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In conversation at EduTECH earlier this month, Harold Jarche evoked George E. P. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. Of course, the purpose of a model is to simplify a complex system so that something purposeful can be done within it. By definition,... http://elearningfeeds.com/a-framework-for-content-curation/ Via Christopher Pappas 
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Would you like to spend your time more efficiently and productively on social media? Today’s article will show you which applications and tools can help you be more effective and proficient in your healthcare social media marketing. These tools are those that I use regularly to better manage my time on social media. They are categorized according to functionality, but many can be used for more than one function. 1. Social Media Monitoring Monitoring helps you with brand reputation; provides you with deeper insights into what your healthcare community needs; improves customer service and assists you in responding and resolving issues in real time. Experiment with the following tools to see which work best for you. Sentiment140 This tool shows you positive and negative sentiment towards your keywords, including mentions of your healthcare brand. Google Alerts Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries. Mention Free aggregator that tracks user-generated content in a similar manner to Google Alerts, except the focus is on social media sites. Twilert Twitter version of Google alerts; it sends email alerts everytime someone mentions the “exact phrase”, @mentions, #hashtag, tweets that you have pre-selected. Hashtracking Monitor a particular hashtag, related hashtags, recent tweets with that hashtag and the top influencers of that hashtag using Hashtracking. For related tools, try Hashtagify and RiteTag. Topsy A Twitter tool which allows you to search, monitor and analyze tweets. A key feature is that it has an archive of tweets going right back to the beginning of Twitter. Twazzup This Twitter tool helps you track and instantly get real-time updates including top retweeted images and links, most active top influencers, and the top 10 keywords relating to your search. 2. Social Media Analytics Tools How do you know if all that time you’ve invested in your social media marketing is paying off? You don’t know unless you put a system in place to measure and analyse your efforts. The following free tools will help you analyze your social media return on investment. Google Analytics Google Analytics provides detailed analytics which lets you measure your advertising ROI as well as track your Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications. Klout Klout uses social media analytics to rank its users according to online social influence via the "Klout Score", which is a numerical value between 1 and 100. Find out your influence and those of your peers with this tool. Spredfast Measures data gathered from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr, to show how many people you’ve reached and whether or not your target audience is engaging with you. The data is clearly presented in formatted graphs. Other useful features include a calendar that shows you when the optimal tweeting times occur. Twtrland This tool presents you with visually optimized information about your Twitter influence. SumAll Check your Twitter follower growth, mentions, and engagement with SumAll. SocialBro A freemium service; the free plan comes with analytics, best time to tweet, follow/unfollow tools, and community segmentation. Twitonomy A dashboard of analytics to help you analyse your twitter engagement, Tweet Reach This tool generates reports of how far your Twitter handle, keyword or hashtag has reached including information on the number of impressions, top contributors, most retweeted tweets. Bit.ly This url shortener gives you useful realtime information about who's clicking your links. I've also recently starting using Sniply which has similar functionality. 3. Blogging Blogs written by doctors, nurses, health researchers, patients, and healthcare and digital marketers and innovators add much to the richness and diversity of the online healthcare conversation. Many of these blogs are widely read and shared through social media, establishing their writers as authorities and go-to experts on a particular illness. Triberr Triberr is less a tool, than it is a community of bloggers that share out each other’s content. Simply plug your RSS feed in and members of your tribe will tweet each new post. It’s a great way to help promote your content. #ownthemoment Use this Twitter tool to track seasonal, cultural and industry events and write a blog post which fits the theme, for example, "How To Eat Healthily During The Holiday Season." Evernote This is a very useful online tool to help you store notes, urls and content ideas for your blog. Evernote allows you to manage your notes from your desktop or a mobile device with all content synced. You can add tags and create folders for easy retrieval. The Evernote Chrome extension makes it simple to save links as you browse the web. Disqus A WordPress plug-in which sends you notification of any new comments on your blog. Storify Select social media updates and media from across the web to build your own social story to embed in your blog. Use it to provide highlights from a conference, Twitter chats and more. ClickToTweet Use this handy tool to generate a new link to your blog content. Then hyperlink whatever words and images you’d like in your blog post and track the results. Google Mobile Friendly Test Tool Mobile is no longer a secondary channel; it’s fast becoming a first-choice, This tool will analyze your blog’s URL and report if the page has a mobile-friendly design. Google PageSpeed Insights Research has shown that nearly half of web users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less, and they tend to abandon a site that isn’t loaded within 3 seconds. Use this tool to check the speed at which your blog loads. Google Ads Keyword Planner Although designed for advertising on Google, this powerful free tool is a must—have to help you optimize your blog posts for keywords. Google Trends A trending topic can get you noticed quickly; even more so if you add your unique perspective and expertise. Google Trends can help you find out what’s trending right now, giving you an opportunity to blog about it. Addictomatic Addictomatic shows you “the latest buzz” on your chosen topic from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Google, WordPress, Bing News, and more. Also see BuzzSumo and Bottlenose for more real-time insights on what’s trending across the major social networks. 4. Content Curation Tools Creating original content is time and resource intensive. Curation helps you provide your audience with relevant, high quality information on a regular basis without sacrificing your time and resources. I use and recommend the following tools for curation Scoop.itRebel MouseCurataPaper.li 5. Social Media Image Tools Canva This is my go-to tool for creating images. I tend to use it in combination with PicMonkey which is a great easy to use image editing tool. Social Image Resizer Tool This toool is invaluable for resizing images to the recommended dimensions for Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. Awesome Screenshot Get creative with your screenshots by using this tool which allows you to speedily add graphic elements right there in the tool. Screencastify Turn your screenshots into video tutorials which you can upload to YouTube. Piktochart Piktochart helps you create infographics which you can then embed on your blog. Wordle This is a great tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. Visual.ly Use this tool to create impressive graphics to share on your blog. Compfight A free Flickr search tool, will makes image sourcing easier. 6. Pinterest Pinterest Analytics Pinterest's free analytics provides users with data on reactions and responses to their pins. ViralTag Alllows you to browse from a preselected set of images or upload your own and schedule to Pinterest as well as Twitter, Facebook, and others. Pingraphy Pingraphy allows you to schedule posts on Pinterest. It works as a browser plugin that lets you pick images from the web and then schedule them out for sharing at a later date. PinAlerts PinAlerts sends an email notification when a user pins something directly from your Pinterest site. Pinvolve Pinvolve converts your Facebook photos into Pins and places your Pins on your Facebook page. PinGroupie Use this tool to find group boards on Pinterest where you can join and contribute. 7. Facebook Facebook Analytics Facebook's free built-in analytics tool provides metrics based on Facebook content. Facebook Page Barometer Provides you with information on reach, engagement, feedback, virality of your Facebook page, while comparing your results to results of pages with a similar amount of fans. LikeAlyzer LikeAlyzer analyzes Facebook pages, generating reports highlighting areas for improvement. The page-rank section allows business to see how they stack up against similar brands and by industry standards. ShortStack ShortStack helps you create Facebook apps to build social media marketing campaigns such as contests and promotions. Pagemodo Create Facebook tabs, run contests, design a cover image or visual post, and schedule updates with Pagemodo. 8. Twitter Tools Hootsuite This Twitter tool allows you manage multiple Twitter accounts, save tweets as templates, and schedule your tweets. TweetDeck Desktop tool similar to Hootsuite, with features for monitoring multiple Twitter accounts, creating and managing custom timelines, automated searches for keywords and hashtags, and sending out scheduled tweets, and more. Buffer I’ve written here about the value of scheduling your tweets and Buffer is a tool I recommend for its ease of use. It's free to schedule up to ten tweets at once and provides basic analytics so you can quickly see which of your tweets perform the best with its "top post" icon. You can also choose to connect your Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn accounts (but remember my advice about synching your platforms). List.ly List.ly is a collaborative list building tool which can be integrated with Twitter to help you create and manage lists. TweetReach This tool creates reports that allow you to see at a glance the reach and exposure data for your tweets. Commun.it Commun.it analyses your followers on Twitter and segments them into lists which help you identify your high-value relationships. It also provides you with insights into who you should follow or unfollow. Social Rank Social Rank groups your best followers on Twitter into those most engaged and most valuable. Tweriod Use this tool to analyze the best times to post your tweets. Tweriod gives you hourly graphs of when your followers are online the most during a 24 hour cycle. It also gives you separate graphs for weekends, Sundays, Mondays and weekdays. Riffle This browser plugin reveals insights into any Twitter user you choose. Discover statistics, popular hashtags, most shared links, connected profiles, and much more. Followerwonk Use this tool to follow key influencers in healthcare them, reach out to them online or offline, comment on their tweets and build a relationship. SocialOomph This is a freemium service that allows you to schedule tweets, track keywords, extend your Twitter profile, and much more with an unlimited amount of accounts for free. Twitterfeed This app allows you to add RSS feeds (yours and others) to be shared automatically through your Twitter, Facebook, and other social media accounts each time there is a new update to them. Unfollowr Unfollowr allows you to see a list of people who have unfollowed you and it’s useful to catch “scammers” (people who follow you and then quickly unfollow you). 9. Miscellaneous Social Media Management Tools This tool allows you to save interesting content on the web and save it for reading later. Works on and offline. Flipboard is single place to keep up on the news, follow topics you care about and share stories, videos and photos that influence you. To start, follow a few topics, and Flipboard creates your personal magazine. You can always add more as you find new topics, magazines or interesting people to follow. IFTTT IFTTT stands for ‘If this, then that’. Start by activating your chosen social channels and then set up your own ‘recipe’ or shared ‘recipes’. Staying on top of your social media activities can be time consuming, but as today’s article has shown, there are many tools to help you manage your time more efficiently and effectively. I am sure that you will find this list helpful in achieving better results with your healthcare social media marketing.
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Tom George's curator insight,
November 8, 2015 9:21 AM
fantastic list of tools and resources to gather information and share killer content with.
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Content curation is necessary for finding relevant information for your audience and sharing it through your communication channels. Whether you are a beginner or advanced, check out these tools to help you stay on top of your content.
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“Scoop.it is a news curation powerhouse offering tons of highly valuable features that satisfy everyone from the novice to the expert user. Its discovery engine is outstanding as it can identify trending content across any topic and for the number of customisable persistent search options that it offers in its backend.”
TeresaSiluar's curator insight,
August 3, 2015 10:25 AM
Nice quote from @Robin Good on Scoop.it on the TalkWalker blog, reviewing the best tools for content curation according to the experts.
Thanks! 
Vladimir Kukharenko's curator insight,
April 1, 2016 9:49 AM
Nice quote from @Robin Good on Scoop.it on the TalkWalker blog, reviewing the best tools for content curation according to the experts. Thanks!
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“ Creating content for multiple platforms each and every day can be taxing for even the most skilled copywriter. It means coming up with fresh, interesting content constantly to provide great resources” Via Jeff Domansky, Suvi Salo, Mika Auramo
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
April 7, 2015 12:55 AM
Julia McCoy offers 17 excellent curation tools with several that may be new to you. Recommended reading. 9/10 
Nerina Finetto's curator insight,
April 8, 2015 2:16 PM
"Content curation is vital to any content campaign because it can help you get incredible content pieces to share with your audience, as well as helping you figure out new topic ideas"
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Teaching Information Fluency describes the skills and dispositions of information fluency adept searchers. Readers will receive in-depth information on what it takes to locate, evaluate, and ethically use digital information. The book realistically examines the abilities of Internet searchers today in terms of their efficiency and effectiveness in finding online information, evaluating it and using it ethically. Since the majority of people develop these skills on their own, rather than being taught, the strategies they invent may suffice for simple searches, but for more complex tasks, such as those required by academic and professional work, the average person’s performance is adequate only about 50% of the time. The book is laid out in five parts: an introduction to the problem and how search engine improvements are not sufficient to be of real help, speculative searching, investigative searching, ethical use and applications of information fluency. The intent of the book is to provide readers ways to improve their performance as consumers of digital information and to help teachers devise useful ways to integrate information fluency instruction into their teaching, since deliberate instruction is needed to develop fluency. Since it is unlikely that dedicated class time will be available for such instruction, the approach taken embeds information fluency activities into classroom instruction in language arts, history and science. Numerous model lessons and resources are woven into the fabric of the text, including think-alouds, individual and group search challenges, discussions, assessments and curation, all targeted to Common Core State Standards as well as information fluency competencies.
Brenda Vargas's curator insight,
March 23, 2015 10:32 PM
It is and interesting tool to get useful information to learn and teach 
Elizabeth Hartley's curator insight,
August 4, 2015 5:10 PM
This link leads you Google Books where you can read specifically about how to use our Scoop.it magazine dedicated to 21st century information fluency.
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"Résumé : A travers l’exemple de Saint-Gobain Recherche (SGR), ce mémoire a à la fois pour objet d’analyser les usages des chercheurs d’un centre de R&D en matière de recherche, conservation et... Via LaLIST
Gilbert C FAURE's insight:
pas encore de curation?
Filomena Gomes's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 9:52 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Notwithstanding the viral content-marketing tam-tam keeps selling the idea of content curation as a miracle-shortcut to work less, produce more content and get all of the benefits that an online publisher would want to have, reality has quite a different shade.
Unless your readers are not very interested themselves into the topic you cover, why would they take recomendations from someone who has not even had the time to fully go through his suggested resources?
Can that be useful beyond attracting some initial extra visibility?
How can one become a trusted information source if one does not thoroughly look and understand at what he is about to recommend?
A lot more than the one needed to create normal original content. Read, verify and vet each potential resource, by taking the time needed to do this thoroughly. Make sense of what that resource communicates or represents / offers and be able to synthesize it for non-experts who will read about it. Synthesize and highlight the value of the chosen resource within the context of your interest area. Enrich the resource with relevant references, and related links for those that will want to find out more about it. Credit and attribute sources and contributors. Preserve, classify and archive what you want to curate. Share, distribute, promote the curated work you have produced. Creating it is not enough.
These are many more steps and activities than the ones required to create an original piece of content. 
Robert Kisalama's curator insight,
April 18, 2015 11:37 AM
truly Curation should not be merely aggregating different links without taking off time to reflect indeed it is very to end up like some one buying clothes impulsively only to realise you could have done without some of them.
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![Content Curation: The Art of a Curated Post [Infographic] | Content Marketing Forum | Notebook or My Personal Learning Network | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/1FRoqFd5ONi9BTXXu5K8bDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
What should a curated piece of content look like? Paint the perfect post with these five elements.
Tony Guzman's curator insight,
January 15, 2015 8:59 AM
Curation is something I have been slowly learning to do better and I really enjoyed the tips given in this infographic. Anyone using these tips already? 
Gina Tucker's curator insight,
January 15, 2015 8:33 PM
How to maximize the imapct of your curated post!
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Thanks to Haiku Deck for the Honorable Mention for 7 Reasons you Must Content in their list of the year's best decks: ow.ly/Gz09L Via Martin (Marty) Smith
donhornsby's curator insight,
December 30, 2014 8:47 AM
(From the article): HOW you say things matters. Go EASY and be FUN. If you are a control freak get someone else to write important pieces of your brand defining content such as: * About Page. * Ambassador Program Call To Action and Explanation page. * Terms (never let lawyers write this critical content). You might think the lawyers thing is strange, but if you let legal speak go on your site you are DEAD and much more DEAD than if you get sued. You are dead because no tribe will form. Without a tribe the web's natural and regular costs are unrecoverable. You MUST create online community or be eaten by the inevitable costs of creating and maintaining a website. You must curate to crate a tribe.
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Gilbert C FAURE's insight:
remarquable état des lieux et des besoins pas encore beaucoup de curation, mais...
Gengembre Dominique's curator insight,
October 31, 2014 3:05 AM
Le carnet « Sports et loisirs de nature » a pour ambition d’offrir, aux territoires et prestataires d’activités auvergnats, les clés pour structurer et organiser l’offre de pleine nature, indispensable pour gagner en attractivité.
Gengembre Dominique's curator insight,
October 31, 2014 3:51 AM
Le carnet « Offices de tourisme » a pour objectif de mieux cerner l’évolution importante que rencontrent depuis plusieurs années les offices de tourisme (OT) et d’en dresser le portrait afin de mettre en évidence les enjeux fondamentaux à venir.
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"I read recently that content curation is dead. I have a few different arguments against this concept, but for now, I’ll keep it short and sweet: Content curation is not dead, and while the debate over curating content online vs creating new content will rage on and on, curating content for other reasons is still going strong. That said, there are a lot of different ways to go about content curation, so we’ve test driven a few different tools so you can figure out which might work best for you whether you’re curating content for work projects, assigning it as a school project, for your own professional development, or personal interests." Via John Evans
magnus sandberg's curator insight,
October 6, 2014 3:31 AM
I'm rescooping this for three reasons. First, the term "curation" is fairly new to me and it is nice to see how different forms it can take. Secondly, I read so many blogposts entitled "10 tools for this" or "35 reasons for that". It is nice too see one of those where all of the 6 tools are actually great. Third, the fact that I actually have experience with three of the six tools makes me feel good. So enjoy :) |
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In conversation at EduTECH earlier this month, Harold Jarche evoked George E. P. Box's quote that "all models are wrong, but some are useful". Of course, the purpose of a model is to simplify a com... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Dr. Pyrate's curator insight,
June 19, 2015 9:00 AM
How do I know I'm curating this? (go meta!) Well, inserting comments helps. I can't read the top level in this image, so this could be improved. 
Karen Dunlap's curator insight,
June 19, 2015 7:43 PM
Could be nicely applied to online PLC formation. 
Zhang Meilan's curator insight,
June 25, 2015 11:20 PM
该内容策展的框架，虽招致很多争议，但其将策展能激发学生参与到让学生的策展产生价值，分成了三个类别，8个层次，这对指导策展教学很有意义。 第一类是引起学生注意：1.吸引我; 2.激励我。 第二类是告诉学生：3.告诉我; 4.给我看。 第三类是让学生自己行动：5.让我来；6.支持我；7.让我做的更好；8.让我产生价值。
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15 characteristics of a 21st century teacher.
Learn more:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/what-are-the-skills-needed-from-students-in-the-future/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Rise+of+the+Professional+Educator
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Gilbert C FAURE's insight:
use curation and scoop.it
Gust MEES's curator insight,
June 1, 2015 11:10 PM
15 characteristics of a 21st century teacher. Learn more: - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/what-are-the-skills-needed-from-students-in-the-future/ - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Rise+of+the+Professional+Educator
Gust MEES's curator insight,
June 1, 2015 11:15 PM
15 characteristics of a 21st century teacher. Learn more: - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/what-are-the-skills-needed-from-students-in-the-future/ - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Rise+of+the+Professional+Educator
Tony Guzman's curator insight,
June 2, 2015 10:08 AM
This article shares some interesting things that make up a 21st century teacher. How many of these are you already doing?
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Key factors making content curation a necessity and emerging trends of curated information services that capitalise on organising and providing access to exist…
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Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. It starts in a gallery. You expect the curator of an art gallery to know the collection and to: search out the best items select for the collection authenticate and … Via Jay Cross, juandoming
Pamela Perry King's curator insight,
June 2, 2015 3:41 PM
Curation is a great way to build your Personal Learning Network. Would like to get a little bit better with it. 
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
June 4, 2015 8:38 PM
Curation is also a great form of DIY professional development. 
Consultants-E's curator insight,
June 27, 2015 5:03 PM
If you don't curate content already, you may find this interesting.
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Alice Chen writes: "We all know that our digital natives are very at ease with technology. In fact, they’re in love with technology, but does that automatically make them digital proficient? Via Mary Reilley Clark, Lynnette Van Dyke, juandoming
Susan Xerri's curator insight,
March 18, 2015 4:28 AM
An article that connects our digital native Gen C students to the curriculum via language that they understand...curation, copyright, character and connectedness...
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At its most basic, content curation is the process of finding, organizing, and presenting content from the flood of information and media that inundate the web by the second. Similar to museum curators, content curators sift through a seemingly never-ending amount of digital objects to unearth individual items worthy of being showcased for a specific audience. Once the selection is finished, the curator presents those assembled elements under a cohesive theme, just like museum curators do for specific exhibitions. Via Mika Auramo
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Many educators and media experts who cover the education industry believe curation will radically improve the outcomes of our education system. Robin Good of MasterNewMedia predicted that, “The adoption of curation approaches will directly affect how students learn about a subject and the value that can be generated through a personal learning path.” Via Ilkka Olander
Gust MEES's curator insight,
February 22, 2015 8:14 AM
Many educators and media experts who cover the education industry believe curation will radically improve the outcomes of our education system. Robin Good of MasterNewMedia predicted that, “The adoption of curation approaches will directly affect how students learn about a subject and the value that can be generated through a personal learning path.” Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/learn-every-day-a-bit-with-curation/ - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/practice-learning-to-learn-example-2/ - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/education-collaboration-and-coaching-the-future/ 
Iolanda Bueno de Camargo Cortelazzo's curator insight,
March 14, 2015 10:39 AM
First, I am going to jump on it; and I will certainly share with my peers and students.
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"...far too few students today are being properly schooled in the skill of curation. Curation is a key proficiency in face of today's instantaneous access to information. Sifting through a sea of sources and aggregating the most relevant research are critical expertises in the world of big data. Alan November actually recommends that on the very first day of school, teachers should train children in proper online searching. Via Beth Dichter
Gilbert C FAURE's insight:
Each January, the folks from Lake Superior State University (LSSU) release their (vaguely snarky) list of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use, and General Uselessness. This year, the term "curated" was put on the chopping block for being, as one commenter noted, a "pretentious way of saying 'selected.'"
Beth Dichter's curator insight,
January 11, 2015 10:20 PM
ASIDE has just published a post that shares five interactive infographics that look at history, geography, sociology and globalization. They are: * The Infographic History of the World * In Charted Waters - Mapping a Brave New World * Manifest Destiny - The Story of the U.S. Told in 141 Maps * The Story of All of Us - The Age of Exploration * The Kid's Aren't All Right If you click through to the post you will find a paragraph that discussed each of these interactive infographics as well as additional links that provide information on how to teach with interactive infographics.
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RT @PhilRoederer: Usages pédagogiques de la curation de contenus sur internet
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Trop de curateurs amateurs se jettent sur Scoop it ou Paper.li. Et ils oublient le ba-ba de la curation : d'abord déterminer votre stratégie ! La curation est très en vogue en ce moment. Tout le ... Via Hamala
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The results of the content curation survey 2014. Get the insights on the content curation industry. 282 people took part in this survey. Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
Gilbert C FAURE's insight:
Scoop.it is first! but too few researchers, teachers, studants are still using it
Brian Fanzo's curator insight,
October 6, 2014 2:14 PM
Great Data here.. embrace the power of Content Curation! |
will use in the ECIL meeting on information literacy, Thks