The 5 Models Of Content Curation Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America – and started as a private art collection from one man (J. Paul Getty) who had a passion for art. One of the hottest trends in social media right now is content curation – thanks in no small part to the leading efforts of several thought leaders actively promoting the idea. What Is Content Curation? Back in 2009 I published a blog post called the “Manifesto For The Content Curator” which predicted that this role would be one of the fastest growing and most important jobs of the future. Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. The 5 Models Of Content Curation Content curation is certainly an emerging space and one where more and more thought leaders will continue to share their voices. Interested in learning more about content curation?
Content curation in education I believe it would be a total waste of time to begin this post with my own definition of content curation. Since there are so many definitions that could explain this phenomenon, I decided to pick my favorite from the list of content curation definitions maintained by Robin Good (in my opinion – a guru of content curation). So, content curator “isn’t just someone who can find great “stuff” ,though it is an important skill in process of content curation. If I interpret this definition within education context, an educator should provide a unique learning experience by curating existing learning materials or resources. Seek – Sense – Share curation model Now, the definition is set, so let’s move forward to the main question – in what way the curation process is carried out? Focus on sense making Today excellent tools are available for seeking / collecting information or resources and there is a plethora of tools for the final step – sharing the curated contents. About Tadej Stanic
Trapit Five tips for designing effective online learning modules Online learning makes it easy for students to learn what they need to move ahead in their training, courses, or careers. Whether you're designing your original content in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel, when you add it to a Learning Content Management System (LCMS), the way you organize your content can help students learn the material successfully. The learning modules you design will be effective for students if you create a logical structure, reinforce key concepts, and add exercises at just the right points to help students evaluate their own learning. 1: Outline your session Perhaps the most important element in an effective online learning module is the way in which it is organized. Your students need to know what the major tasks in the lesson will be. 2: Create sections for major steps in the process Design your learning module so that each major task is its own section. 3: Make your introductions clear The introduction of your learning model sets the stage for everything that follows.
17 of the Best Content Curation Tools to Use in 2015 Creating content for multiple platforms each and every day can be taxing for even the most skilled copywriter. It means coming up with fresh, interesting content constantly to provide great resources for your clients, but I know that we all can have a rough time at it if we go it alone and don’t do content curation. So how do you exactly go about curating excellent content? Do you just use Google? Why Do You Need to Do Content Curation? Content curation seems like it might be a bit extraneous at first because you know your topics right now, and you know adequate information about them. Remember, when you are curating content, you are only looking for content to gain inspiration from, not to copy. The Top 17 Awesome Content Curation Tools to Use “Ok, content curation is important, now what?” Trap.It. In the End, When it Doubt Follow Industry Blogs and Use Social Media Photo credit: rzoze19 / iStock
Teach Kids To Be Their Own Internet Filters | MindShift | KQED News It’s becoming less and less effective to block students from websites. When Los Angeles Unified rolled out its one-to-one iPad program, administrators expected to be able to control how students used them both in school and at home. But, not surprisingly, kids are resourceful and students quickly found ways around the security, prompting the district to require students to turn over the devices. Students live in an information-saturated world. Rather than shielding them from the digital world, many agree the most effective way to keep them safe and using the internet responsibly as a learning tool is to teach them how to be their own filters. A key to making sure good practices stick is to teach research skills when kids need them. [RELATED READING: Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know] “If we are not teaching the kids to use the web as a vehicle for enhancing learning and teaching them to be the filter, that’s a dereliction of duty,” Luhtala said. Katrina Schwartz
- Student Curators: Powerful Learning 3 Comments March 9, 2014 By: Guest Blogger Nancy White Mar 9 Written by: 3/9/2014 2:11 PM ShareThis During the past 2 weeks, I had the pleasure of working with longtime friend and 8th grade social studies teacher extraordinaire, Terri Inloes, to transform her students into curators of information as they learned about the Social Reform movements of the late 19th century in the U.S. Day 1: The QFT By the time students get to middle school, it is rare to hear them ask questions – other than to get clarification on what needs to be done for the assignment. Day 2: Defining Curation; Creating a Research Plan Everything happens for a reason, right? Day 3: Setting up a WordPress Blog Our school district has our own domain and server set up for WordPress blogs, and this is integrated with Active Directory, so every single teacher and student in the district already has an account set up there. Days 4- 8 Curating From Terri: Things are really crystallizing for kids. Reflection and Feedback
How To Find and Friend Your Influencers Let’s face it, there are a lot of experts in this world of ours, and the field of social media is no exception. How do you reasonably uncover who is influential in your industry, sift through the smoke and mirrors, and really get to know the folks you want to be friends with? Here are a few thoughts and ideas on how to start developing wonderful relationships with influencers. (This list is by no means exhaustive, please add your best practices below!) 1. Begin with Google Good old-fashioned Google won’t let you down in the preliminary stages of influencer super-sleuthing. 2. Plunk each name, one by one, into Twitter search for starters. 3. Twitter is also a great tool for finding the people that Google didn’t tell you about right away. 4. There are a number of great tools that measure someone’s influence. 5. People will try and tell you that @MrInfluencerPerson is the most influential person in industry X, and that you MUST follow. 6. 7. 8.
Super Teacher Tools Content Curation Primer Photo by Stuck in Customs What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them? For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “content fried” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share Content curation is a three-part process: Seek, Sense, and Share. Getting Started
Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons There is a growing number of key trends that are both rapidly revolutionizing the world of education as we know it and opening up opportunities to review and upgrade the role and scope of many of its existing institutions, (as the likeliness that they are going to soon become obsolete and unsustainable, is right in front of anyone's eyes). George Siemens, in his recent Open Letter to Canadian Universities, sums them up well: 1) An Overwhelming Abundance of Information Which Begs To Be OrganizedThe goal is not (and probably it never was) to learn or memorize all of the information available out there. It's just too much even if we focus only on the very essence of it. The goal is to learn how to learn, to know where to look for something and to be able to identify which parts of all the information available are most relevant to learn or achieve a certain goal or objective.This is why new digital literacy skills are of such great importance. From the New York Times: "...Mr.
Bayesian Feed Filter 21st Century Librarian The Power of Google By Delano Taylor|source: Feb 22nd, 2012 Google.com is pretty self explanatory. Right? If you said yes, there’s a good chance you’re not using Google to its full potential. Recently, I found that there’s this complete underground world of mind-blowing search tools for Google, never before mentioned to me. With midterm papers beginning to breath down my back, this information will be quite beneficial. 11k