7 top tools for content curation
Scoop.it, Storify, Pearltrees let you become a niche authority This is the second of a two-part series. See part 1: • 7 smart techniques for content curation Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, businesses, educators, journalists, general public. By now you’ve likely heard of content curation, the process of collecting and cataloging the most useful or interesting things about a topic in order to share it for the common benefit. Keep in mind, there are lots of different ways to curate. More often, though, the new breed of content curation tools refers to sites and services specifically geared for finding the diamonds in the rough. Here, then, are Socialbrite’s six top tools for content curation. Scoop.it: Become an authority in your vertical 1Scoop.it (tagline: “share ideas that matter”) ranks as one of the top content curation tools right now. Gabriella Sannino put it well: “Scoop.it is like being your own newspaper editor.” Related
Satellites Track Hurricane Sandy Water Pollution
More than two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, now that its floodwaters have receded and the region's utilities and transportation systems have largely been restored, researchers and authorities are beginning to look at Sandy's other effects. One of those more lasting — and even less appealing — problems: sewage, sediment and other pollutants churned up and swept into waterways by the storm. "We tend to think of events like Sandy in terms of the ephemeral effect of the wind, rain, waves and even snow as it swept through our communities, but in fact this superstorm can have a longer-term effect in the large pulse of sediment and associated pollutants swept into our waterways," Marcia McNutt, U.S. Geological Survey director, said in a statement. Damage from Hurricane Sandy took several wastewater treatment plants offline in New Jersey, and raw sewage carrying high levels of bacteria and viruses emptied into some waterways in the northern part of the state.
Innovation Lab Network
The Innovation Lab Network engages schools, districts, and state education agencies working to identify new designs for public education that empower each individual student to thrive as a productive learner, worker, and citizen. CCSSO facilitates this network of states, which includes Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, to support programmatic, policy, and structure design work within each participating state and across the network. While the Innovation Lab Network is positioned to directly challenge the status quo, it anchors its work using six critical attributes as initial design principles for large-scale systems transformation. Those critical attributes include world-class knowledge and skills; comprehensive systems of support; personalized learning; performance-based learning; anytime, anywhere learning; and student ownership of learning.
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ERDDAP - Home Page
ERDDAP (the Environmental Research Division's Data Access Program) is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. This particular ERDDAP installation has oceanographic data (for example, data from satellites and buoys). Easier Access to Scientific Data Our focus is on making it easier for you to get scientific data. Different scientific communities have developed different types of data servers, for example, OPeNDAP, WCS, SOS, OBIS, and custom web pages with forms. Different data servers make you format your data request in different ways. ERDDAP unifies the different types of data servers so you have a consistent way to get the data you want, in the format you want. ERDDAP acts as a middleman between you and various remote data servers. For a quick introduction to ERDDAP, watch the first half of this video Find out more about ERDDAP. Start Using ERDDAP: Search for Interesting Datasets
Employment | Cascade Mountain School
Cascade Mountain School is an equal opportunity employer values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek applications by individuals from all backgrounds, abilities, cultures, orientations, identities, and communities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. If interested, applicants are encouraged to apply for more than one position. If applying for more than one position please send only one resume and cover letter and indicate in your cover letter which positions you are interested in. Lead Science Educator Work with Cascade Mountain School during the Field Ecology Academy as the Lead Science Educator. Supporting Science Educator Work with Cascade Mountain School during the Hood River Valley Science Camp &/or Field Ecology Academy as the Supporting Science Educator. Lead Farm Educator Work with Cascade Mountain School during the Farm to Table Bike Camp as the Lead Farm Educator. Supporting Farm Educator
Sunlight Absorption on the Greenland ice sheet Experiment (SAGE) | A blog following science and adventure on a traverse across Northern Greenland.
Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning
The Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL) is a research facility dedicated to improving student learning and promoting creativity in education. Housed in a century-old building on the Stanford University campus undergoing a major reworking for earthquake retrofitting, the Center wanted its new facility to act as a living prototype space, flexible enough to accommodate new tools, new workspaces, and new methods discovered by the Center’s research. Working with the Center and the architect, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, IDEO began six weeks of research, including on-campus interviews, photo-surveys, and shadowing, to understand the work process of the students and the Center’s staff and faculty. This work informed the design documentation IDEO delivered, including visualizations of every aspect from architecture and furnishings to information systems and protocols of use. The ground floor is the Center’s most visible aspect and serves as its public face. Project date: 2000
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App Inventor
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and ITU Child Online Protection Champion, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan celebrates the winning team of the just concluded Technovation Challenge in Nigeria. She applauded the feat of these young girls who developed a mobile app to track traffic offenders in Nigeria. The team were also presented to the European parliament(www.witin.org/tc13) on 25th of April by the Secretary General of ITU, Dr Hamadoun I. Touré; who also presented them with the Tech Needs Girls Awards.
