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sabato 24 novembre 2018

Professional Development and Badges

This year I could do some Moocs online where they only  gave me badges after I had  submitted my tasks.

They have been run by a  Spanish Platform and after we did the course we were given the possibility of achieving badges.

Here are the three badges which I have been given: they can be shared online and on social networks and they can be downloaded too.

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embed_badgeHere is my badge online which I have just finished for Learning about comics in November 2018





The other badge is for attending a course about BYOD  in November 2018




Finally the greatest Mooc with Shelly Terrell: I did it  in the first months of this year

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These badges are part of my online portfolio and they are focussed on the competences I have achieved: they can be shared online and provide details about the  course I have done.
What is missing is the number of hours, in fact in most Moocs  we are given  a certificate of attendance with the number of hours for the course and often we can have badges.



Why do we use badges in education?


In many cases  badges have been given to provide a sense of  accomplishment in education, like in games  where  learners have reached some  steps and they are developing:

http://www.edudemic.com/guides/the-teachers-guide-to-badges-in-education/


More and more  we are given  badges for sharing our  CPD and online learning. I am only wondering about the many websites which now have a repository of  badges which we have achieved.

My online life is full of certificates and badges and  I need to find a place where to keep all of them.

 I  will therefore have to start learning how to connect these experiences and present them in the best way.
I will create a repository with all the main links and add the new badges and certicates of my professional development. It would be nice to have all the platforms working together and being connected.


sabato 17 novembre 2018

Creating comics

I am doing a short course/ Mooc online about   Creating Comics.
It is run by a Spanish institution and it is providing some help and useful ideas.


We have been given information about  some theories and sources online. We have  also reflected online.

Made with Padlet


Here are the main resources we have used and read about:

http://www.edudemic.com/guide-digital-storytelling/


https://www.scienceinschool.org/2010/issue14/web

https://grammarmancomic.com/comics/

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/%C3%B6zge-karao%C4%9Flu/digital-storytelling

http://www.freeeslmaterials.com/comics.html


In the final   link we found a lot of nice tools which are used to create cartoons and  to tell stories in many different languages and also when dealing with different topics. They need to be checked: some are not available anymore.


I chose to use a simple tool free online:

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html


I created my first comic in English in just a few minutes: the quality of the images is not excellent but I like the idea of having my  learners who are  working online and can create a comic without having an account.
Here is  just  an example, you can have 6 images  for your  narration and you can add bubbles and choose simple characters but it  is free. You do not need to be  a master of   new technologies.

I am going to assess some works shared online and I will have my final badge. I cannot but say that we should all be offered such interesting courses online. We can learn by doing!



Here is my badge:link to the details of  the course

http://insignias.intef.es/assertion/a5537558e5ad2e1192bde20024446c62efbcb6c2