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‘Reading lists, outfits, even salads are curated – it’s absurd’ Contemporary curating has become an absurdity.

‘Reading lists, outfits, even salads are curated – it’s absurd’

Outfits are curated. Salads are curated. Twitter feeds are curated. Bennington College in Vermont invites prospective students to curate their applications. Lorde was appointed “sole curator” of the most recent Hunger Games film’s soundtrack. Yet to examine the etymology and history of the word “curate” is to find a direct, fascinating link between the professional curator and her pop culture counterpart, engaged in the activity of selecting and displaying. The curator has always been a bit of an amateur. The idea of the contemporary curator originates with the conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the transitive-verb form of “to curate” – as in, “he curated a collection of hats” – to the performance-art scene of the early 80s. In the 90s, major art institutions, underfunded and hungry for the attention of donors and audiences, enlisted contemporary curators to roll out the welcome mat.

Content Curation Tools – The Ultimate List [2019 Update] Are you really serious about your social media and content marketing?

Content Curation Tools – The Ultimate List [2019 Update]

🤔 Do you want to save time yet still share high-quality engaging content? ⏲ Digital Literacy: Consume, Create, Curate! - EdTech Center @ World Education. EdTech Partner Nell Eckersley gave adult educators a compelling “Call to Action” to go beyond consuming technology and become ambassadors for curating and creating information online.

Digital Literacy: Consume, Create, Curate! - EdTech Center @ World Education

Read on for a synopsis of her keynote speech given at OTAN’s annual Technology & Distance Learning Symposium Conference held this Spring in Anaheim, CA. In this time of challenges for adult education programs, one positive thing is that WIOA actually includes a useful definition for Digital Literacy: “The skills associated with using technology to enable users to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information” (Museum and Library Services Act of 2010).

I would contend that in adult literacy programs we have always been working to help our students to develop skills to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information. Now we are must think about how technology can be used to support these skills. Watch the full speech: How to curate your own reading list with the Instapaper and Pocket apps.

We are all swamped with information, yet we also can't help ourselves looking out more for both work and pleasure.

How to curate your own reading list with the Instapaper and Pocket apps

When you need to collate articles or you just want a good read, use Pocket or Instapaper. AppleInsider goes browsing to explain why and how. This has happened to you. While you're very busy at work or on a project, you somehow come across an interesting article on the web and you just cannot read it yet. Certainly that's at least partly because you're conscientious and you know you're busy, but there's more. So read it later instead. Left: Pocket on iPhone. We've been able to bookmark articles since the dawn of the web but bookmarking feels permanent. Directory of Best Social Bookmarking Sites. 'bookmarking' in Content Curation World. Randoku: Collect and curate your online findings.

Collect and Curate Content with Read It Later Apps — Harris County Law Library. How do you save online content for later retrieval?

Collect and Curate Content with Read It Later Apps — Harris County Law Library

Do you bookmark the webpage or article that you plan to visit or read again? Bookmarks are good tools for maintaining a directory of frequently accessed websites within your browser, but when you bookmark a page, you are simply creating an anchor, a digital marker for each site you visit on a regular basis. This can be a useful tool indeed, but it offers no value-added features such as tagging, note-taking, or highlighting.

Instead, try using a "read it later" app or browser extension such as Pocket, Instapaper, or GoogleKeep. All three offer additional features that browser bookmarks do not. Organize, Bookmark And Curate Your Content - Red Cappi. Content is challenging and as its landscape is growing and expectations of customers and content consumers, in general, are growing.

Organize, Bookmark And Curate Your Content - Red Cappi

Consistent Content Operations is one of the biggest problems today for marketers. If you are a small to medium business and you have one person in your office that is responsible for marketing, then you are in trouble. The content that your company should produce today is enormous. Why? Each piece of real value-driven content ensures your brand gets attention. Why should you care about content curation when everybody talks about creation? We will show you why. What you see the top most shared results, click on them and analyze. Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies - Michelle Pacansky-Brock. Content Curation Tools: The Ultimate List for Beginners and Pros.

For content marketers, content curation is integral to online strategy.

Content Curation Tools: The Ultimate List for Beginners and Pros

Effective curation helps position you as a thought leader in your space, and is an economical way to maintain a consistent publishing schedule of quality content. But manually trying to find the most relevant content in a given industry and then publishing it across multiple channels can be time-consuming. To curate effectively thus requires automation. Diigo - curate bookmarks, image, annotate PDF's and take notes. My reflections having co-hosting a Tweet meet Last Tuesday I along with 21 other educators hosted a Microsoft education Tweet meet, on the subject of 'student centred learning'.

Diigo - curate bookmarks, image, annotate PDF's and take notes

It such an amazing experience I thought it worthy of a separate blog post. I was introduced to the Tweet meet team by an acquaintance from my personal learning network, he had been a host on previous tweet meet and found the whole process really interesting and worthwhile. Following the formal invitation to take part, a Skype call was arranged between myself and one of the organisers who stressed that would be a fair bit of work ahead of the event and require a reasonable time commitment.

News, Curation & Bookmarking Tools – Directory of Learning & Performance Tools. Last updated: September 24, 2018 at 15:27 pm Tools to curate content into magazines or newsletters or other formats.

News, Curation & Bookmarking Tools – Directory of Learning & Performance Tools

Listed in alphabetical order. A1-Webmarks A webmark marks a location on the web, just like a bookmark marks a location in a book.Cost: Free | Available: Hosted Anders Pink Easily curate the latest content on any topic using keywords, domains, Twitter influencers and RSS. Get updates every few hours. Projected Projects.