Bring Digital Badges To Your Classroom or School (Updated)

Digital
Badges

Michael Boll | MichaelBoll.me | @autismpodcast

About Me

Tech Coach, Concordia
Shanghai

Father, Parent, Husband

MichaelBoll.me | @autismpodcast

Spare Time

Co-Founder
SHINE Academy

Co-Founder
Innovative PD (IPD)


My Web Presence
• @autismpodcast
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• LinkedIn
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• Podcast.ConcordiaShanghai.org

Ice Breaker

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

Presentation Resources

www.InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges

Understanding Digital Badges

Badges Are Nothing New

!
The humble badge in some form, has been worn for hundreds of years and has
been used as a tool to signify political allegiance or contempt, social injustice,
support or disdain for the monarchy and more recently as a symbol of global
protest over issues such as war, peace, race-relations and regime change.
!
As far back as early mediaeval times, people have shown a fascination for badges.
Wearing badges also expressed a sense of belonging, and during the 19th century
they were used by trade-unionists and politicians to declare their membership or
support of a particular group.
!
The earliest badges we know of are from the 12th century when badges were
made with the engraved faces of St Peter and St Paul. Pilgrims would wear them
as a sign of their devotion and to prove their faith and these badges would have
been the popular promotional gift of the time. Pilgrimages became even more
popular in the 14th century and many gatherings used to take place at the
famous Tabard Inn in Southwark, London for pilgrims on their way to the annual
pilgrimage in Canterbury Cathedral. Badges have been found by the banks of the
Thames near Tabard Inn where it is possible that the pilgrims might have thrown
their badges into the river as a ritual or out of superstition, like throwing a coin
in the Trevi Fountain today to make a wish.
In 1807 William Wilberforce purchased 50,000 medallions to promote the Anti
Slavery cause that he was passionate about. In what was probably one of the
ﬁrst promotional badges made for a political cause, it was the campaign which led
to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 which abolished slavery in most of the

Service Badges

Scouts

Badge of Shame

Letterman Jacket

Mozilla Open Badges Program

Game Changer?

Meta Data For Veriﬁcation

Summary

Podcast.Concordiashanghai.org

Mozilla Podcast Interview

Digital Badges
Create Scalability


Let’s Grab Our First Badge

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


Step Two: Earn
Your First Badge
• Cheat:
openbadges.org/
quickstart/7


Socrative
Time
m.socrative.com/
digitalbadges


Badges As a Motivator

Starting a Badge Program

What To Think
About


Badge Ideas

Badge Currency

Badge Design

Badge Hosting

Showing That Badge

The Risk

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?

Assignment

• Come up with a list of
“whys”

• Share them here:

tinyurl.com/badgefun

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?

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


Assignment

“whats”



Adding a Gaming Element

Gaming Is Fun

Leveling Up

Level 1

100%

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

40%
15%
85%
Standard?

Creates Currency

Level 1

100%

Level 2

85%
Standard

Level 3

Level 4

40%

15%


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

Planner

Locker
Home
work
Percentage

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Filled out Filled out Filled out Filled out
for two
for four
for six
for eight
weeks
weeks
weeks
weeks
Survived Survived Survived Survived
two locker four locker six locker eight locker
checks
checks
checks
checks
Homework Homework Homework Homework
turned in for turned in for turned in for turned in for
two weeks
four weeks
six weeks
eight weeks

100

85

40

15


Assignment

leveled badges



Architect Your Badge
Program

• Use the template

provided to create a plan
to implement a digital
badge rewards program

Why and Whats

Badge Criteria

Resources: InnovativePD.com/digitalbadges

Things to Consider
• Role of Currency
• Intrinsic v. Extrinsic
Motivators

• Who Will Make the
Badges?

• When Will You Reset?
• How Long Should the
Program Run

Please Share

Sample Badge

Teacher

Student

Website

Assignment
• Pick at least three badge
ideas

• Create the badges
• Think about branding
• Tools
• Adobe Illustrator
• Free Badge Design

Websites:
InnovativePD.com/
digitalbadges

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

Upload and Share Your Badges
www.innovativepd.com/badges/

Suggested Badge Specs

Real Money

Monopoly
Money
!


Badge Tech

Mozilla Backpack

Hosting

Displaying

Getting badges into
Mozilla and
keeping them
around

Displaying badges
from Mozilla


Manual
Plugins

Manual
Manual

Displaying Your Badges

Self Host

Badg.us
Outside
Service

Hosting and Issuing


Wordpress

Mozilla

Self Host

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpbadger/

openbadges.me

Create
Badge

Email or badg.us

Award
Badge

Upload to website or
Print

Display
Badge

Classroom Teacher Route

In House Designer

Create
Badge

badg.us
WP Badger
OBI Compliant system

Award
Badge

Upload to website or
WPPlugin: WPBadgeDisplay

Display
Badge

Institutional Route

http://wordpress.org/plugins/
wpbadgedisplay/

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!

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

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

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