Nominations are now open for the 2012 Edublogs Awards
The Edublog Awards is a community based initiative started in 2004 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media.
How To Nominate
To nominate your favourites:
- Write a post with your nominations for the different categories on your own blog (or a website – anywhere public)
- Send the link to your post via the form at the bottom of the Nominations Page
Nominations are open from now until Monday, November 26th so go nominate your favourite blogs, twitterers, community sites, videos, podcasts and more… for 2012
Here are the categories in full
- Best individual blog
- Best group blog
- Best new blog
- Best class blog
- Best student blog
- Best ed tech / resource sharing blog
- Best teacher blog
- Best library / librarian blog
- Best administrator blog
- Most influential blog post
- Best individual tweeter
- Best twitter hashtag
- Best free web tool
- Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast
- Best educational wiki
- Best open PD / unconference / webinar series
- Best educational use of a social network
- Best mobile app
- Lifetime achievement
Please nominate us!
If you’d like to nominate this blog (and we’d be your best friend forever if you did!!), then please write a post on your blog nominating digitalmediacomputing.org.uk for Best New Blog, Best Individual Blog or Best Teacher Blog or any other category you feel is appropriate, then fill in the form on the Nominations Page. Thank you!!!
Our nominations:
- Best individual blog – http://teachgames.wordpress.com
- Best teacher blog – http://edcompblog.blogspot.co.uk
- Best individual tweeter – https://twitter.com/DrTomCrick
- Best administrator blog – Ollie Bray
- Lifetime achievement – Andrew Brown
- Best group blog – http://www.pedagoo.org
- Best twitter hashtag – #csin2012
- Best free web tool – trello.com
- Best mobile app – Quickoffice
- Most influential blog post – CfE in Computing Science – Never been more creative!
- Best educational use of a social network – http://www.computingplusplus.org
- Best educational wiki – http://community.computingatschool.org.uk/
Goodness! Thanks for the nomination! Not entirely sure what I’ve managed to achieve in my lifetime, but thanks all the same 🙂
Well, I don’t think anyone will have been blogging their whole lifetime but it’s good to have you back and blogging!