Author and blogger speaks to the APLIC 47th conference on using social media for professional learning

1. Photo by MJK23
Using Content Curation for Professional Learning: Seek, Sense, Share
Beth Kanter, Trainer, Author, Blogger
APLIC Conference
April 2014

2. Beth Kanter: Master Trainer, Author, and ChangeMaker

3. http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/aplic

4. My nonprofit tech work
begins ….

5. Content Curation for
Nonprofits
circa 1994-1996

7. Are you a content curator?
Flickr Photo: An untrained eye
Scale
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10
Just 2 Words

8. What is your burning question about
content curation?
What do you already know about
content curation?
Share Pairs

9. Content curation is the organizing, filtering and
“making sense of” information on the web and
sharing the very best with your network.

10. The Content Curator is a Sommelier . . .

14. • Transdisciplinarity
• Sense-making
• Social intelligence
• Cognitive load
management
• New media literacy

15. “Learning is the work, work is
learning” –
Jane Hart and Harold Jarche

23. Tweets links related to organization’s mission
and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization
dedicated to making children and families a
priority in federal policy and budget decisions.

24. SEEK SENSE SHARE
Identified key blogs and
Twitter users in each issue
area
Scans and reads every
morning and picks out best
Summarizes article in a
tweet
Writes for Huffington Post
Helps him do his work
Feeds a network with
quality content
Engages with aligned
partners
Tweets best of best

26. Great Content Curation: Practice, Skills, Tools
Framework: Harold Jarche
Networked Learning Is Working Smarter
Seek
Sense
Share

27. Seek
• Define objective, audience,
and topics
• Vets
• Trusted Sources
• Scouts
• Filters – experts and
network
• Use discovery tools

28. http://masternewmedia.org
http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-3/

30. Sense
• Product: Blog post,
report, memo,
presentation
• Selects
• Annotate, Archive,
Apply
• Add value
• Optimize headlines
• Edits
• Excerpts
• Links
• Classifies

31. Share
• Share at the right moment
• A steady diet of good stuff
• Comments
• Credits
• Recommend other curators
• Crowdsources
• Transparent

32. Small Group Exercise
Framework: Harold Jarche
Networked Learning Is Working Smarter
Seek
Sense
Share

33. Share Pairs
• What have you thought about or already do as content curation
in your practice?

34. Curating Efficiently: How To Avoid Getting Content Fried

36. 1. When you start curating information, does it make you feel anxious?
2. When you are seeking information to curate, have you ever forgotten what it was in
the first place you wanted to accomplish?
3. Do you add links to your Scoop.It or other collections without reading and thinking
and annotating the article?
4. Do you experience frustration at the amount of information you need to process
daily?
5. Do you sit at your computer for longer than 30 minutes at a time without getting
up to take a break?
6. Do you constantly check (even in the bathroom on your mobile phone) your email,
Twitter, Scoop.It or other online service?
7. Is the only time you're off line is when you are sleeping?
8. Do you feel that you often cannot concentrate?
9. Do you get anxious if you are offline for more than a few hours?
10.Do you find yourself easily distracted by online resources that allow you to avoid
other, pending work?
Self-Knowledge Is The First Step
A few quick assessment questions
Add up your score: # of YES answers

37. 0…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10
Source: Lulumonathletica
Mindful Online………………………………………………………..Need Help Now
What’s Your Attention Focusing Score?

38. • Understand your goals and priorities and
ask yourself at regular intervals whether
your current activity serves your higher
priority.
• Notice when your attention has
wandered, and then gently bringing it
back to focus on your highest priority
• Sometimes in order to learn or deepen
relationships -- exploring from link to link
is permissible – and important. Don’t
make attention training so rigid that it
destroys flow.
Source: Howard Rheingold
NetSmart
What does it mean to manage your attention while your
curate?

40. Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your
Time
Visualize on Paper
Establish Rituals
Reflection
Manage Electronic Distractions
Manage Physical Space
Just Say No
A Few Tips

41. Flickr Photo by John K
One Minute of Silence: What is one idea that you can put into
practice next week? Write down on an index card
Raffle!

42. Thank You!
• Blog: bethkanter.org
• Order Book: amzn.to/measure-networknp
• Twitter: @kanter
• Facebook: facebook.com/beth.kanter.blog
• Subscribe to my public updates: facebook.com/beth.kanter
• Scoop.It: scoop.it/u/beth-kanter
• Pinterest: pinterest.com/kanter
• SLIDES and Resources: http://bit.ly/GMM-content-curation