 Time now to talk about the tech of putting these badges together This can be I you know, I really don't think it's that difficult But I'm a little bit nerdy But if you find this stuff stressful or difficult then make sure you hook up with a technology coach or somebody of that sort At your school or your organization or wherever and get them to help you It's pretty cool or feel free to contact me if you need some help. Here we go You know the first thing you need is a badge idea like what are you going to use a badge for if you're a classroom teacher You can probably think up lots of ways that you want to give recognition for your teachers If you're a technology coach like myself, then you can come up with some ideas But you're really going to need to find ideas or to encourage people to create ideas on their own because they're Just such a variety Here's some of the examples that you can see that my school uses and you know The PE department great place to award badges totally makes sense to have the PE department do it They're familiar with that. I've got the grade 8 team working on it The grade 5 teams working on it and other organizations and other groups as well These are just three that I happened to list here All right, then you need to actually have a badge and here you can see here are some sample badges Nothing too super hardcore. This is for a professional development Program that we have here at Concordia where people can get badges for finishing courses and for doing courses and from being a member of a Various Harry Potter groups. Yeah, I know it sounds a little weird But seriously it works pretty well and so these are what some badges can look like But you need a badge designer now We have a teacher here at Concordia that will design badges for us but you might want to find a student that can do it especially older ones that can be pretty nifty if That's not available or you just want to get rolling in yourself and just get it going and just get round one up and running You can always use open badges.me. It's a free service and it's easy to create badges there. Great site. Check it out Then you have options Once you've made the badge you've decided what the badges you've made the badge and it's going to be time to host the badge and this is the group that Sends out or holds the badge in place that you upload the badge to and sends it out to the award recipient You actually do the sending but they you link it to the batch that was in this group now You can do it yourself. You can have yourself host it That's what we do at Concordia and that's a little more technical You're going to need a technology resources. You're gonna need server space You're gonna need a WordPress space things like that to get it done if you have that going on great But look if you're just a classroom teacher and you want to just get started with this And you don't want all this back-end tech stuff. Just go to badge.usbadg.us They'll hold the badges for you and make it really easy to award the badges great service. Totally free All right, if you are doing the badging yourself yourself. Hope see it. I recommend this particular Plug-in this will allow you to issue badges. It's called WP Badger It's been around for a little while and it's really the only WordPress plug-in that I know of that works Independently of any other group. So if you just click on this link, it'll take you off there And you can see WP Badger and you can download that and install it if you know it No problem. Oh, let me get back to the keynote here There we go Here's the Mozilla backpack and so Everybody will need to create an account with Mozilla in order to get up and rolling that's just open Badges.org and you'll need to have every student or individual receiving a backpack Excuse me an award to create their backpack so they can put it in their backpack. So make sure you check that out Badge display there's lots of options. You can display it in a WordPress using the plugins that I mentioned You can have people displayed on their Facebook LinkedIn or on their Twitter account now right now that you could easy to have it automated So it shows up on a student's or a recipient's WordPress page using a plug-in Still have to do it manually with Facebook at LinkedIn and Twitter Now Mozilla says and they've been saying this for a little while that they're having high level talks Whatever that means with some of these organizations so that if you are awarded a badge in your digital backpack and You put it in you can at that point as a learner as an award recipient decide Hey look I want to put this on Facebook and it will automatically go out to your Facebook and hang out there or Perhaps your LinkedIn which might be the most appropriate place if you're a little bit older that will be coming soon I hope we'll see I can imagine that these services Would want to integrate with this with this backpack concept This is another WordPress plugin called WP batch display. It's made by the same guy Who made the other plug and I just referred to and you can check that out if you want the links down there at the bottom This will allow you to have your students in WordPress automatically display badges So they are awarded a badge. They say yes I want to display this publicly and think it shows up on their WordPress website. It's great totally easy Totally simple automates the whole process Here's what we do here at Concordia. This is our process and how we go through it again We are issuing our own badges and hosting our own badges Here we go step one is there's a location on our website for teachers to fill out a request for a badge Now I don't get involved in what an appropriate badges what an appropriate page isn't I might get involved with encouraging people I mean I do to do badges and providing suggestions on badges, but I'll curate them. That's not my role That's their role. My role is to help out and facilitate a process that makes it easy for them We always want to reduce friction and make things as easy as possible for teachers We want to lower hurdles as much as possible for teachers the more difficult you make it the less likely it's going to happen So anyways, they fill out this request form great then we get an email and Then the tech department goes hmm. Do we have this badge already? Perhaps the teachers already created this badge Let's say it's for getting 100 sit-ups and under a minute or something and they now have student number 45 Who wants that badge? No problem if we don't have the badge yet then it's time to create the badge again We have an individual at our school that likes doing badges that's cool because I'm terrible at badges and he makes them for us And then we rock and roll you could go back and make it yourself Or you can use open badges dot me to automate that process a little bit So I have to manually do it, but at least they do the artwork for you Then an email is kicked out to the students and it looks something like this And this is done through the WP Badger plug-in that we use and you can customize what this email looks like This is hey, congratulations. You have an email click on this link here And you'll be all set and rock and roll in if you're doing this for the first time I created a tutorial on the website and it shows how to set it up step by step and that's what students can do Seventh and eighth grade students can do it independently pretty much fifth and sixth grade students They usually will need help high school kids can do it on their own teachers teachers always need help So seventh grade and above they're fine teachers. Did I just say this? Yeah, they always need help From there, this is what the backpack looks like the student accepts the badge and places it in the Mozilla backpack And you can see over here on the left they create collections and they can drag Oops, I should let me click back here They can drag a badge over into this collection area and at that point They choose whether to make the badge public or not if they make the badges public then it's going to show up on their website And you'll see that here in the next slide. So for example, this student here was issued the will foundation badge They just said yeah, I accepted it all was good and wow right away. It shows up on their website They don't have to do anymore They do have to set up the backpack like we talked about in the beginning But that's about it once they've got that backpack up and rolling then they choose to this they decide to accept or deny the badge most kids accept it They decide whether to put it into the collection. That's in a public space all kids do that now But ten years from now you may want to pick and choose which badges you want to show publicly and Mozilla's backpack makes that pop happen makes that possible Then you get an email from a student sometimes says hey, hey, I figured it out. This is awesome This is from a sixth grader and she was able to do it on her own just following the tutorial I didn't have to help her individually. It's pretty cool to see a kid do it on their own without additional help Probably a pretty sharp kid though Here's some resources you can use for tech we're doing it at the learning 2.0, which is called the learning 2013 conference here in Singapore if you were to click on this link You can go up to here and you'll see something about digital badges and setting it up You can also go to badges dr. Concordia Shanghai or g and it shows our process for awarding badges displaying badges And we show off some of the people that are using badges as well It's a great resource. It's got lots of step-by-step tutorials for how to log in how to create backpacks, etc Please feel free to use it. It's totally available totally free totally there. Have a good time with it Next up we're gonna talk about