Curation: Creatively Filtering Content

Content Curation In Online Learning: How To Do It Right Not every Subject Matter Expert is good at building online learning and not every online learning unit builder is an expert in every topic. Good online learning, however, is a combination of good content well presented to engage and entertain the learner. I am an Instructional Designer and online learning unit builder (e-delivery team) and the following reflects some of the conversations I have with Subject Matter Experts to help them provide me with the best possible content for developing online learning units. Much of the work I am doing at the moment is based on self-paced and self-assessing learning. Introduction The process of content curation in online learning is one where we peel away a lot of the external “noise” that we might use in a classroom situation and expose the kernels of knowledge that we then present as engagingly and clearly as possible. Together online learning magic is created! Some key things that will turn online learners off: Defining Module Units Defining Outcomes

Mural.ly Getting Started with Content Curation in the Classroom – John Spencer This is the second in a series called The Future of Learning. The previous post dealt with the seismic changes happening with technology. This post dives into the question of how we explore information in a world of information overload. The term “curate” has become a buzzword in education. We live in a world of instant information, where ideas go viral without much thought regarding accuracy and validity. The Rise of the Curators In recent years, we’ve seen the rise in popularity of a group of bloggers that specialize in content curation. Farnam Street: Shane Farnam has a description on his blog, “I want to go to bed each night smarter than when I woke up. What Is Content Curation? I’m 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. A curator is one who collects and manages information with a passion and love for the subject. What does curation typically look like?

Curation as Digital Literacy Practice | Ibrar's space I have been writing my PhD so haven’t updated this blog for a while. Thesis writing is taking up a lot of my mental space as I get the ideas, storyline and contentions to ‘coalesce’ and cohere in a manner suitable for such a piece of work. I’ve been mulling over a series of ideas in my analysis of digital literacies, and one of them is the concept and practice of ‘curation’ as a digital literacy, and what the implications are for curation practices to be better understood, theorised, and subsequently harnessed for educational purposes. My PhD thesis (Bhatt, forthcoming) is not fully completed yet, but some ideas are worth throwing out to collide with others as part of what I believe is a public conversation (#impact #engagement). [Aside: see this brief lecture by Steven Johnson on the ‘collision’ of ideas and the sharing of half-baked hunches] Back to the topic: Source: References: Bhatt, I. Tufte, E. Like this:

Chapter 4: Curation in School Libraries | Valenza | Library Technology Reports Chapter 4: Curation in School Libraries Joyce Kasman Valenza, Brenda L. Boyer, Della Curtis Abstract In chapter 4 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 50, no. 7), “Social Media Curation,” the authors present interviews with school librarians who describe how digital curation supports learning, serves as a learning activity for students, and contributes to the larger community. Refbacks There are currently no refbacks. MentorMob - Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love - MentorMob Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project | Social Media for PR Class I know a lot of people view curation as a buzz word devoid of meaning, but I like the metaphor! I think it beautifully captures the process we need to go through to best make sense of the vast amount of information available on the web. Of course, it doesn’t help that a lot of people use the word curation to describe activities that don’t live up to the metaphor. And that takes away from its power. To talk content curation, we really need to think through the duties of a museum curator for a second. A curator scours the art world, selects the finest works, gathers them together around a unified theme, provides a frame to understand the artists’ messages and then hosts a conversation around the collection. The Curation Project & the PLN As part of the social media class, my students are required to set up a network of online mentors using social media tools. In essence, I tasked students with creating the ultimate resource on a particular topic and to share it with the world.

Getting Started with Curating Content – Learn. Show. Repeat. Curation. Whenever I hear the term I always think of a person working in an art gallery carefully selecting pieces of work for an upcoming exhibition. But I’m also seeing it as a skill needed for modern L&D folks… “We need curators and community managers, rather than course designers” Charles Jennings …and certainly it’s an area (along with community management) that I want to explore more and build my own capability in. But how can I do this? What is curation? The starting point in wanting to learn more about how to do something is to know what it means. “Curation isn’t just about collecting or filtering…it’s about adding value through context and analysis” David Kelly “A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online” Rohit Bhargava I thought that I was curating already by selecting some of the articles/videos/blog posts that I come across and sharing them via social media e.g. Like this:

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

WebList - The place to find the best web lists on the web Curating content - tools and processes Having clarified the need to curate content on a specific topic, your next step is to choose a curation tool. One that meets your users' needs and is easily accessible. Contents Getting started: the curation processTools for content curationShare your curated contentExamples of curated collectionsRelated links for further reading Getting started: the curation process For more detail on the definition of content curation, who might take part, and who your target audience might be, refer to the article, Content curation. Identify a need What is the student learning objective? Selecting resources for curation You will eventually develop a reliable collection of sources from which you can draw high quality resources for your curated collections. These are essential resources that all librarians should bookmark as go-to points for curating. Tools for content curation The bewildering array of curation tools generally fall into one of two categories, according to Sue Waters: Choose your curation tool

Filtering: Seven Principles In earlier posts towards the tail end of last year and early this year, I committed to writing a number of posts on filtering. The background is simple: soon, everything and everyone will be connectedthat includes people, devices, creatures, inanimate objects, even concepts (like a tweet or a theme)at the same time, the cost of sensors and actuators is dropping at least as fast as compute and storageso that means everything and everyone can now publish status and alerts of pretty much anythingthere’s the potential for a whole lotta publishing to happenwhich in turn means it’s firehose timeso we need filterswhich is why the stream/filter/drain approach is becoming more commonand which is why I want to spend time on all this during 2014, starting with the filter So here goes. 1. Filters should be built such that they are selectable by subscriber, not publisher There should be no publisher-level filters. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Like this: Like Loading...

Clipica: Paste the web. A Comprehensive Guide to Content Curation Depending on your point of view, content on the internet can be a vast collection of treasures, a cesspool swimming in filth, or a big pile of gold specks mixed in with an even bigger pile of dirt. My guess is that most people lean towards the last one, giving rise to content curation, the process of finding the gold among the dirt, as a very popular online activity. At its most basic, content curation is the process of finding, organizing, and presenting content from the flood of information and media that inundate the web by the second. Similar to museum curators, content curators sift through a seemingly never-ending amount of digital objects to unearth individual items worthy of being showcased for a specific audience. Once the selection is finished, the curator presents those assembled elements under a cohesive theme, just like museum curators do for specific exhibitions. It helps to think of a content curator as someone who’s editing a print magazine. Social Media Curation Tools