Screenshot of Quasi-Con badges created at http://badg.us
Congratulations to Victoria Lungu, Sharona Ginsberg, Shauna Masura, and Kelly Davenport, who have published a post at OpenSource.com. The team created digital badging for Quasi-Con 2013, a student-run unconference held at the University of Michigan School of Information. From the post:
At the University of Michigan School of Information, a group of students has been experimenting with leading unconferences as a site of professional development for librarians, archivists, and other information workers. We call these events Quasi-Cons, short for ‘quasi-conference’, and held our second this winter in Ann Arbor, Michigan, drawing nearly 70 students, alumni, and professionals for a day long mix of participant-driven discussion sessions, lightning talks, and panels.
With an egalitarian spirit, students and practitioners met to take up the current issues in their field. This year, the organizers set out to learn whether digital badging could help us document this on-the-fly informal learning experience.
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For simple, appealing images for the badges, we relied on icons from The Noun Project, a resource that allows free use of artist-created graphics with attribution.
They used the free, open-source platform Badg.us to create their badges, a site that makes badges easy to create and to ‘redeem.’
Congratulations!