5 Reasons you need to be a Content Curator | Big Ideas in Education No doubt about it, Content Curation is one of the most important digital skills of our time. The basic fact is that Curation is a strategy that we need just to begin to implement and sift through all of the information online.The following explains the top reasons why we need to engage in quality content curation as educators and as learners! Content Curation and Information Literacy The Top 5 Reasons to be a Content Curator. 1. 2. We need to be curators to manage the deluge of information on the internet. 3. Content curation is more than just social media and keeping tabs of friends and trends. 4. Creating content on the internet is at an all time high. 5. We ask our questions, we research, and we make connections that had never existed before. Regardless of the curation tool we ultimately use, the core skills remain the same. Deborah McCallum c 2015 Like this: Like Loading... Related Information-Processing in the Digital Age: Beginning with Content Curation In "21st Century Learning"
Sample Digintal Curation activity for students OER and you. The curation mandate At the #GoOpen Exchange on Friday, everyone was talking about OER and the need to curate. The Twiter feed shows the buzz around the trending event and it shows school librarians were at the table. As the initiative moves forward, it is critical for us to choose to be at the head of this particular table. Hosted at the beautiful Skywalker Ranch, Friday’s #GoOpen Exchange engaged major players in education from the White House and the DOE, as well as state officials, leaders of non-profits and learning institutions, the biggest names in e-commerce and technology, developers, vendors, publishers, state officials, administrators, leading folks in edtech, and educational thinkers and practitioners. I was proud to be there to share along with some serious library power: AASL President Leslie Preddy, Mark Ray (WA) Washington, Jennifer Boudrye (D.C.) and Mary Reiman (NE). But it was clear to our little group, that to the larger majority of the participants, we were not even on the OER radar. And so,
Why Should We Teach Content Curation? “Content curation” is hip terminology in the marketing world. Businesses routinely develop and refine perceptions of their brand on social media through the information they choose to share with specific audiences. Curating content is an essential skill to share with students. With broad and easy access to information, seeing and practicing content curation can help students deal with the often-overwhelming amount of information available at their fingertips. Access to information ≠ knowledge In a recent Idea Channel Video, host Mike Rugnetta makes a compelling case that the algorithms Google uses to sift through and create connections between a vast amount of Web-based information represent a kind of knowing. Rugnetta cites Larry Sanger’s observation that the Internet means that people can find information more easily than ever before, but access to information is not equivalent to knowledge. Why should we teach content curation skills? How to model the content curation process
Pinterest: A Curation Tool in Education About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.
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? 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. Curation – a 2012 article by Joyce Valenza that covers all the reasons why we need to become curators and help our students learn this skill.Curation, Revisited: Aggregating Resources in 2016 Great EdWeb webinar from Feb 2016 Joyce Valenza, Brenda Boyer and Michelle Luhtala. Save
Symbaloo Helps Teachers & Students Get Organized I am an organizing freak. Though my desk may not always be neat as a pin (I run a very busy library), I usually can put my hands on exactly what I am looking for whether it is in print or in electronic format. My belief is that it is my job as a librarian to help everyone else in the school to be organized too. Which is why I love curation tools so much including Wikispaces, Livebinders, Diigo, Sqworl, Pinterest (unfortunately blocked at school), etc. I learned about Symbaloo years ago at a librarians' conference but never really used it. The teacher Symbaloo webmix is organized to find all the links that teachers need very quickly. This year, I decided to create a Symbaloo webmix for the students to use as their homepage. The teacher webmix was originally created just for me, but I shared it because I thought it would be a helpful tool. Above is the webmix that I created for the students to help them find royalty and copyright free images. Tips and tricks for using Symbaloo: 1. 2. 3.
Content curation: the complete guide to leverage third-party content What is content curation? Content curation. The term has been used to cover many different things. Most marketers are familiar with the practice of sharing other people’s content on social networks, what we’ll refer to as social content curation. Content curation actually covers much more than just social sharing, and can help your content marketing results in ways you don’t imagine. Furthermore, content curation can help other departments of your company to share knowledge or reinforce training programs. A definition of content curation Beth Kanter, probably the most knowledgeable influencer in curated content, explains what content curation means: “Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. Let’s take a deep dive into the details. 1. 2. 3. If a curator takes time to select and enrich a piece of content, he must share it to meet his audience. Formats 1. 2. 3. 4.
Teaching Content Curation Skills To Students In my last piece, I discussed why content curation was an essential skill and discussed ways teachers could use Pinterest to curate content for students. Modeling this skill for students is important, but giving them the knowledge to do it themselves is crucial. The ability to sort through many sources for high-quality information was always the goal of library time and research notecards, but today’s students need tech-based content curation skills. Many of the best and most popular programs for this are widely available for free online. Students can learn to manage information with Pinterest Pinterest can be an excellent place to begin teaching students to do their own content curation, though the site’s minimum age requirement of 13 can interfere with younger students’ ability to use this technology. In addition to actively engaging students in learning, this method also ensures that specific student needs are being addressed. Diigo: the No. 1 content curation tool for educators
5 content marketing mistakes that scream amateur Everyone starts somewhere. I want you to be super successful. There are so many pitfalls in content marketing, but if you follow the advice below, you’ll enjoy a smoother start than I did! 1. Starting from scratch in a crowded space. Warren Buffet offers some amazing investment advice, and it applies to a lot more than just stock trading. The internet is the wild west for ambitious entrepreneurs. So, if you’re going to get into the content marketing game in a crowded market, you need every advantage you can possibly get. What you’re looking for in a used site is: Strong Domain Authority and Page Authority.High relevance to the audience you want to market to.Pay careful attention to the grammatical quality of the site. By purchasing and repurposing someone else’s site, you get to skip the trial-and-error of designing a functional platform. 2. When you read your content out loud, does it sound authoritative? Your goal should be to create content that is instantly helpful to the reader. 3.
What is content curation? Why does it matter to teachers? The term "curate" has become a buzzword in education. I've seen it referenced in TEDx Talks and tossed around in Twitter chats. A few years ago, the term "curation" would have conjured up images of art galleries but now I associate it with conversations about the future of education. And yet . . . I'm really drawn toward an archaic definition of the term. Over time, this word morphed into an intense care and love for a particular subject, knowledge, or set of artistic works. This is something often overlooked in the conversations about education and curation. While I see some validity in this sentiment, I think it proves that now more than ever, teachers need to be curators. What does curation typically look like? Content curation begins with an intense love of the content. Curators have a holistic, connected knowledge combined with thoughtful commentary. If all of that seems too abstract, here are a few things that are a part of the curation process: Favorite Education Curators