[FM Discuss] Book Sprint Badges

[adam]

yeah, they are doing good work. still some holes in the system but they 
seem to be patching them up

it seems to me we have a bit of an enormous head start if we wanted to 
go into this badges thing. we have a tonne of amazing content that 
people already use to learn. i hear time and time again about how fm 
manuals are used by students and by teachers/professors etc. the problem 
is this is all anecdotal. it would be good if we could make the value of 
fm apparent in other ways and badges ofr learning about free software 
via fm manuals could be an interesting way to do that

not to say that fm should be a school - we should always be about free 
manuals for free software. but if we can build a service on top of the 
manuals which has value for people and is consistent with our aims then 
it might make a whole lot of sense

what we need is some careful prototyping and discussion. i have looked 
into the badge issuer that les orchard made and we can effectively 'drop 
it straight in' to booki. I tested it and it works as you can see from 
these basic examples:
http://booktype-test.sourcefabric.org/_badge/badge/sharer/awards/8.json
http://booktype-test.sourcefabric.org/_badge/badge/sharer
http://booktype-test.sourcefabric.org/_badge/awards

all coming out of a booktype install with django-badger live

what we dont have and it would be good to make a generic code base for - 
is a python app for quizzes that :
1. made making quizzes/exercises easy
2. made tagging them to badges easy
3. made awarding badges upon completion automagic

Janet - i dont spose there is anyone in mozilla with some python/js 
skills that could make this? it could be a code base with wide 
application as it seems a missing part of the OBI tool chain if you ask 
me...a quiz maker would be pretty easy to make i think and something moz 
could give to the world as well as us :)))

additionally, having researched this the last few days i can see that 
the real work for this system is in working out the badge structure. how 
would it be done - how is it structured  - what badges are awarded for 
what. If we did it then we need to set some criteria, make the criteria 
and the process for evaluation transparent and, most importantly, stick 
to it

its interesting stuff...lets not run away with it just yet...need to 
talk more about it. see if it is something fm should be doing. at the 
same time im a great believer in discussion about some *thing* - if we 
can see it, it will give us a much better idea of what it is and what it 
isnt...so a prototype or two would help us along the path of deciding if 
this is a good idea



adam

On 10/04/12 19:57, Janet Swisher wrote:
> I think it would be great to do one badge as a pilot, just to figure
> out how it works. It doesn't have to be the most important ones
> (perhaps better not, in fact). The Open Badges Infrastructure just
> released as a public beta:
> http://erinknight.com/post/20842609358/obi-public-beta
>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mick Fuzz<mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>  wrote:
>> On 10/04/12 10:21, adam wrote:
>>> ok...do you want to think about how this could work Mick? We could
>>> then move forward with a badge trial with audacity
>>>
>>> this doesnt have to mean we will move fwd with badges but i suggest we
>>> make an example, work through the issues and then present it and
>>> discuss it on the list. we can also of course discuss it while
>>> designing it
>>
>> I'm happy to do that. I was going to start looking at the Audacity
>> manual next week. So I'll have a bit of a look this week at breaking it
>> up in
>>
>> But I think that the Book Sprint and peer support reward examples are
>> maybe more immediate goals for badges, so don't forget those!
>>
>> nice one
>> mick
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