We've been asked by Edublogs to submit nominations for the 2009, Edublogs Awards
and mine are... drum roll....
Best of the Blogs
Best individual blogs
- Lindsay Clandfield's Six Things
- Toby Crawley Bite-Sized English
- Alex Case TEFLtastic
- Seth Dickens DigiLang
Best new blogs
- Vicki Hollett's Learning to Speak American
- Graham Stanley & Kyle Mawer's Digital Play
- Jeremy Day's Specific English
- Barbara Sakamoto's Teaching Village
- Marisa Constantinides TEFL Matters
Best group blogs
Best class blogs
- Anisoara Pop (wiki with links to her students' individual blogs)
- Rawya Stalida's Young Clovers
- Christina Mark's students' page
Best Blog Posts
Most influential blog posts
- Shelly Terrell's Edchat: Join the Conversation
- Lindsay Clandfield's Six Things about Multiple Intelligences
- Gavin Dudeney's Sexy ELT
- McLeod's Leadership Day
Student support
Best student blogs
- Toby Crawley's Bite-sized English
- Markus Brendel's Der Englisch Blog
- Nik Peachey's Daily Activities
- Miracel Juanta IELTS essay make-overs
- Anne Hodgson's Island Weekly
Teacher Support
Best resource sharing blogs & websites
Best educational tech support blogs
Best corporate education blogs
- Macmillan: OneStopBlogs
- Prestwick House
- Teaching English, British Council
- Delta Development Blog
- Sue Waters: The Edublogger
Micro-blogging
Best individual tweeters
Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion
- #teachertuesday
- #edchat
- the running discussion between @thornburyscott and @dudeneyge on use of technology in teaching
Best use of specific tools
Best educational use of audio
Best educational use of video / visual blogs/websites
- Darren Elliot's Lives of Teachers (interviews)
- Jamie Keddie's TEFL clips (lessons with youtube)
- Mike Marzio's Real English
- Images 4 Education (ning site)
Best educational wikis
- Carl Dowse's Business English Online
- Arjana Blazic : the glogster project
- Ozge Karaoglu Young Learners
Best educational use of a social networking service
Best educational use of a virtual world
- Nergiz Kern's Teaching in Second Life
- Edunation Teaching Conference in SL
- The SL Experiments Team (Wiki)
Lifetime educators
Lifetime achievement & bloggers
Best,
Karenne
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Cheers Karenne!
I'm surprised but very honored that you would include me in your list with such amazing bloggers.
It means a lot, especially coming from someone I admire as much as I do you, and what you you've accomplished through blogging and for blogging.
Thanks!
Dear Karenne,
I second Barbara's feelings about being included in your nominations list.
A badge of honour I shall wear with great pride & an incentive to live up to it, in fact!
Can I put up a badge on my blog already? "Nominated by kalinagoenglish" ?
:-)
Marisa
You're very sweet to mention me, Karenne :). The blog network you've built is incredible, you've got scope and vision, and I'm still picking up new blogs to read from you. So I'm sure you'll win again. I'll defineitely be rooting for you :D
I second everybody's feelings. It is a great honour to be nominated coming from you.
Kisses,
Sabrina
What can I say Karenne... I will tell all students on Monday that you have recommended their projects to your readers worldwide. I am sure they will share my feelings and say a happy big THANK YOU!
Christina Markoulaki
I've just discovered that my blog is on your list! I'm honored! This is quite an amazing list. Thanks for putting it together!
Thanks Karenne, your mentions are the only thing that saves my blog from becoming totally irrelevant in this age of Twittetters
Thank you Barbara, Darren, Marisa, Anne, Sabrina, Chris, Alex, Markus - am glad to!
Just adding a copy of a note I wrote on Shelly Terrell's blog... as apparently Edublogs want one nomination per category as um, as you can see above, I've nominated much more than 1 per category...
To be honest, I wouldn't have done this posting at all if I had known that you could only nominate one per category - simply because they are many, many amazing blogs and even this list doesn't do enough justice or shed enough light on their work.
Also, I don't think it's good for the blogging community to be called to write up one per category (when it comes to the voting they can do this if they wish) but... being a part of a community, means acting for the community so for me it's an honor to call attention to the bloggers I've listed above.
;-)Karenne
Thank you for the nomination! You have a great list of writers I should have included in mine as well. I think it is so wonderful, though, to have the problem of who to choose because this means there are wonderful educators sharing phenomenal stuff. Too many times I hear that blogging has ruined information because the material is not scholarly. However, I find I learn quite a bit from these wonderful resource sharers! Of course you know I love your blog and that you are up there with the best individual bloggers!
Excellent round-up here Karenne. Thank-you for taking the time to put together your nominations and consolidating some inspirational sources for the rest of us.
Best wishes from the UK
Emma x
Hi Karenne,
thank you for telling me that I'm doing the right thing. It means a lot to me. :-)
I second Marisa's idea for the badge :-)
Thanks!
Arjana
I love these edublog nomination posts and I'm glad you broke the one per category rule because they provide so many great links! It was so fun to see the MyEC blogs on the list this year. The network is growing quickly and the learners are leading the way. This month members interviewed each other for the writing challenge and posted their interviews on their own blogs! Don't be surprised if one of them comes looking for you...
Karenne,
Thanks for the nomination - it was, of course, the Sexy ELT that lead to the She in ELT... and then took a downward plunge with the 'sexiest man in ELT'. How the mighty are fallen :-)
Gavin
You're very welcome Gav' - what can I say, sometimes in life we really mustn't take life too seriously ;-)
Let the show go on,
Karenne
Hi Karenne
I want to add my thanks to the chorus. It is a honour to be nominated in general, more so if by you. I didn't know about the edublogs awards until only very recently.
Thanks for both the nominations, Karenne (my Teaching in Second Life blog and the SLExperiments team wiki)!
Regarding the one nomination per category rule, I am with you. Personally, as nice as it probably is to win, I think nominations are worth more.
Nergiz
Dear Karenne,
What an honour to be here on your nomiation list!!!! Txs.
Hi Karenne,
thank you for includng me in your list! I'm very flattered. Obviously growing up with 3 sisters has given me the gift of the gab!!
Dearest Karenne,
Congratulations for all your nominations and even for mine, which happened to be posted in your blog and was inspired by a stimulating conversation we had on Skype, deep into the night!
Thank you for this opportunity.
Marisa Constantinides
Coo, a little behind the time here - but as I step up to the.. goddammit lets avoid clichés - as I try to accept the challenge of becoming a better blogger, I've been writing a bit more lately and just notice this trackback. Thank you thank you kind Karenne - you're a gentleman.. umm gentlewoman :)
Seth.