Huge thanks to everyone who helped make the 9th International Edublog Awards such a great success!

And many thanks to everyone who nominated, voted and participated in the Awards this year.

Through everyone’s hard work, we’ve pulled together great lists of new blogs / sites, cool ideas and resources that are helpful to our teaching.

Congratulations to all nominees and winners….

The Edublog Awards Nominees 2012 List

You can check out the entire list of nominees in this Google Doc here! Or scroll to the bottom of this post to view it embedded.

Winners and nominees can grab badges at the very bottom of this page here.

Click the tabs at the bottom of the google doc to see all of the different categories. This will also show you how we ended up ranking all of the nominees and how we shortlisted the finalists.

Check out the Edublog Awards Slideshow here!

And the winners are…

Winners are chosen based on voting by the community.

1.  Best individual blog

The winner of the Best Individual Edublog 2012….2,293 total votes

—Winner: Seomra Ranga (336 votes)
–Runner Up: Speech Techie – Sean Sweeney (260 votes)
–Runner Up: Film English – Kieran Donaghy ( 183 votes)
–Runner Up: Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne (152 votes)
–Runner Up: Gridjumper’s Blog (107 votes)

Check out all individual blog finalists and results here!

2.  Best group blog

The winner of the Best Group Edublog 2012….1,744 votes

—Winner: Edutopia (289 votes)
–Runner Up: ASHAsphere (226 votes)
–Runner Up: Nerdy Book Club (142 votes)
–Runner Up: Digital Leader Network (124 votes)
–Runner Up: Edudemic (103 votes)

Check out all group finalists and results here!

4.  Best new blog

The winner of the Best New Edublog 2012….3,148 votes

—Winner: Edutech for Teachers – Jamie Forshey (217 votes)
–Runner Up: edcetera – Rafter Blog | straight talk on ed tech (207 votes)
–Runner Up: Quests and Treks – A teacher’s journey – Daniela Bunea (157 votes)
–Runner Up: Speech Adventures – Mary Huston (123 votes)
–Runner Up:  Diane Ravitch’s Blog (111 votes)

Check out all Best New Edublog finalists and results here!

5.  Best class blog

The winner of the Best Class Edublog 2012….2,924 votes

—Winner: Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog (317 votes)
–Runner Up: Fabulous 5S (217 votes)
–Runner Up: 4KM And 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School (207 votes)
–Runner Up: 3/4C & 3/4K @ UPPS (205 votes)
–Runner Up:  3/4C @ The Junction (186 votes)

Check out all Best Class Edublog finalists and results here!

6. Best student blog

The winner of the Best student edublog 2012….1,897

–Winner: Jaden’s Awesome Blog (267 votes)
–Runner Up: MEAOW @ Josie’s Blog (190 votes)
–Runner Up: Hanna B. gradstudentSLP  (165 votes)
–Runner Up: SLP_Echo (128 votes)
–Runner Up:  GBM Corner (127 votes)

Check out all student blogs finalists and results tally here!

7.  Best Ed Tech / resource sharing blog

The winner of the Best Ed Tech / resource sharing edublog….2,924 votes

—Winner: Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne (219 votes)
–Runner Up: Speech Techie – Sean J. Sweeney (212 votes)
–Runner Up: Edutopia (142 votes)
–Runner Up: Pediastaff (134 votes)
–Runner Up:  Edukwest (130 votes)

Check out all Best Ed Tech / resource sharing blog finalists and results here!

8. Best teacher blog

The winner of the Best Teacher edublog 2012….2,391votes

—Winner: speech-language-therapy.com – Caroline Bowen (236 votes)
–Runner Up: The Nerdy Teacher – Nicholas Provenzano (216 votes)
–Runner Up: Ctrl Alt Teach – Catherine “Cat” Horton Flippen (139 votes)
–Runner Up: Integrating Technology – Kathleen Morris (137 votes)
–Runner Up:  Teacher Tom (121 votes)

Check out all Best Teacher blog finalists and results here!

9. Best librarian / library blog

The winner of the Best Librarian / Library edublog 2012….1,713 votes

—Winner: Образователен блог (256 votes)
–Runner Up: Mighty Little Librarian – Tiffany Whitehead (236 votes)
–Runner Up: Bulldog Readers – Julie Hembree (214 votes)
–Runner Up: Watch. Connect. Read. – Mr. Schu (149 votes)
–Runner Up:  The Adventures of Library Girl – Jennifer LaGarde (114 votes)

Check out all Best Librarian/Library blog finalists and results here!

10. Best School Administrator or Principal blog

The winner of the Best School Administrator or Principal edublog 2012….1,530 votes

—Winner: Darcy Moore (163 votes)
–Runner Up: The Principal of Change – George Couros (143 votes)
–Runner Up: Детски клуб СОУЕЕ (134 votes)
–Runner Up: A Principal’s Reflections – Eric Sheringer (129 votes)
–Runner Up:  This and That – Jon Castelhano (73 votes)

Check out all Best School Administrator or Principal blog finalists and results here!

11.  Most influential blog post

The winner of the Most influential blog post 2012….1,766 votes

—Winner: Jaden’s Awesome Blog – Ten things I’ve learned from blogging (433 votes)
–Runner Up: Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog – November is Family Blogging Month!  (228 votes)
–Runner Up: Lexical Linguist – Nomenclature and basic functions of Twitter (AKA Twitter 101 for SLPs and AUDs (151 votes)
–Runner Up: Teach From the Heart – Evaluate Me, Please (84 votes)
–Runner Up:  Angela Maiers – 12 Things Kids Want from Their Teachers (84 votes)

Check out all Most influential blog post finalists and results here!

12.  Best individual tweeter

The winner of the Best Individual Tweeter 2012….1,559 votes

—Winner: SpeechyKeenSLP (177 votes)
–Runner Up: ictmagic (164 votes)
–Runner Up: RossMannell ( 109 votes)
–Runner Up: cybraryman1 (105 votes)
–Runner Up: fboss (103 votes)

Check out all individual tweeter finalists and results here!

13.  Best Twitter hashtag

The winner of the Best Twitter Hashttag 2012….1,733 votes

—Winner: #UnfollowBullying – student-initiated, student-led anti-bullying campaign blogs.egusd.net/ub/ from Elk Grove USD (265 votes)
–Runner Up: #slpeeps  – For speech and language professionals (226votes)
–Runner Up: #comments4kids – way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on and to get their own posts commented on ( 166 votes)
–Runner Up: #edchat – education hashtag (163 votes)
–Runner Up: #ukedchat – education in UK (147 votes)

Check out all best hashtags finalists and results here!

14.  Best Free Web tool

The winner of the Best Free Web tool 2012….1,342 votes

—Winner: Twitter (223 votes)
–Runner Up: Glogster EDU (134 votes)
–Runner Up: DropBox ( 128 votes)
–Runner Up: Edmodo (121 votes)
–Runner Up: Pinterest (107 votes)

Check out all best free web tool finalists and results here!

15.  Best Podcasts

The winner of the Best Podcast 2012….1,409 votes

—Winner: A.T.TIPSCAST (184 votes)
–Runner Up: Infinite Thinking Machine (171 votes)
–Runner Up: Ted Talks – Education ( 163 votes)
–Runner Up: Nerdy Cast (139 votes)
–Runner Up: Geek SLP (98 votes)

Check out all best podcast finalists and results here!

16.  Best Use of Video and Media

The winner of the Best Use of Video and Media  2012….1,507 votes

—Winner: Literacy Shed (245 votes)
–Runner Up: HipHughes History (240 votes)
–Runner Up: Mr Avery’s Class ( 172 votes)
–Runner Up: Khan Academy (129 votes)
–Runner Up: Shelly Terrell (110 votes)

Check out all best use of video and media finalists and results here!

17.  Best educational wiki

The winner of the Best educational wiki  2012….2,398 votes

—Winner: English Classroom (342 votes)
–Runner Up: ICTMagic (212 votes)
–Runner Up: ENGLISH FOR ESO AND BACHILLERATO (175 votes)
–Runner Up: Digital ID (111 votes)
–Runner Up: Student Made Maths Movies (111 votes)

Check out all best educational wiki finalists and results here!

18.  Best free and Open PD

The winner of the Best free and open PD 2012….1,668 votes

—Winner: EdWeb (328 votes)
–Runner Up: Twitter Math Camp (256 votes)
–Runner Up: TeachMeets (168 votes)
–Runner Up: Simple K12’s Webinars (158 votes)
–Runner Up: EdCamps (151 votes)

Check out all best free and Open PD finalists and results here!

19.  Best Social Network for Educators

The winner of the Best Social network for educators 2012….1,704votes

—Winner: Life Pulp (252 votes)
–Runner Up: Edmodo (227 votes)
–Runner Up: Pedia Staff (216 votes)
–Runner Up: ISTE – SIGVE (97 votes)
–Runner Up: The aPLaNet Project (87 votes)

Check out all best social network for educators finalists and results here!

20.  Best Mobile App

The winner of the Best Mobile App 2012….1,574votes

—Winner: Flying Books App (218 votes)
–Runner Up: Evernote (176 votes)
–Runner Up: Night Zookeeper Drawing Torch (98 votes)
–Runner Up: DropBox (83 votes)
–Runner Up: FluencyFinder (81 votes)

Check out all best mobile app finalists and results here!

21.  Lifetime achievement

The winner of the Lifetime Acrhievenemt 2012….1,574votes

—Winner: Tim Rylands (166 votes)
–Runner Up: Jenny Zhu (157 votes)
–Runner Up: Darcy Moore (155 votes)
–Runner Up: Al Rogers (146 votes)
–Runner Up: Sir Ken Robinson (111 votes)

Check out all Life time achievement finalists and results here!

The Complete Edublog Awards Nominees 2012 list