Drape's Takes

I guess it's time to vote. Again. The 2007 Edublog Awards finalists are listed below (as posted here). If you choose not to vote, you'd at least do well to browse through this year's list of finalists - quite an extensive list of quality blogs, if I do say so myself. And I do say so myself.


A few quick editorial comments before we begin (I'm new to this scene, so feel free to fill me in on the details):

• Who nominated the blogs, anyway? Were most of the blogs nominated by their creators? If so, what good is that?
• Why do some of the blogs have accompanying descriptions while some sit all alone and unannounced? The descriptions serve in promoting bias, if you ask me. But then again, nobody ever asked me. :)
• Given that anybody could vote for a blog multiple times, what kind of effect would the Twitter army have on such a poll? I chose to vote three different times it was so much fun (juuuuust kiddddddinggggg).
  
• On a positive note, it's refreshing to see that so many quality educators out there are actually paying attention.
  

• Don’s Learning Log
• dy/dan
• e-Literate
• Ewan McIntosh’s edu.blogs.com
• OLDaily
• Mobile Learning
• Mobile Technology in TAFE
• Moving at the speed of creativity
• Newly Ancient
• ScienceRoll

Best group blog

• Bionic Teaching
• In Practice
• Kitchen table math, the sequel
• LeaderTalk
  
• Techlearning blog

Best new blog

• dy/dan
  
• enlighten education
  
• Matthew K Tabor
  
• Mobile Technology in TAFE
  
• mrs. amy’s preschool press!
  
• The PrincipalsPage.com Blog
  
• The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier
  
• Spotlight 4
  
• Taylor the Teacher
  
• thinking 2.0

Best resource sharing blog

• edte.ch
  
• Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
  
• OLDaily
  
• TipLine - Gates’ Computer Tips
  
• woodchurch science

Most influential blog post

• Gone Fischin’ - Dangerously Irrelevant
  
• How to Grow a Blog - blog of proximal development
  
• How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci - Wandering Ink
  
• Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher? - The Fischbowl
  
• The Ripe Environment - Discourse about Discourse

Best teacher blog

• Beyond School
  
• Blog of proximal development
  
• Betchablog
  
• The Cool Cat Teacher Blog
  
• Miss Baker’s Biology Blog
  
• Primary Teacher UK
  
• Teaching Generation Z
  
• Teaching in the 408
  
• The tempered radical
  
• Science is fun with the right teacher

Best librarian / library blog

• Hey Jude
  
• Librarians Matter
  
• A Library By Any Other Name
• Spineless?
• Techno Tuesday

Best educational tech support blog

• The Ed Techie
  
• Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom
  
• Mobile Technology in TAFE
  
• OUseful Info
  
• El tinglado

Best elearning / corporate education blog

• Clive on Learning
  
• E-Learning Queen
  
• eLearning Technology
  
• In the Middle of the Curve
  
• Mohamed Amine Chatti’s ongoing research on Technology Enhanced Learning

Best educational use of audio

• Allanah’s Appleby Showcase
  
• EdTechTalk
  
• SMARTBoard Lessons Podcast
  
• The Virtual Staffroom
  
• Youth Radio

Best educational use of video / visual

• Mr. C’s Class Videos
  
• Mr. Smith’s History
  
• MyGermanClass
  
• PlanetFesto
  
• PlanetFesto
  
• RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Multi-Media E-Zine
  

Best educational wiki

• GoAPES Wiki
  
• Horizon Project 2007
  
• Mr. Lee’s Math 12 Advanced Class
  
• Salute to Seuss
  
• Welker’s Wikinomics

Best educational use of a social networking service

• Classroom 2.0
  
• EFL classroom 2.0
  
• Kingswear School Network
  
• Talkabout Primary MFL
  
• Voices of the world

Best educational use of a virtual world

• Edtech Island
  
• Jokadia Island
  
• Schome Park
  
• Second Life in Education
• Suffern middle school in Second Life