Festival2012/Submit/BadgeBingo

• Title of session: Badge Bingo
• Your name and affiliation: CODERY -- Damian Ewens and Kerri Lemoie
• Session format: Learning Design Lab on Fire

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

Badge Bingo is an interactive, fest-long, game that allows MozFest attendees to earn and issue badges in order to further contemplate and explore digital badges. Participants will be able to issue and receive badges across various issuing platforms and earn badges for learning new web skills or for providing feedback on the process. We want badges and associated delivery systems to be intuitive to users. Importantly, we want to learn with the badging community about badge value across stakeholders (issuers, recipients, and community), platforms, and varying contexts.

How do you see that working?

Badge Bingo!! When MozFest participants register to play Badge Bingo they’ll receive a link to a web-based badge bingo card that utilizes the Open Badges Backpack Displayer API. Once the participants have received the badge bingo card they can issue and receive badges through a variety of actions and interactions with other participants. Types of badges may include peer-to-peer badges, Thimble Badges from OpenBadger, workshop badges, and event related badges (Free Beer Badge!). We think it would be great to brainstorm other badge ideas with MozFest organizers and other participants. We are interested in exploring the use of OpenBadger, For All Badges, Badg.us, and Codery in order to further expose people to the digital badging processes as they currently exist. We propose hosting a session on the final day to present prizes (badges as stickers etc.) to Badge Bingo winners and to facilitate a conversation around the implications of the Badge Bingo platform interactions. We would like to pose a variety of questions around the badging experience to facilitate this dialogue.

How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?

The Badge Bingo game is a platform that can accommodate any number of people. The Badge Bingo Workshop is as an inquiry-based discussion using workshop participant’s badge bingo experiences to foster dialogue. Initial whole group discussion will be facilitated using 3-4 questions as prompts including questions or insights from the Badge Bingo participants themselves. If over 15 people, a whole group discussion would break into small groups using prompts and topics suggested from the workshop participants. Breakout groups will identify a facilitator and presenter and use several discussion norms including the following:

• Participants are asked to keep their contributions to under 2 minutes;
• No one should speak twice until everyone who wants to speak has spoken once;

Participants who have not successfully received 5 badges in a row are highly encouraged to continue to play the game during the workshop.

How long within your session before someone else can teach this?

Our goal is to design a game that is quick to learn. Badge Bingo is about learning by doing. We make the road by walking. The teaching moments come during the game amongst participants and afterwards in the conversations about the game experience.

What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

Our MozFest goal for Badge Bingo is to provide a fun, interactive, experience with digital badging tools. Our primary outcome would be a verifiable video recording of Prince Harry shouting “Badge Bingo!!” in his boxers or less. Following that, our outcomes are:

• a greater familiarity with digital badges for more people;
• a continued conversation on badge values in multiple contexts;
• valuable insight into badge delivery mechanics, perceived badge values and (ir)relevance in varying contexts, and peer-to-peer or platform-to-peer value for participants;
• the existence of a tested, draft template for providing interactive badge platforms for future conferences and festivals to spur new insights, innovations and thinking around Open Badges.