[IAEP] Winners for Badges in Education contest

[Nicholas Doiron]

Mozilla has chosen winners for the first phase of this year's badge-themed
Digital Media Literacy competition.  Background: universities, NASA, the
US Education Department, and others are offering grants to projects which
use online badges to track achievements, independent of traditional
education.

A couple of the first-round winners that I thought stuck out:

'OurPlayground' from University of Chicago - students post hypotheses and
photos of ongoing projects on a beautifully designed website
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2847

'Building Citizen Science' with collaborators from the US, Australia, and
India - classes win badges for identifying animal and plant species; get
help from real scientists; contribute data to environmental research
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2671

A full list is available here:
http://hastac.org/blogs/slgrant/2011/12/06/stage-one-winners-list-badges-lifelong-learning-hastacmacarthur-foundation-

Regards,
Nick Doiron