Digital Content Curation: iCurate, iShare, iDiscover
1. Glenda Morris
MLC
Deputy Director of MLC Libraries
Teacher Librarian
Learning Technologies Consultant
Digital Curation – iCurate, iShare,
iDiscover
2. Licensed Under Creative Commons. Available on Flickr from Spark CBC:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25031050@N06/3292307605/sizes/z/in/photostream /
3. TODAY’S SESSION
• Explore two popular digital content curation tools - Pinterest and Scoopit
• Discover how you can create topics related to your curriculum/topic
• Use either/both for your own professional networking
• Curate your own board/s on a topic - provide annotations to the
websites/resources you’ve located
• Search for information that has been shared by others on similar topics – rich
sources of information
• Consider how you could use one of these tools in your teaching
4. WHAT IS DIGITAL
CURATION?
• Sifting through vast amounts of information on the Internet that’s useful to you,
presenting it in a meaningful & organised way around a theme/topic to suit
your own needs
• More than just collecting links – putting them into context with organisation,
annotation & presentation
• Selection of the best, most relevant, quality resources to meet specific
information needs
• Connecting with others
• Sharing with others who might have a similar use/need
6. HOW EDUCATORS USE
• Collaborate
Teacher to teacher
Student to teacher (vice versa)
Student to student
• Collect & curate
Resource units of work (websites) & organise onto boards
Store resources in one place
Gather images and videos for lessons & presentations
Students to locate resources as class activity for inquiry tasks
• Search for content
Search and look for other educator’s boards for images, websites, videos …
7. WHAT IS ?
• FREE visual bookmarking social networking tool
• ‘Pin’ or ‘re-pin’ resources to your boards
• Create boards related to your curriculum/topic/interests
• Collect resources & organise them by “pinning” to boards
• Create boards related to your curriculum/topic/interests
• Share & collaborate
• Web tool & iPad/iPhone/Android app
8.
9. WHAT IS ?
Scoop.it - www.scoop.it
• Create online magazine around your topic/s
• FREE version NOW limits 2 topics (used to be 5)
• ‘Scoop’ or ‘rescoop’ resources/links
• Limits now to 10 scoops per day
• Scoop.it Education (teachers, students) – allows team curation, create additional topics
and unlimited. $6.99/month
13. ACTIVITY
• Create a FREE Pinterest or Scoop.it account (or other
curation tool)
• Search for a topic on your chosen curation tool
• Create a topic related to a curriculum area & start
pinning/scooping content
•How could you incorporate curation into your
learning & teaching practice?
14. CREDIT
Lyn Hay @lyn_hay on Twitter
Resourcing the Australian Curriculum seminar, Sydney 9 September 2013
• Paul Carey @librarianpaul on Twitter
Presentation from ISTE 2014 Educreation: Find + Create + Connect
http://www.pearltrees.com/librarianpaul/educuration-create-
connect/id11962389
• Sue Waters @suewaters on Twitter
Curation: Creatively Filtering Content (June 12, 2014)
http://theedublogger.com/2014/06/12/curation/
Notas del editor
What is this image suggesting about the Internet? The amount of information is overwhelming (both for ourselves and our students). The problem is how we are able to use the find and USE the information without drowning.
HENCE – web tools/apps that you can use to curate the information you find on the web and want to keep ORGANISED.
Student to student collaboration – great exercise for higher-order thinking. Students have to annotate the resource. Coming up with connections and understanding of the material.
Briefly – view my Pinterest page – www.pinterest.com/jasmont11
1. Create a new board
Secret boards - secret board is only visible to you and people you invite to it. When you add a Pin to a secret board, it won’t show up anywhere else on Pinterest—not in the category sections, search results, your followers’ home feed, your own home feed or even the Pins section of your profile. Your secret boards are at the bottom of your profile. Just scroll down to see them.
Group boards – invite people to a board. Go to selected board – Makerspaces. Click on edit – who can add pins
Demo pinning – Pin Google Sky or 100,000 stars (both Google experiments) to Google Tools for the Classroom board.
4. Demo re-pinning – search Google Art Project and place in Google Tools for the classroom board.
5. How I am using Pinterst for gathering and sharing resources from ISTE.
Explain what I like about Scoop.it – layout, magazine style. Good for professional networking – professional layout compared to Pinterest (personal opinion).
Scoop.it Education – publish up to 20 topics and have up to 30 co-curators per topic
http://www.scoop.it/u/glenda
Topic – 21st Century Teacher Librarians and School Libraries http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-teacher-librarians-and-school-libraries
Sue Waters June 12, 2014, Edublogger survey
Curation: Ceatively Filtering Content