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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 [...]

UK’s Guardian Newspaper highlights the Eddies

Happy New Year! Ace Tech Journalist Steve O’Hear attended the 2006 Edublog Awards show and has just filed the story over at the Guardian – complete with comments from Sabine Little – who facilitates 2006’s Best Undergraduate Blog winner CILASS Student Blog, and Post, Resource or Presentation finalist Terry Freedman.
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The Edublog Awards 2006 Winners

And the Winners of the 2006 Edublog Awards are:
Best Audio and/or Visual Blog:
absolutely intercultural!
Anne Fox (Denmark), Laurent Borgmann (Germany)
It was at a project meeting in Spain in March that Laurent mooted the idea of a podcast and within a month we were up and running. Laurent Borgmann and I have worked on several European projects [...]

Convenors Edublog Star Award 2006: Duck Diaries

A Duck with a Blog comes from a K-8 Independent School in Northern California, USA, and is the first winner of the Edublog Awards Convenors eduBlog Star Award. Kindergarten and 1st and 2nd Grade students create drawings and theories about the appearance and adventures of a duck and an egg. Charming and heartbreaking in equal [...]

Badges and Party Invites…

A well deserved congratulations to all this years nominees!
Voting closes midnight GMT Saturday 16 December 2006.
Unbelievably, there are only 4 more voting days for you to show your support for the international Edublog Awards 2006 finalists. So if you haven’t already, please do vote, and make sure you show your support for all the hard [...]

Best Audio and/or Visual Blog 2006 Finalists

absolutely intercultural!

‘absolutely intercultural!’ is a joint venture of Anne Fox in Denmark and Dr. Laurent Borgmann in Germany who have worked together in several inter-cultural activities and projects.
A new episode is released every second Friday evening, looking at all intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. For example, we’ll be hearing from students on foreign work [...]

Best Group Blog 2006 Finalists

Digital Chalkie

Digital Chalkie is an open group blog for Australian (and beyond) K-12 educators interested in the power of ICTs to enhance educational outcomes. The domain name uses the word ‘chalkie’ as an affectionately defunct Australian term for teachers. The goal is to establish a vibrant hub/magazine/think-tank for teachers to support each other and to [...]

Best Individual Blog 2006 Finalists

2¢ Worth

The pennies of this blog come from 30 year educator and 25 year education technologist and programmer, David Warlick. Nearly every day sees something new at this blog, written from nearly anyplace on the globe. Warlick uses 2¢ Worth to point to other important postings from other educator and media bloggers and various happenings [...]

Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation 2006 Finalists

Barbara Ganley: Finding Our Way through the Edublogging Labyrinth

I am so surprised and honored to be nominated alongside works and events of such note in this category, all of which have influenced my teaching. That my keynote for the first UK edublogging conference is a finalist pleases me a good deal because it was a [...]

Best Library/Librarian Blog 2006 Finalists

Deep Thinking

The Edublog Awards were inspiring to me last year because I was able to discover exciting new blogs and to follow their links to other innovators. I am thrilled to have been nominated because I believe in participatory culture and want to stimulate others to think about school libraries and issues in education. I [...]