The reason I have entered into the Webmaking 101 challenge is because I am interested in digital badges projects for my own PD and also how in the future this will effect the students I teach. I have been following the developments of badges but to be honest have not been on the P2PU site for while and at the moment I am excited in the new developments which have happened with this site since I last visited.
The person who first introduced me to badges was Doug Belshaw @dajbelshaw through twitter and Google+ and he is also the reason I have revisited because I read his lastest blog post he actually had some digital badges on his blog and I followed the links with interest.
You can also earn digital badges here
Now about me:
I have been a teacher for the last 17 years and have 2 sons who are big gamers and teach me new tricks of how to use tech in my classroom. Before the Edtech revolution came about I was and still am a big fan of learning2learn skills (Guy Claxton) and very interested in how the brain works.
For the last 2 years I have been on a exciting and fast journey of how to integrate tech into my lessons and tried to help and train colleagues on how to best use these tools. Which is not an easy job as you will know teaching is always the last industry to change and some teachers have a mind set 'that's they way I learnt and that's the way I am going to teach'. I think the most satisfying thing about last year was getting the whole of Year 6 students to start blogging and watching the great comments that students were making about each others work which proved to some teachers that this was a powerful tool.
'In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists' Eric Hoffer
Also here is an excellent link to Doug's blog which tells you how to put your P2PU badges into your Open Badge Backpack with your other badges from Mozilla. After you need your backpack code. Next you can use this link to get the HTML code so you can put them onto your own blog.
New cool website where you can mobile device apps
Good luck any questions make a comment.
