Reading blogs is now my main mode of interacting with ideas about teaching and school leadership. It’s been an incredible year in my view.  Choosing a few nominees is difficult but these are the bloggers and tweeters that I feel influence me the most:

• Best individual blog:  David Didau @learningspy
• Best group blog: Edutronic_Net #BlogSync
• Best new blog: Joe Kirby: Pragmatic Education @joe__kirby
• Best class blog: @Edutronic_net  The whole structure
• Best student blog: Joe Wheater The PitStopBlog
• Best ed tech / resource sharing blog: Rachel Jones Create Innovate Explore
• Best teacher blog:  Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish
• Best administrator blog: John Tomsett
• Most influential blog post of the year: Laura McInerny TouchPaper Problems @miss_mcinerny
• Best individual tweeter: Ross McGill @teachertoolkit
• Best twitter hashtag: #ukedchat
• Best free web tool: Edmodo
• Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast: Art Cubed 9picsaday
• Best educational wiki @ICTMagic
• Best educational use of a social network #SLTChat Forum
• Best mobile app: Pages
• Lifetime achievement: Mark Anderson @ICTEvangelist

Thanks to all those I’ve nominated and everyone else blogging, making a contribution to debate, sharing ideas and telling it how it is.