{"id":2424,"date":"2013-11-16T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2424"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T09:47:21","slug":"edutalk-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/edutalk-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"#EDUtalk Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently we have had quite a few guests on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/listen\/\" title=\"Live shows and stream | EDUtalk\">Radio EDUtalk<\/a> who have talked about or been interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/openbadges.org\/\" title=\"Open Badges\">open badges<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info#fn1_2013-11-16\" name=\"fn1_2013-11-16source\" class=\"fntest\">1<\/a>. As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=badges\" title=\"John's World Wide Wall Display\">blogged<\/a> about before I am not completely sold on badges for learning but I am interested enough to want to try them out is a small way. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t have any pupils to use a guinea pigs. I therefore though it might be worth a wee experiment on EDUtalk badges.<\/p>\n<p>A little googling lead me to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/davelester\/WPBadger\">davelester\/WPBadger<\/a>, <em>A lightweight badge issuing platform built using WordPress<\/em> and I&#8217;ve installed the plugin at EDUtalk. After installing there are a few different additions to the dashboard:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/edutalkbadge-guest-150x150.png\" style=\"float:right;margin:6px\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the settings there is a <strong>WPBadger Configuration<\/strong> section where you set up an email that will be sent when a badge is awarded. <\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Badges<\/strong> section is where you create Badges, these look like custom posts. They contain a description and an image.<\/li>\n<li>There is an <strong>Awards<\/strong> section where you award the badges by creating posts. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It took me a few attempts to get to a system that seems to work. I had to use the github.com version rather than the one in the wordpress plugin repository. I also made a few mistakes setting up badges, you need to limit the description string to long and then had single quotes in a description. Once I had changed that things began to work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not tested the system to any great extent,  Robert Drummond kindly helped, but it seems to work. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll award badges willi-nilly to all our previous guests of contributors, <strong>but please get in touch if you have been a guest or contributed audio if you want me to send you a badge and help testing the system.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>It looks as if setting up a badges system is pretty simple for teachers who have access to a wordpress blog they can install plugins in via FTP and pupils or learners with a mozilla backpack.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:smaller\"><strong>Footnotes:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"#fn1_2013-11-16\">1.<\/a> Shows where guests talked about badges included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/radio-edutalk-13-11-13-robert-drummond\/\">Radio EDUtalk 13-11-13: Robert Drummond | EDUtalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/radio-edutalk-30-10-2013-joe-wilson-open-badges\/\">Radio EDUtalk 30-10-2013: Joe Wilson on Open Badges | EDUtalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/radio-edutalk-eassessment-scotland-karen-strickland-and-doug-belshaw\/\">Radio #EDUtalk eAssessment Scotland Karen Strickland and Doug Belshaw | EDUtalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/radio-edutalk-20-02-13-teachmeet-edutalk-2\/\">Radio #EDUtalk 20-2-13: TeachMeet EDUtalk | EDUtalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/eassessment-scotland-doug-belshaw-and-martin\/\">eAssessment Scotland Doug Belshaw and Martin Hawksey | EDUtalk<\/a><\/li>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info#fn1_2013-11-16source\">&#8617;<\/a><\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t.fntest{padding:2px;font-size: 0.8em;vertical-align: super;text-decoration:none;background:#E6E6E6}\n\t\t\t\t<\/style>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we have had quite a few guests on Radio EDUtalk who have talked about or been interested in open badges1. 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