Badges/chicago

Chicago Summer of Learning Badges Program

Mozilla is advising the city of Chicago and Chicago-based organizations to design and implement badges to capture various forms of learning throughout the summer in order to make their Summer of Learning program awesome.

For the Chicago Summer of Learning, Mozilla is playing the following roles:

• Advising on overall campaign design.
• Supporting the organizations on badge design and implementation.
• Building and hosting the badge-issuing platform.
• Celebrating with the rest of Chicago this summer!

What is Chicago Summer of Learning?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced an ambitious initiative to ensure that youth across the city of Chicago will have access to high-quality learning opportunities over the summer. Beginning in the summer of 2013, private and public summer programs will provide educational experiences to youth across the city, recognize that learning and skill development through digital badges, and then connect youth to opportunities for jobs, internships and credit in the school year.

How will badges in the Summer of Learning work?

This summer, private and public organizations will offer learning programs for youth and issue badges to recognize the learning and skill development that occurs. Youth will earn badges as they participate and complete various programs and learning experiences. These organizational badges will accumulate to city-level badges that will unlock access to special projects and events for youth that span organizations and skill areas, providing exciting and inspiring pathways to continued learning and leveling up. Youth will also have an online profile to track their progress and get recommendations for additional learning options and badges to earn.

Napkin Sketch

Program Workshop

Downloadable here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/2/22/CSOLWorksheet.pdf

Roadmap

In progress roadmap can be found here: https://openbadges.etherpad.mozilla.org/chicago-badges-roadmap

JANUARY 2013

• Badges - Programmatic Design / Recruitment (Erin)
  • Recruit orgs
  • Define categories and top level badges
  • Develop the framework / model for the badge system
    • Agree on highlevel set of badges and 'flow'
    • Decide if we are capping org badges or allowing more flexibility for them to create more badges

• Tech - Requirements (Chris McAvoy)
  • Summer of Learning site:
    • Decide on ownership and objectives
  • OpenBadger:
    • Gather tech requirements
  • Data Integration Implementation
    • Planning / Requirements (Akili, Melissa)

• Communications - Mayor's office working on a
• Partners - for challenges, funding) (Connie)

FEBRUARY 2013

• Badges - Org Specific Badge Build out
  • Feb 5th meeting with the organizations to kick off the badge design
  • Org submissions of their badges are due mid Feb
  • Review of the badges, sorting against the categories
  • Design the games, pathways and artifacts
    • Work with orgs to determine the challenges / artifacts
    • Plug in additional online opportunities for learning (i.e. Mozilla Webmaker, Girl Scouts, etc.)
    • Hire and onramp Chicago-based Badge system designer
    • Finalize the top city-level badges (criteria and design)

• Tech - Wireframing and Initial Development
  • Summer of Learning site:
    • Hire firm / developer to build the site (if needed)
    • Wireframing and initial designs
    • Begin website development
  • OpenBadger:
    • Hire Open Badger developer
    • Break tech requirements into discreet tasks
    • Define development sprint cycle workflow

MARCH 2013

2nd meeting: March 14th, 1pm-5pm CT, Sheraton Connie request: invited to DML conference, too

• Badges - Badge Design and Finalization
  • Finalize the org-specific badges, or the framework to support them on design
  • Finalize the challenges / artifacts
  • Finalize the pathways (how badges will hook together)
  • Badge graphic design
• Tech - Development
  • Summer of Learning site:
    • Website development
      • Several reviews/iteration
  • OpenBadger:
    • Continued development
    • Staging launch (end of month)
    • QA / Testing

APRIL 2013

• Badges - Badge Creation and Build Out
  • Build out badges in OpenBadger
  • Integration of badges into program websites
  • Production of offline badges

• Tech - Staging / production launches
  • Summer of Learning site:
    • Staging launch early in the month
    • Production launch of site end of the month
  • OpenBadger:
    • Continued development
    • Bug fixing / final QA
    • Production Launch (end of month)

MAY 2013

• Badges - QA and testing
  • Delivery of offline badges
  • Testing / QA of badges
  • Planning for end of summer showcase events
  • Communication campaign to youth and parents
    • Pathcrafting in schools?

• Tech
  • Maintenance / Bug fixing

JUNE 2013

• Badges - Launch, first earners
  • LAUNCH, people earning badges

• Tech:
  • Maintenance / Bug fixing

Badge submission form

http://openbadges.org/chicago

Technical FAQ

Can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/chicago/techFAQ

Important Dates

February 18, 2013 – Badge Submissions Due

Badge idea submissions due – please submit your ideas for 1-5 badges* for your program through the form here: http://openbadges.org/chicago Note: If you’d like to have more than 5 badges, let us know at support@openbadges.org and we’ll work with you on the best solution.

March 14, 2013 – Program Meeting

1-5pm CT, Sheraton Towers Hotel, Chicago Please send 1-2 reps from your organization to this meeting to discuss the badges and opportunities for cross-organization connections and projects. Stick around after the meeting for the DML Conference Science Fair (6-8pm), where you’ll see examples of badge systems from other organizations like yours around the country!