Posts under ‘2005’

Well, the awards were fantastic this year and it’s great to see so many people talking about them. What makes the Eddies so special is that they are so firmly anchored in the edublogging community. So, if you have some good ideas about how the awards could be improved, make sure you [...]

If you weren’t able to join us earlier you can now enjoy the party over at EdTechTalk. You can also check out the vote stats. Dave Cormier has also posted his list of the top ten news events of the edublogging year – his top picks which ran (pretty contentiously) through the awards announcements. Check [...]

Hope you’re all looking forward to Sunday’s awards show and the announcement of this years winners as much as me! The show starts at 15:00 GMT (apologies to that part of Australia and New Zealand for whom it might be a bit too late for), so you can listen in live as the winners [...]

The Edublog Awards 2005 Press Release
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Recent news regarding student use of weblogs has not been particularly positive. Fears that students may misuse the [...]

Here’s the 2005 badge for those of you who made it to the shortlist. Wear them with pride!

Voting has been moved – apologies for the current horrible graphics, I’m working on getting them fixed. Please adjust any links you may have to the vote page (the old link will now only take you to the first category). All vote data is safe! Thanks for your patience. As you can see – you [...]

I’m very please to announce the shortlist for the 2005 international Edublog Awards. Over 60 nominations forms went into providing this year’s list – which gives a very good overview of the quality, diversity and scope of how blogs are being used to support and extend teaching, learning, and research, and to create and reinforce [...]

Many, many thanks to all of you who have championed the cause of your preferred nominees so far. You’ve put forward an excellent range of blogs representing the breadth and diversity of current edublogging activity – blogs produced by and for educators, researchers, teachers, academics, trainers, educational technologists, librarians, and learners of all ages.
Sunday 4th [...]

We haven’t been open for business for five minutes and the emails are already pouring in! Not too surprising, since this is the most glamorous event on the edublog calendar. A time for us to take our collective temperature and celebrate the high standard of work that the community have produced over the last [...]

Welcome to the second international Edublog Awards – an annual event that recognises and promotes excellence in the field of edublogging.
This year I’m extremely pleased to be taking over the event co-ordination from your host last year, James Farmer. I’m very much looking forward to lively community debate and contributions this years awards, which have [...]