Webmention Badges #PressEd19Conf
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jgmac1106 I will be doing a presentation on #webemention badges at #PressEdConf19 https://
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Welcome I am Dr. J Gregory McVerry from @scsu and I am excited to present at #PressEdConf19 and I am here to talk about webmention badges. Please feel to stop, interrupt, and play, this convo can go anywhere
Also on Quick Thoughts#PressEdConf19 First we must accept that we have a measurement crisis in #HigheEd, outside accreditation boards are making us do doumb stuff with data that wouldn't pass a sniff let alone peer review. Our Provosts and Deans have drank the kool-aid hard..
Also on Quick Thoughtswe know what drives learning...feedback and reflection, Hattie, Dewey, Papert, James Gee, @actualham @jimgroom, @bali_maha they all come to same conclusion: feedback drives learning, but how do we measure what Dan Hickey calls "residue of learning" #PressEdConf19
Also on Quick ThoughtsBadges give us a chance to show students met the criteria of a task and has a link to the evidence and reflections by the student. It is measurement connected to learning rather than measurement to justify spending on learning. #PressEdConf19
Also on Quick ThoughtsBadges give us a chance to show students met the criteria of a task and has a link to the evidence and reflections by the student. It is measurement connected to learning rather than measurement to justify spending on learning. #PressEdConf19
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Anataomy of a badge #PressEdConf19 you need name, description, editor, date issued, evidence
Also on Quick ThoughtsWhy not just use #OpenBadges why do you need webmention badges....#OpenBadges is a total hot mess, the spec is overly complicated and nobody knows where it stands. #OpenBadges started as a @Mozilla project, they handed if off to IMS Global #PressEdConf19
Also on Quick ThoughtsThen @Mozilla gave BackPack, a tool for displaying badges to a for profit company (that I do trust, love, and recommend) to @ConcentricSky during all this reshuffling Credly bought Pearson's #OpenBadges platform and somehow a patent for #OpenBadges #PressEdConf19
Also on Quick ThoughtsPatent shady AF. How do you patent an open source tool and spec?..pay dues to IMS Global you get covered...."that's a mighty nice badge you got there be a shame if something..where to happen it. Maybe you should pay for protection" #PressEdConf19
Also on Quick ThoughtsSo Credly out as an #OpenBadges provider, no dealing with companies with patents to open source tools I helped to build. Disgusting...and Credly is one of few WordPress #OpenBadge providers that almost work..#PressEdConf19
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So instead I invented webmention badges and began to issue them in my WordPress classes you can read more at: https://
here is a video demo of webmention badge: https://
basically a webmention occurs when Site A mentions Site B anywhere on the web. This then getsdisplayed as a comment on Site B. So the author of site A gets to own their comment and Site B displays the post as a comment. Works well for badges #PressEdConf19
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#PressEdConf19 You can catch up on all of my reading about webmention badges here:https://
I use the nifty tool from @visualthinkery https://
So let us now look at an example of webmention badges in a WordPress classroom #PressEdConf19
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#pressedconf19 My #EDU522 class is an open online summer boot camp designed to take anyone from never writing a hyperlink to an academic blogger on WordPress: https://
#PressEdConf19 The students had to choose a project and then they would send a webmention explaining how they met criteria; https://
#PressEdConf19 more recently I have created an enitre feed for each individual badge https://