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This is the official website for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. It gives information about the program, such as their mission statement, their core values, and their plan. It gives other information such as when they hold all of their webinars.

This article describes what information literacy is and how to use it with technology. In addition, the article gives a description on how it is used in higher education and pedagogy. As you read further into the article it describes the standards and assessments applied to information literacy.

This is information on information literacy for the higher education students.

This is a great resource for knowing the Information Literacy standards.  As a teacher, these will important to know

This site argues for the importance of Curation in terms of higher-order thinking associated with Bloom's Taxonomy. It also offers this information in podcast form.

The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education. In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well.-Mary Daniels Brown with Education World. This website builds on our learning and use of digital portfolios for ourselves to show how to use them with our students. We will learn how to do our own, and can then help our students in the future.

Teaching is all about storytelling. By incorporating technology into storytelling, we can move ourselves and our students to higher levels of thinking.

Your students are creating fantastic projects to show what they know. You can take their learning, and your ability to assess their achievement, to an even higher level using digital portfolios. Portfolios have long been a mainstay in the visual arts, where skill and expertise cannot be accurately represented by percentage points and letter grades.

The main focus of this infographic to prove how twitter can improve students grades in the classroom through class discussion, asking questions, and assignments. 

LiveText Inc. is a team of education professionals dedicated to using technology to improve learning for individuals and organizations. This is where you will post your work for your portfolio.

LiveText offers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use learning outcomes assessment solution with the most robust data collection and analytics features.

Information Literacy definition. Describes how to have greater control over your learning and learn how to evaluate a source

Teaching with technology is seeing how to incorporate it into the classroom setting. The article shows the benefits of using technology in the classroom. It shows how you can motivate your students as well.

A case study of using Facebook in the classroom in such a way, that I believe is a great example of building a PLN.

As iPads continue to invade classrooms all over the United States, the schools that have not already integrated them as learning tools are starting to feel an increasing pressure to allow iPads in the classroom. The first educational institutions to hop on the iPad bandwagon were higher education institutions and high schools.

this article addresses the many pros there are too gamification, but also stresses how real interaction must be integrated which is a great goint considering the direction classrooms are going.