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The leaked New York Times memo of less than a week ago is making the round on the Internet, as it touches upon many of the key issues and opportunities any news journalism operation is facing today.

From my personal viewpoint the most interesting aspect of this lengthy 97-page memo is how much curation, news and content curation specifically, are part of the future view being described in it.

Since, even trying read the in-depth curated version of the leaked NY report done by the excellent Nieman Lab it may take you in excess of 30 minutes, I have extracted and highlighted here below only the points that are specifically relevant to curators and to anyone researching the future of content curation within the context of news and journalism.

Here, six key points to pay strong attention to:

1. ...resurfacing archival content. The report cites this passage: "“We can be both a daily newsletter and a library — offering news every day, as well as providing context, relevance and timeless works of journalism.” 
   
   
   
2. ...restructuring arts and culture stories that remain relevant long after they are initially published into guides for readers.
   
   
   
3.  ...consider tools to make it easier for journalists, and maybe even readers, to create collections and repackage the content.
   
   
   
4.  allow readers to easily follow certain topics or columnists.
   
   
   
5. better tagging of the info and content being published.
   
   
   
6. focus on the less glamorous work of creating tools, templates and permanent fixes that cumulatively can have a bigger impact by saving our digital journalists time and elevating the whole report.
   
   

Nieman Lab curated report of the NY leaked Executive Summary document: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/ 

Original leaked copy of NY report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/224608514/The-Full-New-York-Times-Innovation-Report 

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The emergence of social networks impact is well-explained in this post.

Un article molt interessant que parla sobre que els estudiants necessiten aprendre des de xarxes socials professionals.

Collaboration can be both a formal structure for learning activity but also an underpinning framework for engagement and fostering life-long learning.  Learning networks are part the new learning ecosystem and should be recognised and supported.

An excellent story for lecturers or teachers thinking in content curation as a tool in their aulas.

Useful for educators - key digital literacy skill

content curation and critical thinking skills

A very helpful primer on content curation.

Stacia Johnson and Melissa Marsh have recorded a 10-minute video introducing to Content Curation for their EDCI515 graduate course at the University of Victoria.

Topics covered:

good summary recomendet to anyone interested in content-curation and its aplications in learning

This is very insightful when creating an effective, authentic and reliable curation collection.  It is resources like this one that I feel will benefit others in their teaching and learning journey.

This infographic provides insight into showing how to enhance learning. Critical thinking is an important skill in today's world. Students need encouragement in taking ownership of their own learning. We can find ways to encourage students from this link.

Ya en el esquema se ve como ir mejorando la practica, seleccion y calificacion de los sitios y contenidos.

Content curation can be of help to teachers and educators interested in guiding students in learning and appreciating the importance of active digital citizenship.

Jane Schmude, an Australian education graduate and a passionate teacher-librarian, outlines the reasons for such importance while providing also a good 5-minute visual introduction to Pearltrees as an ideal curation tool to carry out this type of project.

Useful intro for teachers, educators and librarians interested to learn more about the opportunities offered by curation.

Pragmatical. 7/10

Original video: http://vimeo.com/92932324 

Duration: 10':52"

Jane Schmude on Scoop.it

Vídeo sobre el uso de la  Content curation en educación. Presentación de la herramienta Pearltrees.

I created this video of how to use Pearltrees as part of my 'Digital Citizenship' subject in the Masters of Education - Teacher Librarianship at Charles Sturt University in Australia. I hope you find it useful.

A useful guide to the art of digital archiving.

Be sure to check out Robin Good's comments below.

Interesting post about archieving digital documents in a realiable way

Curate using this visual map

This will be helpful to share to those wondering about content curation.

Valuable collection of the art of curation from Robin Good.

A very helpful primer on content curation.

Stacia Johnson and Melissa Marsh have recorded a 10-minute video introducing to Content Curation for their EDCI515 graduate course at the University of Victoria.

Topics covered:

good summary recomendet to anyone interested in content-curation and its aplications in learning

SOCIAL MEDIA

Some useful examples and goo tips to putting Storify to work...

Hats to Susan Mernit, who has an excellent piece on Knight Digital Media Center about how to do effective news curation and storytelling with Storify.

She brings in lots of relevant stories and examples showcasing how other individuals and journalists have been effectively using this news curation platform.

"The most successful creators of Meograph and Storify pages are united by one thing: they’re skilled editors and curators who know how to look at content posted on multiple social networks and pull out the pieces that will best help them to tell a story."

“Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.”

Brava Susan, great job and superglad to have intercepted you again.

Instructive. Informative. Resourceful. 8/10

Full article:http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/smernit/2013/02/storify-popular-curation-platform-tells-stories-social-media