Stephen Downes posts an excellent round up of alternative winners that didn’t get nominated but should have, for 2007.
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2007 Winners badges
Here you all go, wear ‘em with pride!!!
And the 2007 winners are…
Huge thanks to everyone who helped make the fourth International Edublog Awards such a great success! This was our first attempt at using a Second Life location – the beautiful Island of Jokaydia – and Jeff Lebow did an amazing job of managing sound in and out world.
The glamorous Dave Cormier once again treated [...]
And the votes are all in!
The votes are in, all the polls have closed and there’s not a hanging chad in sight :)
Looking forward to seeing you at the, um, ceremony.
Alternative Award locations
Not able/wanting to join the Edublog Award Ceremony on jokaydia Island on Second Life? Why not keep track of all the action atone of our delightful alternative locations? ;)
EdTech Talk supremo & long time awards partner Jeff Lebow will be hosting Ustream Simulcast and text chat at EdTEch Talk – you can [...]
Some more info about Second Life
Jo Kay has sent some more information about the Second Life location:
Getting Ready for the EduBlog Awards
The gala Edublog Awards Ceremony will be held on the Island of jokaydia in Second Life @ http://slurl.com/secondlife/jokaydia/113/150/23 on Saturday 8th at 1:30pm SL time. (See Timeanddate.com @ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=8&year=2007&hour=21&min=30&sec=0&p1=0 for your local time.) After the event avatars [...]
Awards Party: dates, times, locations
We’ve fixed the awards party date: Saturday December 8 2007 @ 21.30GMT. For your local times please click through. We’re currently sorting out the hosting issues – the event will be taking place on the Island of jokaydia in Second Life, and you can check out the finalists in our Virtual World category for some [...]
Now to make things a little more exciting…
So, with literally thousands of votes cast and many of the categories waaaay too close to call we’ve decided to add an element of surprise in for the second and final week of voting.
The ongoing results can no longer be seen :)
Yup, the ‘view results’ option has gone off each poll and you won’t know [...]
Institutional voting now not possible
Another day of people deleting cookies and voting hundreds (in one case thousands!) of times has led to us having to limit all polls to one vote per IP.
Unfortunately this means that if you are on a network – as many schools are – which shares an IP address, then you don’t get to vote [...]
Love your teacher a bit too much?
Well it looks like having your votes deleted doesn’t deter the mass voters. Sigh.
Consequently, until it stops we’re going to have to limit the categories it’s happening in to one vote per IP.
Sorry, we just don’t have all day to spend monitoring people abusing the system.
