A Mozilla Open Badges Workshop @ Irlam and Cadishead College where students will learn about software engineering as part of the super learners week.

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Super Learning Week

2. Overview
Open Badges is a great way to learn about
software engineering.
In this workshop we will be:
Designing Open Badges
Creating the data for our Open Badges
Issuing our Open Badges
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3. The Open Badges Team
Patrick McGee
Software Engineer
Uclan Alumni
MIT Professional Alumni
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4. Software Engineer
Software Engineers create programs that
computers can understand in order to perform a
task to solve a problem.
These computers might be:
Laptops
Mobile Phones
Tablets
Or any device that requires a set of instructions to
solve a problem
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5. Other Types of Engineers
There are other types of engineers that solve problems in
different ways.
There are:
Biomedical Engineers – who solve problems in the medical field.
Creating applications such as diagnostic equipment, therapeutic
devices, pharmaceutical drugs and artificial limbs (prosthetics).
Structural Engineers – who design of buildings, large structures
and other things that rely on the importance of structural
integrity.
............And many more different types engineers!
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6. Engineers Solve Problems
There are various techniques that engineers use to solve a
particular problem.
The best approaches to solving a problem are:
Research – understanding the problem
Manage the problem - breaking the larger problem down
into a more manageable smaller problems that are easier to
solve
Teamwork – working with other engineers to deliver the
solution
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7. So we have a fun problem to solve
today
Today we need to create a Mozilla Open Badge!
In order to solve our problem Research
What is a badge?
What is a Open Badge?
Who is the Mozilla Foundation?
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8. So lets answer the research questions
Lets watch some videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLLq7ybD
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4xDgNbl
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9. How Open badges work
Open Badges work in essence by linking data to an image.
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10. So why are Open Badges cool for learning
software engineering?
Every web page on the internet is a collection of
components that have been arranged in a certain
way or design
These components are:
– Images
– Text
– Video
– Audio
– Objects (flash, java, etc)
– Data
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Mozilla Open Badges also
have these components.
So we can practise
creating software for the
internet quickly and easily
by practising with the
Mozilla Open Badge
system

11. Paper Prototypes
Before we start to write any computer code, we
first need a plan!
Paper Prototypes allows us to experiment and
test our ideas!
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Worksheet link:
PDF: http://1drv.ms/U92QE1
DOC: http://1drv.ms/U92TQg
Timebomb link: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/bomb-countdown/