Then I found #d106<\/a>. The assignment bank there was a whole new brilliant paradigm.<\/p>\n And so, not needing to reinvent the wheel, we at #clmooc modeled a Make Bank<\/a> after this (with much thanks to Alan Levine, Martha Burtis, and Jim Groom and the ds106 community). #clmooc is about making, and we wanted the community to be able to “make their own makes” with the Make Bank.<\/p>\n Technically, this was fairly straightforward. Using WordPress as our content management system, we set up Gravity Forms as the front end to capture user-generated data. The entries from this then generate WP posts (they would also generate WP pages), which are then held for moderation. When they are approved by a moderator, they automatically post to a page using a designated category and then using list category posts<\/a> to publish them all to a given page.<\/p>\n In another similar implementation, we put a search box and tag cloud right on the main page using the widgets on pages plug-in. Another thing we did that really worked well is to include a Gravity Forms field to allow file upload (in this case images). Credit Paul Oh for that idea. It really made the whole thing more interesting and useful.<\/p>\n Technically, I love this approach of using a web-based way to populate a database. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while and have already put it into use on another project<\/a>. I think I’ll use this for all kinds of things in the future.<\/p>\n From a learning standpoint, I love his model of peer content\/course\/collaboration development. It seems to be working better than other things I’ve tried. Three weeks into this MOOC and we have had about 45 “makes” submitted.<\/p>\n One of the lovely developments is that some makes have been collaboratively developed on (via Twitter chats or hangouts).<\/p>\n
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