Edublog Awards 2009 – my nominations

Posted on | November 27, 2009 | 11 Comments

The end of another busy week approaches, so I thought I’d wind up for the weekend by posting my nominations for this year’s Edublog Awards:

Best individual blog: Doug Noon, Borderland: never less than compelling
Best individual tweeter: Josie Fraser: by a looooong way!
Best new blog: Bill Boyd: still counts as a new blog, I’m sure.
Best resource sharing blog: Open Culture: a source of endless wonder to me.
Most influential blog post: Martin Weller on Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change: an article-turned-blog-post from Martin, and one that I have gone back to many times since he posted it in September. If you have not read it, do so now!
Best teacher blog: Hilery Williams: professional to the core, full of compassion, and always relevant.
Lifetime achievement: Stephen Downes: who else could it be?

Finally, I want to make a nomination for a category that doesn’t exist in the Edublog Awards, but which really ought to. I think I’ll call the category: Best Gadfly in the Education Blogosphere.

If such a category existed my nomination would be: Joe Nutt for his Good Morrow blog.

I tend to find myself in the odd position either of agreeing with Joe’s thinking but disagreeing with his conclusion or agreeing with his conclusion but disagreeing strongly with his reasoning. He annoys the hell out of me with almost every blog post that he writes……but he always forces me to think hard and long about why I disagree with him so much and so often. That cannot be a bad thing.

So, from this techno-zealot (Joe’s terminology) to a top-class techno-troll (my terminology), I hope that one day the Awards will have the courage to institute an award for the best contrarian of the year!

ps – I may add one or two others in some of the remaining categories later.

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11 Responses to “Edublog Awards 2009 – my nominations”

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November 27th, 2009 @ 6:40 pm

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Doug Noon
November 28th, 2009 @ 12:43 am

Thanks for the recognition, John. Also, I found the Open Culture blog through you, and I do very much enjoy it.
Joe Nutt
November 29th, 2009 @ 11:09 am

John,
If I had nominated myself I couldn’t have put it better. I heard a superb presentation last year by a guy who manages the British Museum’s web presence and he really impressed me by the way he was disinterested in the conventional web metrics: numbers of hits, visits etc, but used a much more meaningful concept of “user value.”

I try hard to give the small readership I have value, and know that is why I read your own blog regularly too. And if you haven’t yet read this yet: you really, really should. Heartbreaking stuff and I gather, largely courtesy of Stephen Fry and Twitter.
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November 29th, 2009 @ 11:14 am

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Hilery Williams
November 29th, 2009 @ 10:58 pm

John
I am very touched by your nomination. Thank you.
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November 30th, 2009 @ 2:00 pm

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Bill Boyd
December 4th, 2009 @ 2:37 pm

John,
Only just catching up with the fact that you have given me a mention here – really on the ball eh! However, I am seriously flattered and deeply chuffed that someone whose own blog is so highly respected and widely read should include me on their list of nominations.

Cheers
Bill
John Connell
December 4th, 2009 @ 4:46 pm

Doug, Hilery and Bill – you’re all more than welcome. I’ve really enjoyed reading your blogs and intend to continue to come to you looking for insight and wisdom.

Joe – thanks for the comment. Can’t say, of course, that I always enjoy reading your blog, but I turn to your blog, not for the pleasure that comes from reading something I can usually agree with, but for that slap in the jaw that we all need occasionally to make us think even harder!

John
Josie Fraser
December 4th, 2009 @ 7:11 pm

Huge thanks for the twitter nomination John! Twitter is my online home – or ‘nerd base 2′ as my son so charmingly calls it – so really lovely to be appreciated! It’s been a fantastic couple of years over there, and a proper community.

Best, J
John Connell
December 4th, 2009 @ 7:15 pm

Twitter without Josie Fraser just would not be Twitter – but no pressure!
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December 23rd, 2009 @ 11:43 am

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