Kapp Notes: It's that time of Year Again, EduBlog Awards

Thursday, January 01, 2009

It's that time of Year Again, EduBlog Awards

For over six years, the great folks over at the Edublog awards have done a great job of collating the best of the edublogosphere and handing out awards to some of the outstanding folks writing and posting in this space.

If you are interested in participating, here are the categories and some awards that you can vote on in the near future. The nominations end on December 8th so hurry and get your nominations in...

Celebrating the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology.

Now into its 6th year!

And this year we’re going to run the nominations for each category just the same as we did last year :)

In order to nominate blogs for the 2009 Edublog Awards you have to link to them first!

Nominations: Close Tuesday 8 December!
Voting: Ends Wednesday 16 December!
Award Ceremony: Friday 18 December!
Nominations are now open… read on to find out how to nominate:

So, first, choose the sites that you want to nominate in the following categories (you can nominate for as many, or as few, categories as you like):

Best individual blog
Best individual tweeter
Best group blog
Best new blog
Best class blog
Best student blog
Best resource sharing blog
Most influential blog post
Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion
Best teacher blog
Best librarian / library blog
Best educational tech support blog
Best elearning / corporate education blog
Best educational use of audio
Best educational use of video / visual
Best educational wiki
Best educational use of a social networking service
Best educational use of a virtual world
Lifetime achievement

Step 1: Write a post on your blog linking to:

The Edublog Awards Homepage (that’s here :)
The blogs & sites that you want to nominate (must be linked to!)

Step 2: Email us the link to your nomination post

Use the form on The Edublogger Award page to contact us, please include a genuine email address (spam free, just in case we need to confirm identity) and the link to your nominations post.