L’évolution du métier de veilleur. Le curator est-il un veilleur. Petit rapport d’étonnement pour commencer l’année en douceur… "Curator" et "curation" sont les deux termes qui montent sur le web ces derniers mois.
Schématiquement l’idée est la suivante : la sélection de l’information sur les réseaux numériques est de moins en moins algorithmique, et de plus en plus humaine. De quoi la curation est elle le nom ? / relation, transformation, partage. Le terme de curation qui est en train de buzzer depuis le début de l’année me laisse pantois.
En général, on donne un nom nouveau à une pratique émergente qui n’en n’a pas encore. Hors cette pratique qui consiste à enrichir un contenu avant d’en faciliter la diffusion n’est pas nouvelle. C’est la note ou le post it que l’on rajoute au dossier que l’on vient de recevoir avant de le transmettre dans la chaîne de l’information d’une structure. Est-ce que cela nécessite un nouveau nom pour une pratique qui prend sa source dans les scriptoria médiévales et qu’on a toujours appelé la glose. Community Management et Curation. Evaluer la crédibilité d'une ressource sur Internet. How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation. Digital Tools Jody Strauch By A.
Adam Glenn The phenomenal growth of Pinterest has sparked interest among millions of users. It’s also spread to journalism educators, who are increasingly experimenting with it in the classroom. The social network launched two years ago, but in recent months has drawn red-hot excitement for its unique visual, topic-based curation approach. Now journalism school faculty are increasingly in on the act. One early adopter was University of Southern California’s Andrew Lih, who last October, long before he and many others knew the site would become a blockbuster, introduced it to online students in an entrepreneurial class to gather what he called a “mood board” for a project on public art. Aggregating images to share with students is an increasingly common classroom use for the tool. Jody Strauch at Northwest Missouri State University has used Pinterest to show good design work to her media design classes.
Pinterest is not without its drawbacks. Journey in Technology: Aggregate, Curate and Create Your Own Textbook. The Journal's article: 5K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 includes: ‘Beyond the Digital Textbook’ as one of the trends with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks.
Apple has now partnered with the major textbook publishers with the newly unveiled iBooks Textbooks. There are a handful of textbooks available through iTunes at about $15. These books are constrained to be viewed using iBooks 2 in an iPad with Apple iOS 5. Moreover, it looks like Apple's new products do not allow social interactivity and collaboration. Several concerns about Apple's new enterprise have been voiced in the blogosphere. Is there an option for a free, relevant course companion? With information being ubiquitous, I believe that teachers can (and should) take control of their courses by creating their own interactive textbooks. The process of creating your digital textbook involves three steps: The first step is to gather the sources of information. Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate!
30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use. As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer.
It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out the best, most share-worthy tidbits of information, especially if your topic is niche. Let’s face it, Google definitely has its shortcomings when it comes to content curation and the more it tries to cater to all audiences, the less useful it becomes. The demand for timely, relevant content that is specific to our unique interests and perspectives has given rise to a new generation of tools that aim to help individuals and companies curate content from the web and deliver it in a meaningful way.
These new tools range from simple, application-specific types such as social media aggregators and discovery engines, to more complex, full-blown publishing solutions for organizations. Comments(65)