badge the uk update 2014

Badge The UK

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BTUK Update February 2014Lucy Neale @lucydme#badgetheuk

Open Badges – creating

new skills currency

120 partners

Update Feb14• New Badge Tools• National Badge Library

Launched• Next steps - building

currency & pathways

New Badge Tools

Makewaves is the leading safe social learning platform

Whether posting photos via the App, submitting a video competition entry to the WWF Channel, or live blogging from the Olympics, Makewaves provides a fun, easy to use way to engage learners worldwide.

School Platform Partner Makewaves

New Badge Library

makewav.es/badgelibrary

Badge image designer

www.makebadg.es

New Badge Mission Builder

Build a community around your

badge

Students K-12 display their badges

New Partner Badges

Badges Launched at BETT 14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LumZi0Gps

“Badges have added value to teaching and learning at Roscoe Primary School by motivating and engaging our pupils…it has inspired pupils to try new things in order to be awarded a badge”Headteacher, Roscoe Primary School

“I like badges – they are symbols of something you have done and are proud of.”Pupil

Competition WinnerOnly UK Badge platform

50,000 badges awarded since Jan 2013

23,000 students have earned a badge from over 1000 schools

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Badge The UK

Help us

BTUK Update February 2014Lucy Neale @lucydme#badgetheuk