Dec 03 2010
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By Joyce Seitzinger Networked learning, social media

Just in the nick of time… my Edublog Award nominations

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It’s December 3rd and that means I’m getting my Edublog Award nominations in just in the nick of time. I was tickled pink when both Mark Drechsler and Michael Verhaart nominated my Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers post. It’s a neat feeling to be recognised by peers and I felt I should take some time to pay it forward.

So without further ado…

Best individual blog

Well, let’s start with one of the hardest categories. Being a terrible blogger myself, I’m constantly amazed by the consistently high output, both in volume and quality, of bloggers like David Hopkins, Mark Drechsler, Alec Couros, George Couros, Danah Boyd, to name just a few. I just read and learn and thank all of you edubloggers out there for so generously sharing your insights & learning.

My nomination goes to: Steve Wheeler‘s Learning with E’s.

spacer I was lucky enough to meet Steve twice this year, once in Spain and once in New Zealand. We had some great conversations and it made me realise how much his blog is a constantly updated reflection of his thinking. So I get to still enjoy his side of the conversation from 12 timezones away spacer

Best individual tweeter

Ok, so maybe there aren’t any easy categories in the Edublog Awards. Again, I follow and am astounded by so many Twitter folk who make me think, learn, laugh & occasionally spray coffee across my screen in a most unladylike fashion. Yeah, you know who you are: @easegill, @teachernz, @daveymelb, @moodleman, @evilsue, @gsyoung, @markdrechsler, @courosa, @timbuckteeth, @sleslie, @dianefriis, @kaz19, and all you others…

My nomination goes to: @marksmithers

Mark’s use of Twitter manages a wonderful balance between finding & sharing useful resources, insightful comments and questions about education technology strategy in higher education and a delightfully wicked social commentary. (Apparently life on the Epping line in Melbourne and in an Australian higher education institution would make good fodder for a sitcom). His high level of retweets is a testament that I’m not the only one to think so. But even if it wasn’t for that, I think his lone gunman Twitter action at several traditional teaching & learning conferences with little to no social media activity, earns him this award. The backchannel-of-one at the National Teaching & Learning Forum, using the tag #nltf10 was inspired.

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Lone gunman action at #nltf10

Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion

This is going to have to be a series of tweets from a conference, as I think that is when Twitter is at its strongest: when a large group of specialists have an extended but concentrated conversation on a common area of interest. I participated in #converge10 and in #mootnz10 and enjoyed from afar #oeb10 and #mootau10

My nomination goes to: #ple_bcn

spacer The inaugural PLE Conference was held in Barcelona in July 2010 and thanks to the organisation a lively Twitter channel had been active for several months prior to that. During the conference, the excellent wireless provision at the Citilab and the high quality video streaming of presentations, meant the Twitter channel facilitated a rich conversation between the PLE Conference attendees and a large international audience, dotted with images, video clips and other artefacts. The very interesting thing about this conference and hashtag is that it created a community. Even after several months, attendees are still using the tag to communicate with each other, directing tweets at that particular audience. Well done #PLE_BCN organising committee!

Best educational wiki

Only one wiki came to mind for me here, and that’s because I’ve been watching its development from up close. My colleague Michael Verhaart (@virtualmv) began a Mediawiki late 2009 to aggregate the content for all of the Computing courses he delivers at EIT Hawke’s Bay. One year on, it’s amazing to see how much it has grown, and as Michael tried to embed different modules, modifications & media, it has given us many an engrossing morning coffee chat, where other colleagues do their best to politely ignore the geek-talk in the corner.

So my nomination goes to: The VirtualMV Wiki

To paraphrase Sally Fields: I love you, I really love you…

The Edublog Awards have a category Best Use of a PLN. I wish there was one for best PLN because then all of you: tweeps, bloggers, commentators, Moodle community members, Flickr contacts, Facebook friends, wiki collaborators, Yammer users, YouTube stars and other colleagues that I interact with and learn from everyday, and I couldn’t mention you all here, would go home with a statue – or at least a few thousand pixels in the shape of a digital badge.

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