Content Curation Tools
by Terry Heick You probably should be tagging your curriculum. It's 2014. It's time. Tagging is is the labeling of content based on any chosen criteria. When I write a blog post for TeachThought, I "tag" it to make it searchable, so that it is more likely to show up when you search for it.
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OK...so let me clarify that title. I honestly think textbooks are on their way out...or at least I hope they are. Really it should read " Flipboard as core curation artifact for classrooms" but that wouldn't have you here reading now would it. I'm in love with Flipboard.
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For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for a few days, I'm re-running some of the most popular posts of the year. TechSmith Snagit is a screen capture tool from the producers of the popular screencasting tools Jing and Camtasia.
When I don't have an image of my own to use and cannot find a public domain image to use in a presentation I turn to searching for Creative Commons-licensed images on Flickr. Alan Levine developed a browser bookmarklet that helps me quickly formatting Creative Commons licensed images found on Flickr.
For six years, I taught in a basement classroom with no windows, and yet I could see what was happening around the world thanks to the Internet. Though I tried learning something new each day, until I put systems in place, I spent more time searching for materials than actually learning.
How Scoop.it, Google Plus & Twitter can turn chaos into order If you do anything professionally related to online technology, you understand the immense amount of data you need to sort through each day. There are the daily content roundups, blogs to read, Facebook posts and to check, tweets to scroll through and news sites.
In the mid 17th-century John Comenius published what many consider to be the first picture book dedicated to the education of young children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus - or The World of Things Obvious to the Senses drawn in Pictures, as it was rendered in English.
What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
Tools and sites to support discovering and curating material on the social web
5/20/2014 By: Product: Been for Education ( https://beenpod.com/edu) By David Kapuler Been for Education is a new site that allows educators to safely browse and curate the web with their students for collaboratively learning. Quality and Effectiveness Been for Education is an ideal tool to use in an educational setting due to its safety features and its utility across any curriculum, class, or subject.
June 5 , 2014 Searching the web can be a daunting and time consuming task particularly for the less search savvy students. Needless to mention the proliferation of junk information and amateur knowledge that can deceptively lure students into using it as a source in their learning projects.
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Curation - is it the new search tool ( Valenza 2011), the new search ( Good 2012), the future of Web 2.0 ( Boyd 2010), or the new black ( O'Connell 2012)? What is curation anyway, and how can it be used as a tool for student and teacher learning?
I have written about curation before using Twitter as a Curation Tool and about the importance of helping our Students Becoming Curators of Information. Sue Waters also just published a very comprehensive Curation: Creatively Filtering Content on her blog. According to Heidi Cohen Content curation requires more than just the selection of information.
Nonetheless we are just at the beginning of a new era, in which content curation will be as important as search, there is already an apparent abundance of content curation tools of all kinds.
Museums curate works of art. We digital marketers curate blog posts. Though our link shares may not be artistic contributions, the idea of curation is at least the same at museums and online: We're all seeking only the best material to pass along to our patrons, customers, fans, or followers.
News, Trends, New Tools about Content Curation and Social Media: One Universe to allow people to get access to more specialized sources.
The slides were used in my talk about digital curation given at the Central NY ASTD Event held at the Everson Museum on 7/31/14
We are living in an era of information overload. So much content is shared online that curation is needed as a way to get value out of the information flood.
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