A list of some of the most important infographics that you need to bookmark and share with your colleagues and students.
Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. There are different levels of curation. At the low end (from a cognitive perspective) there's mere aggregation of useful content. At the high end there's trend-spotting, finding submerged or ignored content that evades search engine ranking, and bringing that content to light through commentary and connections. Via callooh ![The Gamefication of Education [infographic] | Digital Literacies and 21st Century Learning | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/ylgZtJLuiv_WcG1G-ZHUUTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
You might be wondering what content curation and content aggregation actually are. In today’s post, we’re going to explain how you can use these two powerful marketing tactics to improve your social media campaign. 
This is a great tool for creating graphs from your own data. You can them embed the graphics it produces into reports or webpages using the embed code. You do need a Twitter or Facebook account to sign up though. Via Nik Peachey 
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How can the Royal Opera House appeal to new younger audiences? How can Disney create new characters? How can Nike make a fitness regime fun and interesting? In all these cases, the answer is computer games. Via Pekka Puhakka 
Diigo stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.” It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your ‘favorites’ online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this. Via Nik Peachey, Carla Arena 
Use this simple free tool to create your own magazine based around a topic. You don't have to write anything; you can collect and curate information and links to videos, images and articles from around the web. Via Nik Peachey 
Two-thirds of tweets are either "so-so" or not worth reading at all. So says a study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Tech. 
We love this document that Mark Anderson has produced for a training day at his school in North Somerset, UK. It succinctly provides the name of Web2.0 tools and gives you examples of how to use them...
From our experience teachers did need quick, easy and fast ways to connect to new technology ideas. We think Mark achieves this very well! Via Gust MEES, Paulo Simões 
Post by Sahana (http://www.blogger.com/profile/09533308240409984953)
"How do the skills of a curator apply in an organizational context? More than ever before, as we know. In globally distributed and networked organizations engaged in doing complex work, where exception handling is likely to be the norm, it is crucial for information flow to be transparent and to have folks who can spot the patterns, connect the dots and provide that key insight which keep an organization on the cutting edge. They may or may not be officially conferred the title of curators. But the need is irrefutable. Probably the biggest challenge facing organizations today is not the lack of data creation, but the lack of someone who can connect all the floating dots—inside and outside the organization—that lead to meaningful decisions. While some aspects can be automated—using analytics—it still requires a human curator to recognize patterns and present the output. Who are likely to be playing the role of key curators in an organization? Most likely to be the community managers! With organizations going the social business route and investing in a social platform, community managers will soon become an essential role. And community managers are the best placed to play the role of curators as well. One insight I gleaned from this post by Bertrand Duperrin: Are curators the missing thing in enterprise 2.0 approaches? Curators are focused on information flows without thinking they’re leading or managing any community. From which I draw the inference that curators need not be community managers, but community managers should ideally have curation skills or work closely with curators to build a successful community. As Clay Shirky said here: Curation comes up when search stops working…[and] when people realize that it isn't just about information seeking, it's also about synchronizing a community."
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