The Edublog Awards promote each year the good work that both teachers and students are doing online via blogging or using other web 2.0 tools.

Here is our nominations for this year.

Best Individual tweeter: @kathleen_morris

Best Class Blog: http://56c2011.global2.vic.edu.au/

Best Student Blog: http://gracesanimals.edublogs.org/

Most Influential Blog Post: http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/november-is-family-blogging-month.html

Best Twitter Hashtag: #edutech

Best Librarian / Library Blog: http://campusrc.edublogs.org/

Best Free Web Tool: http://embedit.in/ 

Best Educational use of Audio / Video / Visual / Podcast: http://56c2011.global2.vic.edu.au/

Lifetime Achievement: Kathleen Morris

Best New Blog: http://23vk.edublogs.org/

Good luck to all the nominees. If you would like to nominate your suggestions then visit http://edublogawards.com/ to find out how.

Today was Adelaide’s famous Christmas Pageant. The biggest in the southern hemisphere. Here are just a few facts about this Adelaide icon.

• The Pageant for 2011 had 63 floats, 15 bands, 10 dance groups, one DJ and three choirs.
• Over 300,000 people attended the Christmas Pageant.
• The Christmas Pageant goes through the centre of Adelaide ona 3.3km route.
• The first Pageant was in 1933.
• It took 120 artists to apply make-up to more than 1000 characters between 6:30am and 9am
• This years pageant broke a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing red noses.

Did you go to the Christmas Pageant? If so leave a comment about your experiences of the Christmas Pageant or submit a photo or two in your own blog post.

To view a PhotoPeach display of our recent Rememberance Day Campus Assembly produced by our Campus Librarian Mrs Schenkel, click on the following link.

http://campusrc.edublogs.org/2011/11/11/campus-assembly/