Badges of Design Honor!

Congratulations 6th Grade Designers!  By now each of you has carefully and with much creativity created a number of digital vector-based badges designed to help motivate your classmates and certify them in skill and tool use!  I'm am amazed at the designs you've come up with and can't wait to share them with the world!

We'll need to do three things as part of this process...

1. Submit your badge designs
2. Nominate yourself and others for badges
3. Post our badges on our class blogs

Let's get started!

Submitting a Badge Design

Once you have a badge design to share, we'll need to prep our Google Draw Canvas by resizing the extra space so it just covers the space around the edges of our badge.  Then we'll use the Google Draw "Edit" menu to choose "Publish to the Web."  We'll choose the SMALL size for now, click the publish button and then copy the link provided to us.

Next we'll load up the BADGE SUBMISSION FORM to submit our design.  There are a number of questions that will help collect information about your badge including its title, what category it fits in, and how someone would earn it.  Finally, you will paste in a link to your image that you had copied before from Google Drive.

For detailed steps, check out the following Youtube video.

Earning Badges

Once your badge has been submitted and reviewed, it will be posted to our Class Badge Database Google Site.  Here you'll be able to browse through all the current badges, see what the requirements are and find out each badge's Unique Badge Code.

You can quickly and easily find a badge by using the Badge Category and Badge Level drop down filters that will help separate the badges out.  Did  you do any blogging this year?  Check the category drop down for "Blogging" and see if you qualify for any of the badges.  Once you know which badge you would like to earn or feel a classmate deserves, it's time to copy the badge code and head click on the Badge Certification Review Form.

Be sure to provide the information about who is being nominated and what the associated unique badge code is.  Finally, you'll be asked to also share what makes you feel that you have earned the badge requested.  You'll need to either provide a working link to evidence I can see or you'll use the provided space to write out a short narrative explaining your position.

Once you've submitted your form, Mr. Connors will look over your evidence and message you directly back with a link to your badge or some suggestions on what still needs to be done.

Sharing our Badges with the World!

Mr. Connors will send you some hypertext code you can use to insert the badge into your "Badges Page" on your blog.  Be sure to add additional rows to your badge table by writing the code snippet seen here and placing it into the HTML version of your page.

That's all folks!

Good luck with your creation, submission and posting of your earned badges!  Let's see who's going to become the First Epic Badge Master and Collect Them All!