Our Edublogs Awards Nominations for 2011 – #eddies11

Here are our nominations for 2011

 

Best individual blog	TEFLtastic with Alex Case   is my favourite in this category.
Best individual tweeter	This is a very difficult decision as the Twitter scene seems to change every single day of the week. For sheer consistency and a steady sharing of great ideas, I nominate @NikPeachey as a tweeter of the highest quality – his tweets never fail to lead to information sources or blog posts of great value to all ELT teachers
Best group blog	This has to be www.eltchat.com  It is a blog maintained by the #ELTchat moderators but the wealth of posts it includes have all been written by willing bloggers who follow #ELTchats and write some awesome summaries.
Best edtech / resource sharing blog	There are many established blogs, most of them by Nik Peachey (!!!) but this is the year for nominating Ozge Karaoglu for her great A-Z series and for always sharing great edtech resources.
Most influential blog post	Six Reasons Why you Cannot be a Bad Teacher by Burcu Akyol – a deceptively simple post that leaves no one in doubt that there is simply no excuse to be a bad teacher any longer!
Best twitter hashtag	#ELTchat - need I say more?
Best New Blog	Welcoming back Tamas Lorincz and his Journey into Learning, a blogger who has been away and come back with a great new blog. His posts are always honest, reflective and come straight from the heart of a great educator.
Best teacher blog	Henrick Hoprea’sDoing Some Thinking blog keeps getting better and better every time I visit.
Best free web tool	For me, this has to be  pbworks – I use this free wiki web tool with every course I run and it’s  fantasticand easy for all students and trainee teachers to use – still freely available to every educator.
Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast	Russell Stannard’s Teacher Training Videos  must have by now helped hundreds upon hundreds of TEFL teachers without any other access to training & development opportunities.
Best Librarian/ Library Blog	This has to be Jerry Blumengarten’s  Cybrary Man’s List of Educational Websites! He has a page for everything! Great content!
Best open PD / unconference / webinar series	Reform Symposium for offering a forum and a chance to present to so many teachers from all over the world.
Best educational use of a social network	My English Club is an inclredible website that draws hundreds of learners from around the world, all inspired by the work of Tara Benwell.
Lifetime Achievement	Nik Peachey –  he is one of the most giving/sharing edtech experts/bloggers and his posts, talks and writings have engaged and stimulated a huge number of teachers towards thinking and learning about ICT and including educational technology in their teaching and teacher training.

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