This presentation includes an explanation, exploration, and discussion of digital badges for use in community building, professional development, and skills/academic achievement. The first part of the presentation will define issuers, badges and criteria, and earners. The second part of the presentation includes a live demonstration and walk-through for creating and issuing a badge using the Cred.ly platform.
Session attendants will earn a badge for their participation and have the opportunity to create their own badges during this part of the session. The third and final part of the presentation will include a panel discussion with representatives from instructional technology, human resources, and others to consider potential uses of digital badges and their overall credibility and desirability.
18. Uploaded a png & baked it
Use the Mozilla “baker” service:
Append your URL to the URL below:
http://backpack.openbadges.org/baker?assertion=http://your-json-url.json
Enter this URL in a browser
Mozilla’s baker service interprets the .JSON file, attaches that data to the .PNG
image designated in the .JSON file, in effect, binding the image and data.
The end result is a new .PNG file for download.
24. Panel Members
John Leasia
Manager, Learning Technology Incubation Group (LTIG);
Library IT
Matthew Snyder (@mattesnyder)
Human Resource Communications Specialist, Human
Resources Strategy and Planning
25. Panel Members
Patricia Anderson (@pfanderson)
Emerging Technologies Informationist, Taubman Health
Sciences Library
Chase Masters (@billchase2edu)
Enabling Technologies Informationist, Taubman Health
Sciences Library
27. References and resources
Mozilla Open Badges: http://openbadges.org/
Mozilla Backpack:
https://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack
Badge Widget Hack (to display badges on a webpage):
http://badgewidgethack.org/
And, of course, they only exist in digital form (for now)
Photo: http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2013/10/27/sew-on-coat-buttons-blinky-shiny-tiny/
As I was preparing for this presentation, a friend played the Badgers, badgers song and ever since, I’ve had it stuck in my head.
You’ve probably been wondering about the title of this presentation, and well, the word “badges” is so close to “badgers” that it just stuck there.
Photo: http://dragonforge.deviantart.com/art/012112-Snake-Badger-Mushroom-280811809
Digital badges are probably most recognizable to gamers; badges have been around for quite a while in that realm
For example, this is an achievement screen from minecraft (a game I’ve never played)
Not being a gamer myself when I began this adventure, I was mostly interested in badge design.
Core member and suggested that we issue badges to our membership for various things
I began to investigate and of course started with OpenBadges.org
Badges associated with Mozilla’s Open Badges online standard enjoy wider credibility
Illustration: openbadges.org
I followed a great tutorial by Billy Meinke for the steps below.
Using OpenBadges Metadata Validator
Finally, you log into your Mozilla Backpack account and upload the new .PNG
To display the badge on a page, I used the Badge Widget Hack to generate the code to display the image on a page.
Everything was great…. Then I realized I’d need to repeat most of these steps for each member of TnT who might want a badge.
Looked at several; plenty of features to consider and needs to be tailored to organizational/process goals
For our purposes with TnT, I was looking for a free, easy-to-use system that would allow for custom badge designs.
Looked closely at Passport; buggy at the time, but has undergone several upgrades and may be more stable.
So to summarize, digital badges are gaining in popularity, but adoption may remain a challenge for at least the foreseeable future.
Thank you to panelists
Slides and resources available online
