Frog Blog Wins Irish Blog Award

I'm delighted to announce that the Frog Blog took home the gong of 'Best Science / Education Blog' at this year's Irish Blog Awards, which took place last night in Belfast. Many thanks to everyone who supports the blog and what we do here in St. Columba's College in promoting science and ICT in education. Thanks to the pupils and staff who contribute to the blog as well as those who take the time to read it. I would like to thank our fellow nominees: Anseo a Mhuinteoir, Seandalaíocht, Live at the Witch Trials and SCC English (who inspired us to begin blogging in the first place and has been extremely supportive ever since) for their company on the night but more importantly for creating interesting online content for all to enjoy. I would also like to thank Damien Mulley for the excellent work he has done in organising this year's event,  the last Irish Blog Awards, and for recognising the increasing number and quality of Irish educational and scientific blogs by creating a category in this year's IBA's. The event was a great success with a lively yet relaxed atmosphere. Finally, well done to all the nominees and winners in this year's awards. For further information on all the runners and riders click here.

SCC English Shortlisted for Three Edublog Awards

Our esteemed English department colleagues over at SCC English has been shortlisted in three categories in this year's Edublog Awards. The winners are decided by a public vote and voting is now open! SCC English is shortlisted in the following categories:

• Best Group Blog (which SCC English won in 2008 and came third in 2009).
• Best Educational Use of Audio for their excellent "Patterns of Poetry" series.
• Best Resource Sharing Blog.

You can vote in a few seconds by going to the Edublogs site here, or via the individual links on SCC English here.

Edublog Awards 2010 - Nominations

Here are my nominations for this year's Edublog Awards

Best individual blog - Noel Cunningham - Think for Yourself

Best individual tweeter - @sccenglish

Best group blog - SCC English

Best educational tech support blog - Anseo.net

Best new blog - The Catlin Coverslip

Best teacher blog - Patricia Donaghy (ICT in Further Education)

Best educational use of audio - SCC English Audio Boos - Patterns of Poetry

Frog Blog Wins Eircom Spider Award

A huge thank you to everyone who voted for my other website, the Frog Blog, in this year's Eircom Spider Awards. I was delighted (and extremely surprised) to accept the Big Mouth Award at last night's gala event along with my St. Columba's College colleague Jeremy Stone. I'm sure many were as shocked as I was when the winner was announced but I am delighted that so many took the time to vote for us and recognise that "big mouths" can shout about more than just politics, economics or business. It is great to see someone shouting for science and education being recognised by the Irish public. Thank you all so much!

Frog Blog Nominated for Eircom Spider

Woo hoo! My educational science website, the Frog Blog, has been nominated for an Eircom Spider Award, within the Big Mouth category. The Big Mouth award is given to the "most influential voice online in Ireland ... who commands the biggest tribe, who’s a trusted source in their community?" (So you can imagine our surprise at our inclusion). The list of nominee contains an impressive list of active Irish bloggers, online journalists, "Facebookers" and tweeps, and they cover a wide range of topics from science to politics. The winner will be decided by a public vote so click here to vote for the Frog Blog and make us a a surprise winner!

A special mention also to Eoin Lettice from the Communicate Science blog and Ronan Palliser from my favourite photo blog who are also nominated within the Big Mouth category. Eoin has also been a guest blogger on the More Stress Less Success - click here to read his guest post - and is a brilliant ambassador for science in Ireland. It is brilliant to see two blogs within this category that are shouting for science!