November has been so busy and I am embarrassed to admit that, for the first time in 5 years, I completely missed nominating bloggers for the 2012 Edublog Awards. My most sincere apologies to all my blogging buddies and online colleagues who I would have loved to nominate. Next year.
Reading blogs really is a professional and personal pleasure. These awards, occasionally criticised for a number of reasons, some of them fair, are still a catalyst for bringing us together and sharing ideas with other edubloggers. It is a great opportunity to grow the community of people who care about the education of our children and the importance of learning in our societies. I’d like to briefly celebrate a few nominees, especially some student and class blogs, amongst the awesome list of bloggers nominated, to bring them to your attention.
Kids blogs are heartwarming and often, extremely professional. Michael Sky, a primary school teacher colleague, is justifiably proud of the work of his student who runs, Matt’s Magnificent Blog. This student has only been blogging for a term but is getting the hang of it pretty quickly. How exciting for him that he has been nominated. I can see that young Matt is clearly a cricket fan. Mitch Squires, who regularly has his class and students’ blogs having good success, has been nominated for the Fabulous 5S. It great to see that Nathan MacGregor is ‘doing things differently’ with Mr Mac’s Blog Thing and has been nominated in the ‘New Blogs’ category. Another colleague, Laura Chaffey, is very excited for her 3/4C @The Junction bloggers, who have been nominated for an ‘Eddie’ in the ‘Best Class” blogs category. The kids are understandably very excited. Laura describes her class as being:
filled with enthusiastic students who love a challenge. The blog is simply a way for us to share what’s happening in the classroom with those unable to be here with us. We love creating and especially utilising the iPads to design and create awesome movies, videos, artworks, ebooks and more!
My friend Bianca Hewes is deservedly nominated in two categories – “Best Teacher Blog” and “Most Influential Post” – and I really hope you vote for her. Bianca blogs from the heart and her brain makes for insights worth reading and sharing. I look forward to reading her posts next year.
I have been nominated in the “Best Administrator” and embarrassingly, in the “Lifetime Achievement” categories (I’m far too young ;)). Thanks for your nominations friends and colleagues.
If you have the time or inclination, spend a few minutes voting for people who take the time to reflect about, dream and share their professional ideas.
VOTE HERE BY THE 9TH DECEMBER
Here is the Google doc of all the nominees or scroll through and check out my fav categories below.
- A Journey in TEFL – Eva Buyuksimkesyan
- Annie Murphy Paul
- Box of Chocolates – Cecilia Lemos
- NeverEndingSearch – Joyce Valenza
- Teacher Reboot Camp – Shelly Terrell
- A Principal’s Reflections – Eric Sheninger
- Agnostic, Maybe – Andy Woodworth
- All Things Learning – Tony Gurr
- Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom – Steven Anderson
- ChristinaSkyBox – Ana Cristina Pratas
- Cool Cat Teacher – Vicki Davis
- Dangerously Irrelevant – Scott McLeod
- EdTechDigest
- Film English – Kieran Donaghy
- Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne
- Gridjumper’s Blog
- Integrating Tech in the Primary Classroom – Kathleen Morris
- Intrepid Teacher – Jabiz Raisdana
- Jeremy Harmer’s Blog
- Kleinspiration – Erin Klein
- Langwitches Blog – Silvia Tolisano
- Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
- Learning In Burlington – Patrick Larkin
- Learning with ‘e’s – Steve Wheeler
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Wesley Fryer
- Practical Theory – Chris Lehmann
- Research and Web Tools – Lucian Duma
- Science Soup – Lauren Fuge
- Seomra Ranga
- Speech Techie – Sean Sweeney
- Teacher in a Strange Land – Nancy Flanagan
- Teacher Tom – Thomas Hobson
- Teaching All Students – Patrick Black
- The Daring Librarian – Gwyneth Jones
- The Frugal Filmmaker – Scott Eggleston
- The Innovative Educator – Lisa Nielsen
- The Principal of Change – George Couros
- The Rapid e-Learning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann
- The Tempered Radical – Bill Ferriter
- Vicky Loras’s Blog
- What Ed Said – Edna Sackson
- Wright’s Room – Shelley Wright
- wwwatanabe – Tracy Watanabe
- ZDNet Education – Chris Dawson
- Carol Goodey
- Diane Ravitch’s Blog
- edcetera – Rafter Blog | straight talk on ed tech
- Edutech for Teachers
- Evolving Educators
- Fair Languages
- It all started in the library….
- JTHS Instructional Technology
- Language Teaching Tips
- Level Up Book Club
- Mr G Online
- Mr Mac’s Blog-Thing
- Quests and Treks – A teacher’s journey
- Saucepan Kids
- Speaking of Apps
- Speech Adventures
- speechie apps
- Student Voice
- TeacherCast Blog
- TEACHERSREFLECT
- TeachThought
- A Pupil’s Perspective
- Amy M’s Creative Mind
- Atsman
- BB’s Awesome Blog
- Beth’s Blog
- Bronte’s Barn
- Come Somersault With Sarah!
- Dana’s dazzling blog
- Dawso’s Blog
- Dawso’s Blog Rss
- Day Dreamer
- Dimitrije’s School Blog – English
- English
- English at Sandvika
- englishclas
- englishsandvika
- exploring english
- GBM Corner
- Georgia’s Gorgeous Blog
- haakonmasst
- Hanna B. gradstudentSLP
- iamtessa
- Jack’s Blog
- Jaden’s Awesome Blog
- Jarrod’s Awesome Blog
- Johanna’s Domain
- Johns A2 Music Production
- Leah’s Blog
- Matt’s Magnificent Blog
- MEAOW @ Josie’s Blog
- Millie’s Blog
- Miriam’s Magical Moments
- Molly Mystery Journal
- My life as student at Sandvika High School
- NIKHIL GOYAL
- North America Meets South America
- pernillelouise
- Ryan’s blog
- Sean Lin’s Blog
- Shoko’s Blog
- Skye’s Super Blog
- SLP_Echo
- Sophie’s Blog
- Thinking About …
- This and That…
- Verve
- victorenglish
- wjb’s blog
- ZACK’S BLOG
- 3/4C & 3/4K @ UPPS
- 3/4C @ The Junction
- 3MH’s Classroom Blog
- 4KM And 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School
- 6D 2012 – 2013
- A Room with a View: Class 2!
- Carron-Kemp Crew
- Creative Articles & Media Arts
- Enjoy Learning English
- Fabulous 5S
- Flat Rosie’s Adventures
- Fraher’s Class and Friends
- Games MOCC journals
- Grade 5 at Napoleons Primary School
- GryphonScience
- Huzzah
- ICT4eTwinners
- Inés workshop of English
- Kids with a View
- Mr. Avery’s 6th Grade Class Blog
- Mr. C’s Class Blog
- Mr. Salsich’s Class
- Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog
- Ms. Cassidy’s Classroom Blog
- Primary 5V Class Blog
- SCC ENGLISH
- Techie Kids
- The Grade 3/4 Learning Legends @ Lonnie
- The Ins & Outs Year 6
- The Skinny – 5th Grade
- tic-tac, aprenem
- Where it all comes together…
- Year 2RC
- Year 6RC
- AssortedStuff – Tim Stahmer
- Bianca Hewes
- Blogging through the Fourth Dimension – Pernille Ripp
- Blogush – Paul Bogush
- Box of Chocolates – Cecilia Lemos
- Classroom Chronicles – Henrietta Miller
- Cool Cat Teacher – Vicki Davis
- Ctrl Alt Teach – Catherine “Cat” Horton Flippen
- e Learning for life – Kimberley Rivett
- Edulang – Brad Patterson
- Integrating Technology – Kathleen Morris
- Kevin’s Meandering Mind
- Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
- LeavingCertEnglish.net – Evelyn O’Connor
- Levdavidovic – Fintan O’Mahony
- Ollie Bray
- Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog
- Speech Techie – Sean J. Sweeney
- speech-language-therapy.com – Caroline Bowen
- Sylivai’s English Online
- Teach them English
- Teacher Tom
- Teaching using web 2.0 – Ann S. Michaelsen
- The Frog Blog
- The Learning Spy – David Didau
- The Nerdy Teacher – Nicholas Provenzano
- The Tempered Radical – Bill Ferriter
- Upside Down Education – Amanda Dykes
- Wright’sRoom
- wwwatanabe – Tracy Watanabe
- A Principal’s Reflections – Eric Sheringer
- A Space for Learning – Pam Moran
- Darcy Moore
- David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- Design Movement – Dr. Brett Jacobsen
- Dr. Cook’s Blog
- Education Rethink
- ErHead – Erin Paynter
- headguruteacher – Tom Sherrington
- Hooked on Innovation – Carl Hooker
- John C. Schinker
- johntomsett
- Learning In Burlington – Patrick Larkin
- Life of an Educator by Justin Tarte
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Wesley Fryer
- Ollie Bray
- Principal Greg Miller
- Raymond L. Young
- Reading By Example – Matt Renwick
- Reflections from an Elementary School Principal – Jessica Johnson
- Sharing Our Blessings – Shira Leibowitz
- The Principal of Change – George Couros
- The Wejr Board – Chris Weir
- thinkwasabi – Berto Pena
- This and That – Jon Castelhano
- Tony Baldasaro
- Детски клуб СОУЕЕ
- 4C in ELT – Academic reading circles (ARC)
- Angela Maiers – 12 Things Kids Want from Their Teachers
- Bianca Hewes – Feedback, feed-forward, peer-assessment and project-based learning
- Chia Suan Chong – Things students say that break my heart
- Connected Principals – Recognize The Big Rocks
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog – You may be walking wounded, but Teacher, stay in the game!
- Diane Ravitch – Spread the Word about October 17 Campaign for Our Public Schools!
- Edudemic – How One Teaching Practice Ruined Math For Students
- EdWeek – What the Kardashians Taught Me About Reading Instruction (No, For Real)
- Eliterate Librarian – Common Core: Love it or Hate It?
- for the love of learning – Giving a student a zero teaches them a lesson
- Granted, but… – Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really.
- Gridjumper’s Blog – It’s About Time and Space
- Half an Hour – International MOOCs Past and Present
- Jaden’s Awesome Blog – Ten things I’ve learned from blogging
- Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice – A Significant Error That Policymakers Commit
- Leading Motivated Learners – Dear Dr. John King
- Lexical Linguist – Nomenclature and basic functions of Twitter (AKA Twitter 101 for SLPs and AUDs)
- Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog – Mystery Skype Call With Langwitches!
- Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog – November is Family Blogging Month!
- Powerful Learning Practice – The Flip: End of a Love Affair
- Teach From the Heart – Evaluate Me, Please
- Teacher Bootcamp – Goal 1: Create Your Me Manifesto #30goals
- The Journal – VIDEO: Teacher of the Year criticises the “injustice” of system and “teacher-bashing”
- The Lally Blog – Being a Social Outcast
- A Media Specialists Guide to the Internet
- Bulldog Readers
- Cabra Senior Library Blog
- Confession of a Science Librarian
- El Blog del Bibioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Leselyst
- Leselyst: en litteraturblogg
- Librarian in Black
- Library Matters
- Lucacept – Intercepting the Web
- Mighty Little Librarian
- Momo Celebrating Time to Read
- Mrs. ReaderPants
- Oбразователен блог
- Page in Training
- School Library Journal
- Sheldon High School Library
- South Dublin Libraries
- Tales from a Loud Librarian
- Teen Librarian Toolbox
- The Adventures of Library Girl
- The Busy Librarian
- The Daring Librarian
- Van Meter Library Voice
- Watch. Connect. Read.
- Al Rogers
- Andrew Brown
- Angela Meiers
- Anita McAnear
- Ashley Tan
- Buffy Hamilton
- Christopher Jobson
- Clayton Christensen
- Darcy Moore
- Deputy Mitchell
- Diane Ravitch
- Doug Johnson
- Doug Peterson
- Eric Sheninger
- George Couros
- Graham Davies
- Howard Rheingold
- Jeff Pulver
- Jenny Zhu
- Jerry Blumengarten
- John Mak
- Joyce Valenza
- Julia Skinner
- Julie Hembree
- Kelly Tenkely
- Ken Wilson
- Larry Cuban
- Larry Ferlazzo
- Marianne Malamstrom
- Michael B. Horn
- Naomi Harm
- Ollie Bray
- Paul Allison
- Scott McLeod
- Sir Ken Robinson
- Sue Waters
- Sue Wyatt
- Tim Rylands
- Todd Whitaker
- Tom Whitby
- Vicki Davis
- Wesley Fryer
- Zoe Elder
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