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  Brainstorming Badges

  By Reilly Ellis

  My current project is creating community support for a set of badges based on different skills. This week, being the first week, consisted of a lot of set-up and brainstorming. In addition to...

  • May 31, 2012
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  Connecting Gears

  By Reilly Ellis

  After the meeting last week, I started out this week trying to tame the snarl of badges thoughts that were whirling about in my brain. Here is the (simple) story of how badges work. User Jenny...

  • Jun 07, 2012
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  Badges Project Proposal

  By Reilly Ellis

  1. The high level problem: How can we introduce new programming concepts to non-programmers in a fun and motivating way? Learning through play and self-discovery has many advantages. The user can...

  • Jun 14, 2012
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  Badges Proposed Website Design

  By Reilly Ellis

  Proposed Website Design** Legend:Green: remixOrange: goalPurple: beginner (bronze)Blue: intermediate (silver)Yellow: advanced (gold)Alex, a female middle school student (and fictional Looking Glass...

  • Jun 14, 2012
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  Sketches out the Wazoo

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week has been very light on the coding and heavy on the brainstorming. I started out this week by thinking about what programming concepts we would want to have as badges. I worked backwards...

  • Jun 14, 2012
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  Replies to Comments on the Proposal

  By Reilly Ellis

  Here are all of my replies to the comments on my proposal. Kyle: Re: Gears Design vs. Patches Design I went back and forth a lot on this. In the end I decided that having some gears have no cogs...

  • Jun 18, 2012
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  More Wrinkles

  By Reilly Ellis

  After submitting our project proposals at the end of last week, this week was all about listening to the feedback on our proposals and modifying them accordingly.I received helpful, interesting,...

  • Jun 21, 2012
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  Sticking Stickies

  By Reilly Ellis

  After having lots of one-on-one conversations with myself about the badges system, we were able to put them to the test this week. The other REU students, Jordana, Caitlin and I sat down in the...

  • Jun 28, 2012
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  Of mushrooms and gears

  By Reilly Ellis

  After creating the storytelling badges as a whole last week, this week was all about defining the details and drawing designs. I spent some time parsing out what the individual skills would be...

  • Jul 05, 2012
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  Runnin' on Ruby

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week, I dove right back into the fun (and sometimes confusing) waters of the Community. I started this week by designing the badge icons in Inkscape. I think they are quite cute, but I’m...

  • Jul 12, 2012
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