Edublog Awards 2009: And the winner is..
Dec 17th, 2009 by Cathy Jo Nelson
Actually they are all winners, but I did join the Elluminate Awards program to listen in while I worked on other projects. The Elluminate session was effective for the presentation tonight, as it allowed for participants to question the process, congratulate the winners, acknowledge 2.0 folks not nominated, and make suggestions live for broadening and/or making the awards program better.
Sue Waters and Steve Hargadon asked us to share pictures of how we viewed the Awards ceremony, so here is my contribution. Notice the color tabs as I open the winners pages. The page showing is the list so I can scroll down as they review the categories, and I can copy the blog/url right into my own current post. The bottom left is the window from the Elluminate session covering the awards. FUN!
And here are the results:
Best Individual Blog is Free Technology For Teachers (Richard Byrne)
Best Individual Tweeter is Web2.0Classroom (Steven Anderson)
Best Group Blog is MacMillan Dictionary Blog
Best New Blog is Kirsten Winkler
Best Class Blog is Billings Middle School Tech Class Blog
Best Student Blog is Civil War Sallie
Best Resource Sharing Blog is Free Technology for Teachers (Richard Byrne)
Most Influential Blog Post is Anseo.net’s Head in the Clouds
Most Influential Tweet Series #edchat
Best Teacher Edublog is Two Writing Teachers (TIGHT CATEGORY!)
Best Library/Librarian Blog is Never Ending Search
Best Educational Tech Support Blog is iLearn Technology
Best ELearning/Corporate Blog is MPB Reflections — 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Best Educational Use of Audio is Xyleme Voices Podcasts
Best Educational Use of Video/Visual is Bitacora de Ánibal de la Torre
Best Educational Wiki Greetings From The World
Best Educational Use of a Social Networking Site is English Companion Ning
Best Educational Use of a Virtual World is Virtual Graduation at the University of Edinburgh
Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Karl Fisch
If you have not seen the nominations, they can be visited using the links here. Great program tonight Sue and Steve! Proud to be a part of it!
YAY!!! ALL were winners but i’m very happy to hear the results!!! Congrats to everyone who was nominated and the deserving winners!
Thank you so much dear Cathy!
Cheers!
~Gwyneth
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Thank you for posting this list of the winners if we call them that and agree with you that it was a good location last night to share a conversation in regards to the pros and cons, thoughts and ideas, and future aspects of this award.
As I said last night, and will use up some of your blog space to say again, it would serve edublogs well next year to not award one winner but perhaps salute the top 3. In a perfect world, a nomination would serve as recognition and there would be no need to even narrow down it down to just one final winner.
The only drawback to last night’s presentation was the length and the filler time. I understand the necessity of feedback but feel that the awards dragged on unnecessarily long.
Finally, when asked if the winners were notified in advance, Sue Waters said “NO” but then Steve had told Karl Fisch. My question is why just Karl, Steve? Why did you not contact them all?
KM
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Thanks Cathy for writing a post that listed all the winners. I know that everyone really appreciated the fact they were able to obtain the results quickly.
@Kathy Thanks for your feedback.
We have saluted the top three, by listing them against their categories and providing badges for the top 3. This, and the changes to how the results are displayed, are the reason why it took so long for us to post the final results. If you check the award site you will see that. Which is why we are really grateful to people like Cathy who has posted the initial results.
Regarding notification no it isn’t normal practice. This is Steve’s first year involved with the Awards and I can understand with the Life Time achievement awards why he notified Karl. He wasn’t aware of the fact that we don’t normally notify.
Another common criticism we get is that we should notifying all people who are shortlisted. There’s a lot of work involved with coordinating and managing the Edublog Awards; time-wise it isn’t possible to email all shortlisted nominations.
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You got the scoop, Cathy. I visited many of the nominees and looked forward to the announcement of the winners. The Edublog Awards is an annual treat for educators.
Cathy,
Thanks for listing them. Hurray for Joyce!
Gayle
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Thanks for listing them. very good
Hi, thanks for posting this, I know it was ages ago but I’ve only just found out what the edublog awards are and I wanted to see who won the last ones so thanks!!