bring digital badges to your classroom or school (updated)
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Digital badges are an awesome way to recognize merit, strengths, behaviors and skill achievement in students and adults. For many years people have received recognition for their efforts and achievements. Sometimes they are given a certificate, medal, diploma or letter. However, it has always been hard to share this recognition to a wider audience. It was also hard to give these awards in a way that is easily shared and can scale to much larger groups. Thanks to digital badges, those issues are beginning to disappear. This workshop discusses the possibilities, thanks to the introduction of digital badges, that are now available to the world.TRANSCRIPT
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Tech Coach, Concordia Shanghai
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Today’s Take Aways
• What are digital badges?
• Starting a badge program
• Designing your first badges
• Badge tech
• Future of badges
• My learnings
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Presentation Resources
www.InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges
!The humble badge in some form, has been worn for hundreds of years and has been used as a tool to signify political allegiance or contempt, social injustice, support or disdain for the monarchy and more recently as a symbol of global
protest over issues such as war, peace, race-relations and regime change. !
As far back as early mediaeval times, people have shown a fascination for badges. Wearing badges also expressed a sense of belonging, and during the 19th century they were used by trade-unionists and politicians to declare their membership or
support of a particular group. !
The earliest badges we know of are from the 12th century when badges were made with the engraved faces of St Peter and St Paul. Pilgrims would wear them as a sign of their devotion and to prove their faith and these badges would have been the popular promotional gift of the time. Pilgrimages became even more
popular in the 14th century and many gatherings used to take place at the famous Tabard Inn in Southwark, London for pilgrims on their way to the annual pilgrimage in Canterbury Cathedral. Badges have been found by the banks of the Thames near Tabard Inn where it is possible that the pilgrims might have thrown
their badges into the river as a ritual or out of superstition, like throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain today to make a wish.
In 1807 William Wilberforce purchased 50,000 medallions to promote the Anti Slavery cause that he was passionate about. In what was probably one of the
first promotional badges made for a political cause, it was the campaign which led to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 which abolished slavery in most of the
British Empire.
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Mozilla Podcast InterviewPodcast.Concordiashanghai.org
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Step One: Create a Persona Account login.persona.org
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Step Two: Earn Your First Badge
•Cheat: openbadges.org/quickstart/7
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Socrative Time
m.socrative.com/digitalbadges
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Badge Ideashttp://tinyurl.com/badgefun
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Case Study: Organization
Increase Participation in Our EdTech PD Program
start with the why
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Example Case Study: Classroom
Increase student organization
start with the why
Things to Think About
• What behavior(s) are you try to change?
• What behavior(s) are you try increase?
• What action are you trying to create?
• What else?
Assignment
• Come up with a list of “whys”
• Share them here: tinyurl.com/badgefun
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Socrative Time
m.socrative.com/digitalbadges
What do ya want to happen?
• What types of specific behaviors do you want to increase or decrease?
• What types of specific actions do you want to increase or decrease?
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Case Study: Organization
• Take more than the minimum number of classes
• Interact with others online • Design a course for Concordia
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Example Case Study: Classroom• Decrease late
homework • Use planner
consistently • Keep locker organized
Assignment
• Come up with a list of “whats”
• Share them here: tinyurl.com/badgefun
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Socrative Time
m.socrative.com/digitalbadges
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Leveling Up
Level 3 Level 4Level 2Level 1
100% 85% Standard?
40% 15%
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Level 3 Level 4Level 2Level 1
100% 85% Standard
40% 15%
Creates Currency
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Case Study: Organization
Concordia Community Site
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Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
CriteriaPassed
One Course
Passed Two
Courses
Passed Three Course
Designed a Course
Percentage 100 85 40 15
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Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
PlannerFilled out
for two weeks
Filled out for four weeks
Filled out for six weeks
Filled out for eight
weeks
LockerSurvived
two locker checks
Survived four locker
checks
Survived six locker
checks
Survived eight locker
checks
Home work
Homework turned in for
two weeks
Homework turned in for four weeks
Homework turned in for
six weeks
Homework turned in for eight weeks
Percentage 100 85 40 15
Assignment
• Come up with a list of leveled badges
• Share them here: tinyurl.com/badgefun
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Socrative Time
m.socrative.com/digitalbadges
Architect Your Badge Program
• Use the template provided to create a plan to implement a digital badge rewards program
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Resources: InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges
Things to Consider
• Role of Currency
• Intrinsic v. Extrinsic Motivators
• Who Will Make the Badges?
• When Will You Reset?
• How Long Should the Program Run
Assignment• Pick at least three badge
ideas
• Create the badges
• Think about branding
• Tools
• Adobe Illustrator
• Free Badge Design Websites: InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges
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Sample Badgeshttp://badg.us/en-US/badges/
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Upload and Share Your Badgeswww.innovativepd.com/badges/
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Hosting Displaying
Getting badges into Mozilla and
keeping them around
Displaying badges from Mozilla
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Displaying Your Badges
PluginsManual
Manual
Manual
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Hosting and Issuing
Badg.us
Self Host
Outside Service
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http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpbadger/
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Classroom Teacher Route
Create Badge
Award Badge
Display Badge
openbadges.me
Email or badg.us
Upload to website or Print
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Institutional Route
Create Badge
Award Badge
Display Badge
In House Designer
badg.us WP Badger
OBI Compliant system
Upload to website or WPPlugin: WPBadgeDisplay
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http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpbadgedisplay/
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Student Accepts Badge and Places in Mozilla Backpack
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■ In June 2013, the Clinton Global Initiative announced a commitment to help 1 million students and 1 million U.S. workers access opportunities through badges. Non-profit organizations, universities, civic organizations, technology providers, employers, and others are teaming up to meet this challenge. ■Blackboard’s recent integration with the Mozilla Open
Badges framework enables educators around the world to become badge issuers to millions of students who can use their badge achievements portably in their online identities and resumes. ■Mozilla, Blackboard, WCET and Sage Road Solutions are
bringing together academic, governmental, civic, and corporate thought leaders to contribute to a MOOC, “Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials,” that will foster and strengthen emerging badge ecosystems.
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