Award Badges and Motivate Your Students
This past week we started using Badges with our students. Perhaps you were a scout and remember earning badges for your accomplishments? This reward system has become popular online. There are several sites for creating and rewarding badges. Currently I am teaching a blended class using Schoology . I've written about Schoology before here . The class I am teaching involves teaching the students to write main idea topic sentences and detail sentences, as well as, editing and presenting skills. In Schoology , there is a built in feature to create and award badges. A person can also use the badges already available in Schoology. So, last week I made some badges: Our students are quite motivated to work hard to earn badges. One modification I will make in this course is to allow students to have several chances to earn a badge. Here are a few other sites for creating badges for your students: Credly Class Badges Passport In o...