Vote

If you haven't voted in the past 24 hours would you mind heading over to vote for Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs in the 2008 Weblog Awards?

TLWMSN is slowly losing ground and I am hoping to keep a special education blog in the top five.

You can vote once a day, every day! (Until January 13th.)

News

First off yesterday's post was number 700!

Secondly voting has begun for the 2008 Weblog Awards. Last year TLWMSN tied for seventh. This year let's put a special education blog in the top five.

You can vote once a day, every day! (Until January 13th.)

Please pass this on to everyone who might want to vote!

Finalist

This little blog has been chosen as a finalist in 2008 Weblog Awards Education Category!

Voting isn't open yet, but I am hoping you all will cast your ballots on January 5th when it begins!

(You can still vote for TLWMSN in the Edublog Awards though! - TLWMSN currently has 42 votes, which is 3% of the vote. We are the only sped blog there too.)

Apparently there were 5,000 nominees in 49 categories, which gives a 1 in 10 chance of being chosen as one of the 10 finalists in a given category.

Here are the finalists for education (sorry they are not linked - it is late and I am tired):

Flypaper

This Week In Education

Joanne Jacobs

Mr. Hancock's Class Blog

Blogush

Nature Society of ACS Klang High School, Malaysia

Mike Falick's Blog - A School Board Trustee's Blog

Dr. Wizard's Advice for College Students

Education for the Aughts

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs

I am proud to once again create a place for special education in the top ten.

2008 Edublog Awards

Thanks to a nomination by the wonderful Patrick Black at Teaching All Students this blog (Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs) is up for a 2008 Edublog award in the category of Best Individual Blog. Please go vote, forward to your friends and family to have them vote. Have your students vote. This is one of the few special education blogs nominated in any category.

P.S. It is likely December 8th that this blog will also be up for "Best Education Blog" in the 2008 Weblog Awards (we were nominated 8 times).

Some Sites to Try

Image via WikipediaThese sites have been nominated for a WEBBY award in various catagories and my be useful in the classroom:

• Math Moves U
• Fact Check Ed
• King Tut
• The Earth Institute
• Handipoints
• PBS Kids Sprout
• Kids Health
• The Good Food Fight
• Sound Junction
• Geo Greeting
• Earth Observatory
• Cute Overload (cuz its cute)
  
• H2O = Life
• Noggin
• Club Penguin
• Channel One
• Kids National Geographic
• Scholastic
  

These sites are from my "post to blog" bookmarks:

• The Children's University of Manchester
• animations about social studies and science
  
• social studies and science activities
• great "full screen mode" option perfect for touch screens and whiteboards
  
• Toys R Us
• guide to toys for differently abled children
  
• Number Nut
• a variety of levels of flash math quizzes
  
• Roy the Zebra
• a website for emerging readers

Seventh Place!

TLWMSN placed seventh in the Best Education Blog category at the 2007 Weblog Awards. We were within ten votes of the sixth and fifth place finihers. That is excellent, especially since my desire was only to have a special education blog nominated. Thank you to everyone who voted!