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December 3, 2012 Blogging, Featured Carousel, Recognition 8 Comments

The annual Edublog Awards are open for voting!

Voting is open! Check out the 2012 nominees!

Every year the list of nominated blogs provide a wonderful opportunity to freshen up your RSS Reader.  Don’t forget the importance of READING blogs as part of  professional development.

Also, share the classroom blog and individual student blog list with your students. Let them audit each one, noting components that they like and don’t like. Let them review and articulate their findings and most importantly let them vote for their favorites.

Thank you to all who selected and nominated their favorite blogs in so many categories. I am humbled that Langwitches was nominated in two categories:

 

Here are the lists of finalists in a few categories

Best Individual Blog:

Best Librarian Blog:

Best Classroom Blog:

Best Student Blog:

Best Teacher Blog:

Best Administrator’s Blog:

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  1. Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) says:
    3. December, 2012 at 3:45 pm

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