Learning2gether Episode 244

Download mp3:
https://learning2getherdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/evo-moderators-learning2gether-from-jim-buckinghams-work-on-badges-and-recent-initiatives-vg4nwpupmtm.mp3?

Tue Nov 4 1300 GMT EVO Moderators LEARNING2GETHER from Jim Buckingham’s recent initiatives on badges

Where: Google+ Hangout, https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cqfh8vvjjqieic03lghlk2u4hcs

streamed on

• http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/5965201/Week3
• http://webheadsinaction.org/live
  Archived: http://webheadsinaction.org/evo-moderators-learning2gether-jim-buckinghams-recent-initiatives-badges
• YouTube: http://youtu.be/vG4NwPupmtM

Flipped learning session, participants should

• Watch Learning2gether with Jim Buckingham on Badges – an EVO MultiMOOC 2014 session
  https://learning2gether.net/2014/01/19/learning2gether-with-jim-buckingham-on-badges-an-evo-multimooc-session/
• Or, as a quicker option, read the excellent article by Jim Buckingham here.
  Buckingham, J. (2014). Open Digital Badges for the Uninitiated. TESL-EJ 18, 1 pp.xx. Available: and http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume18/ej69/ej69int/

Jim has provided us with these further resources

• A “strongly recommended” presentation by Allya Radford (Deakins Digital; subsidiary of Deakins U, Australia) who talks about the pressure on Higher Education to change. He diminishes parallels between open badges and the “unbundling” of HE … but much of what he says is what I have heard about the potential for open digital badges in HE.
  • https://echo360.uta.edu/ess/echo/presentation/eab3481b-0f04-4a4d-985c-4859de36403a?ec=true
  • http://www.uta.edu/linklab/pdf/allyn-radford-Futures-DD.pdf
• Jim’s white paper on Managing Open Badges from May 2014:
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/17mEU_5lW5TH5FkEi2e3nuA2nRhiaEkZdPh0-P8cSvyg/edit
• Jim’s white paper on TAEDTECH – Online PD Tutorial Project – Badge Backpack
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ok29ovxx-liZdPHA-vnet4jSIyyBov6qpq-HmqRhXqY/edit
• Examples of how badges can be shared in collections, with anyone, anywhere:
  • Jim’s https://backpack.openbadges.org/share/f9b7282ba0d146ac884747406d0438d5/
  • Maria’s http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.com.es/p/blog-page.html
    • Clicks on badges show their criteria
      • http://www.picbadges.com/badge/3704424/?utm_campaign=viral&utm_medium=short-url&utm_source=twitter
      • https://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/404/
• Etherpad list of resources on badges https://buckinsand.titanpad.com/396
• Earn Badges now: http://iptedtec.org/browse/
• Badges MOOC: New Currency for Professional Credentials –
  https://www.coursesites.com/webapps/Bb-sites-course-creation-BBLEARN/courseHomepage.htmlx?course_id=_264998_1
• https://credly.com/
• and this http://www.slideshare.net/taedtech/digital-badges-tesol-arabia-short-introduction-to-badges-oct-2014

Although this session was set up as a part of Week 3 of EVO moderator training, all are welcome to attend

The session is designed as a flipped learning experience.

Participants in training are supposed to look over what Jim has left online and come to the session prepared to

• hear Jim explain what he has been doing with badges since creating the OERs above
• be prepared to ask questions that will help them implement badges in their own sessions, if they wish

Announcements

• Forums
  • http://taedtech.ning.com/events/evo-moderators-learning2gether-from-jim-buckingham-s-recent-initi
  • https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/evonline2002_webheads/conversations/messages/31538
  • https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/multilit/conversations/messages/2048
• Google+ communities:
  • Webheadsinaction, https://plus.google.com/communities/114550321376936920900
  • Learning2gether, https://plus.google.com/communities/109504049211076695836
  • EdTech Mojo, https://plus.google.com/communities/110130856353339654958
  • MultiMOOC, https://plus.google.com/communities/104523567430842485789
  • Intergrating CALL with Web 2.0 and Social Media, https://plus.google.com/communities/112312474779630822736
  • Teachers for Interactive Language Learning (TILL) https://plus.google.com/communities/106289715383230353120
  • Web 2.0 Teaching and Learning https://plus.google.com/communities/112197420264775820915
• Facebook Groups:
  • Learning2gether, https://www.facebook.com/groups/learning2gether/
  • TAEdTech, https://www.facebook.com/groups/TAEdTech/
  • Multiliteracies, https://www.facebook.com/groups/evomlit/
  • Webheads, https://www.facebook.com/groups/webheadsinaction/
  • Learning with Computers, https://www.facebook.com/groups/6577061586/

EVO perspective on this event here:

• http://evo-training.pbworks.com/w/page/5965201/Week3#TueNov41300GMTEVOModeratorsLEARNING2GETHERfromJimBuckinghamsworkonbadgesandmorerecentinitiativesnbsp
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ca0htf6p7nl69991rn21pave0e0

(if login required for access, don’t worry, information for connecting to the event is all here) 

Earlier this week

Sun Nov 2 LEARNING2GETHER with Quim Sabrià about EdPuzzle

https://learning2gether.net/2014/11/02/learning2gether-with-quim-sabria-about-edpuzzle/

Connected Courses

What’s going on in http://connectedcourses.net/ (check the website and stay tuned here)

Nov 10-23: About co-learning: http://connectedcourses.net/thecourse/about-colearning/

Oct 20 to Dec 15 George Siemens MOOC on Data, Analytics and Learning

https://www.class-central.com/report/george-siemens-edx/

https://www.class-central.com/mooc/2144/edx-link5-10x-data-analytics-and-learning

Fri Oct 24-Dec 21 – Build Your Teaching Business Online: free MOOC from Jason Levine and Sylvia Guinan

http://www.wiziq.com/course/82415-build-your-teaching-business-online

Schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/114_-pZjCooPIGuIQNC7KR7kc2N9s0pYNX80NpqEbwYg/edit

or: http://bit.ly/1zg3EtH

October 24: Opening Ceremony

October 27-November 16: Guest presentations; a sampling:

• Oct 28 – Jason R. Levine on ‘Big Fish, Small Pond: Build Your Niche From Scratch’
  recording and complete information
• Spread Your Wings: Strategies for Recruiting Students
• Nov 4 Jason R. Levine on ‘How To Leverage Your Blogging Presence Online’
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