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Edublog08 awards – our nominations

November 19th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

Firstly, many thanks to Martin Weller and A J Cann for your kind nominations for Pontydysgu for best group blog for this years Edublog 2008 awards. Much appreciated here at Pontydysgu Towers.

We also greatly appreciated Martins comment: “they’re Welsh, they like edupunk, they do a crazy internet radio show and have challenging posts. What more do you want?.”

And now on to our nominations (although we may come back with more in different categories later this week). For best individual blog we nominate ictology by Ismael Peña-López. Just watch that man’s live blogging. Awesome.

Our best resource sharing site nomination goes to Zaidlearn – just look at this list of 90 posts about learning tools.

And here is our nomination for best educational use of audio. This goes to Andreas Auwarter and all the students who work on the wonderful Bildung im Dialog website. With limited resources, Andreas uses podcasts to teach students from all disciplines storytelling, media, production and much more. OK – it is in German. But it would be great if the Edublog awards could acknowledge the work being done in other languages than English.

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  1. Das Blog zum Podcast - Bildung im Dialog » Große Freude says:
    November 25, 2008 at 13:19

    […] Zum Abschlussnoch einmal der Link zu der Stelle, von der die Nominierung stammt: http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/11/edublog08-awards-our-nominations/ und http://knowmansland.com/learningpath/?p=199. […]

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