses. So we switched in his class to many different methods, and presentation modes – this was very inspiring for me. I remember this course very well because of the fun we had and the many learning occasions I found in his teaching. Today I often use the material from his master class as a starting point for my research activities. After his course he did a very detailed (self-) evaluation and he got the best grades from his students. Udo is definetly a teacher you rarely find.

Marco Kalz, M.A. (Master of Multimedia Didactics) PhD Student Educational Technology Unit Fernuniversität Hagen Germany http://www.marcokalz.de

6. Testimonial from Bernhard Wiesner (6)
Curriculum Instruction Director at Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung
Germany

The „Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung (Academy for teacher advanced training and personal leadership)“ is currently training a group of teachers of all school types as professionals in media pedagogy. These experts are intended to multiply their knowledge to all teachers across the country. The courses focus lies among others on Instructional Design und School Management. We engaged Mr. Udo Kegelmann in 2004 and 2005 as a lecturer for both topics. He trained our teachers in approx. 10 lessons and workshops and we found that he is not only a highly qualified expert with deep knowledge and sophisticated skills in Instructional Design, but also a very good teacher, whose lessons are both excitingly and instructively. For this rason Mr. Kegelmann always get best evaluation notes by our students.