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digitalgoonies.com Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog Tour: Collaborate joyce-valenza.wikispaces "A content curator" is "someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online" (Bhargava, 2009, para. 4). With this in mind, content curation is digital archiving. This model is classified into five subgroups:Aggregation. The act of curating the most relevant information about a particular topic into a single location;Distillation. Key Implications of Curation Tools for 21st Century School Libraries Curation tools are important in school libraries because they lessen the possibility of information overload while providing concrete examples of synthesized information. Key Implications for Implementing Guided Inquiry With Curation Tools Curation websites are useful to students during the collection stage of the ISP because they can access varied information formats from multiple sources in one webpage.

New Stephen's Lighthouse Wikiversité Curation School Library Monthly/Volume XXIX, Number 1/September-October 2012 Curation by Joyce Kasman Valenza Joyce Kasman Valenza, Ph.D., is a teacher librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, PA. Email: joycevalenza@gmail.com The Internet firehose analogy rings even truer today, twenty years after Internet access saw its beginning. Human Filters Help Digital curators can prevent oversaturation by filtering and diverting the onslaught and by directing what is worth sharing into more gentle and continuous streams. Blogger, author, and NYU professor Clay Shirky, in Steve Rosebaum’s Mashable post, "Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay" on May 10, 2010, describes the problem with traditional search and identifies the issue of filter failure: Curation comes up when search stops working. Human filters make a difference. Curators make sense of the vast amounts of content that are continually produced. Perhaps Albert Barnes was the ultimate curator for the pre-digital world. Conclusion

The Library Voice Wikijunior Un livre de Wikilivres. Bienvenue sur Wikijunior ! Wikijunior est un projet hébergé par Wikilivres qui consiste à produire des contenus appropriés pour les enfants de zéro à douze ans. Ces livres sont abondamment illustrés et colorés avec des photographies, des schémas et des dessins. Vous êtes invité à rejoindre Wikijunior et à écrire, modifier et réécrire chaque partie de nos livres pour l'améliorer. Pour en savoir plus, consultez l'accueil du projet. C'est pour les ENFANTS ! Wikijunior a des livres pédagogiques pour toi. Informations Le titre Wikijunior doit-il changer ?

Best Websites for Teaching & Learning The Landmark Websites are honored due to their exemplary histories of authoritative, dynamic content and curricular relevance. They are free, web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover and provide a foundation to support 21st-century teaching and learning. Guidelines for School Library Programs: Instructional Partner "The SLMS collaborates with classroom teachers to develop assignments that are matched to academic standards and include critical thinking skills, technology and information literacy skills, and core social skills and cultural competencies. Content Resources, Lesson Plans, and More Empower learners of all types and ages. Tip: Take a look at all the ALTEC Star Tools. Annenberg Media Learner.Org Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all available on this site. Tip: Browse by grade to find awesome classroom and lesson ideas. ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development) Edutopia EduWeb

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