Tech Talk Roundtable 17 | Bringing Badges to Your Organization

Chris, Jamie and Michael discuss the use of digital badges and share their tech tips.

Show Notes

1. http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/05/16/moodle-25-adds-open-badges-support-bootstrap-theme.aspx?=THE21
   Moodle HQ has released Moodle 2.5, a major update to the widely distributed open source learning management system. The new version also adds support for badges, allowing teachers and institutions to award badges to users for work accomplished based on various criteria, such as completing a course or completing work within a course. Moodle badges are compatible with Mozilla’s Open Badges standard and can be displayed in users’ profiles or pushed out to their Open Badges backpacks. (Public backpacks can also be displayed in users’ profiles.)
2. ePortfolios as Badges – A Badge System Design for Learning by Creating | HASTAC
   A reason that could contribute to so many of the badge systems around looking quite similar, is that badge designers don’t have many references to work from. It isn’t practical for badge designers or software developers to all become assessment experts. I’m going to make an attempt to present an example about how badges could add structure to the discussion of assessment and provide a shared language for communication among assessment experts, content providers and technology implementers. This is part of a conversation with Dan Hickey in the comment section of his post, “Some Things about Assessment that Badge Developers Might Find Helpful.”
3. WordPress › BadgeOS « WordPress Plugins
   Easily create badges and set up the steps and achievements users complete to earn them. Badges are Mozilla OBI compatible and sharable via Credly.
4. WordPress › WPBadger « WordPress Plugins
   WPBadger is a simple WordPress plugin for issuing badges and adding them to a user’s Open Badges backpack.
5. (99+) OpenBadges – Google Groups
   Open Badges discussion group. Post your ideas here and enjoy the response from a dynamic community.
6. Badge Forge || Welcome
   Badge Forge is a one-stop shop for anyone interested in issuing, earning, and researching badges that connect to the Mozilla Badge Backpack. For Issuers: Badge Forge is not just a great way to allow learners to make goals for themselves. An issuer account comes with special status which allows viewing, creating, and awarding badges, as well as, monitoring earner actions. Badge Forge is also a great data analysis tool for institutions like museums and libraries who want some insight into patron interests. For Earners: Our easy to use tools will allow badge earners to set their own goals and build their own recognition in the form of badges. Create badge criteria, choose to work alone or with friends and even compete with others. Our art tool will ensure that created badges are a unique symbol of any goal. Your Badge Forge: Are you interested in a customized version of Badge Forge for your school, group, or company? Would you like to sponsor custom badge art for an event or cause? Le…
7. Welcome to Badgeville | badgeville.com
   About Badgeville Badgeville is the #1 gamification and behavior management platform. The world’s leading businesses turn to Badgeville to increase customer and employee engagement. Samsung, Oracle, EMC, Universal Music, Opower, The Active Network, Autodesk, Microsoft, NBC and over 200 global innovators rely on Badgeville to measure and influence user behavior.
8. Open Badges
   Free and open Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges. Take your badges everywhere Collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, websites and more. Knit your skills together Whether they’re issued by one organization or many, badges can build upon each other, joining together to tell the full story of your skills and achievement. Full of information With Open Badges, every badge is full of information. Each one has important data built in that links back to the issuer, criteria and verifying evidence.
9. The Teacher’s Guide To Using Badges In Your Classroom | Edudemic
   What encourages students to do well in school? Often, it comes down to grades. Many students will work harder in order to earn a higher grade. Colleges want to see good grades. Parents want to see good grades. Grades are good, right? Of course they are, but the grades should not be the only goal. Learning for the sake of it should be a goal, including what they learned, how long they remembered it, and how they applied it to new situations.

Tech tips

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Elementary School: Fun Slides Stop Motion Studio App  Enjoy the excitement of creating stop motion animations (AKA claymation or stop action movies) and time lapse recordings with the new FunSlides – Stop Motion Studio. Now you can create video with Lego characters or clay models and upload your creations on YouTube or Facebook.

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