Content Curation and the teacher- librarian

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

What is content curation?Why should it be relevant in a school?What does a content curator do?How do we create a content strategy?How do we find relevant content? How do we filter content?Ethical concerns?Gurus? Tools?

Welcome!

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What is content curation ?

Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organising or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue

Rohit Bhargava: trend curator

Why should it be relevant in a school?

and in a South African school?

• 26500 schools

• 12279 connected; nearly 50%

• Goal for 2019/2020 100%

• e-Skills Task Team constituted

• Digital Citizenship: Digital Wellness Programme

Sommelier

Sommelier or wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specialises in all aspects of wine service as well as  wine and food pairing.

Sommelier F.I.S.A.R." by OneArmedMan

or teacher- librarian

Librarian or content curator is a trained and knowledgeable information practitioner who specialises in the process of collecting, organising and displaying information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest.

What does a content curator do?

• we ask• we listen• we find• we select• we group • we organise• we create• we share • we inspire

How do we create a content strategy ?

Who: your target?

Why: do they need it?

What: have you asked them?

Where: only digital?

When: time frame?

How: tools to use?

How do we find relevant content?

adding, aligning, analysing, applying, asking, building, comparing, conceptualising, constructing, creating, deciding, designing, detecting, developing, distributing, evaluating, filtering, finding, grouping, implementing, inspiring, integrating, interpreting, introducing, inventing, judging, listening, matching, organising, planning, producing, remembering, researching, retrieving, selecting, sharing, testing, understanding

How do we filter content

Tagging: key words/tags dictate the quality of content e.g. tag cloudsRecommendations: based on content consumption patterns e.g. AmazonFiltering: filtered navigation e.g. Google advanced searchTopic pages: single page search e.g. Pinterest Topic maps: visually grouped/related e.g. PearlTrees

What is digital literacy ?Digital Literacy the ability to find, discern, select and use online information appropriately.

From E-Safety Guidelines DBE 2011

Ethical concernsOver curation?

Informed consent?

Quantity over quality?

Combination of curated content with original?

Attribution?

Who are some gurus ?

• Joyce Valenza• Naomi Harm• Phil Bradley• Robin Good• Jane Hart • Grainne Cole• Will Richardson• Maggie Verster

What tools can I use?

e-Mail groups PinterestDelicious ScoopitDiigo ShelfariFacebook SlideshareLinkedin TwitterPearltrees Website/portalPicasa YouTube

e-Mail groups

Diego

Delicious

Facebook

Linkedin

Pearltrees

Picasa

Pinterest

Scoop It

Scoop It

Scoop it: Slothful Cybrarian

Scoop it

Shelfari

Slideshare

Twitter

Website/Portal

YouTube

THINK

T = is it true ?H= is it helpful ?I = is it inspiring ?N = is it necessary ?K = is it kind ?

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