Task Discussion

Chrissi Nerantzi said:

Hi everybody,

I have now completed all the tasks and found them really useful to gain a better understanding of open badges. I captured my reflections at http://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/joint-open-course-on-open-badges/

Feel free to access and comment. Thanks.

Chrissi

ps. Just realised that this is the actual submission. Thank you in advance for reviewing my work. Please leave feedback on my blog. Thank you ;)

pps Not sure if this is what I need to do to submit... just had a look at the submissions and mine doesn' appear there. Could anybody help me? Thank you.

on Sept. 22, 2012, 12:58 p.m.
missrithenay said:

Hi everyone! I did a blog relflection so feel free to check it out:

http://gamifymyclass.blogspot.ca/2012/09/p2pumozilla-open-badges-oh-my.html

on Sept. 14, 2012, 3:18 p.m.

ToddF said:

Great, Miss Rithenay. I encourage you to submit your reflection for review so you can earn the badge for this challenge.

on Sept. 15, 2012, 11:01 p.m. in reply to missrithenay

missrithenay said:

Dumb question, but... how do I do that? :)

on Sept. 16, 2012, 1:06 a.m. in reply to ToddF

ToddF said:

I have a dumber answer -- I don't remember.

Is there a green button on the page for submitting the project?

on Sept. 17, 2012, 12:10 p.m. in reply to missrithenay

ToddF said:

....maybe click the "pending" button on the left sidebar and look for a green button there to submit your project?

on Sept. 17, 2012, 1:23 p.m. in reply to missrithenay

missrithenay said:

Ha! I figured it out. You have to apply for the badge by clicking on the picture, and then it lets you submit your work.

Done!

on Sept. 20, 2012, 2:39 p.m. in reply to ToddF
Christopher Crawford said:

Hi guys, I originally completed this challenge in June, right before there was a badge for it. I just went back and added to my final project and submitted for the badge. Please review if you have a minute. Thank You!

Submission

on Aug. 23, 2012, 11:59 p.m.

ToddF said:

Christopher -- when I view your course, it doesn't say that I can earn your badge. I'm confused.

on Aug. 24, 2012, 8:32 a.m. in reply to Christopher Crawford

Christopher Crawford said:

The badge is still in review in the P2PU community and hasn't been pushed to the course by Dirk yet.

So far, I have gotten positive feedback, the badge will hopefully be up soon on the Curating Content challenge.

on Aug. 24, 2012, 2:52 p.m. in reply to ToddF
ToddF said:

Success! Not only is this my fist badges app, but it's my first app created with the Play Framework and my first app deployed to the cloud using Heroku. Lots of learning occured.

Here is the link to display my groups and badges.

The URI to my Play source code is git@heroku.com:sheltered-plains-3057.git

...and my Google Doc that shows some of my thought process while building this app.

Do I qualify for the badge of honor?

on Aug. 10, 2012, 5:05 p.m.

Amy said:

I just reviewed your submission. Tell me that you are evangelizing open badges for the Gale databases.

on Aug. 14, 2012, 4:15 p.m. in reply to ToddF

ToddF said:

How should we do it, Amy? What badges should we have and how should people earn them?

on Aug. 14, 2012, 6:43 p.m. in reply to Amy

ToddF said:

Hey Amy. I've just been tasked with this as part of my annual performance goal. I would appreciate any feedback on how to do this. I'm thinking of creating a series of challenges such as:

    - Find out how to search our PowerSearch from the library page of your local library. Create a bookmark to allow you to get back to PowerSearch.

    - Find an interesting article from National Geographic

    - Find a peer-reviewed or academic article that relates to a current event. Start with a news feed or blog. Discuss if you think the perspective of the news feed or blog is reasonable or accurate, or if we should doubt the author of the story.

What do you think? Are there better scenarios?

Leah -- I'll move this discussion off this thread at the earliest opportunity. I apologize for taking this tangent.

on Aug. 21, 2012, 4:40 p.m. in reply to Amy

Amy said:

Hmmm... It would require some more thought. Off the top of my head, a database Learner badge for students who view all the training videos in a specific database and a Searcher badge for doing things like a boolean search, using limits, etc.

on Aug. 21, 2012, 5:21 p.m. in reply to ToddF
Stephielayne said:

I have already created a set of badges, which you can see at http://www.slategroup.org/badges. These badges are available to members of SLATE, which is a Blackboard user group. We are working on a second set of badges for the group to use for members of our fall conference. I haven't figured out how to get them to connect to the Mozilla Open Badge Backpack yet (the badge baker always says my json file is a text file), but I'm still working on it!!!

on Aug. 7, 2012, 4:48 p.m.

ToddF said:

Hey Stephielayne -- I used badg.us to cook the badge I created. I just had to fill out a web form, rather than putting the JSON together manually ( http://badg.us/en-US/)

I'm hoping that in the near future there will be so many people issuing badges, that we will have to find a way to verify the authority of the badge issuer. That would be a nice problem to have!

on Aug. 10, 2012, 5:34 p.m. in reply to Stephielayne

Stephielayne said:

ToddF - Thanks for the tip! I will check that out.

on Aug. 10, 2012, 10:12 p.m. in reply to ToddF

ToddF said:

I reviewed your submission. I mistakenly thought I could give you one star for the final project, then bump it to four once you got your graphics cooked into badges. It turn out I gave you the minimum average score of three anyway.

I'm hoping others will give you a shining review once you get your badges cooked. I suggested looking at Amy's project to see what she did.

on Aug. 14, 2012, 10:15 a.m. in reply to Stephielayne

Leah MacVie said:

Thanks Todd- She should be good to go. We have many submissions coming in and I appreciate you stepping in to provide feedback on some of these!

on Sept. 15, 2013, 3:19 p.m. in reply to ToddF
ToddF said:

I'm going to attempt to sandbox my badge issuing on my local machine using the Play Framework. If I have success, then I'll try to deploy to cloudbees so you can take a look.

on Aug. 7, 2012, 12:03 p.m.

Leah MacVie said:

Don't forget to submit it when you are done for the badge!

on Aug. 7, 2012, 2:33 p.m. in reply to ToddF
momof7c said:

The project I am doing is developing a badge issueing platform for my private school. I am then adding students and badges for classes that we have completed in the last 6 months. So far I have set up the profile for the school at www.forallbadges.com. I have added one badge and one student so far. I will add the other 4 students who earned the badge I developed as I get their parents permission. I will also be adding more badges as I have time. Since school begins for us on July 30, i hope to have all this done and the start of this next years badges ready by that point. The badge I have developed is for our underwater robotics team.

on July 14, 2012, 10:41 p.m.

Leah MacVie said:

Ooh good point about asking permission for minors. Would you mind sharing that permission form with us? I think others would find it helpful, too.

on July 20, 2012, 12:25 p.m. in reply to momof7c

ToddF said:

momof7c -- please look at what Amy did to post login credentials of dummy accounts for fake people who earned the badges that you created. If you do this, I'll review your badge submission so you can get the badge.

on Aug. 14, 2012, 10:20 a.m. in reply to momof7c

momof7c said:

To be honest, I don't have the time to mess with this anymore. I have designed the badge - twice -, posted it both times to the group. The second badge can be viewed by anyone at the link I provided earlier. (http://badg.us/en-US/badges/badge/underwater-robotics-scout-level ) If that badge doesn't suffice, just let me know and when this semester ends I will take another look at things,

Currently I an the director of a small private school in its first year, I am teaching core classes full time, I am also teaching an additional 4 classes afternoons/evenings and I have 7 children of my own. I've spent enough time for the present on trying this badges thing out. It may work for our school but I don't have the energy/time to get it up and running at this time.

on Aug. 14, 2012, 11:58 p.m. in reply to ToddF
Liz Renshaw said:

Practical question for someone ...

Having done the challenge how do I actually get the badge? any ideas? thnks

on July 6, 2012, 1:54 a.m.

Leah MacVie said:

It is a great question, actually. I submitted it to P2PU...and I'm still waiting for them to 'install' it in this challenge. I will follow up...

on July 6, 2012, 10:54 p.m. in reply to Liz Renshaw

momof7c said:

It looks like to have to "apply" for the badge by clicking on it, then filling in the required information. You then have to wait until you have at least 3 reviews on your project.

on July 14, 2012, 11:03 p.m. in reply to Liz Renshaw

Leah MacVie said:

Correct, but read my comment for yours. I can't access your page. :(

on July 20, 2012, 12:26 p.m. in reply to momof7c

momof7c said:

I can't figure out how to open the page up for someone to just "view" - I have contacted the developers and hope they will change that feature. So I have recreated the badge (but not the school network or the students!) at http://badg.us/en-US/badges/badge/underwater-robotics-scout-level

on July 20, 2012, 3:26 p.m. in reply to Leah MacVie

Amy said:

Maybe you could create demo account and post the login in your submission. After you've earned your badge, you could delete the demo account.

on July 30, 2012, 5:48 p.m. in reply to momof7c
Liz Renshaw said:

Some interesting final projects which are from some global leaders in open badges. What to do ummm??

Decided to do a reflective post that looks at the potential connection between badges and personalised learning for adults with limited literacy/numeracy/language skills.(LLN). Let's see how I go.....

Back again

Decided to go with some 'blue skying' and think about how badges could be used in Adult Literacy/Numeracy teaching. Experimented with using okmindmap to brainstorm ideas and help to synthesise thinking.

Here's the link so please stop by and add your doodles/ideas/questions... or just have a play and see what you can do with okmindmap. It has open access and all visitors have editting permissions.

http://okmindmap.com/map/MDk4MjFmMzQtMmY5ZS00YTU2LThiMjAtNDk1YjAxNDI4ZjE1

Have tried to give a bit of a taste of the context in NSW Australia for those wanting to improve their literacy skills. Literacy training is part of the vocational education sector.

Soo..... Here's some starter thoughts on using badges for adult learners.

Badges , adult lln learners and personalised learning

View more presentations from lrenshaw01.

on June 25, 2012, 3:54 a.m.

Leah MacVie said:

Liz, don't forget to apply for the new badge!

on July 20, 2012, 12:26 p.m. in reply to Liz Renshaw

ToddF said:

Yikes! Sorry Liz, I was careless on your mindmap and did something bad that I don't know how to undo.

My apologies.

on Aug. 8, 2012, 7:25 p.m. in reply to Liz Renshaw
Peter Rawsthorne said:

The task I wanted to complete as my Final Project is to be able to issue a badge from the course I am developing in wikiversity. I'd like to issue a badge for every module and then once a learner has finished the course they get a meta-badge.

I created the badge taxonomy here; http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MWA/Badges

And each chapter will have a reasonable amount of project work, defined in a chapter criteria, to be issued a chapter badge. The chapter 1 criteria is here; http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MWA/Ch01/criteria

Once a learner has finished the quizzes and projects to be issued a badge the post thier evidence on the chapters evidence page; http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MWA/Ch01/evidence This should trigger the instructors evaluation and the subsequent awarding of a badge.

I wrote a blog post describing all this; http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/2012/06/open-badges-for-wikiversity-course.html

on June 11, 2012, 6:25 p.m.

Leah MacVie said:

Peter- this is amazing! I read through everything and you gave me some really great ideas. I've recently been tapped to come up with a proposal for laying out badges for an entire Ed Tech program. My plan is to start out small in the LMS- basic internal badges. But in the future, Iw ould love to tap some help for exporting the earned badges to the backpack. :)

on June 19, 2012, 10:23 a.m. in reply to Peter Rawsthorne
Christopher Crawford said:

For my final project I made a very short presentation on Open Content Licensing and how Open Content can be used to learn new material and then Open Badges used to assess that knowledge.

on June 4, 2012, 11:19 a.m.

Leah MacVie said:

This is a GREAT compilation of resources, Christopher! It is super applicable to me right now. Luka Carfagna (floating around P2PU space) gave me the idea to persue breaking down content just like this for higher ed so they know how to translate this experience/projects that involve open resources into credits. I appreciate your efforts.

on June 4, 2012, 1:37 p.m. in reply to Christopher Crawford

Christopher Crawford said:

thanks Leah- I know it is just a quick and cursory presentation, but wanted to put down something, and I can possibly return to it one day and expound upon open licensing, fair use, and how Open Content with an Open Badge assessment can change education accessibility.

Thank you for making the Open Badges challenge public, I know it started as your personal learning project for DIY and has evolved into a great course full of resources and tips.

on June 4, 2012, 6:05 p.m. in reply to Leah MacVie
John Martin, aka EdVentures said:
My personal challenge:

Choose a final project you would like to create. Here are some ideas: documentation, ecourse, YouTube video, or a reflection blog post.

I'll be running a number of PD courses this summer and want to get my own teachers thinking about ways to recognize student achievement both in and out of the classroom. I'll use the OpenBadge concept as one means to achieve this.

Promote your final project to your network and celebrate this learning success.

Check! Now you've got me thinking about expanding this to a preso for our NH Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference

Include a link to your project in the discussion area below.

For the moment, my G-Doc is my work space. http://bit.ly/OpenBadgePD
on May 24, 2012, 2:39 p.m.
Leah MacVie said:

Excellent work John! i really think you SHOULD expand it to a presentation --- NO ONE has presented on it at the conferences I've been to in the past year!

The link to the video was only a link to the YouTube homepage- feel free to share the working link.

on May 31, 2012, 4:33 p.m. in reply to John Martin, aka EdVentures

John Martin, aka EdVentures said:

Came back to P2PU to see on new courses and checked back in here. Figured I'd give you an update.

I did present at the NH Christa McAuliffe Tech Conference last December. The content I used can be found on badges.jemartin.com

I also just installed WPBadger on my new professional website and was able to configure it to award my own badges. First up is a badge for participants at my workshop this summer at Podstock entitled GameOn! Video Game Design & Development for Teachers which is based on the curriculum I developed. The badge info can be found here.

on May 28, 2013, 3:49 p.m. in reply to Leah MacVie
opencontent said:

For my final project, I awarded OBI-compliant badges to people who participated in my Winter course, Introduction to Open Education. I will continue to award badges to people who complete the course requirements.

I've promoted the project by blogging, tweeting, and talking about it during conference presentations.

on May 18, 2012, 4:53 p.m.

Leah MacVie said:

David, thanks so much for sharing and congratulations on completing this challenge. The course looks great!

on May 31, 2012, 4:30 p.m. in reply to opencontent
Jonas Backelin said:
1. Choose a final project you would like to create.

Documentation in blog post

Mission statement in YouTube video

2. Promote your final project to your network and celebrate this learning success!

Have been promoting the project in eduMOOC, Change11, CCK12 and DS106

3. Include a link to your project in the discussion area below.

Here is the link to the challenge 'Certified Networked Teacher' (#CNT12)
on May 7, 2012, 3:44 p.m.
Leah MacVie said:

Jonas,

Really great work! The YouTube video is really stellar! A nice guerilla marketing idea! Your challenge looks amazing- and I love the badge design for it. Great work and congratulations on finishing the challenge!

on May 31, 2012, 4:29 p.m. in reply to Jonas Backelin

John Martin, aka EdVentures said:

I agree with Leah, this is great stuff! As I mentioned in a comment on your post, I particularly like the structure of the badge process as I've been working through the development of my own framework. Thank you for sharing your experiences and I look forward to taking your challenge!

on June 4, 2012, 12:10 p.m. in reply to Jonas Backelin