Badges and Webcraft

So, Mozilla (and probably others) are making this new "Badges" system, where you can demonstrate your skills by earning online badges. The idea is that a college degree doesn't give employer's an accurate specific idea of what you do and do not know. The same degree from different universities may include entirely different sets of skills, and knowledge sets. Badges provide way to demonstrate more granular knowledge.

This badges system is very exciting to me, because over the years I have taught myself a lot informally. However demonstrating these skills to employers and/or universities/grad schools, is a challenge.

And so, while these badges are new and in development I am going to try and earn some, both to show off the skills I have already acquired, maybe pick up some new skills, and hopefully help progress this new method of education.

This post is actually part of Web 101 on the P2PU Webcraft school. I am already fairly proficient with HTML, but I have no formal training, and this give me an opportunity to get some form of exterior validation, and possibly pick up something new.