Hi! On Thrusday, I have been invited to go to Mozilla in London to help with a scheme called Open Badges. This is an online solution for getting recognition for things that you have achieved outside of school.
“Learning today happens everywhere
But it’s often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of school. Mozilla’s Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for any organization or learning community to issue, earn and display badges across the web.”
I am really looking foward to going, and I will post how I get on.
Will.
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About Will D
Hi guys! My name is Will and I am one of 10 Digital Leaders at Arden school. My aim, along with the other 9 pupils is to change improve the technology that both the staff and students use in their lessons to try and help make them more fun, interesting and memorable. Currently, only the very basic tech is used – computers with Microsoft Office etc. We want to change that and start using more PC software, iPad apps, and the like. I will be posting my progress here around once a week and let you know what I am doing. It may get challenging at times, but I am determined to get the job done!
www.arden.solihull.sch.uk
Very interesting and sound very fun. I wish i could go to London
Hello my name is Ben and I live in Vermont. Have you ever been to London and if so, what did you do there? What is your favorite activity to do? Do you have any hobbies?
Cool. I’ve never been to London! Sounds like fun. What does Mozilla do?
Hi! My name is Lauren and I am from Vermont. My dream is to visit London! I thought that your post was very interesting, detailed, and sounded really fun. Why are you going to Mozilla?
Hello! I am going to try and answer all of your comments in one go, so here goes… London is quite a big place and there are lots of fun things to do there. I went on holiday a few years ago, and I went to places like Madame Tussauds (a tourist attraction where there is a lot of celebrity wax models) and the London Dungeons. You never know crd10333 and Lauren – you may get to go one day! Mozilla are a big company that make computer software like Firefox (a web browser), and we went to help them design a new scheme they are doing called Open Badges which is essentially an online reward scheme where you can get recognised for things you have done in both school and the wider community. See http://www.openbadges.org for more details about the scheme, and I will be doing another post very soon about what we did. Will
Hi my name is Emma, I am from USA. That sounds so cool. I would love to go to London. What did you do outside of school to get invited to go?
Hi Emma! It was a cool day out and maybe you will get to come to London one day… I am not quite sure how we got to go – we were invited by our teacher during one of our meetings – it may have been that all UK DLs were invited, but I’m not sure. Will.