Edublogs is a leading brand in the edublogging field though I must say that their free version has become so restricted and full of advertising that it is difficult to give teachers a flavour of what it has to offer. However one great thing about Edublogs is that they started the Edublogs Awards seven years ago. It is often difficult to find examples of good practice to show teachers the value of blogging in the classroom since most teachers, understandably, run closed blogs. The Edublogs Awards is a chance to showcase those blogs which are not closed to the world and in that way to learn about what can be achieved by blogging. There are now 23 categories and the winners are determined by your votes. But you only have a week in which to decide! Voting closes on Tuesday 14th December.
The categories are:
- 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 school administrator 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 podcast
- Best educational webinar series
- Best educational use of a social network
- Best educational use of a virtual world
- Best use of a PLN
- Lifetime achievement