Edge•U Badges

My First Badge

Edge・U is an online badging system that recognizes educators for demonstrated skills and competencies, making achievements visible and encouraging life-long learning.

Screenshot Specialist

Taking a screenshot is simply taking a picture of what is on the screen of your device, either selecting a portion of it or the entire screen. Capturing screenshots is the perfect way to create unique images, save important information or student work, and develop engaging learning materials.

Incognito Anonymous

Incognito mode allows users to browse within Chrome without any of their browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms being saved. When using incognito mode, files that are downloaded and bookmarks that are created will be kept. Note: Some districts may have disabled incognito mode, but it would be available if logged into Chrome on a personal Google account.

Google Drive Sharing Superstar

The sharing permissions inside Google Drive provide a few different ways to share your files with collaborators, students, or even the wider public.

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Google Drive Sharing Superstar

The sharing permissions inside Google Drive provide a few different ways to share your files with collaborators, students, or even the wider public.

My First Badge

Edge・U is an online badging system that recognizes educators for demonstrated skills and competencies, making achievements visible and encouraging life-long learning.

Gmail Genius

Gmail is a core G Suite application that makes email easy, saves you time, and keeps your messages safe. Sending emails with Gmail is intuitive, efficient, and practical. Every Gmail account includes robust security features, organized inboxes, and personalized settings. Gmail can be accessed with a wide variety of internet-ready devices and it's widely viewed as one of the most popular email applications on the planet.

Google Calendar Clever

Google calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service that helps people organize their responsibilities. This free application makes it easy to track all of life's events (work, personal, family, etc) in one place and sync your calendars to multiple devices. Users can easily share calendars, create events and reminders, and send invitations to others.

Chrome Champion

Google Chrome is the most widely used internet browser. Did you know that you can sign into Chrome’s browser separately from individual programs, such as Gmail? Signing into Chrome will allow you to sync your bookmarks, extensions and more across devices, making it a seamless browsing experience.

Google Chromebook Training

Chromebooks are easy-to-use, fast, and secure computers. This makes them a favorite for teachers as it removes the technology hassles, letting you focus on teaching and learning. With Google Chromebook Training, learn how to best take advantage of these devices in your classroom, from basic use and customization to integrating Google tools and services.

Bookmark Brilliance

Bookmarks allow you to save and organize frequently visited websites in Chrome. With Chrome’s bookmark bar, you can organize bookmarks into folders and more to stay organized.

Extension Excellence

Chrome extensions extend the functionality of the web browser. From reading text on a page aloud to saving you money when you’re buying school supplies, Chrome extensions are versatile browser enhancements that are easy to install and use.

Google Drive Guru

Google Drive is a cloud storage and synchronization service. It is also the home for all things Google, including Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Drawings, Sites, Maps and more.

Incognito Anonymous

Google Docs: Level 1

Google Docs is a free online word processor that allows users to create, edit, and share documents with or without an internet connection. This online platform saves documents to connected Google Drive accounts and brings documents to life with easy formatting and styling tools. Plus, you can collaborate in real-time with others on your Google Documents!

Google Forms: Basic

Google Forms is a free online tool that collects and organizes information into spreadsheets and allows users to easily create surveys and quizzes. Users can share their forms with others, add media, and update their form on-the-go. Google Forms combine multiple question-types, real-time results, and auto-grading functionality enabling easy data collection. Google Forms are simple to create and have a variety of applications both in and outside of education.

Google Slides Star

Google Slides is an online presentation tool that allows users to create, edit, collaborate, and present slideshows wherever/whenever. Google Slides allows for real-time collaboration, provides professionally made templates and themes to choose from, and saves your work to the cloud for access anywhere.

Google Classroom Champ

Google Classroom is a learning management system that allows teachers to create, distribute, and grade assignments in a paperless fashion. Google Classroom is free and helps students and teachers communicate, collaborate, organize and manage assignments, go paperless, and much more!

Google Sheets Starter

View, create, edit and collaborate in real time on Spreadsheets using Google Sheets. Spreadsheets are a great way to organize information, track progress on projects, analyze data, calculate information, and so much more.

Google Keep Kudos

Google Keep is a cloud-synced note-taking platform that allows users to quickly capture what's on their mind, set reminders, organize notes, and add voice memos for quick information collection.

Google Drive Sharing Superstar

The sharing permissions inside Google Drive provide a few different ways to share your files with collaborators, students, or even the wider public.

Google Calendar Clever

Gmail Genius

Student Centered Learning

Badges found in this collection will help you better design a student-centered classroom. In addition to including tools for student-centered learning, there are also tools that are great for students to create and showcase their learning. For additional tools beyond what you see in this curated collection, try searching ISTE Standard for Educator 5: Designer, ISTE Standard for Educator 6: Facilitator, ISTE Standard for Student 3: Knowledge Constructor or ISTE Standard for Student 6: Creative Communicator on the Explore Badges page.

HyperDocs Handy

HyperDocs are interactive digital lesson plans that combine links, resources, and activities into one central "document." These aren't just "digital worksheets;" HyperDocs transform the way content is delivered to students, which in turn, facilitates higher order thinking skills and new levels of collaboration. Even though HyperDocs can be created using a variety of tools, the resources and activities inside every HyperDoc should give students opportunities to critically think, connect, and create.

Flip Fanatic

Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience for PreK to PhD educators, learners and families. Empower every voice with Flip. Create a Topic and engage your community...Flip combines an interactive social learning experience to encourage teachers and students to share their thoughts with others and stimulate discussion both in and outside of the classroom.

PearDeck Prodigy

PearDeck is a tool to make your Google Slides more engaging for students, encourage classroom discussions, collect formative assessment data, and get kids actively participating in your lesson.

EdPuzzle Expert

EdPuzzle is a free assessment-centered tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive online videos by embedding either open-ended or multiple-choice questions, voice over comments, or notes on a video. Edpuzzle videos can be made with videos from a number of websites, including YouTube, TED, Vimeo, and National Geographic.

EduBlogs Excellence

EduBlogs is a free blogging platform, designed for educators to provide a managed blogging platform for students. EduBlogs is completely cloud-based, so it requires no software to be installed. EduBlogs is built on the popular and powerful WordPress blogging platform.

Google Lit Trips

Google Lit Trips incorporates Google Earth technology to engage students in literature. According to their website, Google Lit Trips is "the use of Google Earth to create immersive 3D literary field trips where students virtually become traveling companions with characters in stories commonly taught in grades kindergarten through high school."

Book Creator Brilliant

Book Creator allows teachers to create powerful eBooks that include text, pictures, drawings, video, and audio - for free. Book Creator online allows teachers to maintain a 40-book library, which students can submit their own books to. The free iPad app permits a teacher to maintain one book for editing. The paid iPad app allows storing unlimited books for editing.

Nearpod Prodigy

Nearpod is a platform used to engage learners in the classroom. Teachers can create interactive lessons that can be used in the 1:1 classroom.

Incredibox Creator

Incredibox is an easy to use website that makes user creators of their own music! With the help of seven beat boxers, users can build their own tunes with a variety of sounds options to explore rhythm and melody. After they create the perfect mix, their sound can be recorded and shared with others.

Take The Google Out of Your Assessment

This badge will discuss practical ways you can alter assessments to confidently assess student learning...not the results of a Google search.

Grading Strategies That Make Sense

This badge was developed based on our “Move the Needle: Grading Strategies That Make Sense” webinar. We'll review the benefits of grading strategies like standards-based grading, peer-feedback, mastery, badging options, and more and discuss how you can implement similar strategies with your students!

PearDeck Prodigy

PearDeck is a tool to make your Google Slides more engaging for students, encourage classroom discussions, collect formative assessment data, and get kids actively participating in your lesson.

Google Forms: Quizzes

Google Forms is a free online tool that collects and organizes information into spreadsheets and allows users to easily create surveys and quizzes. The quizzes feature in Google Forms can grade form submissions, send emails with scores and feedback, and automatically generate charts to reflect the data. Google Forms combine multiple question-types, real-time results, and auto-grading functionality enabling easy data collection for a seamless assessment experience.

Mote Magic

Mote is a Chrome extension that allows teachers to leave audio comments on the majority of Google applications. Students are able to then listen to the audio comment the same as reading a written one by teachers.

Mote Certified Educator

Mote Certified Educator is an achievement to recognize educators who use Mote to advance student learning. Mote is a tool that allows educators to create voice comments through a Google Chrome extension. Mote integrates seamlessly with Google tools such as; Forms, Slides, Docs, and GMail. Mote can greatly improve the reach of teacher-to-student feedback, student-to-student feedback, and accessibility to instructions and digital learning tasks. Prior to this quest, make sure you have completed the Mote Magic badge to fully grasp this tool's capabilities! Earning the Mote Certified Educator certification will not only get you one step closer to the highest level of Mote certification, Mote Ambassador, it will also give you access to Mote's exclusive webinars, competitions, and community activities!

Kahoot Expert

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms! It can be played by the whole class in real-time or by individual students on their time as students answer multiple-choice questions that are projected on the screen to individuals or teams of students. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet, or computer.

Quizizz Quest

Quizizz is a tech tool used for student-paced participation in quizzes and interactive lessons. Both quizzes and lessons can be completed in “live” or in “homework” mode. Students can use their smartphone, tablet or computer to participate and receive immediate feedback.

Socrative Superstar

Socrative is an online assessment platform which allows teachers to create, share and launch quizzes that their students can complete using their web platform or iOS app.

Quizlet: Basic

Quizlet is a digital learning tool that creates sets of study materials, converting the information into useful flashcards, quizzes, and games. The study materials can be shared with students, classmates, parents, and other teachers. Best of all, the tool is free for anyone to use, and the site contains over 100 million pre-made sets of study materials, many of which are suitable for classroom use.

EdPuzzle Expert

Nearpod Prodigy

Nearpod is a platform used to engage learners in the classroom. Teachers can create interactive lessons that can be used in the 1:1 classroom.

Chrome Extensions for Student Feedback

Chrome extensions extend the functionality of the web browser. Specific extensions, like Talk & Comment, allow teachers to give personalized feedback to their students efficiently and effectively. From using voice notes to custom canned comments, these extensions enhance the quality and quantity of feedback in the classroom. **NOTE: Currently Checkmark has been disabled in the Chrome web store, but Talk and Comment still works great as a feedback tool. We will update this badge once Checkmark has been restored.**

Screencast Superstar

A screencast is a digital recording of a computer or mobile device screen. Screencastify is a free Google Chrome Extension that allows you to quickly and easily record your desktop, laptop, or Chromebook screen. You can also use Screencastify to take a video using your webcam.

Bitmoji Buff

Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Create an expressive cartoon avatar and choose from a growing library of moods and stickers - featuring YOU! You can spice up presentations, use them as customized stickers and feedback for students, or in place of profile pictures. Note, you must have a smartphone to create a Bitmoji.

Autocrat Ace

Autocrat is a Google Sheets add-on merge tool that allows you to create Google Docs, Google Slides, or PDFs with Google Sheets data. It will also automatically share and email people with a copy of the merged document.

ClassDojo Clever

“ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.” -ClassDojo.com This tool is available on a iOS device, Android device, Kindle Fire, or computer.

Read&Write Whiz

The free features of the Read&Write toolbar enable text-to-speech and a single-word language translator in Google Docs, and text-to-speech on websites with selectable text.

Diverse Learner Defender

This badge will provide educators with strategies, extensions, and add-ons that can be used to accommodate the diverse needs of all the students in their classes.

Chrome Extensions for Visual Impairments

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of support for students with visual impairment, such as dyslexia, color blindness, and more right in their Chrome browser. Help your students become more independent in all their academic endeavors with these tools.

Google Captions

Captions in Google applications are an important tool to provide assistance to students with trouble hearing. Captions provide audio to text abilities that allow students to read what is being said in a video or live session. Google Meet, Google Slides, and YouTube all have the ability to provide captions to enhance student learning.

Chrome Extensions for Easily Distracted Students

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of support for students who are easily distracted. These tools are quickly and easily found in their browsers and provide ways to keep them on task. Help your students become more focused with one or more of these extensions!

Chrome Extensions for Struggling Readers & Writers

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of literacy support for students right in their Chrome browser. Help your students become more independent readers and writers with these tools.

Read&Write Certification - Level 1

The Texthelp company has established a Level 1 and Level 2 certification for Read&Write users to show their expertise with the Read&Write tool (Windows, Mac, or Chrome) and how to implement it in the classroom to support students. To complete the Level 1 certification you must pass an online assessment that takes approximately 90 minutes.

Mote Magic

Mote Certified Educator

SAMR Samurai

SAMR, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, is a framework to help teachers think about meaningful technology integration. It stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition.

The Four C Framework

The Four C standards, developed by the National Education Association, is a framework to help teachers to teach the 21st-century skills. It stands for Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking.

Totally TIM

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM), developed by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, is another framework for integrating technology effectively into the classroom. It’s sort of like SAMR on steroids and provides leveled technology integration (entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) for five different learning environments (active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal-directed).

TPACK Terrific

TPACK is another framework for understanding technology integration. It stands for Technological, Pedagogical, And Content Knowledge.

Triple E Framework

The Triple E Framework, developed by Professor Liz Kolb, provides guidelines to effectively use technology in the classroom. The framework puts the focus on pedagogy rather than the tool. The three E’s for effective technology use are Enhance, Engage and Extend.

Vocab Veteran

Pear Deck Vocab Builder is an interactive vocabulary game where students work together to create digital vocab flashcards. The teacher inputs a vocabulary word and definition list and students are responsible for developing visual representations of each word and using the word correctly in a sentence. Students work in teams to compete against each other to create the best vocabulary cards. The teacher can then export those cards to Gimkit for students to access as a study tool.

Padlet Pro

Padlet is a free tool to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information on any topic. You can add images, links, video, and more. Walls can be private, open to the public, or moderated by you- meaning that you approve all contributions before they show.

Flip Fanatic

Google Jamboard

Google Jamboard is an interactive, collaborative whiteboard tool. Jamboard allows for real-time collaboration and integrates a variety of content like videos, photos or even other GSuite files. Note: This Badge does not require a physical Jamboard. We will be working with the app that can be downloaded to mobile devices.

Google Sheets Starter

Google Docs: Level 1

Google Slides Star

Google Slides in Grades 2-5

Google Slides is an online presentation tool that allows users to create, edit, collaborate, and present slideshows wherever/whenever. Google Slides is immersed in features that allow even our youngest students to engage in opportunities to exercise creativity as they utilize the tool for a variety of classroom applications.

Google Sites Sage

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. With Google Sites, users can create their own website, update and personalize the site, share and collaborate with others, and preview and publish their site to the internet.

Google Keep Kudos

Google Keep is a cloud-synced note-taking platform that allows users to quickly capture what's on their mind, set reminders, organize notes, and add voice memos for quick information collection.

Inventiveness

This curated collection contains tools that will get your students thinking more creatively about designing solutions to real-world problems. To see more badges like this, try searching ISTE Standard for Student 3: Knowledge Constructor, ISTE Standard for Student 4: Innovative Designer, or ISTE Standard for Student 5: Computational Thinker on the Explore Badges page.