Langwitches Blog Nominated for Edublog Awards 2009

I am honored that this blog has been nominated for the Edublog Awards 2009 in the following two categories:

• Best Teacher Blog
• Best Educational Tech and Support Blog

Thank you to all who nominated Langwitches Blog.

If you haven’t voted yet, click on the above links and cast your votes.

If you are not into the “voting” thing, follow the links anyway and you might discover some incredible resources from amazing teachers and educators around the world.

Thank you to all who nominated Langwitches Blog.

Best individual blog

1. 2 Cents Worth
2. Always Learning Blog
3. Betchablog
4. Blogush
5. Blue Skunk Blog
6. Dangerously Irrelevant
7. dy/dan
8. edte.ch
9. Education Innovation
10. elearnspace
11. Free Technology for Teachers
12. Ideas and Thoughts
13. Informal Learning Blog
14. Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom
15. Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day
16. Joanne Jacobs
17. Kalinago English
18. Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch
19. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The Day For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
20. Learning Is Messy
21. Learning Vision
22. Learning with ‘e’s
23. Making Change
24. Moving At The Speed Of Creativity
25. Open Thinking
26. Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts
27. ProfBlog
28. Scholastic Scribe
29. Six Things
30. Social Media in Learning
31. Stephen Downes OLDaily
32. Sue Waters Blog
33. Teacher Reboot Camp
34. The Ed Techie
35. The Innovator Educator
36. The Neverending Search Blog
37. Weblogg-ed

2. Best individual tweeter

1. AngelaMaiers
2. BudTheTeacher
3. butwait
4. steve_collis
5. courosa
6. Darcy1968
7. hjarche
8. JaneBozarth
9. jdeyenberg
10. jenwagner
11. joevans
12. josiefraser
13. KarenJan
14. karynromeis
15. Larryferlazzo
16. Marisa_C
17. msgregson
18. msjweir
19. moehlert
20. mtechman
21. olliebray
22. psychemedia
23. rliberni
24. russeltarr
25. shareski
26. ShellTerrell
27. sidneyeve
28. thecleversheep
29. tombarrett
30. Tomwhitby
31. web20classroom

3.  Best group blog

1. 360
2. Afgahn Women’s Writing Project
3. A Year of Reading
4. Blogging Pedagogy
5. Committed Sardine
6. Ed Tech RoundUp
7. Ed Tech Talk
8. I.N.K. Interesting Nonfiction for Kids
9. Infinite Thinking Machine
10. In Practice
11. Jay P Greene’s Blog
12. LeaderTalk
13. Library Garden
14. MacMillian Dictionary Blog
15. Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning
16. ProfHacker.com
17. Redbridge Games Network
18. SCC English
19. Sup Teach
20. Teacher Voices
21. Tech & Learning Advisor Blog
22. The Adams 14 Global Learner Blog
23. The Educators’ Royal Treatment
24. Traditions Across Europe
25. WorkPlace Learning Today
26. Yalsa Blog

4. Best new blog

1. Agnostic, Maybe
2. Chris Leach
3. Classroom Book of the Week
4. David Cox’s Questions?
5. Dr Brown’s Blog
6. East Dragon Den
7. Edgalaxy
8. edVisioned.ca
9. EFT Musings and other Tidbits
10. I’m A Dreamer
11. In the pICTure
12. JonBischke.com
13. Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
14. Ken Wilson’s Blog
15. Kristen Winkler
16. Learning to Speak ‘Merican
17. Look At My Happy Rainbow
18. Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters
19. Mr. Wiemers’ Shop
20. Ozge Karaoglu’s blog
21. performance.learning. productivity
22. Read…Write…Talk
23. Reality 101: CEC’s Blog for New Teachers
24. School Food Matters
25. Sweeney Math
26. TAGMirror
27. The Educators’ Royal Treatment
28. Teaching Village
29. Teach Paperless
30. Teacher Reboot Camp
31. Technology Tidbits
32. Thinking in Mind
33. This Week’s Education Humor
34. The Web 2.0 Optimist
35. Trails Optional
36. Webmaths
37. West Coast Left
38. Why Did the Chickenman Cross the Road?
39. Zarcoenglish – Tools of the Day

5. Best class blog

1. Alice Project
2. All Saints Languages Blog
3. Billings Middle School Tech Class Blog
4. Borman Blogging
5. Class 4OQ’s Blog
6. Creative Voice
7. East Dragon Den
8. English With Rosa
9. Extreme Biology
10. Fab4@Work
11. Forrester High School Int 2 Info Systems
12. Gelincik Grubu
13. Griffin Science – 8th Grade
14. Huzzah!
15. Intermediate English class blog
16. Luce Semester 2009
17. Ka Tangi Hoki Ko Au Room 15 Blog
18. Law Primary School East Lothian Primary 6 Blog
19. MrCs Class Blog
20. Mr McClung’s World
21. Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog
22. Ms Mourad’s Absolutely Sensational Learners
23. Mrs Goerend’s Blog
24. Planet Infinity
25. Room 10 Grey Lynn School
26. Room 18’s Learning Journey blog
27. Room 231
28. Rumford Writers
29. Saint Exupery 6
30. South Paris Collaborative Chat
31. Tamaki Tales
32. Tamaki Primary Blockbusters
33. Technology in the Classroom
34. The Greatest Middle School Blog in the World
35. The Overlakes 6th Grade Blog
36. The Skinny
37. Think in English
38. Watch Out!

6. Best student blog

1. Adora’s Blog
2. Allison’s blog
3. Civil War Sallie
4. Eric’s Blog
5. Gamer’s Spot
6. Jess
7. Josh Halliday.com
8. Moo
9. Nicola’s ePortfolio
10. Rachel e-learning
11. Suzanne Yada
12. TanNuj’s Weblog
13. Tiffany
14. Toreka Pt England School
15. Universo

7. Best resource sharing blog

1. Around the Corner – MGulin.org
2. Aula de Física
3. Don’t Waste Your Time
4. Doug Off The Record
5. edGalaxy
6. Edte.ch
7. Educational Origami
8. Elearning Technologies
9. Emerging Internet Technologies for Education
10. Free English Lessons Online
11. Free Resources for education
12. Free Technology for Teachers
13. Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner
14. f(t)
15. Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day
16. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day
17. My English printable worksheets
18. Nik’s Learning Technology Blog
19. Open Culture
20. Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog
21. Sharing the Addiction
22. Stephen Downes’s OLDaily
23. Steve Spangler Blog
24. Teaching the Civil War with Technology
25. TeachPaperless
26. Technology Tidbits:  Thoughts of a Cyber Hero
27. The Exponential Curve
28. Tim Rylands’ Web Log
29. TipLine
30. Welcome to NCS-Tech

8.  Most influential blog post

1. Ann Marie Cunningham’s Tech addiction ‘harms learning’ …..really??? $24.99 and I am no wiser
2. Anseo.net’s Head in the Clouds
3. Danah Boyd’s Spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective
4. Dan Maas’s Writing with Laptops
5. Burcu Akyol’s Spread Your Knowledge series
6. Bud Hunt’s Would You Please Block?
7. Dan Myer’s A Fifth Year Teacher’s Creed
8. Dan Meyer’s What I Would Do With This: Groceries
9. David Wiley’s A few notes about openness (and a request)
10. Dean Shareski’s Student and Teacher blogging that succeeds
11. Doug Johnson’s Where are the others?
12. Intrepid Flame’s This, This, That
13. James Clay’s The VLE is Dead – The Movie
14. Jon’s A Manifesto for EduChange in the Eve of Hacking Education
15. Joyce Valenca’s My 2.0 day and the response/rant about our cover argument
16. Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson Things That Keep Us Up at Night
17. Liz B. Davis’s 10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers
18. Marisa Constantinides on  How to become an ELT Teacher Educator
19. Martin Weller’s Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change
20. Michael Fienen’s The Great Keynote Meltdown of 2009
21. Michael Smith’s Germ X Generation
22. Scott McCleod’s Calling all bloggers! – Leadership Day 2009
23. Sean Nash’s The Four Pillars of Technology Integration
24. Shelly Terrell’s EdChat’s “Join the Conversation”
25. Stephen Downes’s An Operating System for the Mind
26. Steve Wheeler’s Another nail in the coffin?
27. TeachPaperless’s Top Eleven Things All Teachers Must Know About Technology (or I promised Dean Groom I wouldn’t write a top ten list; so this one goes up to eleven.)
28. Wes Fryer’s Debating the propriety of blanket censorship by school IT departments
29. Will Richardson’s The Obama Speech
30. Will Richardson’s Don’t, Don’t, Don’t vs. Do, Do, Do

9.  Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion

1. Blogworthy Tweets
2. #edchat
3. #edayz09
4. #geekpoll
5. #lrnchat – #lrnchat blog
6. #movemeon
7. #ontarioplp
8. #teachertuesday

10. Best teacher blog

1. Always Learning
2. Andrew B. Watt’s Blog
3. Blogging About the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom
4. Blogger in Middle-earth
5. Blogush
6. Box Of Tricks
7. Cool Cat Teacher
8. Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere
9. Darcy Moore’s Blog
10. David Truss: Pair-a-dimes for your thoughts
11. Division By Zero
12. dy/dan
13. edTe.ch
14. f(t)
15. iTeach
16. Langwitches Blog
17. Learn Me Good
18. Life Feast
19. Kelli’s Blog
20. Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek
21. Music is Not For Insects
22. Musings from a Not-So-Master Teacher
23. Nashworld
24. Philly Teacher
25. Pissed Off Teacher
26. Practical Theory
27. Science Teacher
28. The Scholastic Scribe
29. Tip of The Iceberg
30. Tween Teacher
31. Two Writing Teachers
32. Welcome to NCS Tech

11. Best librarian / library blog

1. A Fuse #8 Productions
2. Bloggit
3. Bright Ideas
4. Blue Skunk
5. Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts
6. Hey Jude
7. LCS ES Media Blog
8. Librarian by Day Blog
9. Library Tech Musings
10. Lucacept
11. My Mind Gap
12. Never Ending Search
13. Not So Distant Future
14. The Unquiet Librarian
15. The Unquiet Library
16. The Waki Librarian
17. The Web Footed Book Lady
18. Wired Librarian
19. World’s Strongest Librarian

12.  Best educational tech support blog

1. Assorted Stuff
2. Blogging About the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom
3. Box of Tricks
4. Creating Lifelong Learners
5. e4Africa
6. Edte.ch
7. Human
8. iLearn Technology
9. Langwitches
10. Life Feast
11. Nik’s Learning Technology Blog
12. Open Thinking
13. Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog
14. Pipweks
15. Rapid Elearning Blog
16. Simulações e Animações Conceptuais no Ensino da Física e da Química
17. Sue Waters Blog
18. Teach 42
19. Teachers Love Smartboards
20. The Power Of Educational Technology
21. Thumann Resources
22. TechTicker
23. The Edublogger
24. The Innovator Educator
25. The Whiteboard Blog
26. Using ICT in Further Education

13. Best elearning / corporate education blog

1. Adventures in Corporate Education
2. Angela Maiers
3. Assistive Technology
4. El Camarote
5. e-learning, conocimiento en red y web colectiva
6. eLearning Technology
7. elearnspace
8. Janet Clarey
9. Learning with ‘e’s
10. Life Feast
11. MPB Reflections — 21st Century Teaching and Learning
12. Rapid Elearning blog
13. Teaching Ideas and Resources
14. Workplace Learning Today

14.  Best educational use of audio

1. Aussiekids
2. Bit by Bit
3. Breaking News English
4. Diane’s ESL Podcast
5. EdTechTalk
6. Gator Radio Experience
7. Get Smart podcasts
8. Kerry J’s Conference Coverage
9. Kidcast
10. Latin Poetry Podcast
11. LearnTrends
12. MediaSnackers
13. MP Radio
14. Musical Blogies
15. My Audio School
16. Podkids
17. Seedlings
18. SLF Talk
19. Teacher 2.0 podcasts
20. Teachers Teaching Teachers
21. The A.T.Tipscast
22. The Virtual Staffroom
23. Tech Chicks Podcast
24. Wesley Fryer
25. Wicked Decent Learning
26. Xyleme Voices features

15.  Best educational use of video / visual

1. Angela Maiers
2. Common Craft Plain English Series
3. Bitacora de Ánibal de la Torre
4. Brent Coley’s Study Cast & iPod Flash Cards
5. Dan Meyer’s What Can You Do With This?
6. Darren Elliot’s Lives of Teachers
7. Dave Cormier’s “Presenting With Live Slides”
8. Edit Foundry
9. Hatak’s AP Chemistry Podcast
10. Inanimate Alice
11. ISTE Eduverse Talk
12. Leon Cych’s conference recordings
13. MediaSnackers
14. Michael Wesch’s videos showcase
15. Musical Blogies
16. Rhett Allain’s Dot Physics
17. Russell Stannard
18. Saint Joseph Digital Express
19. Smart History: The Blog
20. Steve Spangler’s blog
21. TEFLclips
22. The Longfellow Ten
23. Torley Linden
24. Tom Barrett – interesting ways
25. viz.: Visual Rhetoric — visual culture — pedagogy

16.  Best educational wiki

1. Benson Bobcat Wiki
2. Business English Online
3. CDSPD
4. Web 2.0 Cool tools for School
5. Digitally Speaking
6. East Dragon Den wiki
7. EdOrigami
8. Ed Tech Round Up
9. Ed Tech Wiki
10. EduWiki.us
11. Greetings From The World
12. Getting Tricky With Wikis
13. HUMS3001: Censorship and Responsibility
14. Indispensible Tools
15. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
16. Joykaydia
17. King/Chavez 3rd Grade
18. Ktitraci
19. Kohner wiki
20. Learning For Content
21. Learning Telecollaborative
22. NDSL wiki
23. Moving Forward
24. One World Project Wiki!
25. Open Education 09 wiki
26. Open Thinking
27. Ozge Karaoglu’s wiki
28. PLN Yourself!
29. Second Life Wiki
30. Soar 2 New Heights
31. Springfield Township Virtual Library
32. Teaching with Thinking and Technology
33. Teachmeet Wiki
34. The File Cabinet
35. The UDLTechToolKit
36. Web 2.0 Guru
37. WebTools4U2Use
38. Wikieducator
39. WSD’s eToolbox

17.  Best educational use of a social networking service

1. Beth Still ISTE/ NECC Newbie Project
2. Classroom 2.0
3. Country Day School Ning
4. Digiteen Ning
5. Educator PLN ning
6. EFL Classroom 2.0
7. eLearning Professionals on Facebook
8. Elementary Tech Teachers ning
9. English Companion Ning
10. Fireside Learning: Conversations about Education
11. Independent School Educators Network
12. LearnTrends Online Conference
13. Mathematics24×7
14. MSP2 Maths & Science Pathways Online Social Network
15. OnlineProjects4Teachers
16. Principles of Biology
17. RSC Access and Inclusion Ning
18. Saltashrainbow
19. Second Classroom
20. talk.ed
21. Technology Integration in Education
22. The Assistive Technology Ning

18.  Best educational use of a virtual world

1. CANVAS (Children’s Art in the Virtual Arena of Scotland)
2. DEN SL Blog
3. Edunation
4. ISTE’s Second Life island
5. Reaction Grid
6. SecondLife Education New Zealand
7. School of Nursing, University of Kansas
8. SIGMS in Second Life
9. Sloodle
10. The International Schools Island (isi)
11. The UC Davis Virtual Hallucination simulation
12. Virtual Graduation at the University of Edinburgh
13. Virtual Macbeth – Angela Thomas
14. Virtual Round Table Conference

19.  Lifetime achievement

1. David Warlick
2. Doug Johnson
3. Jane Hart
4. Jay Cross
5. John Davitt
6. Jo Kay
7. Josie Fraser
8. Judy O’Connell
9. Karl Fisch
10. Kevin Jarrett
11. Larry Ferlazzo
12. Peggy Sheehy
13. Richard Bryne
14. Scott McLeod
15. Stephen Downes
16. Steve Hargadon
17. Sue Waters
18. Vicki Davis
19. Wes Fryer
20. Will Richardson