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
FEBRUARY 2013
- Badges definition and submission
MARCH - APRIL 2013
- Badges iteration and finalization, with support of Mozilla
MAY 2013
- Testing and Prep
JUNE - AUGUST 2013
- Issuing and Awarding in your summer programs
SEPTEMBER 2013
- Reflections
Badge submission form
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!