Bring Digital Badges to Your School or Classroom

Michael Boll | MichaelBoll.me | @autismpodcast
Digital
Badges

http://tinyurl.com/dbgooglegroup
Join the Movement!

MichaelBoll.me | @autismpodcastMichael Boll | MichaelBoll.me | @autismpodcastMichael Lambert | @mlambert74
Introductions

Michael Lambert
@mlambert74

Michael Boll
@autismpodcast

Shameless Self-
Promotion
Podcast.ConcordiaShanghai.Org

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Introducing You
• Name
• School
• Job Title
• If someone was to ask
you why you are
attending a
presentation on digital
badges, what would
you tell them?

Housekeeping

MichaelBoll.me | @autismpodcast
Presentation Resources
www.InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges

Neighbor Chat
A. I love and totally understand digital badges
B. I have heard of them and want to learn more
C. What are digital badges?

Today’s Take Aways
• What are digital badges?
• Starting a badge program
• Designing your ﬁrst badges
• Badge tech
• My learnings
• SURVEY!

Understanding Digital Badges

Badges Are Nothing New

Service Badges

Scouts

Badge of Shame

Letterman Jacket

Mozilla Open Badges Program

Game Changer?

Meta Data For Veriﬁcation

Summary

Mozilla Podcast Interview
Podcast.Concordiashanghai.org

Digital Badges
Create Scalability

Talk with your neighbor
Badges have the potential to be really popular

Starting a Badge Program

What To Think
About

Badge Ideas

Badge Currency

Badge Design

Badge Hosting

Displaying The Badge

Let’s Get Started

Badge Ideas
http://tinyurl.com/badgefun

Designing
Your
Program
start with the
why

Badges? Why?

Simon Sinoek

Case Study:
Organization
Increase
Participation in Our
EdTech PD Program
start with the why

Example
Case Study:
Classroom
Increase student
organization
start with the why

Things to Think About
• What behavior(s) are
you try to change?
• What behavior(s) are
you try increase?
• What action are you
trying to create?
• What else?

Homework Assignment
•Come up with a list of
“whys”
•Share them here:
tinyurl.com/badgefun

!
!
Why start a digital badge program?
Talk with your neighbor

What do ya want to
happen?
• What types of speciﬁc
behaviors do you
want to increase or
decrease?
• What types of speciﬁc
actions do you want
to increase or
decrease?

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Case Study:
Organization
• Take more than the minimum
number of classes
• Interact with others online
• Design a course for Concordia

Example
Case Study:
Classroom
• Decrease late
homework
• Use planner
consistently
• Keep locker organized

Your Voice
• M.socrative.com
• Room number: digitalbadges
True or False
!
!
I still ﬁnd badges somewhat confusing

Adding a Gaming Element

Gaming Is Fun

Leveling Up
Level 3 Level 4Level 2Level 1
100% 85%
Standard?
40% 15%

Level 3 Level 4Level 2Level 1
100% 85%
Standard
40% 15%
Creates Currency

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Case Study: Organization
Concordia Community Site

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Criteria
Passed
One
Course
Passed
Two
Courses
Passed
Three
Course
Designed a
Course
Percentage 100 85 40 15

Example Case Study:
Classroom

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Planner
Filled out
for two
weeks
Filled out
for four
weeks
Filled out
for six
weeks
Filled out
for eight
weeks
Locker
Survived
two locker
checks
Survived
four locker
checks
Survived
six locker
checks
Survived
eight locker
checks
Home
work
Homework
turned in for
two weeks
Homework
turned in for
four weeks
Homework
turned in for
six weeks
Homework
turned in for
eight weeks
Percentage 100 85 40 15

Your Voice
• M.socrative.com
Free Response
!
What behaviors could badges create or eliminate?

Sample Badge

Teacher
Student
Website

Sample Badges
http://badg.us/en-US/badges/

Real Money
Monopoly
Money
!

Badge Tech

Mozilla Backpack

Hosting Displaying
Getting badges into
Mozilla and
keeping them
around
Displaying badges
from Mozilla

Displaying Your Badges
Plugins
Manual
Manual
Manual

Hosting and Issuing
Badg.us
Self Host
Outside
Service

Self Host
Wordpress Mozilla

Classroom Teacher Route
Create
Badge
Award
Badge
Display
Badge
openbadges.me
Email or badg.us
Upload to website or
Print

Institutional Route
Create
Badge
Award
Badge
Display
Badge
In House Designer
badg.us
WP Badger
OBI Compliant system
Upload to website or
WPPlugin: WPBadgeDisplay

Your Voice
• M.socrative.com
True or False
!
Hosting and issuing badges is something I can do!

What I Learned

GO MVP!

Lean Startup

Find Early Adopters

Locate a Badge Designer

Get Admin Support

Secure Tech Resources

Start Small and Scale

Start With One Badge

Test the Process

Add More Badges Later

Reduce Friction

Expect Failures

Embrace Resistance

Publicize Adopters

Iterate

Concordia’s Process

Teacher Fills Out Request Form

Tech Department Creates Badge

Badge Awarded To Student

Student Accepts Badge and Places in
Mozilla Backpack

Badge Shows Up On Their Website

Student Is Happy!

Survey
How likely are you to recommend this
workshop to a colleague or friend?
http://tinyurl.com/badgesurvey

Presentation Resources
www.InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges

Stay In Touch!
• @autismpodcast
• Michael@InnovativePD.com
• LinkedIn
• MichaelBoll.me
• Podcast.ConcordiaShanghai.org

Let’s Grab Our First Badge

Step One: Create a
Persona Account
login.persona.org

Step Two: Earn
Your First Badge
•Cheat:
http://
openbadges.org/earn/

Future of Badges

Replace Resume

MOOC Credit

Online Certiﬁcate

Proof Of Skill

Power of Meta Data

■ In June 2013, the Clinton Global Initiative announced a
commitment to help 1 million students and 1 million U.S.
workers access opportunities through badges. Non-profit
organizations, universities, civic organizations,
technology providers, employers, and others are teaming
up to meet this challenge.
■ Blackboard’s recent integration with the Mozilla Open
Badges framework enables educators around the world to
become badge issuers to millions of students who can use
their badge achievements portably in their online
identities and resumes.
■ Mozilla, Blackboard, WCET and Sage Road Solutions are
bringing together academic, governmental, civic, and
corporate thought leaders to contribute to a MOOC,
“Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials,”
that will foster and strengthen emerging badge
ecosystems.

Digital Badge Acceptance

Join The
Movement

Mozilla and Open Source

Bring Digital Badges to Your School or Classroom

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