I love giving thanks & rewarding good work, so here are my nominations for this year’s Edublog awards.

• Best individual blog: Christopher Lehman has been fantastically inspiring for me this year. 
• Best group blog: Nerdy Book Club, duh. 
• Best new blog: Teaching Impact in Urban Bilingual Settings is off to a good start!
• Best class blog
• Best student blog
• Best ed tech / resource sharing blog: The English Teacher’s Friend is a newsletter & may be ineligible, but I love it so much.
• Best teacher blog: Two Writing Teachers just make my day. 
• Best library / librarian blog
• Best administrator blog
• Most influential blog post of the year
• Best individual tweeter: I enjoy @neilhimself
• Best twitter hashtag: #reading. Simple pleasures. 
• Best free web tool
• Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast
• Best educational wiki: I only recently discovered Storykeepers, but I like it so much.
• Best open PD / unconference / webinar series
• Best educational use of a social network: #sixword on Twitter is my favorite.
• Best mobile app
• Lifetime achievement

I need to read more blogs! I can’t wait for nominees to be announced so I can scout out some reading. 

Nominations are only open until tomorrow! Click here to nominate your favorite blogs!