Time 4 Design
Open Badges
Digital Badges, electronic badges, e-badges
Much of the theory and practice of badges can be found on library databases. Try the search on the Library Database Trial below:
Access URL: https://infotrac.gale.com/itweb/vnhis
Access Code: empower
The first part of the list shows databases that can be searched simultaneously, or you can just check the ones you would like to visit individually. Further down the list are elementary and middle school databases as well, so I hope everyone will take a few minutes to look them over.
The History and Context of Digital Badges
A seminar on Open Badges (some of this presentation is in Dutch!)
The Power of Digital Badges: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept20/vol78/num01/The-Power-of-Digital-Badges.aspx
7 Things you should know about Digital Badges from Educause
UNESCO vision of Digital Credentialing can be found HERE
7 web tools for creating digital learning badges webpage from American Tesol
Badge Wiki https://badge.wiki/wiki/Badge_platforms
Common Sense Media group
BADGES
Open Badges from Mozilla are one of the founding players in the field of electronic badges.
Identifying the need: have a look at this survey
Existing Badges
Cloudworks was a badge creation project that is now retired. However, there are many existing examples of badges created by student and academics from the Open University in the UK.
Here are some prototype badges on Badgr
Here is a prototype 'soldering level 1' badge.
The following link is to a school that uses badges:
Digital Citizenship Badges
Canvas has a course
https://learn.canvas.net/courses/591/pages/course-overview
Existing Symbols
ISO 7000 Graphical Symbols- these are the international standard organisation's (ISO 7000) graphical representations that can be found on machines around the world.
The Noun Project- Icons for everything
This site has a range of free and pay for icons. Check the Creative Commons copyright agreement.
Here is a template for Badge Design
Hosting badges
We will be using Badgr to host our badges. See the HIS Digital Citizenship page HERE.
A grade 10 project to create MYP Design Badges HERE