The Edublog Awards will undoubtedly spur many on to post more often about their learning and educational issues. I believe that students who participated, having their class or individual blogs nominated, are very likely to post with renewed enthusiasm – as will their teachers – in 2013. In fact, I’d like to see the student blogging part of the awards expanded in 2013. What categories do you suggest for schools, students and classes?
Every year there is a category of post that decry the nature of these awards, or competition in general, but more good is done than the other by Edublogs celebrating blogging and advertising their product in this way. Why not have a new category that recognises these posts from the previous year? There is no doubt the points made are excellent. It wont suit the bloggers but it is a way of including dissenting voices and critical thinkers. OK, that may be a bridge too far….but give it some thought.
Congratulations to all those who participated in blogging and voting this year. Keep up your good work and encourage more of your peers and colleagues to share their learning, expertise and enthusiasms with a larger audience in 2013. I’d like to thank the folk who read my posts and voted for my blog this year. It is highly appreciated that you have taken the time to cast a vote. Cheers. 🙂
Keep on blogging…
The winners and runner-up in each category are listed below.
Best individual blog
The winner of the Best Individual Edublog 2012
–Winner: Seomra Ranga
–Runner Up: Speech Techie – Sean Sweeney
–Runner Up: Film English – Kieran Donaghy
–Runner Up: Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne
–Runner Up: Gridjumper’s Blog
Best group blog
The winner of the Best Group Edublog 2012
–Winner: Edutopia
–Runner Up: ASHAsphere
–Runner Up: Nerdy Book Club
–Runner Up: Digital Leader Network
–Runner Up: Edudemic
Best new blog
The winner of the Best New Edublog 2012
–Winner: Edutech for Teachers – Jamie Forshey
–Runner Up: edcetera – Rafter Blog | straight talk on ed tech
–Runner Up: Quests and Treks – A teacher’s journey – Daniela Bunea
–Runner Up: Speech Adventures – Mary Huston
–Runner Up: Diane Ravitch’s Blog
Best class blog
The winner of the Best Class Edublog 2012
–Winner: Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog
–Runner Up: Fabulous 5S
–Runner Up: 4KM And 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School
–Runner Up: 3/4C & 3/4K @ UPPS
–Runner Up: 3/4C @ The Junction
Best student blog
The winner of the Best student edublog 2012
–Winner: Jaden’s Awesome Blog
–Runner Up: MEAOW @ Josie’s Blog
–Runner Up: Hanna B. gradstudentSLP
–Runner Up: SLP_Echo
–Runner Up: GBM Corner
Best Ed Tech / resource sharing blog
The winner of the Best Ed Tech / resource sharing edublog
–Winner: Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne
–Runner Up: Speech Techie – Sean J. Sweeney
–Runner Up: Edutopia
–Runner Up: Pediastaff
–Runner Up: Edukwest
Best teacher blog
The winner of the Best Teacher edublog 2012
–Winner: speech-language-therapy.com – Caroline Bowen
–Runner Up: The Nerdy Teacher – Nicholas Provenzano
–Runner Up: Ctrl Alt Teach – Catherine “Cat” Horton Flippen
–Runner Up: Integrating Technology – Kathleen Morris
–Runner Up: Teacher Tom
Best librarian / library blog
The winner of the Best Librarian / Library edublog 2012
–Winner: Образователен блог
–Runner Up: Mighty Little Librarian – Tiffany Whitehead
–Runner Up: Bulldog Readers – Julie Hembree
–Runner Up: Watch. Connect. Read. – Mr. Schu
–Runner Up: The Adventures of Library Girl – Jennifer LaGarde
Best School Administrator or Principal blog
The winner of the Best School Administrator or Principal edublog 2012
–Winner: Darcy Moore
–Runner Up: The Principal of Change – George Couros
–Runner Up: Детски клуб СОУЕЕ
–Runner Up: A Principal’s Reflections – Eric Sheringer
–Runner Up: This and That – Jon Castelhano
Most influential blog post
The winner of the Most influential blog post 2012
–Winner: Jaden’s Awesome Blog – Ten things I’ve learned from blogging
–Runner Up: Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog – November is Family Blogging Month!
–Runner Up: Lexical Linguist – Nomenclature and basic functions of Twitter (AKA Twitter 101 for SLPs and AUDs
–Runner Up: Teach From the Heart – Evaluate Me, Please
–Runner Up: Angela Maiers – 12 Things Kids Want from Their Teachers
Best individual tweeter
The winner of the Best Individual Tweeter 2012
–Winner: SpeechyKeenSLP
–Runner Up: ictmagic
–Runner Up: RossMannell
–Runner Up: cybraryman1
–Runner Up: fboss
Best Twitter hashtag
The winner of the Best Twitter Hashttag 2012
–Winner: #UnfollowBullying – student-initiated, student-led anti-bullying campaign blogs.egusd.net/ub/ from Elk Grove USD
–Runner Up: #slpeeps – For speech and language professionals
–Runner Up: #comments4kids – way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on and to get their own posts commented on
–Runner Up: #edchat – education hashtag
–Runner Up: #ukedchat – education in UK
Best Free Web tool
The winner of the Best Free Web tool 2012
–Winner: Twitter
–Runner Up: Glogster EDU
–Runner Up: DropBox
–Runner Up: Edmodo
–Runner Up: Pinterest
Best Podcasts
The winner of the Best Podcast 2012
–Winner: A.T.TIPSCAST
–Runner Up: Infinite Thinking Machine
–Runner Up: Ted Talks – Education
–Runner Up: Nerdy Cast
–Runner Up: Geek SLP
Best Use of Video and Media
The winner of the Best Use of Video and Media 2012
–Winner: Literacy Shed
–Runner Up: HipHughes History
–Runner Up: Mr Avery’s Class
–Runner Up: Khan Academy
–Runner Up: Shelly Terrell
Best educational wiki
The winner of the Best educational wiki 2012
–Winner: English Classroom
–Runner Up: ICTMagic
–Runner Up: ENGLISH FOR ESO AND BACHILLERATO
–Runner Up: Digital ID
–Runner Up: Student Made Maths Movies
Best free and Open PD
The winner of the Best free and open PD 2012
–Winner: EdWeb
–Runner Up: Twitter Math Camp
–Runner Up: TeachMeets
–Runner Up: Simple K12′s Webinars
–Runner Up: EdCamps
Best Social Network for Educators
The winner of the Best Social network for educators 2012
–Winner: Life Pulp
–Runner Up: Edmodo
–Runner Up: Pedia Staff
–Runner Up: ISTE – SIGVE
–Runner Up: The aPLaNet Project
Best Mobile App
The winner of the Best Mobile App 2012
–Winner: Flying Books App
–Runner Up: Evernote
–Runner Up: Night Zookeeper Drawing Torch
–Runner Up: DropBox
–Runner Up: FluencyFinder
Lifetime achievement
The winner of the Lifetime Achievement 2012
–Winner: Tim Rylands
–Runner Up: Jenny Zhu
–Runner Up: Darcy Moore
–Runner Up: Al Rogers
–Runner Up: Sir Ken Robinson
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Karran Williamson
Well Done! In the same category as Sir Ken Robinson after all!