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Webmention Badges #PressEd19Conf

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Using WordPress and Webmentions for digitial credentialing

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jgmac1106 I will be doing a presentation on badges at https://2019.pressedconf.org/?easyconfpr=webmention-badges learn how to own your assessment from your own domain and escape the constant pivots, patents, and providers in space

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Welcome I am Dr. J Gregory McVerry from @scsu and I am excited to present at and I am here to talk about webmention badges. Please feel to stop, interrupt, and play, this convo can go anywhere

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First we must accept that we have a measurement crisis in , 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..

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we 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"

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Badges 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.

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Badges 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.

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Replied to a post on quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com Anataomy of a badge #PressEdConf19 you need name, description, editor, date issued, evidence,

Anataomy of a badge you need name, description, editor, date issued, evidence

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Why not just use why do you need webmention badges....#OpenBadges is a total hot mess, the spec is overly complicated and nobody knows where it stands. started as a @Mozilla project, they handed if off to IMS Global

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Then @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 platform and somehow a patent for

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Patent 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"

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So Credly out as an provider, no dealing with companies with patents to open source tools I helped to build. Disgusting...and Credly is one of few WordPress providers that almost work..

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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://archive.jgregorymcverry.com/webmention-badges-discussion-across-networks-after-indiewebcamp-... and http://jgregorymcverry.com/badgefromyourdomain.html but basically it is a badge as comment it contains everything needed for

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here is a video demo of webmention badge: https://archive.org/details/webmentionbadgedemo ...but what is a webmention?

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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

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You can catch up on all of my reading about webmention badges here:https://archive.jgregorymcverry.com/?s=webmention+badge but really the learning and not the tech matters so how do you design a badge?

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I use the nifty tool from @visualthinkery https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/a/badgebloom it helps me connect the badge to the criteria. Decide what you want you learners to know and how you will elicit evidence of knowledge growth. We call that teaching

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So let us now look at an example of webmention badges in a WordPress classroom

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My class is an open online summer boot camp designed to take anyone from never writing a hyperlink to an academic blogger on WordPress: https://edu522.networkedlearningcollaborative.com/ This was where I first started to pilot webmention badges.

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The students had to choose a project and then they would send a webmention explaining how they met criteria; https://mrkean.com/uncategorized/307/ and I then sent a badge that learner could choose or not choose to diaply: https://edu-522.glitch.me/cooperdigitalhygiene2.html

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more recently I have created an enitre feed for each individual badge https://edu307.glitch.me/ and then https://edu307.glitch.me/badges/slidedeck.html my students are using wordpress.com but can display webmentions using Bridgy

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