multimodal composition

Creatively share your memories and experiences on Wollage.com, the web's first social-network composed of scrapbooks.

Via Ana Cristina Pratas

Create, Save, Print, Buy and Share your poster with this FREE resource! ArtSkills Online Poster Maker tool lets you Design Great Posters and Signs in Under 10 Minutes!

Via Baiba Svenca

‘Literacies’ presents a contemporary approach to literacy learning and teaching, developing and extending ‘Multiliteracies’ theory and practice. This site presents supporting material for the book by Mary Kalantzis & Bill Cope, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. The website supplements traditional ideas of literacy in the singular—learning to read and write—by expanding the area of focus to cover ‘literacies’ in the plural.

Via Karen LaBonte, Lindy J

Zopler is a social network where writers, authors and students can easily collaborate on writing stories together as a group.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas

A creative studio space to explore storytelling and the moving image. Download free video, images and sound and upload your own media. Create your own storyboards and share them online.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas

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."

 

Via Paulo Simões

Via Ana Cristina Pratas

Canvastic.net is the new online version of the publishing software Canvastic. Canvastic is educational software. It allows students to draw, paint, write and create documents, pages,and pictures.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas

If you are looking for a deeper look into curating, it can be found. I want to build a curation tool, so I am working my way though my backlog of pinboard links about curation. Here I have a list of all the tools I can find that would be considered curation tools.

 

Consumer / Personal Tools

 

Stellar : http://stellar.io/

Storify : http://storify.com/

Bundlr : http://gobundlr.com/

Scoop It : http://www.scoop.it/

Curated By : http://www.curated.by/

Thoora : http://thoora.com/

Postpost : http://postpo.st/

Snipi : http://www.snipi.com/

trap!t : http://trap.it/

scrible : http://www.scrible.com/

faveous : http://www.faveous.com/

memonic : http://www.memonic.com/home

Bag The Web : http://bagtheweb.com/

 

And more at Rumproarious : http://goo.gl/TxQSn

Via catspyjamasnz, Gerrit Visser, 173 Sud, Gust MEES

"This is a wiki begun by Alec Couros, ICT Coordinator of the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This is meant as a resource for courses I teach related to ICT in education and media studies. Please feel free to use the resources as you wish. I encourage you to add and change the information and resources listed here."

Via Paulo Simões