{"id":11222,"date":"2014-04-01T05:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:42:09","slug":"super-mentor-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/super-mentor-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Super Mentor Badges to encourage contribution within the Webmaker community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year <a href=\"http:\/\/webmaker.org\">Webmaker<\/a> is using the <a href=\"http:\/\/openbadges.org\">Open Badges Infrastructure<\/a> (OBI) &#8211; and the newly-minted <a href=\"http:\/\/badgekit.org\">BadgeKit<\/a> &#8211; to issue Webmaker badges. The first of these will be a <strong>Super Mentor badge<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<em>(note that the badge won&#8217;t look like the image to the left!)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>The aim with Super Mentor badges is to empower and equip those people teaching the web within the Mozilla community.<\/strong>\u00a0Super Mentors will work with paid contributors (aka staff) to badge Mentors, who in turn will be able to issue Web Literacy badges.<br \/>\nA recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teach.etherpad.mozilla.org\/SuperMentor\">community consultation<\/a>\u00a0suggested that Super Mentors should be required to provide evidence of the skills and expertise listed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webmaker\/Super_Mentors\">this Mozilla wiki page<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe have taken these skills and created the following metadata which would be included a Super Mentor badge. Please note that this is subject to review and only a first pass.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Badge Name<\/h2>\n<p>Super Mentor badge<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>This badge is issued by Mozilla to \u2018Super Mentors\u2019 within the Mozilla community.<br \/>\nSuper Mentors are very active community leaders. They are very knowledgeable and experienced in web literacy, how people learn and have strategies to teach skills to others.<\/p>\n<h2>Criteria<\/h2>\n<p>The earner of this badge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has a solid understanding of several competencies featured on the Web Literacy Map (<a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/literacy\">https:\/\/webmaker.org\/literacy<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>uses Webmaker tools extensively<\/li>\n<li>is familiar with other web literacy and digital making methods and tools<\/li>\n<li>has a solid understanding of key learning methods and concepts<\/li>\n<li>remixes, or creates teaching kits to help teach learners<\/li>\n<li>teaches Mentors how to teach web literacy<\/li>\n<li>organizes Webmaker events and helps others organize as well<\/li>\n<li>contributes to the strategy and core offerings of Webmaker through testing and working in the open<\/li>\n<li>recruits, coaches, and organizes Mentors in their community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Issuer<\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla<\/p>\n<h2>Evidence<\/h2>\n<p><em>(link to Webmaker portfolio)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Date Issued<\/h2>\n<p><em>(date)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Tags<\/h2>\n<p>#supermentor, #mentor, #contribution, #mozilla, #community, #webliteracy, #learning, #education<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We&#8217;d love your feedback on this, so please do leave a comment below or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/communities\/106022863174952221205\">Webmaker Google+ community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Webmaker is using the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) &#8211; and the newly-minted BadgeKit &#8211; to issue Webmaker badges. The first of these will be a Super Mentor badge. (note that the badge won&#8217;t look like the image to &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/super-mentor-badges\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":11223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[53,330903,4521,344156,27996,23085,360599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}