[p2pu-webcraft] Badges for skills/values in Webcraft (you can earn, assess and issue)

Tue Mar 22 12:30:41 UTC 2011

Hi Erin,
My course is now complete. I wonder if I can be one of these "gurus" as I
want to distribute Accessibility badges to the peers that participated in
our last project.

2011/3/16 Erin Knight <erin.knight21 at gmail.com>

> Hey -
>
> Great question. We have seeded the community with gurus - basically have
> found community experts in Accessibility, Javascript and PHP to assess the
> initial submissions. Then as more people earn the badge, they will also have
> permissions to assess the work and issue the badge.
>
> Hope that answers your question.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:29 AM, B. Maura Townsend <jauncourt at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering how the "expert level" badges will be assessed when nobody
>> has the badges yet?
>>
>> BMT
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Erin Knight <erin.knight21 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Webcrafters - The assessment and badge pilot is still going for the
>>> next couple weeks and you still have a chance to participate:
>>> http://badges.p2pu.org
>>>
>>> *1) Try for a badge*
>>> There are a number of assessments in there including Javascript Basic<http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/1/javascript-basic-badge-challenge> (also
>>> in Spanish<http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/21/reto-de-javascript-basico>!) and
>>> Expert<http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/2/javascript-expert-badge-challenge>,
>>> PHP Basic <http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/3/php-basic-badge-challenge>and
>>> Expert <http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/4/php-expert-badge-challenge>, Accessibility
>>> Foundations<http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/5/accessibility-foundation-badge-challenge>and
>>> Expert<http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/6/accessibility-expert-badge-challenge>and Open
>>> Source Contributor<http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/7/open-source-contributor-badge-challenge>.
>>> If you think you have one or more of these skills, you can submit work for
>>> these assessments, and earn the associated Mozilla-endorsed badge which you
>>> can use to demonstrate your skill set to the Webcraft and P2PU communities,
>>> Mozilla and other key stakeholders like other potential employers.
>>>
>>> *2) Assess existing work*
>>> This is a peer-driven learning community, so assessments are also peer
>>> driven. All of the Basic/Foundation badges are peer assessed - so that means
>>> that you can go in and look at submitted work, review it against the rubric
>>> and vote yes/no and leave feedback for the submitter. Once the submission
>>> received 3 yes votes, the submitter will earn the badge. But it is important
>>> to have an active community of assessors in there so help out where you
>>> can.
>>>
>>> **Note, the Expert-level badges, those are "guru" or "has-the-badge"
>>> assessed, so once you earn the JS Expert badge, for example, you can assess
>>> future submissions for that badge*
>>>
>>> *3) Give badges to peers*
>>> There are a number of badges that you can just give peers directly. These
>>> badges include: Team Player<http://badges.p2pu.org/badges/41/team-player>,
>>> Peer Mentor <http://badges.p2pu.org/badges/40/peer-mentor>, Community
>>> Builder <http://badges.p2pu.org/badges/44/community-builder>, Innovator<http://badges.p2pu.org/badges/42/innovator>and
>>> Communicator <http://badges.p2pu.org/badges/43/communicator>. With the
>>> skill badges, these peer-issued, community badges help create a more
>>> complete picture of each learner, and these skills are often those that
>>> employers are looking for (and currently have little to no way of knowing
>>> about). To give one of these badges to a peer, go to
>>> http://badges.p2pu.org/badges/, click on the appropriate SAPPHIRE badge
>>> and fill out the form with the peer username and a comment explaining why
>>> they deserve the badge.
>>>
>>> **Note: peers must sign into the badge environment at least once with
>>> their P2PU account to show up in the peer badge form, so if you don't see
>>> them in there, send them a quick side note to encourage them to log into the
>>> badge environment so that you can issue them a badge. *
>>>
>>> *4) Suggest and vote on badges you would like to see in the next phase
>>> of the pilot* (in the April SoW courses).
>>>
>>> http://badges.p2pu.org/questions/67/what-assessments-and-badges-would-you-like-to-see-here
>>> Help us plan for the next iteration of badges for School of Webcraft! We
>>> are aiming to have a comprehensive set of assessments and badges within 2011
>>> so it will be helpful to understand the skills, value and qualities that are
>>> important to the webcraft community. Suggest ideas and vote up/down
>>> suggestions.
>>>
>>> *5) Give us feedback*
>>> We are always open and appreciative of feedback and insights. You can use
>>> this mailing list to give us feedback on the assessments and badges.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Erin
>>>
>>> Assessment and Badge Lead, P2PU and Mozilla
>>>
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