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Welcome to The (Schools) Education Digital Curation Project
Image credit Gadl http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/ CC BY SA This scoop.it resource is based on a small action research project, involving some UK teachers, which ran from April - July 2012 . Find out more on the SDCP Project Wiki I have moved this resource from a scoopi.it account specifically set up to support the project tomake it easier to manage from one account ; therefore I will be moving some of the scoops from the original resource, adding others and extending the scope top cover all stages of education and learning.
Original text There are a great many demands on a teachers time. Teachers know there there are an hundreds of thousands of valuable educational resources available on the Internet. Many now subscribe to the concept of “information overload’ and ad-hoc searches and visiting lists of web links are unlikely to prove to be an effective use of time. In recent years social bookmarking and networking tools such as Delicious and Twitter have made it much easier for teachers to find and share resources with other teachers. Good resources and practice have often been amplified by sharing at ground-up events such as TeachMeets encouraging teachers to share knowledge and practice at a face to face level, often amplified by social networks. Online collaborative curation tools such as Scoop.it can take this further. They can empower teachers, to find, share and add extra value to web resources for themselves, their colleagues and most importantly of all; their students, (who indeed can also be curators), in opening up innovative ways of sharing, collaborating and publishing digital content. This project has been set up to explore these ideas. This Scoop.it will be used to share, test and try out curation ideas, during the course of the project which aims to gather data on how both teachers and learners can draw educational benefit from digital curation, using Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/
Via Theo Kuechel
Slides from my virtual keynote at the Croatian MoodleMoot, June 2012.
Well organised and visually attractive presentation by Joyce Seitzinger on digital curation that covers all both concept, tools and application of curation. This should be of special interest to educators using Moodle which is featured in a number of slides.
witter FOR ONE DAY ONLY Using the hashtag #askacurator you can ask curators and experts from Museums and Galleries from Britain and around the world on Twitter. This is interesting and important on a number of fronts - no one knows exactly what question are going to be put and we will get differing perspectives and viewpoints from curtation and experts around the world.
Hopefully todays outcomes will be archived .
http://crowdspoke.com When Brian Solis called 2011 the "year of curation," he identified a growing trend in how people are addressing the issue of informatio...
Personally I don't agree with the concept of Information Overload, I think the isuues are more complex, but this interesting video argues, that by curating collectively we can avoid some of the ephemeral or inconsequential use of curation tools - which has led to professional curators maintaining they foster a widespread misunderstanding of what curation involves.
This item from Search Engine Journal outlines some practical and creative examples of how Storify offers an alternative to a Blog for a linear narrative. Some of the examples given would be ideal for educational projects and topics.
Via Paula Silva
"The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online"
The Public Domain Review has curated some awesome images and texts. I would highly recommend subscribing to their newsletter. On a topical note - lots of Olympic related content.
"What would happen if we made students practice curation—actual curation?"
This is an excellent piece by Leslie Madsen-Brooks in which she argues that "Critical and creative thinking should be prioritized over remembering content," She describes and analyses in great detail how curation can be instrumental in developing these skills, and how thinking standards are much more importan for learning than content standards.
Although this piece by Robin Good is aimed at a business/market audience; there is much teachers can take away and apply from the detail here.
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The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Good basic overview of Scoop.it and other curatioon tools; also reinforces the point that curation tools are also good search tools.
Via callooh, Hans De Four, Theo Kuechel
How people are curating, utilizing, and sharing information... This Scoop.it by Buffy J. Hamilton provides a good overview of curation for learning with plenty of ideas and resources for getting started with curation
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Just before Christmas Google announced the YouTube for Schools platform, which runs through a schools Google Apps for Edu account, allowing students to access...
Via Anthony Heald, Theo Kuechel
Curating and remixing the tools that define current professional practice...
Thanks to Anthony Heald for this one...
Via Theo Kuechel
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. Excellent inspirational video that explains the value of curation by some well known curators who have created a number of excellent resources, all are worth following on Twitter. This video may provide you with some different approaches to the project.
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Europeanna has been studying the "value of Pinterest for cultural heritage institutions" By "taking content from five Europeana partners and presenting this content outside the constraints of the portal and institutional websites, Pinterest provided new visibility and interaction with collections that might otherwise have remained unseen"
This project not only boosted visitor engagement with the content, it claims to have attracted "good quality visitors" spending longer on the site. I think this clearly signposts that Museums, Galleries, or indeed any cultural organisations can draw benefits from the Social Web by sharing openly in an online space with other institutions and organisations.
I think this project may be offering some answers to the question that is often asked - "why is no one coming to our web-site?" I think there are also some clear messages here for providers of educational cultural content.
Although, I somehow managed to miss last years event; Ask a Curator more than made up for it this time round. Using the #askacurator hashtag on Twitter, curators from museums and galleries around the world responded to questions tweeted in by the public. This inspirational use of social media demonstrated how Twitter can be used to share expertise, build knowledge, generate interest and make connections on a global scale.
"You can bundle your favorite Wikipedia articles in a nicely formatted ebook and read it offline on any mobile phone, ebook reader or Tablet."
This article also includes an example books on the Mughal Kings of india. I tried the tool briefly, last night and first impressions were very favourable - I like the fact that hovering your mouse over a link on a wikipedia link gives you the option to add that page to your eBook or pdf.
This has the potential to be a very powerful tool for teachers wishing to create their own open content or for students engaged in knowledge building projects.
Via Alfredo Calderon, Rui Guimarães Lima
Content curation will play a major role both in the way we teach and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem.
A key article by Robin Good on the relationship between curation and learning. Each of the 10 examples he cites is expalined in detail and contributes to sum of why curation will inevitably be fundamental element of education and learning and be instrumental in bringing about change.
"If you were a K-12 student, which websites would you want to save for future generations? What would you want people to look at 50 or even 500 years from now? These questions are at the heart of the K12 Web Archiving program, sponsored jointly by the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive, beginning with a pilot program in 2008."
This is an wonderful way to encourage students to develop their critical thinking and digital literacy skills. This is a project that is worth considering replicating or building on elsewhere.
This article provides a timeline of the evolution of curation dating back to ancient Rome through to museum curation in the 2oth century and then acknowledges the Web and Wenb 2.0. It is supplemnted with some interesting data from Google.
Think this might be quite helpful when looking at curation in an educational context.
My Presentation on Digital Curation at the Northen Grid Conference June 2012.
.We know that many institutions are having to rethink themselves in this Internet enabled world. Scoop.it blog post on curation in Education
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Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
Via SpencerAyres, Theo Kuechel
Robin Good: Scoop.it has just launched a new set of features that help curators find more easily other content by introducing a new visual search feature, while enhancing individual post display, sharing options and adding a dedicated user search option. I am particularly fond of the new individual post display and layout, which truly expands the opportunities to lean more about related the topics, comments and the curator behind the channel. Good job Scoop.it team! Go check all the new features in your account, or dwell in a bit more details and screenshots about these four new features: http://blog.scoop.it/en/2012/03/15/be-discovered/ ;
Via Robin Good, Theo Kuechel
..If you like Social Media and have not heard of Pinterest yet, you probably took a loooong vacation. Some say it is growing as fast as Facebook; some are already fed up with it but nobody seems indifferent...Including Scoop.it users who more and... In a new development, Scoop.it now has buttons for Pinterest and G+ , It will Interesting to see how Scoop.it education users might use these.
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