Now in its sixth year, the Edublog Awards program celebrates the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts, and other Web-based users of educational technology. It’s a wonderful opportunity to recognize the hard-working, dedicated, passionate educators who are using the Web to share their vision and ideas, and to collaborate with colleagues and others in the education community. There are so many whom we’ve learned from and enjoyed getting to know this year that it was very difficult to choose just one per category, but those are the rules…
Group voting by the CB&A team yielded the following nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards:
- Best individual blog: David Warlick’s 2 Cents Worth – davidwarlick.com/2cents/
- Best individual tweeter: Steven W. Anderson (@web20classroom) – twitter.com/web20classroom
- Best group blog: LeaderTalk – blogs.edweek.org/edweek/LeaderTalk/
- Best new blog: Ken Royal’s Educators’ Royal Treatment – www.educatorsroyaltreatment.com
- Best resource sharing blog: Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers – www.freetech4teachers.com
- Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion: #edchat – teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2009/07/30/what-is-edchat/
- Best teacher blog: Vicki Davis’ Cool Cat Teacher – coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
- Best librarian / library blog: Joyce Valenza’s NeverEndingSearch – www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html
- Best educational tech support blog: Tech & Learning’s Ed Tech Ticker – www.techlearning.com/section/EditorBlogs
- Best elearning / corporate education blog: Brian Friedlander’s Assistive Technology – assistivetek.blogspot.com
- Best educational use of video / visual: Palm Breeze CAFE (hosted by Lee Keller, Kim Cavanaugh, Lee Kolbert, and Jamey Akien) – www.palmbreezecafe.com
- Best educational use of a social networking service: Classroom 2.0 Ning – www.classroom20.com
- Best educational use of a virtual world: ISTE’s Second Life island – slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/93/83/30
- Lifetime achievement: Kevin Jarrett’s NCS-Tech blog – www.ncs-tech.org
Thank you to Steve Hargadon and Classroom 2.0 for co-hosting the awards with Edublogs Campus!