EduBlog 2012 Nominations
G.A.M.E. members giving a Thanksgiving Tour of World of Warcraft over Google Hangout
Best individual blog
Grid Jumper’s Blog
Collaborative 3D Environments for Teaching and Learning
http://gridjumper.net/
Best ed tech / resource sharing blog
Grid Jumper’s Blog
Collaborative 3D Environments for Teaching and Learning
http://gridjumper.net/
Best teacher blog
Cat Flippen
ctrl + alt+teach
http://www.ctrlaltteach.com/
Most influential blog post
It’s About Time and Space
http://gridjumper.net/2012/10/29/its-about-time-and-space/
Grid Jumper’s Blog
Best individual tweeter
@Aevalla_Galicia
Best twitter hashtag
#gamemooc
http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com/pages/tweetchat
Best free web tool
Google Hangout
Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast
It Takes A Guild – A Guild of Educators Videos http://g.a.m.e.shivtr.com/pages/webinarpage
Best open PD / unconference / webinar series
It Takes A Guild – A Guild of Educators Videos http://g.a.m.e.shivtr.com/pages/webinarpage
Best educational use of a social network
G.A.M.E. Gamers Advancing Meaningful Education
http://g.a.m.e.shivtr.com/
Gamers Advancing Meaningful Education (G.A.M.E) is an online community of global educators who game. At its core is an online synchronous gaming community. This intellectually curious network of educators develop curriculum, offer online open courses, webinars and F2F presentations on the opportunities and deeper learning that takes place in games.
The Cognitive Dissonance Educator guild in World of Warcraft is the “home base” where this group regularly plays online. This community is involved in WoW in School, EduMachinima Fest, Virtual Worlds and Games UnSymposium, Games MOOC, Virutal Worlds and MMORPG Tour Guild – Inevitable Betrayal and open courses on P2PU. To see more about the guild and its members – please watch “It Takes a Guild – A Guild of Educators.”
Best mobile app
WoW Armory http://us.battle.net/wow/en/services/mobile-armory/
The first reason is at the ISTE conference in San Diego, I was able to send messages to my guildees in Cog Dis when I was back stage at the ISTE opening ceremony. Why was I backstage? Well …the Guild Leader, Peggy Sheehy was co-hosting the opening ceremony! I was able to give the other educators in our guild a blow by blow of the event.
The second reason is because during Sandy it allowed the members of our educators guild to communicate with each other.
Here’s my write-up on the mobile app – http://g.a.m.e.shivtr.com/pages/mobilemmorpg
Lifetime achievement
Marianne Malmstrom aka KnowClue KIDD http://knowclue.wikispaces.com/Marianne+Malmstrom
Interview with Marianne Malmstrom (YouTube Video) http://bit.ly/ittakesaguild2