TTT#396 Make Banks and Self-Directed Learning
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2014-05-26

WOW! @cogdog @kfasimpaur @Seecantrill @chadsansing @tellio edtechtalk.com/ttt 5.21 9PM ET/6PM PT RE: make/assign't banks/galleries #NWP 

Wednesday, May 21 on Teachers Teaching Teachers -- 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern -- we will be talking about Make/Assignment Banks/repositories/Galleries with  +Alan Levine leader and teacher of the open digital storytelling class, ds106 http://ds106.us/. We'll use the ds106 Assignment Bank as a case study to ask some provocative questions that have been bouncing recently.

See +Karen Fasimpaur's  "The Make Bank: Self-directed professional learning and user-generated content" - See more at: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/5853

Karen will be joining the conversation along with +Christina Cantrill (https://webmaker.org/en-US/search?type=user&q=ccantrill) ,+Chad Sansing  (https://webmaker.org/en-US/search?type=user&q=chadsansing), and +TERRY ELLIOTT.

Imagine having questions about collections of "missions," as we call them on Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/missions, and being able to ask this list of people to come to your house to talk about them!

You are -- of course -- invited too! Please plan to join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt where our conversation will be webcast at 9PM ET/6PM PT. You can listen and join the chat there, and -- if so inspired -- there will be room for you to join us in the Hangout as well.

What are your thoughts about how Assignment/Make/Mission Banks/Galleries get created and used?

We want to define these repositories broadly as we explore their potential to re-define self-directed learning for both adults and students.

Here's my brainstorm of such resources.  Please add your favorites as well:

http://assignments.ds106.us/
http://youthvoices.net/missions
http://blog.nwp.org/clmooc/makes/search-makes/
https://webmaker.org/en-US/gallery
https://diy.org/featured
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/student-opinion/
http://blogs.kqed.org/education/category/do-now/

And here are a few more questions that have been bouncing here and there:

What are and the connections between missions/assignments/makes to #clmooc other collaborative MOOCS or MOOCS in general?

How do we guide students and teachers to use and contribute to these repositories? How is it different for different ages?

Each are attached to important learning communities/ecologies. What happens when we use them outside of these experiences?

What's the difference between a make and an assignment?

Terry Elliott adds:
I have made an initial stab at bringing together some links on this topic if you are interested and want to share:  https://groups.diigo.com/group/make_assignment_banks_repositories_user_generated_content