Australia eSeries Community Connect Presentation.

1. Community Connect
Discussing Digital Badges
Visual Acknowledgements of Learning
Thursday December 6th 2012
Facilitator: Penny Bentley
@penpln

2. Badges For Lifelong Learning
Your Experiences?

3. WHAT ARE DIGITAL BADGES FOR?

4. Support learning
Validate education
Build reputation
Confirm knowledge acquisition
Academic attainment
Skills acquisition
Display online
Visible to anyone
skills
Competencies
Achievements
Participation
Encourage learning goals
Sequence of badges=path to expertise
Provide information
Visualizations
Acknowledge achievement
Encourage collaboration and teamwork
Forster kinship and mentorship
Encourage persistence
Challenge
Reward
WHAT PEOPLE SAY

5. Digital Badges
Mozilla Open Badges
Backpack Compliant
• Mozilla Webmaker
• BadgeStack Project
• P2PU
• Code School
Alternative Badge
Systems
• Khan Academy
• FourSquare
• Stackoverflow
• Edmodo

6. ECOSYSTEM
meta-data
criteria
evidence
Emerging Pedagogy
Connectivism
Peer based
Self-directed
Blog
Facebook
Twitter
Portfolio

7. INSIDE MY BACKPACK

8. Get your Mozilla Login
Set up Mozilla Persona for secure login to your Backpack
You need an email address and password
https://login.persona.org
Sign up for your Backpack
Head over to Open Badge Backpack and signup with your Mozilla
Persona login
https://beta.openbadges.org/backpack/login
Badges 101 Hackasaurus Navigator Badge
Getting Started with Mozilla Open Badges
Collect 2 badges
Go to Mozilla Open Badges to complete 2 tasks and collect
badges for your Backpack

9. Resources
• SCOPE 2 week course currently running
http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=9010
• Doug Belshaw (Blog)
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/tag/mozilla
• Mozilla Open Badges Community Group
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#%21forum/openb
adges
• Mozilla Wiki
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Main_Page
• Persona, Carla Casilli (blog)
http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/open-badges-lexicon-
earners-and-issuers/
• P2PU
https://p2pu.org/en/groups/the-world-of-open-badges/
• Mozella Webmaker
https://badges.webmaker.org/
• Purdue University Passport (ipad app available)
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/passport/
• Code School
http://www.codeschool.com/