[Dprglist] DPRG Badging

[Doug Emes]

Gamification has been shown to increase participation and success
wherever adopted.  I am very much in favor of this idea.

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Roie Black <rblack at austincc.edu> wrote:
> I kind of like the idea! Of course I teach, and I am into issuing
> certificates validating knowledge of some topic. This Summer I am teaching a
> big bunch of kids, and their teachers, about robotics in KC. I may suggest
> this for that organization (aSTEAMVillage.org) Hmmm, a certificate  in
> robotics from DPRG! Might be interesting!
>
> Roie
>
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:33 PM Doug Paradis <paradug at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> James,
>>     Interesting idea. I would like to see how difficult it would be to
>> implement. It might be hard to get some older members to buy into it ("I
>> don't need no stinking badges"). I think that it would be good way for new
>> members to see how they are progressing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Doug P.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:11 PM, James LeRoy <james at getsurreal.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was curious what the group thinks of implementing a badging system.
>>> With the challenges of keeping competitions interesting for advanced
>>> roboticists, but then the barrier being too high for new roboticists a
>>> badging system could be very interesting.  Unlike the competitions, badges
>>> can be earned anytime throughout the year.
>>>
>>> We've discussed some of these basics in DPRG meetings so we could have
>>> badges like:
>>>
>>> MicroController - Arduino basics.  8bit AVRs, 32bit ARM
>>> Motor Control - Driving a straight line
>>> Odometry - Rotating 360 degrees, driving a square.
>>> Displays - Matrix displays, LCD displays
>>> Sensors - Ping, IR, etc.
>>> Having a robot that turns on :)
>>> And many more...
>>>
>>>
>>> But we can also issue badges for things like:
>>>
>>> Entering a DPRG competition
>>> Placing top three in a DPRG competition
>>> Volunteering at a DPRG event
>>> Making a presentation at a DPRG meeting
>>>
>>>
>>> Mozilla has an open source badging system https://openbadges.org/ and
>>> there is a free WordPress plugin, https://wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos/,
>>> that should make it easy to manage the badges on the DPRG site.
>>>
>>> What's unique about these badges is they have data embedded in them that
>>> identify the person that earned it and they can have links in them that
>>> validate the badge.  i.e.  People can post youtube videos for verification.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
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> Roie Black
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> Austin Community College
> Austin, Texas
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