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"Sash is a badge issuing & hosting service that follows the metadata format of the awesome Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure project. Allows developers to stand up their own badging platform and integrate badge creation, issuing and displaying into their own products." on GitHub

"This badge designer makes use of the exciting new features in HTML5 to allow you to combine different visual elements, colours and text to create an attractive Open Badge graphic. You can then use this graphic in your Open Badge issuing systems when creating your rewards."

"This is an experimental service for badges, powered by Open Source." Create, deploy and collect open badges service

The post briefly discusses how to recognise learning achievement by awarding students digital badges. The useful part is the annotated list of five useful technologies, that teachers could use to create their own badges, and they are not limited to a single device type.

Article discussing Badges, their background, examples of use and how you might introduce them in your setting.

Article discussing Badges, their background, examples of use and how you might introduce them in your setting.

".... we still lack a common pedagogical language to chew on. This is where we hope Pedagogy Badges will provide some meat."

Interesting idea?

"WPBadger is a simple WordPress plugin for issuing badges and adding them to a user's Open Badges backpack. "

Resources from Michael Boll's #learning2 workshop on open digital badges

There is something in games based learning that seems to get missed out of much of the discussion. While it's common to think of using game-like approaches or video-games I find much of what is said revolves about how games work in terms of mechanics. Level ups, XP (experience) and badges seem to dominate the gamification dialogue. I wonder how you can gamify the workplace or the classroom without also exploring the more important aspects of why people play - how it feels to be immersed in a story that you feel a part of. Players are given badges and tokens all the time, except these don't provide that intrinsic motivation that people often associate with gamification. For the love of it. How do you get people to play for that reward?

A SaaS hosted service for organizations. Not free because they have consulting fees, I think. May develop a free solution later. Open source badges are cool new buzz topic. Love the colorful web design of this site.

This is the site to watch for open badge concept in life long learning. Will it catch on as a real "community college" accreditation concept?

A slide presentation by Doug Belshaw and Tim Riches where they explain how the Mozilla Open Badges can verify and recognize skills and achievements. These are digital and an individual can be display them on various sites, be they job sites, social networking places, websites etc.

Easiest & quickest way to make badges

Badge Systems for K-12 Students

"Have you got some badges you want to display on your blog or somewhere else online? BadgeWidgetHack to the rescue!"

"Captain Up helps you reward your users with points, badges and levels for exploring your site and sharing it with their friends"

"https://youtu.be/Yg-pXpO1rUY" youtube video

"Current thinking (August 2012) around a web literacies framework by Doug Belshaw, Badges & Skills Lead for the Mozilla Foundation."

"We're working on creating a badge ecosystem for teacher professional development that is self-paced, differentiated and interest driven."