The EduBlog Awards Ceremony was podcasted live over at EdTechTalk.com. If you want to listen to the whole ceremony, follow the link above. Here’s a clip where they announce the “Best Educational Wiki” category and Welker’s Wikinomics!

 

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If you’re still not sure whether the EduBlog Awards (the “Eddies”) are a big deal, it looks like they’re getting some attention in the mainstream press as well.

PBS Teachers | learning.now . More than Just Blogging: the 2007 EduBlog Awards | PBS

From the influential technology blogger Andy Carvin over at PBS.org:

“It’s that time of year again – the winners of the annual Edublog Awards have been announced. And despite the name having the word “blog” in it, the awards cover a whole range of educational projects, including wikis, social networks and even virtual reality spaces. If you’re looking for a quick scan of cool education initiatives using social media, this is a great place to get started.

The Edublog Awards, launched four years ago, is an annual tribute to the best and brightest across the educational Web 2.0 landscape. Back then, the awards focused solely on different types of blogs: library blogs, research blogs, group blogs and the like. You can still find some of those categories today, but what I find most enjoyable are the awards given to educational projects that aren’t actually blogs.

For example, there’s the category for best educational wiki. These are websites where students and teachers collaborate to produce interesting and informative content. Like any wiki, the pages can be edited by anyone involved in the project, so the depth, breadth and hopefully the quality of the content improves over time. The winner for best wiki is Welker’s Wikonomics. Created by the students of AP economics teacher Jason Welker at the Shanghai American School. Using the free wiki tool known as WetPaint, they’ve put together a multimedia collection of course materials, definitions of economic theories, and resources for other classrooms…”

Way to go SAS Economists! Keep up the good work! One more semester of macroeconomics and you’ll have created the largest online resource for economics students in the world!

About the author: Jason Welker is a teacher at Zurich International School in Switzerland, where he teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Economics. Jason was an international school student in Malaysia before studying economics at Seattle University then earning his Masters in Education. He calls Seattle and Northern Idaho home. In addition to maintaining an economics wiki and this blog for economics student and educators, Jason also gives presentations on using Web 2.0 tools in education at workshops and conferences around the world. His economics wiki won the 2007 "Best Educational Wiki" award from the "EduBlog Awards".

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