Makewaves (www.makewav.es) is the safe social learning platform for 5-19 year olds. It provides free moderated blogging tools for edcuators worldwide.
Makewaves fully interagtes with Mozilla Open Badges allowing teachers to make and award badges to their students. Students under 13 can earn badges through Makewaves and convert them to open badges when they are 13. Badges are also available from many partner organisations such as Comic Relief and National Literacy Trust.
More updates coming soon
Register for free now at www.makewav.es
2. Makewaves is the
leading safe social
learning platform
Whether posting photos
via the App, submitting a
video competition entry
to the WWF Channel or
live blogging from the
Olympics, Makewaves
provides a fun, easy to
use way to engage
learners worldwide.
5. Makewaves Stealth Badges
community focused rewards for
achieving levels or tasks
Project Badges Partner recognition
for participation in campaigns or
demonstrating specific achievements
Mozilla Open Badges share
achievements across platforms via
Mozilla Backpack
All badges can be made as Open Badges
Badge Types
6. Earn badges from Makewaves, their
teacher or external partners
Convert badges to Open Badges if
they are 13+
Display badges on their profile page
Some students can award badges to
other students (Coming soon)
Students
7. Award badges from a central library
of ready made badges
Create and award their own badges
Share their badges with other schools
or keep them private
See what badges their students have
earned
Teachers
8. Create automatic badges for
competition entries or campaigns
Award badges directly to students
Make badges available for teachers
to award via the library
Create optional Badge Packs for
schools to add on
(as a purchase, as part of a project or after training etc)
Project Partners
13. Access to a members library
of ready made badges
Search and sort by tags
Featured badges from
partners & projects
My Badges lets you view
your private badges
Students receive
notification message and
announcement goes in
news feed so friends can be
inspired
Awarding a Badge
16. Showcase all badges on
your own profile page
Display any Open Badge
alongside Makewaves and
partner badges
Embed the display panel in
your school website or
Wordpress blog
Display Badges
19. Easily design badge images
Customise shapes, colours
and icons
Save as Open Badge
compliant PNG file
Includes Avatar maker
Make Badges Tool
21. Offline tool to help when
planning a badge or badge
pathways
Developed with DigitalMe
as part of Badge The UK
project
www.digitalme.co.uk
Badge Canvas
23. Badge Canvas
Badge Library Launched for all
Open Beta for Badge Making
Makebadges Tool launched
Badge Making launched for all
plus additional tools, mobile etc
Timeline
Now
June
July
September