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For Yammer | badgeville.com. While Badgeville's APIs empower you to integrate with virtually any site or application, the Integration Catalogue provides a fast path to facilitate connectivity between The Behavior Platform and popular applications in your technology portfolio. In doing so, you can maximize the customer and employee engagement you need to achieve the ROI you require from those critical investments. The Badgeville Integration Catalogue has three offering types that help you embed game, reputation and social mechanics throughout your ecosystem of websites and enterprise applications.

The Integration Catalog offers: Connectors: These install Badgeville within popular enterprise apps, and allow you to build any Engagement Mechanic leveraging the full toolset of The Behavior Platform. Toolkits: Wrapping Badgeville APIs into the common language of your application, you can easily deploy Badgeville Engagement Mechanics across your community site, mobile or enterprise application. Sharples et al/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_July_2012.pdf. Sharples' innovating pedagogy report: notes. » The Badge Bandwagon: Will You Jump on Board? You may have already unlocked your first badge here at Digital Pedagog if you read our last article, Gamification: Epic Win or Epic Fail? Now you have the opportunity to take the next step and examine more closely one aspect of gamification that is receiving noticeable attention these days: learning badges.

The concept of badges is certainly not new to any of us. You surely earned a few badges back in the day if you participated in youth organizations like Eagle Scouts or Girl Scouts. Now badges have found their way back to the mainstream with the Internet’s pervasive influence on our daily lives. Mozilla has launched their Open Badges Project , an open badge ecosystem that aims to “ support skill development and lifelong learning for real results such as jobs and advancement .” And there are countless other badge systems out there being employed by social media sites like Trip Advisor , Huntington Post and Mashable .

But what does all this have to do with our students anyway? ELI7085.pdf (application/pdf Object)