A3&A4: Assume that your badging initiative will “blow up” and start with a proven ‘open’ platform for issuing badges. Use well defined rubrics, so others may follow.
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A3: Personally awarded badges I’m most proud are the @OregonCSTA SuperQuest badges I’ve been awarding to educators who participate in our 3-day summer PD workshops
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A3: Personally earned badge I’m most proud of is the Badge Wiki (badge.wiki) Barn Raiser Badge, issued to community members who help build Badge Wiki, a knowledge repository for the Open Badges community. #BadgeChat
A2: Metaphors and analogies only get you so far. I think the best way to help new users is to create some accessible onramps to earning and awarding badges #badgechat
Randy Macdonald, Program Manager for Innovation Academy, an after school CS & STEM program for MS & HS students in Oregon also a program manager for the @OregonCSTA PD program for K-12 CS Ed in OR. Just beginning to use digital badges for @OregonCSTA PD. #badgechat
A4: What are some next steps we can take to turn our small badge pilot into something adopted at an organizational level (classroom -> school -> district -> etc.)? #badgechat
Randy Macdonald, Program Manager for Innovation Academy, after school CS & STEM program for MS & HS students in Oregon & program manager for @OregonCSTA PD program for K-12 CS Ed in OR. Just beginning to use digital badges for @OregonCSTA PD. Just lurking today ;-) #badgechat