Comments on: Love your teacher a bit too much?

By: The winner of the Edublog Awards 2007 virtual worlds category and the awards ceremony « Sean’s Emerging…

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:00:55 +0000

[...] Thanks of course go to James Farmer and Josie Fraser for organising the awards. It looks like a big job, and it certainly had it’s challenges this year! [...]

By: Betchablog » Blog Archive » The Awards and the After Party

Betchablog » Blog Archive » The Awards and the After Party — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:53:02 +0000

[...] the voting processes started for the awards, there was apparently quite a bit of blog-love being shown for certain nominees in the form of multiple votes, automated voting, group voting, etc. It got to [...]

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:43:53 +0000

Arthus, you shameless demagogue and gerrymanderer. Your quenchless ambition will be your downfall ;-)

James, 2.0 is the most authentic project-based learning there is (for me, anyway, as a teacher and a blogger). We all agree, I hope, that your efforts are to be applauded and the bugs to be expected. Living and learning. It’s an effort worth tweaking with time.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:30:13 +0000

I heartily agree with you. I went from feeling so overjoyed at being nominated to feeling pretty low after hearing about all of the voting issues. I’m glad to know that my students weren’t the only ones over voting. But, in fairness, they didn’t know they shouldn’t keep voting because it wasn’t mentioned until after the fact (and they’re only 14). Now they feel incredibly bad. The mood in class today was pretty depressing after I spoke with them. Also, see:

http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/2007/11/26/weve-been-nominated-for-a-2007-edublog-award-congratulations-students/#comment-3402

I agree with Graham that this should be about quality and not a popularity contest. Thank you James for your patience and all of the work that must go into doing this!

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:55:21 +0000

Thanks Graham, I think you;re right about a blog about / by a teacher and a blog used for teaching too… something to remember for next year.

By: Graham Wegner

Graham Wegner — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:49:01 +0000

See, I reckon one vote per IP address is fair because the winner should be gathering support from across the globe, not just in an isolated pocket like a school or institution. Keep it this way – just getting your mates in or soliciting votes via listservs isn’t really a true measure of your influence as a blogger. And while I’m whining, I reckon there’s a big difference between a blog set up by a teacher for their class and a teacher blog. Without limiting the IP voting system, the second (which may be more globally read and influential) doesn’t have a chance against the other. Last year’s results tell that tale.

By: Arthus Erea

Arthus Erea — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:32:55 +0000

Are you going to go back and delete the 49 institutional votes? Or, can we still count those original supporters?