Step 6: Using Curation tools as part of your PLN – Teacher Challenges. Welcome to the sixth step in our free professional learning series on building your PLN.
In this activity you will explore: What is content curation? How to get started What is content curation? We are living in an era of information overload. A person with good content curation skills saves us time by shifting through the vast abundance of content on the Internet to select the best, most relevant resource, on a specific topic or theme, which they organize, manage and collate for their own use and share with us. If you look closely at most educators with a high following on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ you’ll notice that most are great content curators and share excellent resources. Photo Credit: Will Lion via Compfight Watch Harold Rheingold’s interview with Robin Good to learn more about curation.
Benefits of curation The main reasons why educators curate content include: The curation process The key components to making curation tools part of your PLN are: Thing 5: Curation Tools. What is digital curation?
Traditionally, we think of a curator as someone who selects objects, interprets context and manages collections in a musuem. But it also describes what librarians do with their collections, aka: collection development. And if you’ve ever selected, evaluated and organized a collection of great web resources for a research project, then you’re a curator! So why the explosion of interest in digital curation? With a mind-boggling amount of content on the Internet, content that varies enormously in quality, there’s huge value in relying on experts to select the best content for a topic.
Ironically, this harkens back to early days of the web, when we had easy-to-use directories of good resources that were curated for us. These are quick reads and will get you up to speed on the why curation is important, both for you professionally and as a skill to teach students. Social Bookmarking: Diigo is one of the most popular tools for collecting and organizing (maybe?) Save. My Top 10 Web Curation Tools as A Teacher. 1- Scoopt.it This is my favorite web curation tool.
It allows you to create categories to which you scoop links and materials you find online. It also has a bookmarklet that you can install on 2- Livebinder This another cool tool I use to organize and bookmark my resources. 3- Evernote This is probably one of the most popular web tools but for me I use the mobile app more than I do with the web based one. 4- Pinterest This is a visual bookmarking tool that lets you pin web resources to the different pinboards you create. 5- Educlipper Educlipper is a relatively new web service that is gaining more and more in popularity each day. 6- Bundlr I like how Bundlr works. 7- Bag The Web Curate web content to make your own topic bags. 8- Springpad Springpad is another great tool to use to save your digital content. 9- Paperl.li This is a web tool that allows you to create an online newspaper from the photos, videos, and articles you come across online.
17 Best Content Curation Tools I Express Writers. Be honest.
Don’t you wish creating fresh, hot new content every week was easier than it is? I know I do. No matter how many cool copywriting tricks you’ve got up your sleeve, when deadlines start breathing down your neck, no one is 100% immune from the dreaded blank page blues. Looking for a way ease the pressure of having to constantly produce stellar content, in early 2012 a bunch of smart Internet folks came up with the idea of content curation. The basic idea of content curation is that, no matter who your audience is, there is already so much good, relevant content being produced daily. These days, content curation is common practice now, and forms part of any professional content marketing plan. The wrong way can end up making you look like a spambot, scraping random junk from the Internet and slapping it up for your audience. So what should you do instead?
How to Do Content Creation the Right Way Content Creation vs Curation: The Ideal Mix 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.