Mozilla has chosen winners for the first phase of this year's badge-themed Digital Media Literacy competition. Background: universities, NASA, the US Education Department, and others are offering grants to projects which use online badges to track achievements, independent of traditional education.
A couple of the first-round winners that I thought stuck out: 'OurPlayground' from University of Chicago - students post hypotheses and photos of ongoing projects on a beautifully designed website http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2847 'Building Citizen Science' with collaborators from the US, Australia, and India - classes win badges for identifying animal and plant species; get help from real scientists; contribute data to environmental research http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2671 A full list is available here: http://hastac.org/blogs/slgrant/2011/12/06/stage-one-winners-list-badges-lifelong-learning-hastacmacarthur-foundation- Regards, Nick Doiron _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep