Right, and to my own introduction, I am thrilled to see SCoPE active again out here in the wild. I will be teaching a couple online graduate courses this Fall, and am rusty at best with online activities. I tend to focus around my own Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and tend to somehow assume others, especially students have them in place (somehow making activities not quite needed).
Nothing like lots to learn real fast!! :-)
Sylvia, thanks for the welcome Prezi; great and interactive opening of this SCoPE seminar!
I find some of these summary thoughts quite helpful to organize my own thinking about badges, Peter. Thanks for organizing and summarizing it here at the close of our time together. While I still cannot claim to be an advocate of badges, I think one of the reasons is because I keep thinking about them in context for me, something I am not interested in whatsoever partly due to lack of oversight. However, I do believe I am a bit more informed regarding the potential of using badges with other audiences and users. Just because badges may not work for me does not mean I cannot consider using them with othes who ma value or otherwise need them.
In this way, it has been a very helpful couple of weeks on this. Thanks.
Will be interesting to read your own debrief of this quick course, both what you learned and what you envision as next steps.
Sorry, the reflective practitioner in me . . .
Mary, you expressed it so well; thanks for helping to move this forward.
Part of what I am interested in (as this topic has me stuck and questioning, while a number of the more recent tasks are asking for things I just cannot contribute) is that this thread started out as a topic of badges for participating in this very SCoPE event, though we are now nearly half finished with it and, far from consensus, have more thoughts about what sorts of badges should even be awarded to whom for what, in part due to our discussions here!
Hmm, I like the reflection on reflection, given how it is leading to a rich discussion related to many of the other tasks, or practices, we are moving onto. In some ways rubrics are so easy and simple, but in other ways they require a certain categorization that may be challenging to implement in the diversity of practice.