Nominate Your Favorite Ed Tech Tools for a Readers' Choice Award

As the end of 2018 approaches I thought it would be fun to see what you think are the best educational technology apps, sites, and services. For the next week I'll leave this Google Form open for you to nominate your favorite educational technology app, site, or service. You can make nominations in one category or all of the categories. Please make only one nomination per category. At this time next week I'll tally all of the nominations and open up voting on the finalists (the top five in each category).

If you are a representative of a company (including compensated brand ambassadors) please do not nominate your company. I would like for this nomination process to be as genuine as possible.

Nominations Open for 2010 Edublogs Awards

In 2008 and 2009 Free Technology for Teachers was fortunate enough to be awarded the Edublog Award for Best Resource Sharing Blog. This year Edublogs in collaboration with Classroom 2.0 is again hosting The Edublog Awards.

The Edublog Awards is an annual online series of awards given out to recognize the contributions of bloggers to the advancement of education. The award recipients are chosen by the global community of education bloggers and blog readers. There are twenty-three award categories. Nominations can be made by anyone who has a blog. I will be making nominations very soon.

To nominate a blog or person in a category simply write a post on your own blog listing your nominations by category (you do not have to make nominations in every category). Then use the contact form on the Edublog Awards page to submit your list of nominations. You must do both of those things to make your nominations count. After the nomination period closes the nominations will be posted by category on the Edublog Awards page where you can vote for your favorites.

Disclosure: Edublogs is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.

Certificate Street - Free Certificate Templates

Certificate Street, formerly My Award Maker, provides an abundance of free templates for creating award certificates. There are six categories of awards templates offered on Certificate Street; Sports, School, Special Occasion, Business, Blank, and Relationships. Certificate Street also offers a gallery of newsletter templates. All the templates are available as free editable PDFs.

Applications for Education
I haven't been in an elementary school classroom since I was in elementary school, but one of the things I remember about my days in elementary school is that my teachers made a lot of award certificates. I don't know if all elementary school teachers make award certificates. For those teachers that do give out award certificates Certificate Street could be a handy resource.

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