Calls this week: Higher Ed Tuesday, Community Call Wednesday

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Badge Followers,

As you have likely seen on the events calendar, this week, we have two calls on the docket this week. On Tuesday the Higher Ed Working Group has scheduled Ian O'Byrne this week to talk about badges + blockchains. On Wednesday, Carl Nestor will join us to talk about Badgesoup, a tool to design badge artwork.

Higher Ed Working Group

Tuesday, 22 March at 9am PDT / noon EDT / 4pm UTC:

Featuring Ian O'Byrne from the BadgeChain group
Etherpad: http://etherpad.badgealliance.org/HigherEducationWG2016-March22
For background to this call, have a look at Ian's new blog posting. The emerging blockchain + badges group has formed a community centered around what's being called Badgechain. Read more about it here. For even more reading, check out some of Ian's prior blog postings here and here.

Dial in:
Conference Location: https://www.uberconference.com/badgealliance (Clicking on the link will give you the option to call-in through your computer and/or choose your phone).
Optional dial in number: 207-645-1621 (no PIN required) (an etherpad agenda link will also be available directly from the dial-in)

Community Call

The weekly Community Call will take place Wednesday at noon US Eastern. Find the link to this week’s pad here:

Open Badges Community Call: Wednesday, 9 March at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 4pm GMT (UTC)

Agenda:

Badgesoup: Digital art for badge systems
Carl Nestor from Badgesoup will introduce this product, which is a badge-specific online image editor. There are free and paid options including custom artwork from a designer. From Carl: "I know that on many of your BadgeAlliance webinars, people talk about the difficulties involved with making badge artwork. I built BadgeSoup so that anyone (a single person, a small organization, or a major corporation) would be able to create dynamic badge artwork at a reasonable price. I feel strongly that good badge artwork creates a positive professional first impression.

Reading List:

Badge Alliance Community Plan 2016

See you soon!

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