Edublog Awards 2012 - I was nominated for Best EdTech Blog

I started writing this blog as a way to organize and share edtech resources I found and it's grown into much more than that.

I just found out that I was nominated for, and am a finalist for, the Edublog Awards 2012, Best EdTech Blog. Thanks!!

You can read more about the Edublog Awards here and vote for Educational Technology Guy here (under EdTech Blog).

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DENny Award Winners 2012 - Discovery Educator Network Awards

Last night was the DENny Awards 2012, the annual awards where the Discovery Educator Network and Discovery Education honor DEN members for their efforts throughout the years. It's the Oscars for us. In fact, the Discovery Education employees that ran the event were wearing tuxedo t-shirts!

You can view the entire thing, which was live streamed from Discovery Education HQ last night, below:





You can also check out some of the tweets from last night #DENnyawards.



I was honored to have won a DENny for "PL DEN", a play on PLN (personal learning network), for my work sharing and connecting with other educators about Discovery Education resources on social media and the DEN blog for the CT Leadership Council. I according to DEN, I've tweeted over 132 times sharing Discovery Ed resources and posted over 100 blog posts on the DEN Blog.
(I was also honored last year with a DENny for my contributions to the DEN blog. I'm truly humbled by the awards).

Connecticut had a good showing last night, with Howard Gunther winning a DENny for Best DEN Event for the SCICon Event held at the Mark Twain house and Joe Fromme, the CT Leadership Council's fearless leader, winning a DENny for Leadership. Lynn Reedy and I were also finalists to be DEN Guru's this year and, while we weren't selected, were both honored to be part of such a distinguished group of educators that were the 12 finalists.

It was a fun event and I love the people in the DEN and from Discovery Education that I get to work with.

Discovery Education and the Discovery Educator Network do so much for educators and education. They are a dedicated group of educators and professionals that work to support educators in their job of educating our youth.




Why don't you join the Discovery Educator Network and become a STAR Educator!

More about the Discovery Educator Network: http://community.discoveryeducation.com/about.cfm

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Google RISE Awards - awards to organizations working with K-12+ students in STEM

  Google RISE Awards

The Google RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) Awards 2012 are here. The Google RISE awards promote and support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and CS (Computer Science) education initiatives by awarding grants to organizations working with K-12 and Higher Ed students to provide enrichment programs in STEM and CS.

Awards range from $10,000 - $25,000 in the US and Canada and 500-10,000 EUR in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Ideal K-12 & university STEM programs and projects should:

• Inspire excitement in STEM and CS
• Improve, advance and enrich students' STEM and/or CS education
• Include hands-on learning activities in STEM and/or CS education

Program Guidelines

• Google RISE Awards are specific to STEM and CS educational and outreach programs
• Applications are encouraged from organizations and educational institutions regardless of the socio-economic status of the students they serve
• Please note that the RISE team is not able to provide one on one consultations during the review process (both prior to applying and after applications have been submitted) to ensure no bias is given to specific organizations
• We will be asking for feedback and updates from the successful awardees to help us shape and develop the RISE Awards for future years

Here are the award recipients for 2012: http://www.google.com/edu/rise/recipients.html
These are some great groups and programs. Check them out and see if they can help your students.

This is a great opportunity for groups that help students in STEM and CS topics to get additional funding to continue their work.

Share this with others and with any organizations that may be eligible to enter.  Interested groups can sign up to be notified of the 2013 awards here: http://www.google.com/edu/rise/application.html

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