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Good taste...

Great to have a little evidence to add to the discussion about curation as a tool. I'm a fan of online curation and think that it strengthens teacher's understandings and develops connections with the wider learning community.

Great insight into curation for a 21st century classroom.

student wikepedia has to be the future where instead of passively reading they actively research and contribute to their learning PLN... We have started but have so much more to go

I really enjoyed reading this article.  

Wonmderful article.  Peter's response is deep!  Read it!

A plain and detailed infographic that helps you figure it out.

What is the flipped foreign language classroom like? Who's tried it?

If you want to create a "persistent search", that is, a recurring search on a specific set of keywords, and obtain a RSS feed that you can subscribe to, here is how to do it:

Just append &format=rss to the end of the url to turn any search results page into an RSS feed automatically.

Even better, you can combine the RSS feed parameter with the search by time parameter that Bing makes available so that you will receive new sites entering the search results more frequently in your RSS reader.

Creating RSS feeds out of persisten searches can be particularly useful for news curators who want to monitor search engines on specific topics without having to manually go and perform those searches.

For more info: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/23/bing-create-search-result-rss-feeds/

It is interesting how few classroom teachers and administrators are aware of what self-directed learning is. SDL is an imperative for our children.

My Thoughts:

You can't teach someone how to learn. You can give them helpful tips and advice, but a single structure for education is not going to work for everyone. It's so much harder for people to learn their true potential, to reach their goals, when they're only shown a single path to them. You show them the path through the forest, but what if there's a rock face nearby that also leads up to where they want to go, and what if they happen to be a fantastic rock climber? It just makes more sense to show someone a map if you can, instead of directing them towards only one path.

“Learning is most effective when it’s personalised; it means something to the learner. That happens when people feel they are participants and investors in their own learning, shaping what and how they learn, and able to articulate its value to them.” — Leadbeater, Charles

Famous Self-Taughts (Autodidacts): Leonardo Da Vinci, William Blake, Herb Rits (in addition to Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, John D. Rockefeller, and many others)

This is a very good explanation on how important the role curation plays in improving the overall content of a website.  This gives reason for staying on a website and getting bookmarked for return visits.

Curation sites are becoming hugely important in our online marketing campaigns. Additionally, often times blog posts that are nothing more than a list of currated links on a certain niche tend to do really well.

Interesting take to curate content of your competitors or curating content that offers a different editorial from your content. I do agree, it will lend to you being more of a thoughts leader without the agenda. 

The presentation picks up a lot of steam with their curation tips in the final third of the slides. Enjoy

Great for teacher librarians

Imagine what your community could come up with if they used Mural.ly! It could be an excellent way to see where what you're offering lines up with what they desire. 

Another excellent wall to "Pin up", organize  and share content

If you want to create a "persistent search", that is, a recurring search on a specific set of keywords, and obtain a RSS feed that you can subscribe to, here is how to do it:

Just append &format=rss to the end of the url to turn any search results page into an RSS feed automatically.

Even better, you can combine the RSS feed parameter with the search by time parameter that Bing makes available so that you will receive new sites entering the search results more frequently in your RSS reader.

Creating RSS feeds out of persisten searches can be particularly useful for news curators who want to monitor search engines on specific topics without having to manually go and perform those searches.

For more info: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/03/23/bing-create-search-result-rss-feeds/

PublishThis is an "enterprise-level" news curation platform which provides extensive features to gather, collect and filter content from the web and from social channels, while providing a full array of tools to curate, edit, repurpose and publish the newly curated content to web sites, blogs, newsletters and social media.

"After the discovery stage PublishThis customers can take the filtered material and begin using the curation tools to quickly create customized content which can then be fed to company websites, email newsletters, apps and social media feeds.

The tools include a new WordPress plugin as well as a white labeled hosting model allowing companies to add their own widgets and other content modules into their pages. 

The platform also has an analytics component which provides click data and performance insights based on the content a company owns, as well as third party materials.

PublishThis generates revenue by licensing its software to companies on an annual basis through a three-tiered model. Kumin would not go into specifics but prices range from the low five-figures into the six-figure range and depend on the amount of sites, brands and content a company needs to manage."

Source: Betakit

No public pricing info available.

Useful links to chek:

Check this video: http://vimeo.com/48609445

Existing clients: http://www.publishthis.com/solutions/clients/

Request a demo: http://www.publishthis.com/platform/request-a-demo/

FAQ: http://www.publishthis.com/platform/faqs/

More info: http://www.publishthis.com/

* Comprehensive map of content curation tools: http://bit.ly/ContentCurationUniverse

see also http://www.scoop.it/t/content-curation-tools/p/2673495798/publishthis-gives-content-new-life-cmswire

Intelligent content curation platforms operating off interest and social graphs will do much of the leg work autonomously discovering, curating and feeding aggregated content into specialized interest publication channels leaving the last mile for optimizing to the curator to add value and leverage the content. 

Online commerce engines can take advantage of the same process and data mining platforms by aggregating relevant user generated content with their own content that may include trusted testimonials from people in your relevant trusted network that talk about the product or service and their experience. This increases authenticity and trust for the Commerce engine’s offering. A bit like where Amazon is going with its relevance engine or M.S. Bing with it's experts that pop up beside search results based on relevant expertise and reputation to the topic you’re searching. 

Advances in mass data processing technology, data science, social media and cloud processing / storage make big data an important paradigm shift that will be transformative to the business landscape and one to be strategically evaluated. 

Advances in mass data processing technology, data science,  social media and cloud processing / storage make big data an important paradigm shift that is will be transformative to business landscape and one to be strategically evaluated. Discover - Curate - Feed - Optimise is a great infographic framework on which to think about any business and how big data may offer out of the box thinking to evaluate opportunities or disruptive risks. 

Open City is a group of volunteers that create apps with open data to improve transparency and citizen understanding of our government.