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‘Best of the Education Blogs’ contest

eSchool News is conducting a ‘Best of the Education Blogs’ contest. Here are excerpts from the online article, ‘Education bloggers vie for national recognition.’ Sponsored by Discovery Education, the Best of the Education Blogs program will honor the elite in each of the following four categories: Best Classroom Instruction Blog, Best K-12 Administration Blog, Best Higher-Education Management Blog, and Best Education Theory Blog.

The Best of the Education Blogs program comes at a time when blogging has exploded in popularity in the education space.
“Blogging is a rapidly emerging method for educators to communicate quickly and easily among themselves, with students, and with education stakeholders,” said Gregg W. Downey, editor and publisher of eSchool News.

“We’ve tracked the rising enthusiasm for blogging via our highly popular ‘Ed-Tech Insider’ blogging community. Now, with the Best of the Education Blogs awards program, made possible by Discovery Education, we’re recognizing and rewarding achievement among education bloggers and encouraging best blogging practices among the hundreds of thousands of educators who rely on the eSchool News Network. We hope our readers and visitors will nominate their favorite education blog today.”

The process is fairly simple. Anyone can nominate his or her favorite education-related blog for consideration. Entries will be reviewed by a distinguished panel of judges, including eSchool News editors and Ed-Tech Insiders Steve Burt, Tim Wilson, Tim Lauer, and Tom Hoffman, as well as:

  • Stevan Kalmon, information literacy and technology coordinator for Denver Public Schools; Donna Baumbach, a professor at the University of Central Florida and  director of the Instructional Technology Resource Center and the SUNLINK Project;
  • Steve Dembo, former teacher and publisher of www.teach42.com, and currently online community manager for the Discovery Educator Network; and
  • Joe Luft, principal of Flushing International High School in New York and one of the first teachers to use blogs in the classroom
    The winning blogs and their authors will be recognized in a ceremony at the Florida Educational Technology Conference in Orlando, March 22-24, as well as the March issue of eSchool News.

    Go read the entire article. You have until Jan. 6 to submit your nominations. Nominations can be submitted at the following address: http://www.eschoolnews.com/blogawards

    It’s good to see recognition of the many good things that are happening in the educational blogging community!

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