Edublogs Awards 2011

It is the time of year when the ELT blogosphere celebrates its
heroes – dedicated teachers who, with unrelenting enthusiasm and passion share
with us their ideas, insights and inspiration. These are my nominations for
these year’s Edublog Awards.

Best individual blog
- http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/

Scott Thornbury’s posts on An A to Z of ELT always generate a lot comments and provoke debate. Even though I am not
yet convinced that Dogme
is the ultimate way to go in the post-methods era, it is always a pleasure to
listen to Scott at conferences and read his thought-provoking posts. He was
very critical of the Lexical Approach once, calling it a journey without maps,
but then went on to produce A Natural Grammar, best lexical grammar book ever
penned!

Best new blog - http://allatc.wordpress.com/

I met Steve at TESOL France
less than a month ago. He is just as passionate as myself about using video in
the classroom, although our tastes and choices are somewhat different.

Best twitter hashtag - #eltchat

Every Sunday a poll is posted
on Twitter where you vote for topics of interest. The top choice is then
discussed on Wednesday on #ELTchat, a weekly
discussion group started by Marisa
Constantanides. Teachers from all over the
world join this one hour online discussion and you should too!

Best educational use
of audio / video / visual / podcast - http://tefltecher.wordpress.com/

Great ideas for
using video and apps on this blog started by an EFL teacher who, like many
other ELT personas, started his teaching career at International House
Barcelona.

Best educational use
of a social network - TeachingEnglish | British Council on Facebook

I’ve seen
this one nominated quite a few times so I hope they win this year. Ann Foreman is
doing a great job selecting the highlights from the ELT blogosphere and sharing
them on Facebook, even though she misspelled my name the
other day :)

Good luck to all
nominees!

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