content curation. teachmeet east presentation

Keeping track ofYour Internet research, sharing your recommendations with students, collaborating and connecting

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Why Curate?

How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class?

How do you maintain your internet resources that inform your own teaching and learning?

What tools do you use to manage or facilitate presentation of resources?

Is it public? Can students access it at other times? In

groups?

Think about doing all this and more using

Content curation tools

Here are….

Modern web tools make it easy for both students and instructors to contribute

online discoveries to class conversations.  Using free online content curation

software, we can easily integrate new content in a variety of ways

5 of the best

What can you do with content creation tools?

Teachers can use online content curation tools in the classroom to: create group activities. organize and disseminate new content as a sort of digital

handout to students in online and flipped classrooms. collect and share professional reading materials with students.

foster discussion about current events. encourage students to become both content creators and

curators. connect to experts outside class and to the world knowledge base.

critique information available on the web. teach students to curate social media. help students gain

credibility and exposure. keep track of online research efforts. create reading lists. help students gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the

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Storify

is a way to tell ‘stories’ using social media such as tweets, Facebook posts, photos, URLs and videos. Users search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into stories.

Users can re-order the elements and also add text to help give context to the readers.

Pinterest

is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. The service allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections linked out to sites of origin.

Easy to collaborate – pinboards can be added to by group members

There are some great pin collections for Librarians, classroom educators and specialist teachers.

Bookmarklet

Educlipper

A bit like Pinterest for Education, Educlipper was created by Adam Bellow (of Edutecher fame)

Accounts can be set up for Teachers and students.

Aggregate websites, videos, images, Also add pdfs, ppts, google drives

files – add ‘clips’ to your educational boards.

Scoop it!

Allows users to create and share their own themed magazines designed around a given topic.  Suggestions are made daily reflecting your own Scoop it! topics.

Learnist

Learnist allows you to create” Learnboards” that are dedicated to a particular topic of choice.

Learnboards are like file folders – add resources and websites.

Follow other educators with similar interests

Share your boards with students

Bookmarklets & Email Notifications

Check the service – some off Bookmarklets to help you grab items of interest to add to your curation boards.

A Bookmarklet allows you to quickly grab any content you find on the web and put it into your chosen collecting/sharing service.

Emails of trending boards or boards of interest to you can be pushed to your email.

How to use …. Resources

http://storify.com/tour http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2

013/08/how-to-introduce-educlipper-to-teachers.html#.Uikj47_udlI

http://learni.st/users/Learnist.Help/boards/159-how-to-use-learnist-on-the-web

http://about.pinterest.com/basics/ http://scoopit.pegcorwin.com