Make your nominations

The Edublog Awards are coming up, which is a chance to share and recognise some of the best online educational resources out there. To find out more about how these awards work, please visit the Edublog Awards website.

Here are my nominations:

Best resource sharing blog: Free Tech 4 Teachers (regular and useful updates on techy teacher stuff, often with suggestions for how to use it and with some really useful Google documents).

Best individual blog: NotExactlyRocketScience (making real science readable and accessible. I love it.)

Best educational use of audio: Tom McFadden’s YouTube channel (The best Lyrical Science songs ever made)

Best educational use of video/visual: Learn.Genetics (hours of quality resources for genetics and biochemistry and stacks of high-quality free resources)

Best teacher blog: Mr Robbo, PEGeek. (Technology in PE, with bonus points for Movember youtube video)

Best educational tech support blog: The WhiteBoard Blog (good site for links, tips and tricks)

Best school administrator blog: TheThinkingStick, Jeff Utecht

Best educational podcast: Guardian Science Weekly. (Science news is educational, right?)

Best PLN: Global Education Conference (on right now, for the first time and with a really extensive list of speakers, topic and its own social network. Good going!)

Lifetime achievement: Hans Rosling, Gapminder. (My favourite TED Talker and a website which is just fantastic. So rich for linking across disciplines.)

If you have a blog, don’t forget to post your own nominations. The rules are here. Big thanks to Danny Nicholson for nominating this blog for Best educational use of video – I’ll be really happy if it gets shortlisted!