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Why Scoopit Is Becoming An Indispensable Learning Tool

Why Scoopit Is Becoming An Indispensable Learning Tool | An Eye on New Media | Scoop.it

Curation is a valuable skill for today’s learner. In a culture of content overload, members that provide great content to their audience will be recognized leaders in network communities. Optimally, we equip students to differentiate good content from bad in preparation for their further education and careers. Curating an online topic (and allowing comments) also increases self-awareness and provides additional insight from others. The nuances of sharing content and writing to an audience become much better understood through interactivity between the curator and participating audience.


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I am a big fan of Scoop.it.  It adds value to my professional career.  I find so many things that I am interested in.  It is fun for me to try to understand the algorythm. I believe that curation will be a powerful tool for our future.
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Ken Morrison's comment, February 22, 3:03 AM
I completely agree with this post. I fully integrated it into one of my courses last year. Students had to choose a potential future career and create a scoop.it page to help them learn about that field. Most feedback was positive. A few students still use it seven months after the grades have been turned in!
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I completely agree with this post. I fully integrated it into one of my courses last year. Students had to choose a potential future career and create a scoop.it page to help them learn about that field. Most feedback was positive. A few students still use it seven months after the grades have been turned in!
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Twitter Founders Move on to Their Next Big Thing

Twitter Founders Move on to Their Next Big Thing | An Eye on New Media | Scoop.it
What do you work on after launching one of the world's largest social networks? It took time, but each of the three Twitter founders have an answer.
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It has been about a year since Ev Williams announced Medium.  It looks like they are ready to take it to the next level.

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Twitter founders launch a blogging platform, Kevin Rose blogs about peeing

Twitter founders launch a blogging platform, Kevin Rose blogs about peeing | An Eye on New Media | Scoop.it

Nebraska Boy Ev Williams has done it again.  After helping to create Blogger and Twitter, he and his team released 'Medium' this week.  It is a way to take Twitter conversations outside of Twitter to expand the conversation and to include other people who want to engage.  there are two nice examples of the service in the links of this article.

 

Also, Kevin rose is so excited about selling Digg to Al Gore that he blogged about his urinating problem.  Not a good start for this exciting new platform.

Ken

 

 

Medium is a blogging platform of sorts. It comes from Obvious Corp., the app shop where Twitter founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams are busy rolling out products for the social, web-connected m...

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