Course Syllabus
Enroll in the Digital Badges course. (This is required one time to enable access to materials. Only available to Concordia employees and students.
Digital Badges
Recognition is one of the biggest motivators for people. Being singled out for excellence among your peers is incredibly motivating. For many years, badges, pins, medals, plaques and other pieces of paper have been given to people to recognize their achievements.
However, it is hard to share this recognition with others in a virtual way. Especially on your website, Facebook, Twitter, Linked In or other social networks
Thanks to the Mozilla Foundation, we have a better better way: Digital Badges!
As an instructor, team, coach, grade level, after school instructor, etc. you decide on what it takes for a student to earn a badge. Maybe they aced five quizzes in a row, learned to write 100 Chinese characters, participated in seven after school activities or became a member of the student council. You name it! The ideas are endless.
Lessons
1. Introduction to Digital Badging
At first I thought the concept of digital badging was rather simple. Militaries have been issuing badges for thousands of years, how much different can digital badges be? Um, well they are different. Not so much in why we award them, but the process of awarding and accepting them has changed
2. Badge Ideas
Now that you understand what (hopefully) what digital badges are, it is time to talk about the technology that goes on behind the scenes.
3. Creating Digital Badges (Artwork)
So now you have your badge idea and you want to create your own badge to use in your classroom. At Concordia we have it easy as David Lyon has graciously volunteered to make badges for everybody. However, you might want to make them on your own as well. If you have a digital art background, then this will be an easy project for you. If not, then you might want to consider using one of the badge design resources available on the web.
4. Issuing Badges
Your badge is ready to go, but you still need to issue the badge to the recipient such as one of your students. Doing this is fairly simple at Concordia as we have set up a process for you to get this done.
5. Setting Up Your Badge Backpack
he magic of digital badges is the ability to put the badge in a digital backpack that lives out in the cloud (Internet). This almost magical solution is done by the Mozilla Foundation with their OpenBadges program. They have created a space where badge recipients can store their badges and then enable them to be displayed on their personal social networks or websites.
6. Earn Your First Badge
This is where it gets to be so much fun! You are just about to earn your first badge. You will be heading off to Mozilla in a moment to answer a few simple quiz questions and pick up your first badge.
7. Display Your Badge
It feels great to earn a badge, but it feels even better to show it off to the world! This is where digital badges have their power. You can share your accomplishment like never before!
8. Post Course Survey
Enroll in the Digital Badges course. (This is required one time to enable access to materials. Only available to Concordia employees and students.
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