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Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project

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From academic.stedwards.edu - April 17, 2012 12:15 PM

Scott's comments:  At Pacific Ridge School, we are discussing ways to further engage faculty and students in their learning.  Thank you for this helpful presentation 

 

Others' comments:

"Over the last couple of years, I’ve come to think of my role as a teacher as that of a curator of ideas" says Corinne Weisgerber who teaches Social Media and Communication at St Edwards Unniversity in Austin, TX (if you haven't yet, check out her great prez here).

 

As she explained in this post, the Curation Project was about getting her students "to set up a network of online mentors using social media tools" and "to identify experts in their field and connect with them in order to build a personal learning network (PLN)." 

 

The idea behing the PNL is to help them discover valuable information through social search that they wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

 

Interesting project and read.

 

And great work by the students who used various curation platforms for the project, including Storify and Scoop.it (links in the post)


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Ileane Smith's comment, April 17, 2012 8:56 AM
I love this presentation and I'm going to take a look at what the students are doing on Scoop.it.
gdecugis's comment, April 17, 2012 3:29 PM
Glas you like it Ileane. And yes, they've done impressive work: check it out!
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Google Search Starts To Reward Curators, Collections and Quality Lists

From www.youtube.com - August 10, 2012 6:05 PM

IdeaEncore:  This is a very exciting step - one that should accelerate the trend toward betting on people/organizations as expert curators creating their own collections.


Robin Good: In the overall effort to improve the quality of its search engine result pages Google is continuining to make significant improvements to its search engine.

Starting from now all users worldwide can see Knowledge Graph results showing up on top of search results as a visuable and browsable list of alternative options to explore.

 

Not only.

 

Google is now officially goig after the gathering and curation of the best list, collections and guides on just about any topic.

From the official Google Blog. Read it carefully: "Finally, the best answer to your question is not always a single entity, but a list or group of connected things.


It’s quite challenging to pull these lists automatically from the web. But we’re now beginning to do just that.


So when you search for [california lighthouses], [hurricanes in 2008] or [famous female astronomers], we’ll show you a list of these things across the top of the page. And by combining our Knowledge Graph with the collective wisdom of the web, we can even provide more subjective lists like [best action movies of the 2000s] or [things to do in paris]."

 

 

Very interesting. 8/10

 

Read more about it: http://googleblog.blogspot.it/2012/08/building-search-engine-of-future-one.html

 

 


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WebactoNodea's comment, August 10, 2012 10:23 AM
Thanks
Archeology Rome's comment, August 10, 2012 10:24 AM
Interesting, thanks.
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