11.3

Students Curate Digital Resources

 11.3

Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

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 Let's quickly review what you learned in Week 1 about using a curation tool. This is an important skill for your students to have, too!
Hopefully, you've been actively using your chosen curation tools to collect links to resources, and save notes or ideas that inspired you, 
The word curate, as used in this objective, means "to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or website content:" (Source (Links to an external site.)). In this section, we'll share a few resources about gathering information, great digital resources, and wonderful technology tools!
​If you have been using any of these tools as your curation tool, you can skip these videos. If you're unfamiliar with with any of them, please watch them.

Evernote (Links to an external site.) is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving... The app allows users to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. This is one way to curate information from digital resources. For tips and tutorials visit https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/categories/10681-Tips-Tutorials

Pinterest (Links to an external site.) is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting (known as 'pinning' on Pinterest) images or videos to their own or others' boards (i.e. a collection of 'pins,' usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. This is a very visual way of curating information and resources. It is also a great way to search for resources.

               

Expand Your Horizons

   Pick at least one to explore:

  • BuzzSumo (Links to an external site.) is powerful online tool that allows any user to find out what content is popular by topic or on any website.
  • ContenGems (Links to an external site.) gives you access to over 200,000 RSS feeds, which makes it easy to find and curate virtually any type of content you need. All you have to do is search your chosen keywords, and you can skim through several different resources, cherry-picking content along the way.
  • Feedly (Links to an external site.) is a news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others.
  • Flipboard (Links to an external site.): Flipboard is the one place for all your interests. This video shows you how to find, follow, collect and share all the stories that matter to you.
  • List.ly (Links to an external site.), according to co-founder Nick Kellet, is "true social curation with lists as a metaphor." List.ly is all about creating and curating lists. You can create lists of tips or lists of websites or lists of anything you can think of that your potential clients would be interested in.
  • MyCurator (Links to an external site.) for WordPress will deliver content to your WordPress dashboard where you can easily review them. With one click curate the article into your WordPress Editor with an excerpt, image and attribution ready to go. Just add a paragraph to tell your readers about the article and you've created content for your site!
  • Pocket (Links to an external site.) is a free service that makes it easy to discover great content that's personalized to your interests, and save this content so you can return to it later – on any device, at any time.
  • Pearltrees (Links to an external site.) - Pearltrees is a social curation tool. It lets you organize, discover and share the stuff you like on the web.
  • PodSearch (Links to an external site.) - PodSearch is the easiest way to discover podcasts on your favorite topics. Listen to short show samples, learn more about the show and hosts, bookmark your favorites, and keep coming back to discover more!
  • Quora (Links to an external site.) is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. Its publisher, Quora, Inc., is based in Mountain View, California.
  • SlideShare (Links to an external site.) is a slide hosting service, acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. It allows users to upload files (PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote, or OpenDocument presentations) either privately or publicly. The slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself or can be embedded on other sites.
  • Triberr (Links to an external site.) At its core, Triberr is a platform to manage groups called Tribes. A tribe is a group of people, typically bloggers, who write about the same topics. For example, if I like blogger about food, I would look for a tribe that consists of other food bloggers.
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