"Here are some guiding questions for creating your digital textbook: 
"Reflection is such a huge tool for my own learning, and I feel like I’m getting better and better at finding ways to do this with students. It isn’t that I have never used student reflections to improve my own teaching. But now I’m learning how to get students to be better at making meaningful reflection part of their own learning process. Twitter conversations from the class "From Memex to YouTube: Introduction to new Media Studies" during the fall 2009 and fall 2010 semesters at Baylor University. 
WebProNews interviewed Kate Brodock, the Executive Director of Digital and Social Media at Syracuse University about critical elements of successful content curation on the web.
From her replies:
a) In the verification process
...proper attribution of the original content creator is very important.
There are many ways to do this on various platforms, and there are generally recognized “best practices” that people use.
If you neglect the attribution part of the equation, this is when you get into sticky situations (no matter what your expert lawyer has told you).
...It pays to take a look at how each platform handles this aspect of curation and make sure you’re dotting your “I”s and crossing your ‘t’s.”
Right on the mark. 8/10 Via Robin Good 
Content curation: Best practices View more presentations from Trafalgar Communications (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for finding this... 
"I’ve been investigating ways to curate conversations that take place on the web, via social media and in other places. I’m doing so at this point mainly to be able to display some of the great conversations that happened in the two New Media Studies first year seminars (#nmsf09 and #nms_f10) where I was the Twitter-embedded librarian. So far I’ve been looking at Storify.com (where I have put my name in for an invite), Memolane.com, and Curated.by, which I have signed up for and begun to play around with." Digital Curation Education in Practice: Catching up with Two Former Fellows... 
SearchTeam.com, the world's first real-time collaborative search engine, by Zakta, has been launched. You can search the Web together with friends, curate what you need, while collaborating with them in real-time, or asynchronously.
RT @joycevalenza: New post: Curation is the new search tool http://t.co/6qI0qk9G #tlchat #edchat #library... Social media is out of beta. We’re entering the era of validation. 
For this month's Net2 Think Tank, we asked you to share your tips, resources, and ideas about curating content at your organization or enterprise. Below, read the curated list of the community responses we received - and share your own tips in the comments! icurate: Digital Tools for Gathering and Sharing Information... 
curation, libguides, pathfinders, school libraries, teacher librarians, training... |
How to curate your brand community with Storify... 
News curation startup Scoop.it has arrived on the iPhone today, allowing you to create your own digital magazine while on the go. The app, which works alongside the Scoop.it web service, essentially lets anyone be a publisher for any topic. 
"After my post about perceptions versus reality in the classroom a few weeks ago, several folks wrote to ask about Storify. I’ve been playing around with Storify for a few months now, since the very end of its private beta, and I like the way I can weave tweets, links, videos, and other media into one coherent storyline..." 
Tips on productivity, energy managment, time managment, stress reduction and memory loss. Anything to help your productivity suck less. 
"I asked some of my kiddos and my music teacher colleague, Monica Femovich, to help me explain our very new efforts in teaching curation. Usually game for anything Glee-ish, our singer/actors brilliantly and generously created an introduction I can use for instruction and in upcoming workshops." 
’ve been investigating ways to curate conversations that take place on the web, via social media and in other places. I’m doing so at this point mainly to be able to display some of the great conversations that happened in the two New Media Studies first year seminars (#nmsf09 and #nms_f10) where I was the Twitter-embedded librarian. So far I’ve been looking at Storify.com (where I have put my name in for an invite), Memolane.com, and Curated.by, which I have signed up for and begun to play around with. Curation has been on my mind a lot these holidays….actually, a lot longer than that really. It’s been a long time since 2008 and first using Delicious with my students but it has been only 12 months since my introduction to Social Media as I now use it in my teaching and learning life. These two great presentations below have had me thinking about goals for the coming year. 
For digital storytellers, the world is about to get a whole lot more interesting. For content consumers--which is pretty much all of us--there’s a chance things could actually start to fall into place. http://scoop.it is working to make it easier to curate content and share that content with your friends via a beautiful magazine. Here Guillaume Decugis, CEO... 
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......Ammar Abdulhamid is a liberal democracy activist whose anti-regime activities led to his exile f... 
Today I introduced Scoop.it to Ms. Lester's Advanced Grammar and Composition students who are working on senior research projects. Several of our students were immediately smitten with the eas... |
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