In Praise of the CLOOC Make Bank

There are many things that I love about the Making Learning Connected MOOC, but one of the best ideas — which will become a sort of legacy of the MOOC, in my opinion — is the concept of the Make Bank. Here, folks have been sharing information about the projects they have been making in the MOOC, giving quick tutorials on how to replicate the projects. As we think about the school year ahead, what I wonder is: how could one replicate this in the classroom? It would surely connect to expository writing and publishing to the world. (By the way, I give credit to Karen F. for the concept of the Make Bank, and she would no doubt give a hat tip to the folks at ds 106 for the way they gather ideas from participants of that project and share. And Terry E. helped considerably with the technical aspects of setting up the Make Bank via WordPress.).

Here, so far, is the clmooc Make Bank:

• Make a Search Engine

• Music in My Mind

• Mind Map-Cycle 4

• Make an Impact on the World

• make a map

• Make a space and process for reflection

• Making Music

• Make a zine

• Make Cycle 2 Reinventing Books

• Noticing in Your World

• Value assumptions in clmooc

• Laziness Map

• Animoto video

• Make a fantastic learning map

• Make a map

• Eternal Flame Adventure Walk

• Savor Your Seconds

• Making the Web 3D

• Hack this journal

• The adventures of chalkboard man

• clmooc portfolio

• Remixing the Sunday Comics

• Make a picture with a paper cut-out

• Hack My Camera

• Create participant map for CLMOOC

• Artifacts from the Future

• Streetview

• Stop Motion video

• An introduction to string games

• My 10 picture memoir

• Hacking a Classic Arcade Game

• Make your own pop-up book

• Dog, Cow, and Moon Makes Three

• Make a statue for a hero

• Lego Earring Tree In Medicine Cabinet

• Vine-off

• Handmade, Zero Waste Halloween Costumes

• MakerSim, Mixed Reality Makerspace

• Create a #CLMOOC Profile (non-Thimble version)

• Intro Video

• Where I’m From poem

• Blog post

• Narrated photo essay self-introduction

• Explore Communities the Healthy Way – Biking, Hiking, Walking

• What I look for (remix of Chad’s memoir)

• Make some fabulous food

• The Podcast Workflow Challenge

• Animoto Introduction

• Connected Introduction

• Vizify Introduction

• My 10-Book Memoir

• Connecting some dots

• Developing Professional Writing Support Services for Graduate Students

• Make your Avatar as an introduction in #clmooc

• Vizify Introduction

• Make an Animated You – Cycle 1 Featured Make

• Rhetorical Toolbox

• Toy hacking

• Mister Rogers Remix

Do you have a make to add to the bank? Please do.

Peace (in the make),
Kevin