Tamritz Badge Learning Network

Nice series of self-directed learning around gamification

35:43 Video Gamification: Innovation and the Future Gabe Zichermann

A text annotation tool that can be used both with Hebrew and English. This takes the idea of the hypertext to the next level.

This is what we have been waiting for -- mindmapping tool, Gliffy, built right into Google Docs -- Uber!

BagTheWeb -- Very cool web curation tool.

Content curation tool

Video 37:18, rules of engagement for gamification 1/4 population checks cell phones during a movie in a theater -- wow! 75 minutes/day, you are actively engaged on your phone.

Video clips from 2014 Open Badges Summit to Reconnect Learning

Badges for 5th grade math students at the Gottlieb Academy, Jacksonville, FL. I especially like the idea of using "blogfolios" as a digital backpack!

Slides: 5 Reasons for badges as new learning currency -- Slides from Tim Riches, DigitalMe, UK. Makes a lot of sense!

How Mozilla is making learning open, like the web. Great image of the live drawing created at the Open Badges Summit to Reconnect Learning 2014, showing "why badges"

BadgeKit: Software suite from folks at Mozilla that makes Badging easy. Check it out!

Here are all the livestream videos from the Summit this week. Very interesting conversations!

Creativity is not talent, but attitude and it requires us to break out of patterns and explore the unfamiliar.

Real life example of how interest-driven works as a sphere of connected learning

2M is a campaign to scale up the existing badge ecosystem to a national level to benefit 1 million workers and 1 million students by 2016. Initiative from Mozilla Foundation, HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation

Educause badging initiative -- Good example of how organizations and higher education and leading the badging movement.

How can we create "mass" in the K-12 arena?

Badges for 2nd-5th grade students -- check it out! From the Gottlieb Academy in Jacksonville, FL