InfOhio Webinar Series
Badging for Learning in Libraries
Global (January 2013)
Kristin Fontichiaro, Samantha Roslund, Shauna Masura, Victoria Lungu
"Collecting online badges as signs of acquired skills or new learnings is an emerging concept in both formal and informal learning environments. How can moving this practice online -- and creating digital backpacks with digital badges that also demonstrate new skills and abilities -- transform learning? How can the microcredentialing aspect of digital badging help to capture skills that are not reflected on formal academic transcripts? The presenters, a team from the University of Michigan School of Information who badged October's OELMA conference, will share an overview of digital badging, discuss how badging can move beyond extrinsic motivation and into a meaningful representation of skills, and share tips for effective practice."
Listen to the archived webinar here.
Global (January 2013)
Kristin Fontichiaro, Samantha Roslund, Shauna Masura, Victoria Lungu
"Collecting online badges as signs of acquired skills or new learnings is an emerging concept in both formal and informal learning environments. How can moving this practice online -- and creating digital backpacks with digital badges that also demonstrate new skills and abilities -- transform learning? How can the microcredentialing aspect of digital badging help to capture skills that are not reflected on formal academic transcripts? The presenters, a team from the University of Michigan School of Information who badged October's OELMA conference, will share an overview of digital badging, discuss how badging can move beyond extrinsic motivation and into a meaningful representation of skills, and share tips for effective practice."
Listen to the archived webinar here.
Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) Conference
Badging the Conference: Badges for Learning Sandusky, OH (October 2012) Kristin Fontichiaro, Samantha Roslund, Shauna Masura, Victoria Lungu "OELMA is adding digital badges to this year's conference to learn more about what they have to offer professional development and to consider the role that badges can play in school libraries. Collect your badges, show them off to others, and tell us what you think!" Check out our video on badging the conference. |
Library 2.012 Virtual Conference
Fry the Pi: How the $35 Raspberry Pi Changed Our Thinking About Ed Tech and Helped Us Envision a Makerspace
Global (October 2012)
Kristin Fontichiaro, Rachel Goldberg Shauna Masura, Terence O’Neill, & Samantha Roslund
"In March 2012, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) Foundation announced the release of their $25-$35 Linux computer. Created by a group of University of Cambridge professors who worried that incoming computer science students often lacked fluency in coding, the Raspberry Pi is one of a handful of low-cost computing devices that makes coding, experimentation, and prototyping easy. As University of Michigan faculty, graduate students, and alumni, we became intensely curious and increasingly excited about how we could leverage the RasPi -- and other low-cost tools like Squishy Circuits and Arduino microprocessors -- to implement a low-cost, high-challenge, student-driven STEM-based makerspace for middle school students. Our project explores how and what students learn when we bring low-hierarchy, makerspace thinking into the school building, using student-created badging systems to motivate others and signal expertise. We want students to “fry the Pi” -- to tweak, hack, experiment, and explore. At a cost of $35, what do we have to lose? We’ll report on our thinking, planning, and early implementation."
View the archived webinar here!
Global (October 2012)
Kristin Fontichiaro, Rachel Goldberg Shauna Masura, Terence O’Neill, & Samantha Roslund
"In March 2012, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) Foundation announced the release of their $25-$35 Linux computer. Created by a group of University of Cambridge professors who worried that incoming computer science students often lacked fluency in coding, the Raspberry Pi is one of a handful of low-cost computing devices that makes coding, experimentation, and prototyping easy. As University of Michigan faculty, graduate students, and alumni, we became intensely curious and increasingly excited about how we could leverage the RasPi -- and other low-cost tools like Squishy Circuits and Arduino microprocessors -- to implement a low-cost, high-challenge, student-driven STEM-based makerspace for middle school students. Our project explores how and what students learn when we bring low-hierarchy, makerspace thinking into the school building, using student-created badging systems to motivate others and signal expertise. We want students to “fry the Pi” -- to tweak, hack, experiment, and explore. At a cost of $35, what do we have to lose? We’ll report on our thinking, planning, and early implementation."
View the archived webinar here!
4T Virtual Conference
Why We Can’t Wait for Raspberry Pi (the $35 computer, not the dessert)
Kristin Fontichiaro, Shauna Masura, Terence O’Neill, and Samantha Roslund
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (May 2012)
"In March 2012, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) Foundation announced that their $35 computer was on sale. By the end of the day, the initial batch of 10,000 bare-bones but high-powered computers had sold out, sometimes at a rate of 700 per second. Why is everyone so curious about this credit card-sized computer that doesn’t even come encased in plastic? Many pundits are saying that RPi could revolutionize educational technology by putting inexpensive programming back in the hands of kids. While we wait for our orders to arrive later this summer, we’re busily brainstorming how we might use them. We’ll share our RPi ideas … then see if you want to add your name to the waiting list!"
Click here to view slides from the webinar
Kristin Fontichiaro, Shauna Masura, Terence O’Neill, and Samantha Roslund
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (May 2012)
"In March 2012, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) Foundation announced that their $35 computer was on sale. By the end of the day, the initial batch of 10,000 bare-bones but high-powered computers had sold out, sometimes at a rate of 700 per second. Why is everyone so curious about this credit card-sized computer that doesn’t even come encased in plastic? Many pundits are saying that RPi could revolutionize educational technology by putting inexpensive programming back in the hands of kids. While we wait for our orders to arrive later this summer, we’re busily brainstorming how we might use them. We’ll share our RPi ideas … then see if you want to add your name to the waiting list!"
Click here to view slides from the webinar