Nicola's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog

This week I was alerted to a great initiative (not a new one – but new to me). The Edublog Awards 2009 is about:

Celebrating the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology.

So, since I’m all for rewarding superb educational blogging, my nominations for the 2009 Edublogs Award are:

• Best new blog:  E-learning & Digital Cultures (part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh) Blog
• Best class blog: E-learning & Digital Cultures (part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh) Blog
• Best librarian / library blog: Bobbi L. Newman’s Librarian by Day Blog
• Best individual tweeter: Cameron Neylon

If you want to nominate a blog btw you just toodle on over the webpage before Tuesday 8th December and follow instructions there.

All of the above I’m nominating as they are just fabulous for what they do:

The EDC (E-learning and Digital Cultures) blog is literally the current module I’m taking on the MSc in eLearning. My own blog (this one) is my work in response to the curriculum, readings, assignments, ideas, encouragements and discussions on the core course blog. It’s been amazing to be part of something so innovative and open on the web, particularly as it means I can share what I am learning and thinking with not only colleagues on the course but also with friends and family who give great feedback and bring forward great ideas for pieces of work.

Bobbi writes a super blog, updated regularly, on libraries and their relationship, adoption, policy and experience of technology. It’s knowledgable, accessible, often really practical and also a rich source of links to interesting posts and articles elsewhere. Bobbi also does a super job of tying together all of her social presences into the blog which is great – and really hard to do coherantly.

Cameron is trying to be super open about science which is a pretty radical position to take. He tweets regularly and is not only informative and provocative but also really discursive with his followers on Twitter (and Friendfeed).

And with that, I’m off to bed to wonder how to reflect on my own blogging experience over the next week – I’ll be writing my last few weekly postings (or moving them from their current draft states) and pulling together all my lifestream content for next week. So, wish me good luck and good luck to everyone working on final blog tweeks and preens over the coming 7 days