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NOOWIT. iFlow. Scoop.it. OpenTopic. Lingospot. Storytlr. ContentDJ. 3 Free Cool Tools to Curate Content - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad - Why Curate? Content curation is a great way to find, organize and share useful knowledge efficiently. There are many free digital tools available to help manage web content in flexible ways allowing us to quickly share resources that are accessible online.

Use of curation tools is social and will connect us to the ideas of others and help build our professional learning networks. Here are three efficient and effective content curation tools that can help educators manage web content and embrace technology. eduClipper – Clip anything. Share everything. Create visual clipboards of related content with this new tool designed just for education. eduClipper is a free and user friendly tool for curating content that resembles Pinterest.

Scoop.It – Share ideas that matter. Easily publish gorgeous magazines of related content with this visual and user friendly digital tool. Mentor Mob – Learn what you want. Uses in Education. ContentGems. Storination. BlogBridge. KOMPAS.com.

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News Apps. Storify. Spundge. Zootool – Visual Bookmarking. Montage. MediaHeroes. 10 iPad Apps for Web Curation. Curation vs. Aggregation? Curation is such a necessity these days. The overwhelming wave of information we are exposed to is drowning us in facts and opinion. Not only do we need to be curating the information that we are consuming but we need to be insisting that our students have the skills and necessary tools in which to curate their own world.

I have listed a number of capable curation apps that can help to do just that. I tend to use more than one of these and in fact there are days that I would use three or four. Pearltrees: FREE Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize, discover everything you like on the web. Flipboard: FREE Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you, from Instagram photos and Facebook updates to Tumblr posts and articles from your favorite publications. Commentto. Zeen.