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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.
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