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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Abstract: In today's hypermedia landscape, youth and young adults are increasingly using social media platforms, online aggregators and mobile applications for daily information use.

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education

Communication educators, armed with a host of free, easy-to-use online tools, have the ability to create dynamic approaches to teaching and learning about information and communication flow online. In this paper we explore the concept of curation as a student- and creation-driven pedagogical tool to enhance digital and media literacy education. Curation Learning Project EDCI515.mp4. Baked white beans with caramelized onions. Jaymi's Notes:When I read the ingredients for this recipe my thought was, "That... that's it?

Baked white beans with caramelized onions

Just that? " Indeed the ingredients list is surprisingly short and you wonder where the flavor comes from. But the secret is in how you cook the onions: until they're caramelized. Slowly cooking them in plenty of olive oil until they are a lovely golden brown brings out the sweetness, which adds so much to this casserole. I added a hearty amount of black pepper as well, to bring some spice to the sweetness, but that was my only change.

We preferred this more as a side to a larger meal, than as a main dish because as delicious as it is, it's not the star of a meal but more of a lovely accent. More on The Cooking Project. The curator’s filters. It’s clear that content curation is increasingly being talked about as an important role for learning professionals (in the context of self-provisioned learning, scaffolding, learing environment design, or creating informal learning space).

The curator’s filters

In my own presentations on the topic, I’ve summarized the curator role as having these responsibilities: Seeking material to keep collection freshFiltering material using human judgment to identify what is relevant and valuableCategorizing and tagging to make the right material easy to findContextualizing and adding commentary to enrich the impact of the collectionHighlighting trends and bigger-picture stories to enable sense-makingMaking connections between related (and seemingly unrelated) materials to provide deeper insightGenerating discussion among people with the same interests to create community and enable knowledge and skill creation.

Information validation. Currency. Look for dates on the web page; when is the most recent update? About. Veille et curation : Méthodologie de projet en 6 étapes. Reader (10) Social Media Curation Guide. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

Social Media Curation Guide

Last year on SEOmoz, I published The Content Curation Guide for SEO, which - even though it is still valid - I thought it needed a fresh addition. Not only does this post update some of the information shared, but it also digs deeper into an aspect of content curation that is actually the most used and, possibly, useful to SEOs and Content Marketers who must deal with more duties than just curation: social media curation. For that reason, I gave a Mozinar last week about this topic where I explained why it is important to include social content curation in your inbound marketing strategy; how to prepare, organize, execute, and analyze your social curation activities; and what tools to use. If you missed the opportunity to attend the live broadcast of the Mozinar, you can watch it here. 7 Easy Ways to Curate Content (& Drive Traffic)

Curation is More Than Integration. The term “Curation” doesn’t yet score a hit in the archive of Scott Adam’s Dilbert cartoons, which means it’s still living the short half-life between entering the pop management lexicon and becoming the object of ridicule.

Curation is More Than Integration

Trust me. There are enough people running around the marketing world babbling about “curating,” that it won’t be long before Dogbert or the Pointy-Haired Boss skewer us all for using language that no real human being would ever utter. We hear a term like “curate” crop up in a few business conversations. We assume it’s the hot new topic, and thus begin employing it in our conversations, whether we understand it, or not. On Digital Collection Curation - Digital Collection Curation - LibGuides at LibGuides.

April 2011 Pathfinder Options My personal favorite wiki creation tool is Wikispaces for teachers.

On Digital Collection Curation - Digital Collection Curation - LibGuides at LibGuides

(I know that others prefer and swear by PB Works.) The folks at Wikispaces give teachers free, ad-free wiki sites. Just remember to click on the button that identifies you as a K12 educator to remove any pesky ads. You can easily create a wiki index to keep track of your growing collection of wiki pathfinders. Wikis continue to be one of my own preferred platforms, but we now have so many choices, and in a world of remix, we are no longer limited to a single platform. Proponents of Wikis: When I polled my colleagues about their tools of choice, wikis were a clear favorite; they were the go-to platform.

Content Curation: Copyright, Ethics & Fair Use. >>Click here to download the eBook.

Content Curation: Copyright, Ethics & Fair Use

The most common and fundamental questions that come up whenever I talk about content curation (especially in the context of content marketing) is, “How can you use other people’s content? How does that work with copyright, fair use, and more generally ethics?” What Makes a Good Content Curator? Part of being a Social Media Manager is culling the infinite sources of the web for the latest news, information, and resources relevant to your industry or target market.

What Makes a Good Content Curator?

As a Social Media Manager, the content you share reflects your competence and expertise, and reflects how in-touch you are with the industry, thought leaders, influencers, and everyone in between. Des solutions de curation — Enseigner avec le numérique. La curation de contenus : vraie tendance marketing ? S’il y a bien un service dont on aura entendu parler cette année, c’est Pinterest.

La curation de contenus : vraie tendance marketing ?

Même si encore beaucoup de doutes subsistent sur la viabilité à terme du service (What Pinterest needs to do to survive), et ce malgré le renfort financier du groupe japonais Rakuten en mai dernier (Rakuten investit 100 millions de dollars dans Pinterest), Pinterest aura permis de mettre en évidence une tendance forte sur Internet : la curation de contenus. Si on oublie le mot barbare pour se concentrer sur qu’il désigne, il représente le fait qu’avec la combinaison de la densité innombrable de contenus créés chaque jour sur Internet, l’avènement des médias sociaux, le partage de contenus de la part des internautes et l’influence grandissante de la “voix” du consommateur sur Internet, le besoin de laisser l’internaute filtrer les contenus et les présenter comme bon lui semble fait sens. Content Curation World. DCCLifecycle.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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7 Things You Should Know About Social Content Curation.