1. Best Innovation in Education Content Cocreation<br />The Success Story of MyEMO<br />(Software created by Grade X IGCSE)<br />Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is important in education because it enables students to search for required information and to organize their findings. It prepares them to face the challenges posed by today's competitive world. At Scottish High International School, ICT finds a prominent place in the curriculum to enable the Highlanders to become independent researchers and lifelong learners.<br />MyEmo: A software based on emoticons created in Visual Basic by Grade X IGCSE students. The software was incepted, conceptualized, created, compiled and executed by our budding software professionals.<br /> Here is the story of development of software MyEmo.<br />During the course of learning of the section System Analysis and Design in ICT, the students were curious to explore more about the entire software development process. The teacher was amazed to see the students at such young age taking keen interest in the technicalities of the software development life cycle. So she instructed them to implement their learning of the topic in this software creation. <br />These enthusiastic Highlanders impressed everyone with their commitment, perseverance, coordination and determination while working towards their common goal of the software development. <br />The fruits of their labour left everybody bowled over. <br />The students developed a new software module in Visual Basic called My Emo based on emoticons. An emoticon is a graphical expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression. For example, :), :( and: D. <br />The whole class participated enthusiastically for the development of this software project. The entire class was divided into different teams which comprised of an Analyst, Designers, Coders, Testers and Documenters. The overall coordination was taken care of by the Analyst and Director of the project. The designers designed the input and output screens through Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) and Flowcharts. The coders compiled the entire coding for the software. The testers made sure that the software is error free. The documenters created a technical manual for users on how to use the software.<br />The software was uploaded on the school Intranet and was accessed by all students and staff of the school.<br />Students had also recorded their development stages in the form of a documentary video called SDLC Documentary. The usage of the software is demonstrated in another video called How to use MyEmo. The videos prepared by the students, successfully uploaded on You Tube, received the appreciation from parents, friends and relatives.<br />The links of the two videos are as follows:<br />SDLC Documentary- MyEmo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw32GSsAhmU<br />How to use MyEmo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUqmfjjTAQ<br />