 Hi everybody Michael bowl here Today we're going to talk about digital badges how to bring digital badges to your organization Perhaps to your classroom perhaps to the world. It's pretty exciting stuff. Hopefully you'll find this exciting as well Hey, don't worry. I break up the videos here into sections I'll show you those sections in a moment so you can start and stop as you see fit You can skip around as you see fit and you can always repeat as you see fit especially if I talk too fast Here we go a little bit about me. I work at Concordia International School in Shanghai, China I'm an international educator and have been for quite a few years. I'm a technology coach here for the middle school Yeah, go middle school if you ever interested in teaching overseas just shoot me an email I'll give you that information in a moment. I am an American so I hang out in Oregon during the summers and as you can see that's a picture of the happy family a place called Crater Lake And so it makes me a father parent and husband as well as a tech coach Yeah, okay Next up here's how you get in contact with me. You can always follow me at autism podcast Used it. I excuse to currently and still do have a son with autism. So in the past I did a podcast about autism hence the name I can you can contact me by email Michael at innovative PD calm You can always check in with me at LinkedIn My website address is Michael bowl me and by the way, you'll find a bunch of resources there And if you want to listen to a regular podcast that I do with two other people here at Concordia Check us out podcast. Concordia Shanghai that or g Here's the takeaways and each of these below. This is what we're going to This is where I'll break up the videos. So each of these will be separate sections So this will give you the opportunity to skip around as you see fit first section is what is digital badges? Kind of good to explain what the whole thing is a lot of people I find are still unfamiliar with it That's fine because it's pretty new Knowing the tech behind the digital badges how to get all that working the nerdy stuff Bringing badges to your classroom. So if you want to bring it to your individual classroom Totally possible if you have the ability to bring it to an organization such as your school your school building your district Or whatever you want to call it. We'll talk about that. That's what we do here at Concordia International School as a tech coach I don't have a class specifically. So I'm more motivated to bring it to an organization Then we'll talk about the future of badges. It's pretty cool stuff there It gives us a reason to adopt badges in the first place because the future looks awesome If you want to find this particular presentation including a bunch of other links and resources You can do that just head to my website Michael Bowl dot me and as you can see here You just go to presentations and workshops click on one hour plus workshops and then here bring badges to your classroom or school Let's understand these digital badges. Let's figure out what they're all about Here's a bunch of examples right here of digital badges for a organization called the learning 2.0 organization It's here in Asia. It's gonna be hosted in Singapore this year Actually, and these are badges that are awarded to people who participate in that event doing different things Let's introduce open badges. We can thank the Mozilla Foundation really for taking badges to a whole new level Badges recognition and let's say ribbons. They've been awarded for thousands of years We can look back to the Romans and before to see examples of badges and medals that were given to people The point of badges is to encourage positive behavior for a group or society or an organization or whatever you want If you give people public recognition, they will be very happy and they will quite likely repeat that behavior The difference here with the digital badges is that this a badge you award can now be stored for the student or the individual Forever, we'll see long time at least and then it can be displayed on various web presences all over the world pretty nifty It's free and open because it's an open source and the Mozilla Foundation is nonprofit You take your badges with you You can knit your skills together so you can have different organizations award you a badge and they're full of information something called metadata which is a way for See individuals or hiring organizations to do due diligence and to be able to check back and verify that this is a real badge There we go. This infographic totally explains it, right? Here it is right there, and I'll break this infographic down in a moment If you want to hear some more information, you can always go to a podcast I did with Emily Golugowski She works for the open badges group at the Mozilla Foundation, and we talked for about 30 minutes all about badges It's pretty cool. I enjoyed that interview quite a bit You can get to it by clicking on here, and you can get to it from our website podcast. Concordia Shanghai Org, here's welcome to another Concordia EdTech podcast that we'll make you endure all that All right, this is that infographic. We're breaking it down. Here we go. So these are the award The people who can award the badges by the way anybody can award a badge Mozilla just hosts all this stuff They just host the backpack. I have nothing to do with who can award a badge or Proving whether a badge should be awarded or not. That's totally up to you So you could have a chef school or let's say a regular school perhaps where you are Let's see. We're an online teacher Let's say you were just the community and we wanted to encourage people to participate in their volunteer program All these people can award badges when they wore that badge it goes to the learner here Perhaps one of our students and then they because of Mozilla's foundations open badge pack program And put it in a badge backpack cool got the award sitting in the backpack What do I do with that badge now? And here we are from the badge backpack The learner or awardee or person or whatever you want to call them can then display that batch It's cool to be publicly recognized, but it's even cooler to be able to show other people You've been publicly recognized It sets you apart from other individuals and gets you something to strive for and gives those individuals something to strive for From the badge backpack the learner at their choice. They totally decide what they want to display Maybe they want to display stuff from high school now and maybe when they're 20 years older They don't want to display the high school stuff or maybe they do because it's fun to go retro Anyways, they can display it on their website Facebook Twitter. This is WordPress here. They can print it out They want as well and put it up and have it as a I don't know a plaque or something in their room And the idea behind this is then that it will create job opportunities because people will be able to search for badges It'll show you a lifelong learner and unlock new possibilities That's probably where we are right now because this whole digital badge concept is pretty new It's got a long way to go and if you get involved with it, you'll be on the cutting edge That's the kind of person you are right? I hope so All right, here's the whole infographic together again We have people awarding the learner goes to badge backpack. They display it and their life has changed forever Right, right All right, here's the metadata. This is a sample. So for example at Concordia We award students a badge here for something called the will foundation its community service organization And they do 20 plus hours or more service hours than they get this badge Now if I want I can click on their badge wherever they display it from I can click on that and I get this metadata So this is the data behind the badge Which makes it a little bit different and it allows me to verify that badge I could contact Concordia right now and say hey, did Joey really get that 20 plus service hours badge and That person that Concordia would say well, yes, of course he did In the real world a more practical use might be if I claim that I'm like a level 3 Programmer for Ruby on Rails or something like that. I could put the organization Let's say Stanford that issued that badge to me and then you as the employer could verify that and contact them If you want to it doesn't mean people do that It just means there's an opportunity to do that. Generally we take each other for a word All right, this video does a nice job of explaining everything. I just talked about it's put together by a young person It's pretty awesome. Enjoy when we're done with this video. We'll move on to the exciting stuff the tech of badges Learning today happens everywhere at school outside of school at your friends place in online MOOCs at your local art museum The possibilities are endless Yet being recognized for all the projects you're passionate about is Well difficult Transcripts and resumes don't always paint a complete and vibrant picture of all you can do Say that you're learning to speak Italian and That you're also taking an online course to learn how to build a website about your love for Italy on The weekends you teach kids in your neighborhood how to cook traditional Italian food You're busy learning a lot between in-person instruction online videos and mentoring other people What if you could be recognized for all you do What if your passions could be stacked alongside your work and academic achievements? Well, Mozilla's open badges were created to help you do just that and get recognized for all you do online and offline You've probably earned physical or digital badges before Open badges are similar in that they can help you celebrate skills. You've demonstrated But these have much more than just a pretty picture Open badges are information rich, which means they carry loads of valuable data and can be displayed all around the web They include something called metadata Think of metadata as lots of information that can tell you what makes something special like a photo It's metadata could let you know where it was taken and what type of camera was used With open badges metadata contains information that is uniquely tied to you Including the issuer who gave you the badge the criteria you had to meet to get it and the delicious work you submitted You can earn badges from many issuers including educational organizations companies non-for-profits and people with knowledge to share as You take courses and gain knowledge. You can use what is called a backpack an Online dashboard where you can store your badges and create collections You can then choose to display badges You're proud of across your social and professional networks blogs and portfolios Then family friends and even potential employers can check out your work and support you as you pursue new learning opportunities and jobs Thousands of organizations and individuals around the world are already contributing to open badges Come along and join us. Let's celebrate your success together