Tamritz Badge Learning Network

Try using Google Sites for student eportfolios and a record of earned badges.

from the office of ed tech, US Departed of Ed

Dr. Michael Wesch, Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University -- talks passion-based learning and "learning worth crying about."

The Internet Archive seeks to build a "digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form." Free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled and the general public. This is a GREAT resource that every educator should know about!

This is a cool way to get kids interacting with classrooms around the globe and it gives them an authentic audience. Check it out!

Today's Meet is an awesome and free "backchannel" tool that has upgraded its features -- now we can control who signs in and we can close room and monitor multiple rooms from one screen. Give it a try!

Enlightening post about how student blogs are more than just a journal -- take a look at student blogging through the SAMR model

list of math blogs

"NOTE: It's important to know that copyright laws are on the books to encourage the creation of content, not restrict its access."

"Here, teachers are a bit like farmers, Detterman says. And children are a bit like corn. "You have corn plants that do well in certain environments, and don't in others. And the farmer's job is to get the corn plants into the right soil.""

Another clip of Tina Seelig on fostering creativity in students -- Starting with a cover photo of her students own autobiography -- brilliant activity! Try it with your own students

Notes from BLC14 -- Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, held each summer. Here is some of the notes. Looking for an incredible learning experience? Put BLC on your bucket list for PD.

Wonderful resource on creating digital portfolios via Google Apps

Great case study on Connected Learning in action, with the three interlocking spheres of passion-based, academically driven and socially connected within an open and digitally enhanced learning environment.

A collection of Open Badges resources