What Makes a Winning PhotoEssay?
What Makes this a "Best of Contest Winner"? - High School
What Makes this a "Gold Medal Winner"? - Middle School
What Makes this a "Gold Medal Winner"? - High School
What Make this a "Special Post Secondary Award? - College
Begin with the Rubric (also Spanish version) - The rubric is the guide to "Best of Contest." Look at the rubric with your students and discuss the elements related to the optimum points.
Use the PhotoEssay Worksheet - NEW! Have your students use this sheet as a "Peer Review" or use it yourself for assessment and advice. 
Best Practices for the PhotoEssay - A guide to help you plan your PhotoEssay curriculum based on how much time your students will have to complete an activity.
Working With Images: Creating Your Images - This page contains resources and information on Digital Photography Basics, Working with Images on Your Computer, Preparing Images for the Web, and Using Image Editing Software.
A Fabulous FREE Image Manipulation Source: PhotoShop.com
This is a FREE online photo editor! It provides 2GB of FREE photo storage plus FREE Tutorials! Students and Staff can "tweak, rotate, tint, and touch up" photos, save them to a FREE gallery which you can keep private or share.
This is a great source for beginning PhotoEssay contestants to learn about photo manipulation, but also great for anyone to "fix up" images for a PhotoEssay entry. Requires a simple sign in process with a valid email address.
PhotoEssay - Before Submitting: Did you (the student)?...
PDF Checklist
1. Use your first name only? (if a minor)
2. Credit the photo(s)/image(s)? ("How to Cite" listed above)
3. Check spelling?
4. Edit your entry? Have someone look over your entry for errors in content, grammar, punctuation, and organization; students then make any needed changes.
5. Pick images that tell a story by themselves? (e.g., fit the content)