This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This Course will walk you through all the steps needed to create a badge for P2PU. It will provide links to all resources needed, including Open Source software, font files, and initial templates. You will need a bit of creativity and a bit of patience if you haven't done any graphics work before.
Background.
Badges are a lightweight, engaging way to recognize learning. At P2PU, we've pioneered the use of badges as assessment. Check out our published paper on the subject. Our badge model even scaled for a pilot of 500 learners with our Webmaking 101 Challenge. We've won grants for our badge program, to boot.
But how do badges actually work? How can you make one?
Say you’re designing a Challenge at P2PU. Or as a learner you notice a skill that’s not currently captured by P2PU’s suite of badges. Check 'em out:
You’d like to make a badge yourself. OK, sweet.
Overview.
The badge creation process has just a few steps. In this Challenge, we will walk you through them.
1.) Identify Skills: what are you assessing?
2.) Select and Design Assessment: who is awarding badge and how?
3.) Create Graphics: what does the badge look like?
4.) Community Review and Implementation: how does the magic happen?
Your Task.
In the comments section below, introduce yourself. How did you learn about badges? What specifically do you need help with?
I am a librarian at a middle school, and I just read an article about using badges in the library which had a lot of helpful links to get started, the link to p2pu being one. In my state we have book award lists where students read a certain number from the list and then vote for their favorite. The book receiving the most votes wins that award and is recognized as the winner in all K-12 schools for that year. I'd like to create a badge for students who qualify to vote. There are four lists with each one created to appeal to a certain age group. Because I have a wide range of readers, my students have the opportunity to read enough to qualify to vote for more than one list. I'd like to create several badges for this library event. One badge for each list they qualify for, and a special badge if they read every book on a list, and another badge if they read enough from each list to be eligible to vote in all three of the lists I promote. One list is strictly for lower elementary students, so I don't promote that one. I do keep very close track of student progress. Every time they read one of the books, take an online quiz about it, and earn a certain score on the quiz, I give them a sticker which they put on a poster in the library. Once they have read the required number of books, we have a "voting party" and all who are eligible particpate in the party and vote for their favorite book. I'd like to reward them at the end of that with a badge that they would place on their online school profile.
I am working with Badges in the DML competition, and am also working on impleneting badges in classrooms as assessment. We are very excited abou this and I am looking forward to this set of tasks.
I learned about badges from an intern who came to work with us at Cengage Learning. I see great potential with badges. The whitepaper you posted is great. I did not think of the term "Badge Endorsers" as outlined in the web paper, but see this piece (along with everything else) as critical. I'm hoping we will soon live in a world where people have so many badges that endosement is critical.
Hi! I've just finished attending an unconference that focused heavily on digital educational support and flipped classrooms. We talked about digital badges quite a lot (which blends nicely with an old idea I had once had and abandoned -- a Grammar Blackbelt progression), but there was really no practical information on how to create or implement them. I'm pretty sure the person who was leading the discussion was trying to sell us his product, so didn't want to discuss open-source options. Anyway, I did some searching, and wound up here. :)
Hello! I'm an educator and administrator (USA) with experience being responsible for educational programs in corporate, non-profit, and formal educational settings both east and west of the Mississippi. My formal training includes a degree in adult and community education; most recently, I facilitated a completely online graduate course for a small university through the learning management systen (lms) Canvas. I am trying to learn more about digital badges and online learning by participating in P2PU. I'm excited about the possibilities.
I learned about badges when reading an overview in The Chronicle for Higher Education. At this point, I do not have any specific requests for help. I'm sure I will as I get deeper into this experience.
Hi Folks,
I've been following Peter Rawsthorne's blogging about Open Badges, with the intent to eventually introduce such a system in our Professional Learning for Online Developent Plan, at the Centre for School Leadership, Learning and Development, at Charles Darwin University, Darwin Australia. What a mouth full!
I'm also interested in joining with anyone interested in setting up a range of badges for methods, skills, processes related to working on a PhD.. with a view to informally supporting PhD work, and maybe somehow helping to offer a range of evidence for people to take to their various institutions and lobby for assessment and recognition.
Specifically at this stage, I want to understand what I need to do to develop and set up a badging system here at CSLLD? I'm reckoning there are already badges out there for the types of skills we want our people to develop, so maybe it is just a matter of linking with those issuers...
Hi Leigh
These are exactly the kind of questions we've been asking ourselves at P2PU as well. The P2PhD has long been a dream of ours...
It might be useful to have a talk with our Learning Lead, Vanessa (https://p2pu.org/en/vanessa.gennarell/) - she does a lot of thinking about badges and assessment and will probably be able to help you think through whether you need to establish a whole new badging system, or can just sniff out good ones to link to...
thanks rebecca, i made contact and wait reply. i pointed to a google group where a bit more thinking has been fleshed out. that group is called Open Networked PhD. hope some more people will join us there...
Hello, my name is Srivatsa and I've been working on learning more about HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I've been trying to learn Python using various tutorials and keep getting frustrated at the lack of making stuff and figuring it out. So, I found this site and am excited about doing stuff to feel like I'm getting somewhere. This seemed like a good beginning course to understand P2PU. Looking forward to learning!Thanks..
Hi all,
My name is Fred Boss and I'm currently working in Professional Development for teachers in Ireland using ICT: www.ncte.ie
I've been following this whole development around badges now for a while and am currently doing another P2PU course on his subject, which contains some great ðiscussions: https://p2pu.org/en/dashboard/
Looking forward to learning more here too.
Fred.
The NWP Digital Is website has a built in process for asking for and giving feedback to the community of resources creators when a resource is in draft mode. A challenge that we created to support this process is also set to go live later this week (see Build a Digital Is Resource for the World!). I am wondering if badges for publishing, contributing feedback and/or starting or engaging in dialogue around these resources would further support community interaction in this website.
My name is Jason and I am an academic tech coordinator. I am wondering if I can use badges for professional development applications in my school.
I'm Dave Nielsen, and I do web work for a school district. I'm always looking for potentially game-changing tech, and I think badges and open courses fit that perfectly. I also just got a tablet, and I'm interested to see if it works as well as I hope for MOOCs and such.
Hello, my name is Joe Halvarson and I've been working on learning more about HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I've been trying to learn Python using various tutorials and keep getting frustrated at the lack of making stuff and figuring it out. So, I found this site and am excited about doing stuff to feel like I'm getting somewhere. This seemed like a good beginning course to understand P2PU. Looking forward to learning!
Hi, My name is Ann Carberry and I am a fellow at EdTech Link Baltimore. I work as a School Psychologist in an urban school system and we are starting a Rec to Tech after school program this year. I think we will use badges that students will earn for completing skills in the program. I would like to reward badges for social and technical skills.
Hello!
My name is Jermaine Elliott and I am a 6th Grade Humanities Instructor and Edtech Fellow with the Digital Harbor Foundation in Baltimore, MD. I am interested in integrating badges in my classroom as a means to reinforce digital literacy skills and foster community in my classroom. Also, I would like my students to use their badges in their digital portfolios as well.
All the best,
Jermaine Elliott
Hi! My name is Tamika Peters and I teach at Liberty Elementary School. I learned about badges through some collegues. I need help in understanding effective ways to handout badges.
Hi! I'm Molly, an elementary teacher in Baltimore City who learned about badges through an edtech professional fellowship I'm participating in this summer called EdTech Link. I'm excited to become more familiar with their use, because I see them playing a major part in my classroom as I revamp math instruction.
If you're interested in sharing your knowledge and advice with me, please get in touch with me at
molly@edtechlink.org
@LibertyAdams
Thanks!
Hi! My name is Jenna Shaw and I am a middle school language arts teacher in Baltimore City. I am working on creating badges for my middle school students. As an EdTech fellow with the DIgital Harbor Foundation, we are exploring many ways to intregate technology into the urban classroom, and badges is one way we are doing that! I am exciting to create badges for my students! Some badges I think would be useful would be attendence badges, mentor and citizenship badges, homework badges, and badges that apply to working together and group work.
My name is Andrew Coy, I am the Executive Director of Programming at the Digital Harbor Foundation and am here on P2PU with my EdTech Link Fellows!
My name is Patrick Gavin and my classroom has historically been BORING! With Badge-making and a bunch of other tech-related improvements, I'm hoping to make my classroom a place where students can be motivated to control their own learning experience.
I'm an educator interested in game based learning. I think we can learn a lot from looking at how people become very engaged when the principles of game design are applied to other aspects of our lives. I think P2PU could be a very powerful tool for my classroom.
If anyone is interested in discussing these topics, please don't hesitate to contact me:
@techucation
justin.d.eames@gmail.com
www.MrEames.com
Peter here,
I've been interested in gamification of vocational education for a while (I teach web development part time in Hobart), and keep a set of links up on scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/t/gamification-of-vocational-education
I'm especially interested in generating content from the Australian qualifications information (I run a site that lists it at http://ntisthis.com) and I'm thinking about making some content here on P2PU for my next web development class. Badges look like a great way to engage my students (typically young men just out of high school)
