Virtual Badges and Professional Development


Room: 102
Presenters: Dave Calender and Lisa Maurer, School District of Lancaster
Audience: K-6
Description:

Credly is a free and easy way to give Virtual Badges to professional development participants or reward students who have mastered a skill. The School District of Lancaster's Summer Tech Challenge 2015 provided teachers with an opportunity to participate in self selected/self paced technology professional development. The benefits and challenges of the project will be shared.


PD Before and After.JPG

The Problem:

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Where it Began:

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Our Solution:

The Summer (now the Autumn) Tech Challenge:

http://districtresources.weebly.com/



The Tools:


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Other Badge Creators: Other Places to Host PD:


BadgeOS Schoology


OpenBadges,org



The Results:


What worked: What Did Not Work:
Enthusiasm Communication