The Edublog Awards 2010 are GO!

Nominations Open!

Edublog award is a community based incentive started in 2005 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. The best aspects include that it creates a fabulous resource for educators to use for ideas on how social media is used in different contexts, with a range of different learners. It introduces us all to new sites that we might not have found if not for the awards process.

Nominations are open from now until Friday 3 December, voting will then be up until Tuesday 14 December and the ceremony will be rocking on Wednesday 15 December!

Nominations are open for the following categories:

Podcasts and more… for 2010:

Best individual blog
Best individual tweeter
Best group blog
Best new blog
Best class blog
Best student blog
Best resource sharing blog
Most influential blog post
Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion
Best teacher blog
Best librarian / library blog
Best School Administrator blog
Best educational tech support blog
Best elearning / corporate education blog
Best educational use of audio
Best educational use of video / visual
Best educational wiki
Best educational podcast
Best educational webinar series
Best educational use of a social networking
Best educational use of a virtual world
Best use of a PLN
Lifetime achievement

Here are my nominations for the 2010 Edublog Awards:
Best educational podcast - CHOCOLAT 3B Podcast by Luca Piergiovanni
Best resource sharing blog Jane's Pick of the day by Jane hart
Best individual blog Larry Ferlazzo’s Website of the Day by Larry Ferlazzo
Best educational wiki by Shelly Terrell and Ozge Karaoglu Technology4kids