Author: Amber Curry

Open Educational Resources

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OER Commons is a website that was
This tool can be used
created to form a sense of
by educators to get
community for teachers all over the
some ideas on how to
OER Commons created world. The OER website allows you
teach a certain lesson.
by the Institute for the to have a variety of resources that
What is OER With OER Commons
Study of Knowledge can help you teach. Activities were
Commons? teachers can also
Management created for each grade level for a
collaborate with other
www.OERCommons.org variety of subjects for teachers to be
educators to create the
able to grab from this resource with
most effective lessons
the option to modify the lessons and
and activities.
activities.
This website has
hundreds of tools to
Achieve the Core was created by a choose from for
non-profit organization that wants to teachers teaching K-12.
Achieve the Core
assist teachers into expanding their Achieve the Core is
Created by Student Achieve the Core
learning environment. The website is easy to navigate with a
Achievement Partners. Tutorial
filled with professional development focus on ELA/Literacy
www.achievethecore.org
tools, lesson plans, and ELA literacy and Mathematics. Also
resources. a great tool for
professional
development
EdSITEment is a website that offers
EDSITEment. Created resources to teachers, students, and EDSITEment can be
by the National parents who are looking to used to create lesson
EDSITEment
Endowment for the incorporate humanities education plans and activites for
Resource Video
Humanities. into their learning. This website has both in the classroom
www.edsitement.neh.gov a focus on history and language and at home.
arts.
SharemyLesson is a website that
was created to provide a resource
Share My Lesson. bank for teachers to provide SharemyLesson can be
Created by the American teachers with meaningful lessons How to use used to create lessons,
Federation of Teachers. and activites. This is a continuously SharemyLesson activities, and tests and
www.sharemylesson.com growing community of over 1.9 quizzes.
million members. This software is
free for members.

Fishtank Learning Fishtank Learning is a website that

Fishtank Learning
created by a team of provides free resources for teachers.
provides lessons,
former classroom Fishtank Learning is embedded with What is Fishtank
activities, and
teachers and educational full units providing lessons and Learning
assessments free of
entrepreneurs assessments. Many of the units are
www.fishtanklearning.org charge
multi-day lesson series.

Khan Academy is a personalized

learning software that allows
Khan Academy can be
Khan Academy Created students to work at their own pace.
Beginners Guide to used for extra practice
by Sal Khan. This program was created by experts
Khan Academy that is based on each
www.khanacademy.com with lessons and activities that are
student's abilities.
aligned with standards. This
software can be used for K-12.

Core Knowledge is a non-profit

organization that provides
knowledge-based learning materials
Core Knowledge for teachers and students. Most of Core Knowledge can be
Ways to Use Core
Created by E..D. Hirsch. the material on this website is free used for lesson
Knowledge
www.coreknowledge.org for use. This organization was planning and activities.
created to decrease the learning gap
between american students and
international students

WILD CARD
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 Author: Amber Curry

Students can create

Canva is a graphic design platform
projects through this
that can be used to create digital
Canva Created by software. Teachers can
and printable resources. This
Melanie Perkins, Cliff How to Use Canva create anchor charts,
platform is beginner friendly for all
Obrecht, and Cameron for Beginners assessments,
users. Canva can also be used
Adams www.canva.com presentations, class
through your internet browser or
work activities, and
through the mobile app.
many more!

Mobile Application
Earned Badge Link

Badge Prep Template

Badge Creation

Badge Creation Reflection

f. Describe the overall experience in creating a badge.
Creating the badge was fairly easy to set up because I had an idea for the design.
Choosing a website that would distribute the badge was the most difficult part because I
had to create an account to explore what each site had to offer. Once I created the Badgr
account and began making the badge I realized that they had a small selection of
templates and ideas, I decided to create one on a different website and then import it into
Badgr. Overall, the experience was simple to achieve.

g. Describe how motivated you were in earning a badge.

Once I found the badge that I wanted to complete, I was motivated to finish the badge
because it was interesting to navigate through.

i. What factors impacted your motivation?

Finding which buttons to click to navigate through the task affected my motivation because
at one point, I didn’t know which button to click next. At this point, I thought about finding a
different badge to complete. Once I continued to search, I was able to complete the badge.

h. What were your key “take-aways” (what you have learned) from
the design and development of a digital badge?
My biggest takeaways from this was seeing how easy it was to create the badge so I know
that I could easily implement these into my classroom. I also learned some websites that
could easily store and distribute badges that people can collect.

● What are some application ideas for implementing digital

badges into your educational work context?
 Some ideas for implementing badges would be when my students complete their
spelling tests. As they complete a certain amount of lessons I could distribute digital
badges to each student to collect. I could also allow my students to earn digital
badges when they read a certain number of books in a certain amount of time.

● What are the benefits and challenges associated with

implementing digital badges into your educational work
context?
The benefits of digital badges would be the convenience of distributing them as well
as storing them. Because they are digital my students could collect these badges and
take them with them and see them when they check their emails.

The challenge with digital badges is that the receiver of the badges with Badgr would
have to create an account in order to see and download their badges. Everyone may
not want to create an account which means that they will miss out on the badge
completely.
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