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"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."

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

"Erin Knight, leader of an education-badge project run by the Mozilla Foundation that provides a platform for students to display such badges on their Web sites, argues that grades shift students' goals from learning to earning, because the stakes are so high when the result of an entire course is reduced to a single letter."

"This post suggests some initial questions about learning that you might want to ask if you are considering using digital badges."

"As more people begin to earn, implement, and investigate badges, there is a danger that what is unique about badges will become assimilated into established, and often flawed, practices rather than people accommodating the benefit of badges into their own thinking." - Sam Abramovich/HASTAC

"One thing that struck me in the conversation about Badges was the thought that they can operate on three levels."

A thoughtful post which led to an passionate exchange in the comments between Doug & Dave Cormier on the philosophical underpinning of badges

From the EDUCAUSE 7 Things ... series - "a different approach to credentials, one that places the focus on individual students and their learning accomplishments."

"...understanding the different ways people approach badging systems, the different frames people are using, will help us all develop a more comprehensive and informed understanding of our emerging badging ecology"

Thinking behind the framework or ecosystem within which Mozilla Webmaker badges will sit

From Chloe Varelidi's blog - designing constellations for mozbadges

"A common question about Open Badges is 'what is their real value' this is obviously a much broader question than I am qualified to answer* but a key component of creating value in Open Badges is being able to share them with others and generally shout 'Go Me!"."

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

"the Open Badges Issuer Gadget for Google Sites. This gadget wraps the Mozilla Issuer API to allow you to issue badges from a Google Site. To use the gadget is insert into a Google Site and prefix (base url) is set for your Assertion JSON."

"Use Credly to showcase, curate and manage all of the credit you receive. Invite people to Credly to see your growing set of credentials, or share your achievements out to places it matters most to you, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or your own blog or website."

Closing summary from author Cathy: "Obviously they don't in all situations. For over a hundred years grades have represented or summarized a teacher's estimation of the worth of a student as quantified by a series of tests, often of the item-response variety (invented in 1914). Badges are simply another way, a more flexible way, of certifying a range of skills that our machine-age multiple choice mode of testing doesn't fully comprehend but that are crucial to the ways we live, work, and learn."