Curation
Curation is the new search tool. The art of locating, aggregating, filtering, selecting, and organzing for a very specific topic, or for a particular audience interest, problem, passion is needed to help student manage an overabundent flow of information. According to Joyce Valenza, “curation tools present an exciting new genre of search tool, a tool for scanning the real-time environment, as well as opportunities for evaluating quality and relevance in emerging information landscapes”. There are several tools to help educators move beyond being collectors and become effective curators:
- Scoop.It : Curation, Publishing and Bookmarking (all in one)
- Scoop.it! Lets You Create Beautiful Subject-Specific Reading Collections with ideas for collection
- Symbaloo - Visually organize your bookmarks
- Only2Clicks - Visually organize your bookmarks. Great for younger students
- Jog The Web – Another great visual bookmarking website organize your bookmarks for younger students
- Sqworl - Provides a clean and simple way to visually bookmark multiple URLs
- Paper.Li – Publish Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or any web content into an online newspaper
- Tumblr
- Storify
- LibGuides
- Delicious Stacks
- ClipKwik – Video curation for schools. Search and receive multiple results from Ted, Vimeo, schooltube etc
December 27, 2011