Melville Intermediate - Edublogs Awards 2013 Finalists

Over this weekend we received some very exciting news that the students of Room Five, Melville Intermediate School will be thrilled to hear tomorrow morning.  We have been short listed for two awards in the 2013 Edublogs Awards.

We are absolutely thrilled to have been shortlisted for Best Classroom Blog Award and best Use of Video and Media in Education.  The Edublogs are extremely important as they are an international awards that is decided by the online community.

This is an extremely special moment for our class, students and school and we'd like to thank so much the individuals who nominated us.  We are up against some amazing competition, some of our friends online and one of the great things about the Edublogs, some sites and places that we have yet to discover.   This exciting news will be shared with the students first thing tomorrow morning.

Please check out all of the sites online that have been shortlisted for each of the awards there are some amazing examples of online work and students and teachers from around the world doing some great, great things.

Melville Intermediate - Edublog Nominations 2013

This year we'd like to make some nominations for the 2013 Edublog Awards.  

Best New Blog: There's been some class pages that we've been following closely this year, however the best class page according to the Room Five students is 8C at Selwyn House, Christchurch.  We've been thrilled with the collaboration that this year has allowed us - but more than that its just a wonderful class page, a huge amount of quality work and wonderful posts and a great class site.

Best Class Blog: Mrs Yollis Classroom Page.  Consistently the best classroom page in the world.  Completly inspirational.

Best Student Blog: Miriams Magical Moments
This is one individual student blog that you can keep going back to.  The quality of the work that on show, the presentation, the writing is amazing.  An examples for everyone to how a wonderful site can be run.

Best Twitter Hashtag: #comments4kids Its always a great source of connections and potential collaborators.  Its been a #hashtag that we've used too infrequently this year.   

Best Free Web Tool: Vimeo - invaluable to this site and most class pages.

Best Educational Use of a Social Network   Stephen Baker and Pascal Dresse and the team at Kidsedchatnz.  Innovative and a great use of Twitter.