Jeffrey Keefer

Sylvia, these are the challenges of using rubrics--they need to be so specific that people cannot argue out of them, but general enough to include elements that were not previously considered.

Interesting about listener or watcher, perhaps it is a basic level of one who engage in active reflection.

Anything but lurker, a term that just has a "dirty old man in a raincoat" feel to it. One who reads and thinks is active and does reflect on it, even if they do not engage anybody else.

I have always loved and respected SUNY ESC, and nice to see a fellow New Yorker here!

Thanks for the warm and kind welcome, Peter.

It seems by your response, at least until you do talk more about this later, that the power or benefit in badges are at the individual level, and not the organizational level. Worth some thought, that is . . .

Looking forward to te next 2 weeks!

I am wondering if there is much (any? lots?) of research in the area of digital badges yet. It seems to me that short of somebody making money from them, that some formal research is one of the clearer ways of demonstrating something is more than just a passing fad. 

Perhaps it is already going on, such as using CoP, networked learning, or actor-network theory as a frame for considering it?