Curation: Creatively Filtering Content We are living in an era of information overload. So much content is shared online that curation is needed as a way to get value out of the information flood. Content curation is the process of shifting through the vast abundance of content on the Internet to select the best, most relevant resource, on a specific topic or theme, so that we can organize, manage and collate the content for ourselves and share with others. Content curation is about working smarter and not harder. Why is curation important? Curation is a life skill and an important part of being digitally literate. While at the Edutech National Congress & Expo I curated the best resources shared from the Edutech conference into a Flipboard magazine. The purpose of this post is to showcase all the different ways content was curated at the Edutech National Congress & Expo to: Provide a deeper understanding of curation.Provide inspiration to try alternative curation methods.Make you appreciate the importance of curation. Blog posts
How to Succeed as an Open Participant in ds106 (with really trying) So you have heard about this little open course on digital storytelling called ds106, but how do you go about being a part of it? Come on in… cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Conor Keller | fortysixtyphoto.com If you need more information about ds106, we have the requisite about page as well as a history of ds106 through the ages. First of all, in ds106, there are multiple levels of participation- but most importantly, it is designed so you can pick and choose the when and where. There are two approaches for being part of ds106, we will call “Fast and Easy” and “The Blogging Way”. The Fast and Easy Plan To be “Fast and Easy” You can submit any work you do for the ds106 Assignments (described below) by completing a web form linked form each one. We also invite you to comment and provide feedback to the ds106ers who are blogging and to tune in and participate with us on twitter. The Blogging Way If you set up a new blog, please first write first welcome post. Set up Gravatar.
The Epic BYOD Toolchest (51 Tools You Can Use Now) PowerSchool Learning: (Previously Haiku Learning.) This is a full learning management system (LMS) that I’m trying to get our school to adopt. It’s multiplatform and robust, which makes it a great fit for our BYOD environment. It also works on top of Google Classroom, so I have all those features too, plus my grade book. Google Classroom: Teachers are moving in droves to Google Classroom. There are many other content-sharing platforms, like Moodle, Canvas, and CourseSites. Screencasting and Capturing What Happens in Class If you’re going to share and interact with your students in the electronic and physical spaces (as you should), you must learn how to screencast. In some exciting news, Apple has announced that iOS 11 (out later this year) will include screen recording capabilities and new screenshot features. Screencast-O-Matic: This is my go-to app. Cloud Syncing Dropbox: If you shoot video and need to get it onto your computer, Dropbox is essential. Expression Blogging Presentations
The Daily Create - Daily assignments to fuel your creativity Radio ds106 Radio is a free form live streaming station that has been setup for this course, and it is being used as a platform to broadcast the work being created in the class, and a space for live broadcasts as well as for programming shows. The whole point of this experiment is to encourage any and all members of the course (as well as beyond it) to produce something real for anyone who wants to tune in. It’s also provides a global, 24 hour/7 day-a-week happening for the creations of the course and much, much more. And more than anything, ds106 radio is place where anyone can submit their work and help program the course radio station in order to commune and share around works and ideas while at the same time making the web safe for democracy. What’s on the radio? Tune into the radio! How can I find out more information? The best place to find all the information is this group document where users have edited with any changes and updates. How do I listen to ds106 radio? Bumpers and commercials
in[SPIRE] Your ds106 Handbook #ds106 is #4life Here is your guide to ds106. Study it closely. Commit to your soul. image based on cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by johntrainor: Comments Add a comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Get Into ds106 ds106 Current Sections ds106 in[SPIRE] Sign in to your account Forgot your password? Visualizing cMOOC data: Extracting and analysing data from FeedWordPress part 1 #ds106 #NodeXL JISC CETIS MASHe In a recent post I showed that how given some urls it was easy to generated a templated report as a word document. This was partly done to show how blog posts from a JISC funded programme could be used to generate reports. One of the issues with this solution is not all the projects used WordPress as their blogging platform making it harder to get at some of the data. One thought I had was rather than dictating a particular platform JISC could aggregate all programme posts in a central database. This isn’t entirely new as at CETIS we already aggregate links to posts for selected programmes via our PROD database, the difference here would be as well as a link the post content would also be ingested making it easy to query and analysis the data from a single source. The data source If JISC were hosting the data then in theory it would be a lot easier to get to. For a local Apache/MySQL/PHP server I used XAMPP Lite. The selected data export The refinement The data meets Gephi and NodeXL
Week 1: Welcome to ds106 Bootcamp Welcome to ds106. The first two weeks of the Fall 2012 course at the University of Mary Washington is going to be the basic training you will need to survive the rest of this course. In fact, you will not be able to proceed beyond week 2 without achieving the basic proficiencies of owning your own web site, publishing to it via WordPress, and an appreciation for the creative work ahead of us. Are you ready? Weekly Media Before we jump into training, we will start with something that you will get every week: some media we want to to give your attention to as par of the inspiration and understanding what this course is about. Next, consider both style and message about creativity of this RSA Animate created from a talk by author Stephen Johnson on Where Ideas Come From. Finally, take a look at this “Rules for Students and Teachers” by John Cage. And Now the Bootcamp Part Your goal this week is to get your own web site set up, install WordPress, and begin your path of self publishing there.
Quick Start Guide to ds106 #ds106 is #4life cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by I like Details… Comments Add a comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Get Into ds106 ds106 Current Sections ds106 Handbook ds106 in[SPIRE] Sign in to your account Forgot your password? Fall 2013: The Headless ds106 Syllabus Course: Digital Storytelling: The Headless Course Instructor: NOBODY. There is no one in charge of this class, no leaders. Location: The Internet Term: Fall 2013 Course Description The Wikipedia articles on Digital Storytelling defines it rather succinctly as "using digital tools so that ordinary people can tell their own real-life stories." Digital Storytelling is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own ‘true stories’ in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, fan art/fiction, and narrative computer games). As an emerging area of creative work, the definition of digital storytelling is still the subject of much debate. Course Objectives Course Materials Class Web Site: The locus of the course's online activity will be [the DS106 site].