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As a teacher, you can create learning flows and share it with others. Noteworthy features: Flipboard Noteworthy features: MentorMob Better Than Bookmarks. Content Curation Tools: 21 Criteria To Select And Evaluate Your Ideal One. Nonetheless we are just at the beginning of a new era, in which content curation will be as important as search, there is already an apparent abundance of content curation tools of all kinds.
Photo credit: Hand filling out checklist on clipboard with a pen by Shutterstock To the superficial eye, many such curation tools also appear to be very similar to one another, especially if evaluated exclusively from the type of news streams or visual collections that can be produced with them. On the other hand it is not realistic for someone to go out and test each and every one of the available solutions.
For these reasons, it is quite difficult and time consuming to select and identify the most appropriate content curation tool for a specific need and as a consequence most rely on the tools they have tried and that satisfy their basic needs but remain quite ignorant about what options they are leaving on the table only because they have not yet tried them. 1) Import and Export functions Conclusions. How To Curate Conversations With Storify. I want to tell you about one of my favorite things on the Internet.
Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate. Storify.com on the desktop is the place to start. You can use Storify to capture a momentous event online, or you can ask a question and curate the best answers. Its uses are almost limitless. I've gotten so much out of it as a blogging tool, and I know you will, too. Storify Is A Noun And A Verb Storify rolled out a gorgeous update to its interface yesterday, and now is a great time to start using it. Here are a few ways I've used Storify.
Storify Breaking News In the Twitter Age, news unfolds in real time. When an error propagates on Twitter, the correction propagates just as quickly. When I noticed Gmail was down on September 23, I tweeted my observation and then started Storifying what I saw. Ask Questions, Storify Answers. Why Scoopit Is Becoming An Indispensable Learning Tool. Leanna Johnson, Learning with Technology Scoop.it collates work from online publications using an online magazine format, and this visual impact alone makes it very effective.
The additional appeal of broadcasting from a hub allows me to tap into and share with my ed tech networks, which is why I find myself using it more often during time constraints. First of all, it’s powerful–it incorporates multiple elements of familiar social media tools. But it’s also very flexible–the mobile app is quite functional for both iPhone and Android, and a toolbar plugin can be installed on browser windows. Scoop.it’s athleticism makes it a time-saver; educators and students will quickly grasp its value in content gathering. Additionally, using Scoop.it will meet multiple standards (Common Core and NETS-S) across the curriculum. Curation is a valuable skill for today’s learner.
Using Scoop.it on a mobile device makes it a constrained platform, which lessens stress. Why Students Like Scoop.it 1. 2. 3. 4. Scoop This: A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content Curation. We’ve been hearing (and talking) a lot about curation and how helpful it can be for companies. As you all know, I’m sure, great content is one sure thing in today’s marketing arena; it takes the front seat to anything and everything else. When you do a search, what are you using? Content. When you look for the closest restaurant to eat, how do you search? You plug in content. All the World Wide Web is fueled and energized by content – videos, audio, images, text, etc. Your job, as a content curator, will be to pull the best of all that content into digestible tidbits of information.
Before I get deep in to the hows, wherefores and whys of curation and Scoop.it, I deeply feel that it’s important to touch on the what. Content curation, on the other hand, is much like museum curation. As a content curator, you should be treating the content you display with the same amount of exactitude. Well said. When I was introduced to Scoop.it a year ago, it was still beta and invite only. 1). 2). 3). Scoop-it-a-new-world-of-curation.gif (683×3004) How to Get Started With New Twitter Lists. Using Twitter for Research. Source: BySellAds The graphic above illustrates that 55% of people use Twitter to share news stories and almost as many use it to find that content. Admittedly, the source is sketchy because its “source” is a link-aggregator site pointing me toward everything from toilet paper to used Saabs.
Still, I’m content to use these unofficial findings to conclude that a large number of people use Twitter to do research, whether for specific projects or general knowledge about a field of interest. This is because it has a wealth of efficient tools for discovering, categorizing, and storing information – the necessary foundation for an effective content-gathering process.
After spending the greater part of the last year using Twitter to write blog posts and find online resources for clients, I thought I would share my tactics on researching with Twitter – for everything from scholarly articles to a casual (but incredibly informative) post on the Astek Blog. Discovering Organizing Storing Sharing Citing.