Welcome back to the Richer Picture blog!

Posted on June 20, 2019 by David Niguidula

Over the next six weeks, we are going to discuss the essential questions of setting up digital badges and portfolios.

We’ll follow the outline of my new book, Demonstrating Student Mastery with Digital Badges and Portfolios. Each week, we’ll talk about a different chapter:

• Chapter 1. Setting the Vision
  • What does mastery look like?
  • What can portfolios tell us about students as learners – and as individuals?
• Chapter 2. Defining Badges
  • What do we want our students to know and be able to do?
• Chapter 3. Creating Portfolio-Worthy Tasks
  • How do students earn the badges?
  • What goes into the portfolio?
  • How do we create portfolio-worthy tasks?
• Chapter 4. Effective Feedback with Schoolwide Rubrics
  • How do we decide what’s “good” or, at least, “good enough”?
• Chapter 5. Tours: Student Presentations of Portfolios
  • How do students present their best work? Who is the audience?
• Chapter 6. Creating a Badge- and Portfolio-Friendly School Culture
  • How do we make sure the portfolios are valued?
  • How do we build on what we already have?
  • What else has to change?

I’ll post a short item here in our blog, and you’ll be able to contribute to the conversation in the comments. (If you are coming to this page after the original study session dates, please feel free to add to the conversation anyway! We’ll keep checking this site over time.)

We hope you’ll share your thoughts about what works for you, what obstacles you might face in your setting, and how you have been able to overcome them. Everyone is welcome!