Liz Davis and Lisa Thumann have nominated this blog in this year’s Edublog Awards in the Best Teacher Blog category.
I am absolutely thrilled to have even been considered and just the nomination alone gives me great encouragement to continue writing about my experiences with technology in my class.
I have been writing for a while now and, as I was explaining today to my teaching colleague Rick, the process of composing posts continues to help me reflect on my everyday teaching and to draw together idea threads that can all to often become frayed. The ensuing comments and conversations have always meant I continue to learn.
Looking through the list of other nominees and their respective blogs, it feels good to be in the mix with such company. It is particularly exciting to see my blog sharing the list with Ollie Bray and José Picardo whose blogs I enjoy and am inspired by.
The voting is now open and runs until the 21st December 2008 – so please pop along and support your favourite, if you would like to vote for this blog then you know I would be very grateful.
@Ollie – Thanks I look forward to catching up at BETT in Jan.
@Andrew – thankyou for your comment, lovely to hear that the Wii post sparked some debate and got some of your colleagues thinking about the potential for games based learning. Let me know what develops.
Hi Tom congratulations on your nomination. I have been following your blog for the past 3 months and you have given me some great ideas. I forwarded your post on wii in the classroom the other day on our distribution list at school and it caused a sensational debate with emails flying left right and centre. The overall consensus was that a robust debate was great and that some level co-ordinators might just allocate some of their budgets to purchasing a wii!
Well done Tom – I voted for you! Really loved your recent posts about Google Earth and creative writing. keep up the great work! Ollie