badges, badgers, mushrooms, and a snake
DESCRIPTION
This presentation includes an explanation, exploration, and discussion of digital badges for use in community building, professional development, and skills/academic achievement. The first part of the presentation will define issuers, badges and criteria, and earners. The second part of the presentation includes a live demonstration and walk-through for creating and issuing a badge using the Cred.ly platform. Session attendants will earn a badge for their participation and have the opportunity to create their own badges during this part of the session. The third and final part of the presentation will include a panel discussion with representatives from instructional technology, human resources, and others to consider potential uses of digital badges and their overall credibility and desirability.TRANSCRIPT
Badges, Badgers, Mushrooms, and a SnakeHigh Ed Web Michigan | May 22, 2014
Introduction
Digital badges explanation
Walk-through demo of Cred.ly platform
Panel discussion
What are digital badges?
Girl and Boy Scout badges
Law enforcement badges
And buttons! (AKA badges)AKA “flair”
Digital badges only slightly different
Convey similar meanings: Achievements Affiliations Attitudes
Only in digital form (for now)
Digital badgers badgesNote: From here on in the presentation, when I say “badges” I really mean digital badges.
Not new to gamers
U-M TnTMembership (annual)
Meeting attendance
Project participation
OpenBadges.org
Open Badges Infrastructure• Issuers
• Earners
• Display
More research...
Great tutorial by Billy Meinke
Wrote and validated a json file
{ "recipient": "[email protected]", "evidence": "http://umtnt.tumblr.com", "issued_on": "2013-10-10", "badge": { "version": "1.0.0", "name": "BadgeBuildTest", "image": "http://www.ns.umich.edu/btest/tnt-badge.png", "description": "Has displayed expertise in hand-made badge creation.", "criteria": "http://umtnt.tumblr.com", "issuer": { "origin": "http://umtnt.tumblr.com", "name": "TrendsAndTechName", "org": ”Test Badge, 2013", "contact": "[email protected]" } } }
Uploaded a png & baked it
Use the Mozilla “baker” service: Append your URL to the URL below:
http://backpack.openbadges.org/baker?assertion =http://your-json-url.json
Enter this URL in a browser
Mozilla’s baker service interprets the .JSON file, attaches that data to the .PNG image designated in the .JSON file, in effect, binding the image and data.
The end result is a new .PNG file for download.
Mozilla Backpack
Badge Widget Hack
Badging platforms
Purdue’s Passport
Cred.ly
Panel Members
John LeasiaManager, Learning Technology Incubation Group (LTIG); Library IT
Matthew Snyder (@mattesnyder)Human Resource Communications Specialist, Human Resources Strategy and Planning
Panel Members
Patricia Anderson (@pfanderson)Emerging Technologies Informationist, Taubman Health Sciences Library
Chase Masters (@billchase2edu)Enabling Technologies Informationist, Taubman Health Sciences Library
Badges, Badgers, Mushrooms, and a SnakeNicole Rhoads | May 22, 2014
References and resources
Mozilla Open Badges: http://openbadges.org/
Mozilla Backpack: https://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack
Badge Widget Hack (to display badges on a webpage): http://badgewidgethack.org/
References and resources
Badge Lab: https://badgelab.herokuapp.com/
Badge options for schools: http://blog.makewav.es/2013/08/05/open-badges-for-schools-what-are-the-options/
Badge platforms: https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsHml-k4XnX7dHJQSDBrdUphYlprc1N0N09KMzFzckE&usp=sharing#gid=0
References & resources: Tutorials• Chris McAvoy (Mozilla): http://weblog.lonelylion.com/
• Billy Meinke: http://billymeinke.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/open-badges-want-to-make-your-own-badges-by-hand-heres-how/