Seek Sense Share Note: my blog is where I hammer out ideas, so you may be finding some of these posts a bit repetitive. Sorry about that My working definition of personal knowledge management: PKM: a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. PKM is also an enabling process for wirearchy: ” a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results enabled by interconnected people and technology” Some Observations: PKM is part of the social learning contract. Explaining PKM: I have looked at the PKM process as: Sort-Categorize-Make Explicit-Retrieve Connect-Contribute-Exchange Aggregate-Filter-Connect. Currently, this makes the most sense to me: Seek-Sense-Share
About the DCC Many research teams are aware of data curation and its numerous benefits, but few have so far managed to address the issues practically and effectively in a working environment. The Digital Curation Centre is committed to bridging this gap by sharing our knowledge and experience with the higher education sector. To do this, the DCC has embarked upon a fresh, new, three-year programme of work, which began in March 2010. Our help isn’t just limited to expert advice. We are a gateway to the technical solutions, curation tools and learning resources that can help data custodians like you to build capacity for digital curation. The value of digital curation Such is the potential for digital curation to add value at every stage of the research lifecycle, the practice is fast becoming a requirement of successful funding bids. DCC Charter Find out more about our vision and our values, read the DCC Charter and Statement of Principles.
My daily PKM routine (practices and toolset) Harold Jarche is a leading authority on Personal Knowledge Management, which he describes as a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, and work more effectively. He has developed a popular Seek-Sense-Share framework which identifies the 3 key elements of PKM (see diagram on the right) Harold writes about PKM continuously in his blog, and has also helped thousands of people worldwide use this framework in his very popular online workshops, which he runs privately for organisations or publically. I have talked and written a lot about the use of social media for professional learning, and in particular how social tools have transformed the way I work and learn. I was recently asked how my own use of social media fits onto Harold’s PKM framework. Although I search for (ie seek) stuff regularly during the day on Google, most of what I find out comes from the continuous flow of information from my professional network.
Trend: content curation | Pim on social business Een trend die ik nu zie zijn de sites die zogenaamd content curation verzorgen: een manier om interessante internet artikelen te bundelen en aan te bieden aan de lezer met je eigen mening. Een mooie visualisatie kun je hier zien: Evolutie social bookmarking Zoals ik content curation zie is dit een evolutie van social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is bookmarks centraal opslaan en inzichtelijk voor anderen. Daarnaast biedt de software van content curation een mooie pagina waar deze links mooi getoond worden als kleine artikelen. Tools Over tools waarmee je dit kunt doen kun je hier lezen, wellicht komt paper.li je bekend voor. Benieuwd naar hoe het eruit ziet? Like this: Like Loading...
15 top-notch content curation tools Content curation tools play an important role in the content planning and publishing process. Before we provide you with our picks for the Web’s best content curation tools, let’s go back a step revisit the origins of content curation and the specific role it plays. The role content curation plays across the social Web Content curation has risen in significance for a number of reasons: 1. Curated content is more cost-effective than producing (only) original content. There are associated benefits of curated content, including the ability to serve up frequent content and increased opportunities for interaction, which can help exposure over time. How content curation works Content planning varies by channel. The best forms of curated content are evergreen, as opposed to news-based content, which has a shorter shelf-life. Examples of evergreen content include FAQs, how-to guides and tutorials, industry definitions, and resource lists (such as this one). Aggregation dashboards 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8.
I’m a Curatr ratr I’m into my second week of a course on the Curatr platform. The course is, by coincidence, about how to become a good online curator of content and a course on the Curatr platform works by, well, curating content! Enough circularities. The course itself is about curation, in this context the act of searching the web for material on a particular subject and re-presenting it as a series of links to the original sites. As the name suggests the course doesn’t include any new or specially written content other than (and this is important) some discussion questions and an element of gamification. Despite having no interest in games, I found this element of the gamification quite appealing as it helps to chunk and consolidate the very diverse messages of the very diverse items. I found some elements of the platform a bit clunky, like not being able to resize the content and discussion windows and too many email notifications (I could probably turn them off).
Information overload – break the spell with a bell I’m doing a course at the moment at curatr.com about content curation on the internet. The main problem people on the course report with internet content is overload – there’s just too much of it! We’re all familiar with this and the course aims to help you find strategies first of all to manage your own information flow and then to offer a service for others in helping them make sense of information glut. These are information curation strategies but I’ve found a couple of techniques to manage the mental effects of information overload at the time you feel them. You know the sort of thing – you start out following a link in an email which references something else that you think may be interesting; there you follow a debate in the comments below it, which refers to another debate so you follow that link, and one of the people posting sounds interesting so you follow a link to her website and … and… and… Before you know it half an hour has gone.
Digital Curation MOOC – not even started yet… | Lightbulb Moment I’ve enrolled in the free Curatr Digital Curation mini MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), put together by well known experts (though I think they would hate me saying that!) Sam Burrough and Martin Couzins. I’ve enrolled for a few reasons: I’ve wanted to do a MOOC for ages, not set aside the time/energy and this one came up on a subject I’m really interested in, want to learn something from and is relevant to what I’m working onIt’s a bit smaller, at two weeks, than a lot of the MOOCs I’ve looked atIt’s been developed by and on a platform by people I know and trustA lot of my Twitter personal learning network are also enrolled, which will add to the social interaction element for me Why the blog post if you haven’t even started? Good sub-heading! The thing I noticed though, was the gamifaction part of the MOOC. Is this a good thing? Here’s a Storify set of Tweets that discussed this. @marklearns Indeed & looking forward to it. Thoughts I like Sam’s point about taking it or leaving it.
MOOC participation – annoying or learning? | Lightbulb Moment I’m working through the free Curatr Digital Curation mini MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), put together by Sam Burrough and Martin Couzins. I’ve been busy with work, as have most others I’m sure, and got to the content later than the goody-two-shoes-geeky-teacher’s-pet that I would normally like. I was looking at it on my iPad, whilst relaxing on the sofa and, quite frankly, tired after a long day of work but mindful that there was a set window of time in which to participate in the MOOC. MOOC annoyance I was working through level one, gaining my “experience points” by consuming the content in order to move further into the course. I found that I needed to comment on the resources presented, and other actions, to gain more experience points. MOOC understanding As you can imagine, I soon changed my mind (again, something that people who know me will not be shocked at…). Like this: Like Loading... Filed under Curation, Design, Facilitation, mini MOOC, MOOC, online learning
Beyond Information Literacy: From Seeking to Sharing: a story about PLNs and Curation This is a story about my curation and my PLN [Personal Learning Network]. Most days, I end up filing the cornucopia of blog posts, listserv and RSS feeds that come across my browser or email inbox into folders. Occasionally, they ‘grab’ me, lure me into actually reading them and following their breadcrumbs. And, since I am currently engaged in the the free Curatr Digital Curation mini MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), put together by Sam Burrough and Martin Couzins, I decided that this blog post would represent my ‘call to action’ – my ‘ah ha’ moment. The post was an insightful analysis by Harold Jarche, a man I consider to be a PLN ‘guru’. Jarche then takes Patrick Lambe’s 6 PKM roles[i] and plots them on the same coordinate grid based upon each role’s levels of sense-making and sharing: Being intrigued, I decided to further investigate Lambe’s 6C’s to learn more about my own curation push ↔ pull tendencies. Looks like I’m doing OK on Jarche’s SEEK and SENSE. Fisher, Mike. Tan, Edgar.
The 5 elements of Working Out Loud Working Out Loud Update: Working Out Loud is now available on Amazon. Recently, I was talking with my wife about Working Out Loud and the book that I’m publishing later this year. After a few minutes, she bluntly asked me: “So, is it just blogging?” Now, that’s one of those questions that could either lead to an argument or could lead to deeper reflection and new insights. My wife’s question made made me think that, despite writing about Working Out Loud for a few years, maybe I haven’t been clear enough about what it really is. So here’s a broader definition that I hope you’ll find useful. The original definition When Bryce Williams first coined the term more than 3 years ago, he described it with a simple formula: Working Out Loud = Observable Work + Narrating Your Work Understandably, he focuses on publishing. So I can understand my wife’s question. A broader definition So now, when someone asks me “What’s Working Out Loud”? What do you think? Like this: Like Loading... Related
Curating on #dcurate | How to be an effective digital curator? is an on-line open course set up by @burrough and @martincouzins on a social learning platform called Curatr. @jess1ecat I think it's a FLOOC #dcurate (fairly large open online course)— Sam Burrough (@burrough) January 16, 2014 This “FLOOC” started on 8th January and was originally planned for 2 weeks. So here is it. What is Curation ? In another interview she described a curator as “a catalyst enabling the global conversation, operating in a networked ecosystem of meaning that helps us better understand the world and each other.” That last part “understand each other” caught my attention… I didn’t necessarily see it like this before. Like many other participants in the course, I also found that presentation by @corinnew was a brilliant overview of what curation is or not (curation vs. aggregation/creation). Why Curation ? That enthusiastic intervention (2min) from @RobinGood is certainly a great motivator for me to start curating more seriously :