The #EduBroAwards v3.0 #EdChat

The #EduBroAwards are back and better than ever! Please take this brief pause to collect yourself and keep reading. 

Pause

Good. Now that you are slightly more calm and tad bit more collected, I will go over the fine details of how the #EduBroAwards work and why they have come back. 

The #EduBroAwards show was conceived as a way for people to celebrate one another after a long year of working hard, sharing, caring and generally being awesome. There are too many awards shows that focus on the few when we should all be celebrating the many. That is what makes our awards show so special and different from all of the rest. We want everyone to be recognized for how truly awesome they are. We have unlimited awards to give out and we can't wait to see the craziness that ensues when we hold out live Google Hangout to hand out the awards. 

The Awards Ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Thursday December 18 at 8:30PM EST. 

Things the #EduBroAwards will be about:

Having fun

Mustaches

Beards

Hugs

High-fives

Veiled references to 90's pop culture

Not so veiled references to 80's pop culture

Too many inside jokes

Kyle Pace's hugs

Steven Anderson's height

Learning

Sharing

Caring

Smiles

Rugby

Sunshine

Bow ties

Boy Meets World

Girl Meets World

All other things that ARE awesome

Things the #EduBroAwards will NOT be about:

Meanies

Frowns

Haberdashery 

Exclusion 

Excuses

All other things that are NOT awesome

Here are how the #EduBroAwards are going to work this year:

Awards

• You can create your own award and nominate anyone you want.
• You can create your own award and nominate yourself.
• Someone can be nominated for more than one award. 
• Everyone will win something.
• Here is a list of the award categories we have created.
• Best Mustache/Beard in Education
• Best Hug Giver
• Twitter User Most Likely to RT a Post They Didn't Read
• Best Twitter Avatar
• Best Title to a Blog Post
• Best Educational Road-trip
• The Daniel LaRusso "You're The Best Around" Award

Nominations

• All nominations must be made in the comment box.
• You must identify yourself in the comment. No Anonymous comments.
• You must nominate yourself for one of the awards created or one you have created. 
• Tweet your nominations with the #EduBroAwards tag
• Nominations end Wednesday December 10th.

Awards Show

• The #EduBroAwards will be held using a Google Hang Out that will be streamed on YouTube
• Nick and Tim will host the awards. 
• Every award will be presented live on the show. If you were nominated, you get to hear your name read out by Nick or Tim. 
• Badges will be available after the ceremony is over. 
• The show will be funny. 
• Casual attire is encouraged, but formal attire would be way funnier.

The last thing we want to say before you start filling the comments with nominations is that this is supposed to be a fun event. We love our friends and we want to recognize them in a way that is not a competition focused on self promotion or popularity. We want to do something fun and the #EduBroAwards are just the thing to put a smile on people's faces. 

The #EduBroAwards v2.0

We are the awards show Education deserves, not the one that it needs right now. 

The #EduBroAwards are back and better than ever! Please take this brief pause to collect yourself and keep reading. 

Pause

Good. Now that you are slightly more calm and tad bit more collected, I will go over the fine details of how the #EduBroAwards work and why they have come back. 

The #EduBroAwards show was conceived as a way for people to celebrate one another after a long year of working hard, sharing, caring and generally being awesome. There are too many awards shows that focus on the few when we should all be celebrating the many. That is what makes our awards show so special and different from all of the rest. We want everyone to be recognized for how truly awesome they are. We have unlimited awards to give out and we can't wait to see the craziness that ensues when we hold out live Google Hangout to hand out the awards. 

The Awards Ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Thursday December 19 at 8:30PM EST. 

Things the #EduBroAwards will be about:

Having fun

Mustaches

Beards

Hugs

High-fives

Veiled references to 90's pop culture

Not so veiled references to 80's pop culture

Too many inside jokes

Kyle Pace's hugs

Steven Anderson's height

Learning

Sharing

Caring

Smiles

Rugby

Sunshine

Bow ties

Boy Meets World

Girl Meets World

All other things that ARE awesome

Things the #EduBroAwards will NOT be about:

Meanies

Frowns

Fashion from the 1830's

Saying mean things about Finland, students or parents

Exclusion 

Excuses

All other things that are NOT awesome

Here are how the #EduBroAwards are going to work this year:

Awards

• You can create your own award and nominate anyone you want.
• You can create your own award and nominate yourself.
• Someone can be nominated for more than one award. 
• Everyone will win something.
• Here is a list of the award categories we have created.
• Best Mustache/Beard in Education
•  Best Hug Giver
• Twitter User Most Likely to RT a Post They Didn't Read
• Best Twitter Avatar
• Best Title to a Blog Post
• Best Educational Road-trip
• The Daniel LaRussa "You're The Best Around" Award

Nominations

• All nominations must be made in the comment box.
• You must identify yourself in the comment. No Anonymous comments.
• You must nominate yourself for one of the awards created or one you have created. 
• Tweet your nominations with the #EduBroAwards tag
• Nominations end Friday November 29th.

Awards Show

• The #EduBroAwards will be held using a Google Hang Out that will be streamed on YouTube
• Nick and Tim will host the awards after Miley Cyrus backed out and Tina Fay and Amy Poehler were unavailable. 
• Every award will be presented live on the show. If you were nominated, you get to hear your name read out by Nick or Tim. 
• Badges will be available after the ceremony is over. 
• The show will be funny. 
• Casual attire is encouraged, but formal attire would be way funnier.

The last thing we want to say before you start filling the comments with nominations is that this is supposed to be a fun event. We love our friends and we want to recognize them in a way that is not a competition focused on self promotion or popularity. We want to do something fun and the #EduBroAwards are just the thing to put a smile on people's faces. 

The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Be Making a Top 10 List for 2012

These are the top 10 reasons I will not be making a top 10 list of 2012

1. Sorry, but I do not feel like my 2012 can be condensed into 10 short blurbs. Nothing about me or my friends could ever be condensed into a blurb. Have you met +Timothy Gwynn? What about him is possible to be shared in a short blurb? Have you seen his mustache? That is worth a chapter in most epic novels.

2. All of the things I do are awesome for different reasons. I do not want to spend time comparing one event to another. I has awesome times at MACUL (State Tech Conference) and ISTE. EduCon was a blast and so were the edcamps I organized and attended. Instead of suggesting one is more awesome than the others, I woud like to say that they were all awesome for different reasons.

3. My friends are my friends for many different reasons and I do not want to place them in a list about how important they were to me or my education/growth as a teacher. I learn so much from so many different people. Is it even possible to compare @EduSum to @Web20Classroom? One of them is Australian and the other is a Nascar fan. They both bring very different things to the table, including ridiculously awesome accents. So instead of creating a list where I rank the value of Southerners, Canadians and Australians, I will just say they are all awesome in different ways and I'm happy to know them.

4. I have had the privilege to work with some awesome people over the past year and have some exciting new ventures on the horizon. As easy as it would be for me to talk about the epicness of +Evernote and +Edutopia, I will just say that it is an honor to be associated with both of them and look forward to more silliness and epicness in the future.

5. I use many different tools to reach my students and transform education in my classroom. I would hate to hurt the feelings of any app that did not make my list of apps that are going to rock the world of education in 2013. There are some, but they might not work for everyone. Just because +Evernote and +Nearpod are awesome, doesn't mean that they should be on the top of my list, even if they would be if I was creating a list, which I am not. There are lots of great tools out there, take a look around and glance at Twitter. I assure you that you will find one.

6. If it were possible to tell you the ten coolest blogs to read this year, someone else has probably done it and did a better job than I would. There are tons of great blogs out there. I have over a hundred filling my Google Reader every day. The last thing I want to do is tell +George Couros that he was blog number 11 out of 10 and did not make the cut. I do not need him to rain down the Northern Fury of Canada because of the slight. For the good of the US, I could not do it.

7. I would love to rank my 10 favorite students, but I've been told that might be considered unprofessional. Since I can't do that, I will have to just shower them with candy upon their return from break.

8. I will not be ranking the 10 ten hugs from +Kyle Pace. This is simply due to the fact that all hugs from +Kyle Pace are perfect 10s and suggesting that +Kyle Pace would give anything else besides a perfect 10 hug is an insult to Kyle and his Mom's Cookies.

9. Truly, nothing is even close to the awesomeness of being mentioned by Sir Ken Robinson during the ISTE Keynote. The #EduBros were a force to be reckoned with in 2012 and have even bigger plans for 2013. With that, I'm not even going to do a 10th reason.

Happy New Year from The Nerdy Teacher!

#EduBro Session at #ISTE12

Some people have suggested that Tim and I do a session on the evolution of #EduBros. So, we are going to do a the best #Edubro session ever.

While some people may be interested in the origin story of the #EduBros, we would also like to talk about the value of Social Media in connecting AND maintaining friendships. We will also talk about the value of fun in education. Justin brought sexy back and the #EduBros are bringing the fun back. We hope you have a moment to stop down and join the conversation.

Stop by the Newbie Lounge at 2PM on Tuesday.

We hope to see you there.

The EduBros
Nick and Tim and Sir Ken (Not Attending)
#EduBros