Nominations are open for the 2010 Edublog Awards.

The Edublog Awards is a community based incentive started in 2005 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes.

The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media.

The best aspects include that it creates a fabulous resource for educators to use for ideas on how social media is used in different contexts, with a range of different learners.

It introduces us all to new sites that we might not have found if not for the awards process.

My nominations are as follows:

• Best individual blog – Kevin Jones, Engaged Learning: Always engaging, always interesting, Kevin blogs about a wide range of topics related to training and learning. My favorite posts are his posts about social learning. His ideas are brilliant! p.s. Kevin I appreciate you letting me borrow some of your content for a presentation I gave last year.
• Best individual tweeter – Guy W. Wallace, @guywwallace: Guy tweets not only about learning and education but about performance improvement — which is at the heart of corporate and workplace learning.
• Best new blog – Libraries and Transliteracy: Transliteracy, the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, is the skill for the 21st century. The authors share a wide range of information, presentations, and resources useful for anyone working in education.
• Best resource sharing blog:  Sarah Houghton-Jan, The Librarian in Black: As her tagline says Sarah is well-informed and shares news about tools and resources for learning and libraries. She considers the challenges that the average user faces and frames her post around those challenges.
• Most influential blog post: Peter Bromberg, 10 Steps to Promote Learning in Your Conference Presentation: How many of us have sat through a conference or continuing education session where the speaker reads from the slides or worse the script? Peter Bromberg wrote a wise, thoughtful post that anyone presenting at a conference should be required to not only read but sign as a pledge.
• Best librarian / library blog – Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Librarian: Buffy Hamilton shares her experiences as the media specialist/teacher-librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia. Buffy is at the cutting edge of providing library services to her students. A frequent presenter at conferences around the country, Buffy is highly respected and admired by her peers.
• Best elearning / corporate education blog – Rapid E-Learning Blog: 67,000 readers can’t be wrong. The Rapid E-Learning Blog is my number one reading recommendation to anyone creating e-learning!
• Best educational podcast: Maurice Coleman, T is for Training Podcast: Coleman hosts a biweekly recorded show on Talk Shoe that is podcast for listeners. Trainers and educators can call in and talk with their peers about current issues in learning. T is for Training is a learning experience for callers and listeners alike!
• Best educational use of a social network: Helene Blowers, 23 Things: The original 23 things program has been replicated world-wide by hundreds, maybe thousands of libraries, schools, and other organizations. In the 23 Things program participants are taken step-by-step through using social networks and Web 2.0 tools while actually using those tools. This is the program that put social networking on the map for many organizations.

Those are my nominations! You have until Friday, December 3rd to make yours!