I've forked Andrew Hayward's Badge Studio from our Mozilla days. Stripped out the branding, updated the codebase, added a randomise button.
It's a simple browser-based tool for generating badge images in PNG + SVG. Free to use, free to fork!
Full post: blog.dougbelshaw.com/badge-studio-is-back/
#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #Microcredentials #WorkingOpenly #OpenSource
Instead of static badge images, what if we used SVG radar charts as living views over Open Badges v3 / VC data, showing how practice is recognised across contexts and over time?
Featuring Open Recognition ideas and Serge Ravet’s Recognition Practices Occupational Framework.
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/polygonal-badges/
#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalBadges #SkillsRecognition
During various conversations I've had with @dajb around our open credentialing workshop, and @cogdog in relation to open education, there came a little creative idea to remix moments of informal recognition between one another.
That's how the remixable Hat Tip was born. It's purpose built to uplift a human's appreciation for another human. Something I believe is incredibly important.
Why not tip your hat to someone?
remixer.visualthinkery.com/a/hattip
What creates the spark behind an illustration? There’s nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator.
This illustration was created for a series of credentialing workshops with Badge guru Doug Belshaw for the N-TUTORR project.
#OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials
Last month I and my co-workers from @weareopencoop attended the #openepic conference in vienna. unfortuanletly I caught covid and got sick the day I was supposed to give my talk. Which means I now recorded it and everybody not just the conference attendees can enjoy this introduction into something that I like to call "Open Feminist Workplace Recognition" to sound very sophisticated
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUK9JD4BqTE
Today I presented on a topic I've been presenting on for around 11 years now: Open Badges. I must have given 200 presentations on the subject, to audiences that number fewer than 10 to the several hundreds.
Don't tell me that hiring isn't broken
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/11/08/dont-tell-me-that-hiring-isnt-broken/
Despite the great work being done around Open Recognition, the main use case for digital credentials remains helping people get jobs. Which means that I've spent over a decade, on and off, being forced to think about the interface between people wanting to be hired, and those who want to hire those
The introduction to some thoughts on endorsement using Open Badges and Verifiable Credentials within networks of trust.
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/21/microcast-98-endorsement/
Doug Belshaw
Bryan Mathers
Laura Hilliger
Anne Hilliger
DoudouOSM
Thought Shrapnel
Doug Belshaw