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Completely Customizable Certificates - coming soon!

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Purely by accident I found a post written about MyAwardMaker.com in Italian. How exciting! But wait...I used Babel to translate the page and realized to my utter embarrassment that while the blogger gave the site a nice review they also felt that the site be used for English language teachers only ...

A Slideshow to Celebrate Teachers

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I don't know what it is but this past week I've been getting tons of emails from teachers about certificates they'd like us to create for their students. Many of the emails come in late at night...which makes me wonder - do teachers ever get a break? So many of these ...

How do you motivate an 11 year old?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I'm a big supporter of positive reinforcement. Pets, kids, adults, everyone needs it. As my co-worker said last week when I sent her a note thanking her for something "no one ever gets tired of hearing they did a good job!" But when it comes to some kids though it can ...

The Certificate Blog is Here!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Yes, My Award Maker finally has a blog. I’ve really wanted to set one up for a while and thanks to Naz, we finally have one. Heard from a teacher in the UK this week about how she had used My Award Maker to create certificates for her 2nd graders. She ...

Free ClipArt

Monday, March 24th, 2008

It is so hard to find cute clip art that is free for both personal and commercial use. However, NoeticArt has a pretty cool selection of tongue-in-cheek (pen-in-hand?) illustrations of animals, transportation, people, etc. You can download the entire collection if you click on the "Whole Taco" link. And it ...