#badges

SCOUTING MERIT BADGES FOR COOL SHIT LIKE PRANK-CALLS, GRAVE-ROBBING AND ARSON!

But what if a badge were just a Web page, formatted in a consistent way that made it easy for machines to read? What if issuing a badge was as easy as filling out a form, copying out a resulting HTML snippet and pasting it into your blog or website?

But what if a badge were just a Web page, formatted in a consistent way that made it easy for machines to read? What if issuing a badge was as easy as filling out a form, copying out a resulting HTML snippet and pasting it into your blog or website?

BadgeOS™ is a powerful free plugin to WordPress that lets you easily create achievements and issue sharable badges as your users succeed.

BadgeOS™ is a powerful free plugin to WordPress that lets you easily create achievements and issue sharable badges as your users succeed.

It is, after all, the time of badges and achievements, and everywhere you look you see people displaying them loud and proud. Codebits now has badges too, and many surprises can be expected.

Les Orchard, Anya Shyrokova and I decided to implement Mozilla Open Badges, using Les's site http://badge.us, at the Ann Arbor mini Maker Faire. This is the full report on that experiment:

Les Orchard, Anya Shyrokova and I decided to implement Mozilla Open Badges, using Les's site http://badge.us, at the Ann Arbor mini Maker Faire. This is the full report on that experiment:

The Graph API for achievements allows game developers to publish user achievements in their game to provide more meaningful and relevant stories.

The Graph API for achievements allows game developers to publish user achievements in their game to provide more meaningful and relevant stories.

Cheevos for Firefox is an addon for Firefox that makes learning about different parts of the browser fun, as well as giving you the opportunity to brag to your friends about your pro-level web surfing.

Cheevos for Firefox is an addon for Firefox that makes learning about different parts of the browser fun, as well as giving you the opportunity to brag to your friends about your pro-level web surfing.

Program design: The program hung at an angle, so the names were rotated accordingly to ensure optimal readability. The hole was drilled in the bottom gutter of the booklet so it could be easily flipped through while attached to the lanyard.

Program design: The program hung at an angle, so the names were rotated accordingly to ensure optimal readability. The hole was drilled in the bottom gutter of the booklet so it could be easily flipped through while attached to the lanyard.

Phil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today, her eyes popped out like a Tex Avery wolf. I told her she could have them all, but she has to earn them! I’ll work with her to help her earn the LED patch first.

Phil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today, her eyes popped out like a Tex Avery wolf. I told her she could have them all, but she has to earn them! I’ll work with her to help her earn the LED patch first.

When it comes to achievement badges, I see them falling into three categories: 1) Things I have done once 2) Things I have done once, and could probably do again, but not right now 3) Things I can do right now

“What people are learning in school is often not connected to the world of work,” she said. “Badges can fill that gap. They can be a kind of glue to connect informal and formal learning in and out of school.” If valued, they might also inspire students to accomplish new tasks.

Iron on Patches

Erin Knight and I have been working on a set of communications assets aimed at explaining the value of Mozilla and P2PU’s Open Badges project for a broad audience.

"Another way we’re going to encourage participation is through the concept of badges. Badges are digital icons that will be awarded to members for different levels of contributions, and will be publicly displayed on their profiles for all to see."

"Personally I'm thrilled by the idea and encouraged by its execution so far, and have been poking cautiously at Laconica for the past couple of weeks, hoping to contribute in whatever way I can. Here's a prototype badge, based on Laconica's RSS feeds and

"A Yahoo! Pipes badge allows you to have Pipes generated content on your blog, website or social network."

"In just a moment, we'll be off and running into the wonderful world of single-line-include JavaScript badges."

"These JavaScript and, to a lesser degree, Flash droppings have annoyed me for a long time."

"running through my thoughts on writing cleaner (or improving current) JavaScript badges first."

"the minds behind the Delicious bookmarking service go for the even more obscure Internet culture with their badges badges badges badges BOOKMARKS BOOKMARKS homage. "