Sylvia Currie

Tess, you're absolutely right! The workshop begins on Monday, 23 September. Someone left the door wide open (ME!). The good news is that means you have all week to tell us what brings you to the workshop and ask any questions. :-)

Hey Theresa, thanks for dropping in! We're still setting things up in this workshop space so it's still a bit messy. I actually didn't mean to leave the door open! :-)

Meanwhile, it's great to see folks arriving early and I love the enthusiasm. Can't wait to get started!

Here are our questions from the text chat during the Dec 11 webinar. 

• But how easily is this recognised by others outside the system? How long will that take?
• Create a Badge glossary ?
• if you were suspicious about Joe's abilities, you'd have to do that (check legitimacy) about his degree piece of paper too, wouldn't you?
• Can we self host the mozilla badge backback?
• Will there be APIs from Open Backpack to e.g. Linked In etc.?
• Can a badge belong in multiple groups?
• Do you know of known sites that have display cases for accreditation?

The text transcripts for this webinar are available in full, (the summary wiki is in progress) but I thought it would be useful to pull out the questions we posed. I'll do the same for the Dec 11 webinar.

• But what do these badges lead to?
• Who will recognise these badges?
• Do badges need to lead to something, or can they identify a person's passion?
• Does anyone else do a 'backpack' idea - ie apart form 'mozilla' ?
• But if badges don't lead to anything, why do I need them?
• Does this promote extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation for learning?
• An authentic representation of learning and abilities?
• Does Khan work with LInkedIn?
• But don't you also want to be able to display badges you earn on your own site?
• Linked In displays credit for skills right now, based on peer feedback...I haven't seen any badges? Anyone else?
• Still thinking about Jenny's question about badges and extrinsic motivation versus intrinsic motivation for learning. Both?
• The extrinsic component is extremely powerful…but should we be promoting that? …why not?
• Hoop jumping can help get them into deeper learning, no? as opposed to only 10% of completing a MOOC.
• I have connected and learned in different ways and have had some deep learning happen "outside" of set activities. …How do you get badges for that? Competency based?
• Would there be a way of using badges as recognition of prior learning without having to redo the work?
• If you could document your learning and demonstrate emergent learning towards a badge...that might work?
• …Maybe use badge to link to eportfolio if you want to share with others?
• But what about students who want to have employers recognize their learning?

We had an issue on the SCoPE site with notifications, so you probably got the notice about the field trip after it was over! :-/  It was a good discussion! The recording and text transcript (with all the great questions) can be found on the CP2 wiki: http://cpsquare.org/wiki/SCOPE_November_6_2012