110121: Digital Badges / DL Assessments

Open Badges communicate skills and achievements by providing a visual representation of your accomplishments packed with verifiable data and evidence.  Open Badges enable you to take your learning with you, wherever you go, building a rich picture of your lifelong learning journey.

The Backpack lets you store the Open Badges you earn, and share them between platforms, anywhere on the web. It gives you complete control over your own achievements by allowing you to organize and display your badges in the places that matter to you.

It's simple to use, just and upload or push the badges you have earned in other platforms into it.  The Backpack is trusted worldwide, with over 1 million badges already stored.

ASSIGNMENT #1: (❗️) Digital Badges / DL Assessments

  1.  Open https://info.badgr.com/ and click Sign Up Free.  Use your Tech Freire
  GMail Address to create an account.  This will create your Digital Backpack

  2.  In another browser window go to
  https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/#take-assessment
  and complete any of the Digital Literacy Assessments you like.  Start with the
  Basic Computing. 

  3.  After completing each DL Assessment, if you score above an 85%, you can enter
  your Tech Freire GMail Address and it will award a digital badge to your online
  backpack on BADGR.com.  

  3a.  You also need to click the PRINT button on the completed assessment and
  save a PDF copy of the results page to your Google Drive.  Create an assessment
  folder in your Google Drive for future assessments and results.  SHARE it with 
  Mr. S (harvey.scribner@techfreire.org) for credit.

  4.  You must successfully complete at least two (2) DL Assessments to receive full
  credit for this assignment.

  5.  When you have at least two (2) badges in your Digital Backpack on
  BADGR.com take a screenshot of the badges and send it to Mr. S for credit at
  harvey.scribner@techfreire.org

Spend time in class working on any of the Digital Literacy Assessments.  After each test, if you pass, you can select to Collect a DIGITAL BADGE.  Follow the instructions below to add the badges to your profile.  Once you have completed as many badges as you can, send an email to Mr. Scribner (hscribner@ccs.us) with a screenshot of your BADGE PAGE (See Below).  

You must complete a minimum of four (4) Digital Literacy Assessments to receive credit for this project.  I will circulate to make sure the badges are on your log in page any time you request a check.  You may continue to retake the assessments as many times as it takes to get a passing score.

https://info.badgr.com/

https://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/#take-assessment

EXTRA CHALLENGE:  Go to the following website and see if you can add the BADGR Explorer Digital Badge to your backpack:  https://explore.badgr.io/ (<--Click this Link to Start)