Best Teacher Blog?
WOW nz-interface are running a competition and want you to participate. It is calling for entries into the INTERFACE AWARDS 2008.
It appears there are two categories
BEST USE OF ICT IN TEACHING
And
BEST TEACHER BLOG
It is this second category that got me thinking… There are so many different teacher blogs out there written by New Zealanders or at least folks like me who reside on these fair shores. How are we choose, let alone judge? How can we compare one with the other?
For example how can fair compare the weighty matters of Artichoke , with the reflective practice of Marnie , with the oh so helpful links and tips of NZChrissy , or Greg with his links to thought provoking/ amusing/ novel YOUTUBE happenings… to name but a few? Its not really apples and apples is it. I find each blog I read useful for the content found therein, for a whole raft of reasons.
Even those blogs I have mentioned are interesting and varied in their content on one level or another and should not really be pigeon-holed as I have done.
Then there are the student blogs / wikis/ podcasts that have so far gone unmentioned.
But it’s a starts, so let’s support this, even in its infancy, besides I might even win myself a laptop 
Thank you so much, dear friend, for the mention. I just checked out the conditions for entering and unfortunately I can’t enter. You have to be working in a New Zealand school – and I’m not – well not since August 08 anyway.
Good luck to all those fabulous New Zealand edubloggers out there – and if you’re not entered yet ….. do it, do it, do it!
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Simon I so agree!
I could never choose between the blogs I read. I love my NZ blogs they are the first to be devoured in my aggregator before catching up with my virtual writing buddies overseas. There are blogs that I get great tools from, blogs I read for the cheeky sense of humour of the writer, blogs I read for the insights into ‘real’ classroom happenings and blogs I read because I count the authors as virtual friends.
I suppose one function of the competition would be to highlight these wonderful bloggers who allow us a window into their worlds but I don’t think I could vote. For want of being too dramatic (who me?) … have you ever watched Sophie’s Choice