We’ve been hearing (and talking) a lot about curation and how helpful it can be. This article will give you a clear idea about curation with scoop.it. For those who already believe, and also for non-believers! 
First, let’s just get clear on the terminology here: “Curation” is an act performed by people with PhDs in art history; the business in which we’re all engaged when we’re tossing links around on the internet is simple “sharing.” And some of us are very good at that! 
this research done by Facebook in collaboration with the university of Michigan finds some surprising things about the information propagation power of strong ties versus weak ties (JS) Via catspyjamasnz 
Just this weekend I’ve finished writing a lead article for my SLANZA friends in NZ for their Collected Magazine. School librarians everywhere are interested in the same things, so I was pleas... 
The activity I’ve just described, that Hans and I were engaged in for our organisations, is digital curation. Us education technologists have probably been acting as digital curators for our organisations around the e-learning and education technology topics for longer than we realise. If you’re an edtech who recognises this, I would love to hear your experiences and thoughts. (JS) Via catspyjamasnz 
curation is fundamentally a content-friendly act. This literally means caring about content: caring enough to highlight it, promote it, share it and make other people want to enjoy it as well. This has always happened but historically, this was something done by a minority – a few gatekeepers. In such a model, a few decided what content we were going to consume. But what we’ve seen with Web 2.0 is that we could have a different model with many sharing content to many. As curators multiply and everyone becomes a publisher, we can all see the benefits through the diversity of opinions being expressed, the long-tail of niche topics being covered or the variety of content being discovered.
<- Scoop.it blog highlights role of curators. Real danger is of course that curation also means amplification, and amplification means higher visibility of potentially law infringing materials. And that leaves sites like scoop.it, Pinterest and Delicious open to law suits and potential shutdown.
One comment they make and Clay Shirky also makes is that the shift of burden of proof under SOPA/PIPA would move away from the "right owners" under DMCA. And I think that is where legislation should be looking... What is this "right"? And is this "right" still sensible in a world that is so different from the world in which patent and copyright was invented? (JS) Via catspyjamasnz 
Most people have neither the time nor the stamina to wade through miles of information looking for the narrow range of content they're interested in. By sifting through fields of haystacks in search of a couple of needles, curators provide a valuable and powerful service. But don't confuse curation with aggregation.
<- lots of good quotes and thinking in this article. a step up from the usual curation articles. (JS) Via catspyjamasnz ![The Ability To Extract and Communicate Insight from Data It's Going To Be Huge: McKinsey Quarterly [Video] | CuratED | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/JhPPX2ck-2VX3w7sz-h8Gjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Robin Good: In January of 2009 the McKinsey Quarterly published a video interview and a full article entitled "Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers" in which Google’s chief economist told executives in wired organizations how much they needed a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation.
In the video, Hal Varian says something that if you are trying to understand the emerging curation trend, is as relevant (if not more) today as three years ago when it was first published:
"The ability to take data - to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it's going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids.
Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data.
So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it.
I think statisticians are part of it, but it's just a part. You also want to be able to visualize the data, communicate the data, and utilize it effectively.
But I do think those skills - of being able to access, understand, and communicate the insights you get from data analysis - are going to be extremely important..."
Video interview: http://bit.ly/googlehalvarianoncuration ; (go to the section "Workers and managers")
You will need to register to read the full original article: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286 ;
<- and so what does this mean for education? For educators? For managers? For learners? Can curation skills help them? What do these curation skills consist of? (JS) Via Robin Good, catspyjamasnz 
Pretty cool-learning log abiut using Scoopit as a Schools Digital Curation Project by @antheald http://t.co/3zanxu35... Via catspyjamasnz 
Dashboard the web... Collect and organize anything on a borderless drag and drop workspace.
Think Prezi, Spiderscribe meets Netvibes... 
Journalism is thriving thanks in no small part to the role and importance of the online media curator. 
A place to collect, organize, discover and share everything you like on the web (Thanks @tedrosececi: http://t.co/nfQB2c9y — http://t.co/R6kVWBJg.... |
The College has recently completed the full implementation of its 1 to 1 program across all year levels. The focus has now shifted to utilising this environment to full effect ... This is the first in a series of videos explaining the shifts we're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. 
A stream of ideas, cartoons, unrefined sketches, marginalia about curation at #sxswcurate
<- inspirational stuff (JS) Via catspyjamasnz 
Scholarship 2.0 is devoted to describing and documenting the forms, facets, and features of alternative Web-based scholarly publishing philosophies and practices. The variety of old and new metrics available for assessing the impact, significance, and value of Web-based scholarship is of particular interest. Web 2.0 provides ways to filter, streamline, organise, share, distribute or gather information from the burgeoning information jungle.
<- Great presentation from Judy describing curation practices even if the actual term is only mentioned briefly... (JS) Via catspyjamasnz 
Our Lord of Curation series presents to you some of the great curators on Scoop.it. They are here to share their insights and advice with you.....Seth Dixon is a professor at Rhode Island College within the Political Science Department and the D... Via catspyjamasnz White Paper by the Digital Curation Centre and JISC
<- may be more library oriented but interesting setting out of the two concepts, cloud and curation. (JS) Via catspyjamasnz Presentation given at SXSWedu on March 6, 2012.
<- very nice work on curation process for teachers (JS) Via catspyjamasnz 
Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America - and started as a private art collection from one man (J. 
Learn What You Want, Teach What You Love... 
Blog post at Social-able : Content curation is increasing as more and more bloggers see the potential in using the various tools available to them. |
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