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Robin Good: Urlist is a web-based collaborative tool to create, publish and share navigable lists of links.

 

Links can be easily typed or collected with the complementary bookmarklet tool, and provided with a custom description. URList automatically collects the thumbnail for each one, and the list author decides whether individual items in the list can be commented and rated by viewers.

 

Items in a list can be easily sorted, moved around and edited at any point and each list can be set to be "public", "private" or "hidden" from public view. Lists can be set to be collaborative so that other users can contribute to them.

 

Every URlist can be also browsed as a sequence of viewable website links kept in context by a top-of-the-page navigation bar, which allows to move at any moment to any link in the list or to follow the list as it has been organized by the author.

 

Features tour: http://urli.st/resources/tour

 

Try it out now: http://urli.st/

 

 

Via Robin Good

Here’s some more evidence that curation is crucial for researchers, whether you choose to be a curator or you choose to follow curators.
According to Minocha and Petre (2012) from The Open University, UK (1), curation is useful for researchers and for developing research skills, as it involves:
- information management;
- curating content on the research topic of interest which appears on a variety of different media;
- chances of attracting interesting people to a researcher’s website;
- development of your "infotention", mindfulness, and concentration;
- self-empowerment, helping you to be seen and trusted as a “topic expert”.

 

Become a content curator in three steps:
1- Do it on a specific topic so that you are seen as a trusted source or expert on that topic;
2- Share only the best stuff;
3- Do it continuously so that you are continuously providing up-to-date content.

 

(1) Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors (http://goo.gl/eA0vL)

Image credit to Flickr user estherase (http://goo.gl/FrFQ7)

 

[Paula]

Via Paula Silva, Marcel Lebrun

Robin Good says:

 

"Heiko Idensen reports in his curated newsradar "Online Curating & Social Learning Tools and Applications":

 

"Learnist is a new pinboard where users can organize their learning materials. It resembles Pinterest except that Learnist is just for sharing learning resources.

 

The website is still in beta but looks really very promising for both teachers and students.

 

Here is a set of the main features that Learnist offers to its users :

It is free

Itis easy to use

It has a user friendly interface

It lets users create pinboards around a certain topicUsers can create different boards and invite others to collaborate on them

It lets you pin images,videos, and text to your boards with a single click from Learnist bookmarklet

Users can also upload resources to their  boards using URLs

Free to use."

 

Try it out: http://learni.st 

Via Robin Good