Tama’s eLearning Blog

Josie Fraser has just announced that nominations are open for the 2006 EduBlog Awards.  This is the third year for the EduBloggies and in the past the nomination process (and the winners) have unearthed a number of impressive websites and writers I was unaware of.  I hope this year will do the same.

This year’s categories are a little broader than before:

• Best audio and/or visual blog

• Best group blog

• Best individual blog

• Most influential post, resource or presentation

• Best library/librarian blog

• Best newcomer

• Best research paper on social software within learning and teaching

• Best teacher blog

• Best undergraduate blog

• Best wiki use

To nominate, visit the official EduBlog Awards nomination page, cut’n'paste and send your nomination be email.  (Keep in mind, though, that you need to be an edublogger yourself in order to nominate). Nominations close November 30th.

Update 2, new voting URL: Voting has commenced! (Please vote! :))

The course blog for “iGeneration: Digital Communication and Participatory Culture” which I coordinated this semester has been nominated for an Edublog Award under the category of “Best example/case study of use of weblogs within teaching and learning“; how flattering for the course, for the students and, naturally, for me! It’s very gratifying considering how much work the students and I put in over the semester. I suspect it’s “case study” value stems from being the first (as far as I’m aware) tertiary course to use podcasts as their major assessment item (and the fact that the whole course is up online for future creatively commons-facilitated reuse far and wide!).

While I’ve yet to explore all the nominees across and the categories, I recognise a few of my favourite blog/ger/s in the lists, so a few pointed shoutouts to:
[X] Edublogs (James Farmer’s wonderful service that brings you, among many other things, this blog; it’s up for “Most innovative edublogging project, service or programme“)
[X] E-learning 2.0 (Stephen Downes on E-learning 2.0 … ’nuff said; “Most influential post, resource or presentation“)
[X] Vlog 3.0 (Adrian Miles was teaching the world to v(l)og long before podcasting became the buzz of 2005! Up for “Best audio and/or visual blog“)

Go and have a look around at the rest of the nominees … there’s many a diamond in that list!

The 2005 Edublog Awards are opening for nominations (and will be from 21 November to 4 December). The process has changed a little since last year, with nominations only being accepted (by email, confidentially) from other edubloggers, but voting, I think, is still open to everyone (which happens from 5 December to 17 December).

While this blog certainly isn’t interesting enough (yet?) for a nomination, I do hope that the iGeneration course blog gets a nomination in “Best example/ case study of use of weblogs within teaching and learning”; while I’d have to think so anyway since it was my course, I still think the resulting integration of podcasting and blogging for a full course is worth a mention.

Go, get your nominations in …