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Presented by Angel Somers

Media Specialist

West Long Branch Public School

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Curating Learning Resources

February 6, 2014

Curating Learning Resources

Presented by Angel Somers

21st Century learning environments require that both students and teachers be skilled at:•finding •filtering •collating•evaluating •and utilizing information from multiple sources

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ˈkyo͝oˌrāt/verbgerund or present participle: curating1.1.2.select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition).3."both exhibitions are curated by the museum's director"

Definition

Learning to Filter Information

We can use curation tools to inspire aggregate, integrate, and apply new knowledge and skills to our repertoire of teaching skills.

http://www.ht2.co.uk/ben/?p=527

Curation Matrix created by Ben Betts from HT2

We will concentrate on 4 ways to use curation tools:

1.To create a Personal Learning Network ( PLN)2.To collaborate and share with other professionals3.To aggregate sources for student use.4.To create critical thinking lessons for students.

Examples

•Symbaloo

•Only2clicks

•Delicious

•diigo

• Pinterest

•Livebinders

•YouTube

•Slideshare

•Tweet Deck

•Libguides

Curating for Personal InspirationWe engage in this type of curation when the work is done by others and we access their collected content without making new meaning .

http://www.designedforlearning.co.uk/create-or-curate/

SAMPLES

•Wikis

•Pinterest

•Diigo

•Livebinders

•Pearltrees

•Scoopit

•Zite

•Storify

•Paper.li

Curating for professional collaboration

We engage in this type of curating when we create content specifically to share with others.

Examples

•Wikis

•Livebinders• 6th Grade Geography

• 4th gr SS Unit

• 8th

grade literature study

•Only2Clicks

•Symbaloo

Curating for Student Use

EXAMPLES

•Only2clicks

•Wikis

•Themeefy

•Educlipper

Students as Curators

In her article, “Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation” Nancy White, a learning consultant with Innovations in Education , outlines 10 different competencies that can be developed in students through the use of curation projects:

• Sensemaking• Computational Thinking• New media literacy• Transdisciplinary• Cognitive load management• Social intelligence• Adaptive thinking• Design mindset• Cross Cultural competency• Virtual Collaboration

What do students learn?

Selecting the Right Tool

Presented by Angel Somers

1. Import/Export features

Can you import from existing collections or will information stream to you?

2. Organization of contentHow many ways can you organize content? Can you copy, move, or create subsets?

3. Clipping Content Can you clip easily? Is there a bookmarklet? What can you clip?

Selecting the Right Tools

4. Searching for contentCan you search within the site? What other sources can you search and what kinds of content can you search?

5. Content monitoring Can you subscribe to receive content? Will it suggest content?

6. Filters What filters are available?

Selecting the Right Tools

7. Display and arrangement

Can you design your own display? Can you rearrange the content?

8. Navigation Is it easy to navigate particularly with larger collections?

9. Editing Can you edit the content being curated?

Selecting the Right Tools

10. Collaboration and/or PrivacyCan multiple people add to the collection? Is it possible to tag some content as private?

11. Memory How much does the site recall?

12. Citing Sources Are the images and content automatically credited?

Selecting the Right Tools

13. Archiving How can you be sure that content will be stored long term?

14. Sharing Can you publish your curated content?

15. Price Is it a free service? Can you get it as a free trial? Is an education version available?

Hands-on Time!Go to : http://goo.gl/KAGXku

Asay, Matt. "Shirky: Problem Is Filter Failure, Not Info Overload." CNET News. CBS Interactive, 13 Jan. 2009. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10142298-16.html>."Curation Tools." Weblogpost. WebTools4u2use. N.p., 2014. Web. 01 Feb. 2014 <http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Curation+Tools>.Curran, John. "Create or Curate?" Designed for Learning. Designed for Learning, 17 Oct. 2012. Web. 11 Jan. 2014.

<http://www.designedforlearning.co.uk/create-or-curate/>.Good, Robin. "Content Curation Tools: 21 Criteria To Select And Evaluate Your Ideal One." Robin Good's Master New

Media. Master New Media, 07 Jan. 2014. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://www.masternewmedia.org/content-curation-tools-selection-criteria-to-evaluate/>.

Mihailidis, Paul, and John N. Cohen. "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education." Journal of Interactive Media in Education (2013): n. pag. Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Feb. 2013. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://www-

jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html>."Pinterest: A Curation Tool in Education." - EdTechReview™ (ETR). World Wide Learn, 25 May 2013. Web. 01 Feb. 2014.

<http://edtechreview.in/news/news/products-apps-tools/346-use-of-pinterest-in-education>.Shirkey, Clay. "Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure." YouTube.

YouTube, 19 Sept. 2008. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI>."UAF ELearning Instructor Training Online." Reading. Content Curation Skills. ITeachU. University of Alaska, 29 Jan. 2014. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://iteachu.uaf.edu/grow-skills/filelink-management/content-curation-tools/>.White, Nancy. Weblog post. - Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation. N.p., 27 July 2012. Web. 01 Feb.

2014. <http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/27/developing-future-workskills-through-content-curation/>.

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