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Into the Driver's Seat
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Building learners' independence through thoughtful technology use
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Robin Good's curator insight,
January 19, 2013 7:45 AM
ClipArt ETC is a wonderful collection of quality educational clipart providing simple illustrations, icons and drawings in a multitude of areas, from history, to business, art, literature, music and sports. A project of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology of University of South Florida), ClipArt ETC has curated over 65,000 images and organized, categorized each one of them, while providing descriptions and multiple file formats in which to download them. I must say they really did a wonderful job. The images are great, the quality is excellent, the organization of the catalog is well done and easy to navigate. From the official site: "Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 educational clipart items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission." The ClipArt ETC resource was designed and intended for educational projects but due to the many commercial requests it has received it now offers a "commercial" shopping cart to purchase any of its images for commercial applications. More info here: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/info/license FAQ: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/info/faq Check it out now: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ (Thanks to Maria Cristina Pratas for uncovering this gem)
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Robin Good: Mobento is a hub of curated educational video clips integrating a special search engine capable of finding any word spoken inside the video collection and of visualizing where the words were spoken on a timeline.
From the official site: "This is a library and a library has librarians. That’s us. We’ll be rigorous in only uploading high quality, fascinating videos from established academic institutions and learning organizations."
FAQ: http://www.mobento.com/faq
Try it out now: http://www.mobento.com/
Via Robin Good, Darren Kuropatwa
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Robin Good: Adam Vincenzini on TheNextWeb has put together a nice and useful list of the 30 dedicated search engines that you can use to explore and research specific content areas.
From blogs to video and forums, here is a good list of search engine tools from where you can start your own research.
Helpful. 7/10
Full list: http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2012/04/29/30-specialist-and-super-smart-search-engines/ ; Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Robin Good, Sheila Fredericks
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
June 29, 2013 8:42 PM
Great list and useful alternatives to Google search.
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This is an interesting workshop presentation given at #converge11 by Joyce Seitzinger. It has a focus on curation in EduTech but is generic as well in a lot of aspects.
In particular, I love the distinction she makes from slide 22 onward between all types of "curators": a fun way of showing what curation best practices should be all about. Via catspyjamasnz, Guillaume Decugis, Gust MEES
Seth Dixon's comment,
December 13, 2011 10:59 PM
I've been exploring the idea of 'the social media classroom' and how I view teachers with an emerging role as curators, but also teaching student the skills of curation so they can get the right resources in an age of ubiquitous information. I'll have to keep in touch.
Tom George's comment,
December 14, 2011 9:07 AM
Nice one thanks for this. I have been following your Scoops. You can also set up and share your scoops on Internet Billboards, it's very easy to set up and do and there is no extra effort just a couple clicks. Like this http://t.co/63g5ViEq Also do you have a blog? Just curious.
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Thanks to paper.li, Twitter content curation is a snack.
2) How Can Paper.li Help You Achieve The Top 7 Twitter Content Curation Rewards
In a nutshell, Paper.li is a content curation platform that enables you to turn Twitter, Facebook and RSS updates into online newspapers in a matter of seconds. This way, you can pamper your readers with daily fresh content effortlessly. Via Robin Good, Judy O'Connell, Kim Flintoff
AJCann's comment,
August 4, 2011 10:58 PM
I've gone right off paper.li since I started using scoop.it - it's just too crude - more noise than signal.
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Through the work of the [Emerging Leaders Council] Emerging Ideas Committee this year, I’ve become acquainted with a wealth of new approaches to old problems and exciting combinations of existing models about which I was previously unaware. You’re seeing some examples of them on the Blog Salon this week, and we’ll be sharing more on this space as the year goes on. Via Robin Good, Judy O'Connell, Kim Flintoff
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A presentation I gave at KnowCamp in Modena about digital curation: what curating content is and why to do it, tips on curating content and preserving that data (RT @ALA_TechSource: Digital Curation: The New Frontier of Knowledge Via Kim Flintoff
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TeresaSiluar's curator insight,
April 27, 2014 11:28 AM
Uso de mapas mentales en la curación de contenidos.
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Robin Good: Euscreen, a Best Practice Network funded by the European Commission and which provides standardised access to over 30,000 items of video programme content and complementary contextual information, has been updating "Exhibitions" a curated set of 10 collections covering cover historical events, political debates and everyday life in Europe.
From the official site: "The current release, visible at http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html, brings online 10 different exhibitions, some of which are divided into subchapters or strands. The exhibitions are created by archivists, researchers, and enthusiasts."
EUscreen Exhibitions: http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html#.UDO0j0TMqng
Via Robin Good, Pepe Crespo
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Is Curation the new search? Robin Good proposes that it is. I believe that we do trust some people more than some algorithms. This is a very interesting article about how curation can shape education. Ken
Robin Good: Content curation will play a major role both in the way we "teach" and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem.
This article, builds up over my recent presentation on Content Curation for Education that I delivered at Emerge2012 virtual conference.
In that presentation I claimed that the adoption of "curation approaches" will directly affect the way competences are taught, how textbooks are put together, how students are going to learn about a subject, and more than anything, the value that can be generated for "others" through a personal learning path.
If we learn not by memorizing facts, but by collaborating with others in the creation of a meaningful collection-explanations of specific topics/issues/events then, for the first time in history, we can enrich planetary knowledge each time we take on a new learning task.
And it's already happening.
Yes, we are only at the very early stages, but, in my humble opinion, there are enough signs and indications that this is not going to be something marginal.
In this article I outline ten key factors, already at work, which, among others, will very likely pave the way for a much greater and rapid adoption of curation practices in the educational / academic world.
Full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/curation-for-education-and-learning/
(Image credit: Shutterstock)
Via Robin Good, Ken Morrison
Giuseppe Mauriello's comment,
August 9, 2012 9:41 AM
Thanks Robin!
I scooped your article one hour ago! :-) 
Ken Morrison's comment,
August 10, 2012 4:15 AM
Thank you for the rescoop. If your aren't following him already, I highly suggest following Robin Good's topics on here. There is some great information about wise curation there. Good luck to you :)
Ken
Ken Morrison's comment,
August 17, 2012 8:26 AM
Thank you for the rescoop. I appreciate your scoop.it sites. Your 4th Era one was one of the first that I began following.
Ken
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Robin Good: Course Hero is a platform which allows the creation and delivery of online video courses curated from the best existing published content on that topic.
There are already ready-made courses to access or you can submit a topic that you would like to video-curate into a course.
"You can learn just about anything from YouTube...if you're willing to dig through millions of videos."
From Techcrunch: "Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections of the best educational YouTube videos and other content.
The newly launched courses section of the eduTech startup’s site now has classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and programming in a variety of languages. ... By drawing from YouTube and other openly available education, Course Hero plans to set up courses for anything it, or you, can think of. ... Each course breaks down into roughly 6 chapters of 6 concept YouTube videos, Justin.tv videos, articles, and more. Unlike Udemy‘s one-teacher-per-class approach, Course Hero courses are compiled from content by many teachers.
Rather than put you at the mercy of long-winded professors, Course Hero trims videos and articles down to their most important teachings.
Along the way you’ll answer quiz questions, take tests to complete chapters, and face a final exam to finish a course and earn proficiency badges..."
Full article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/course-hero/ ;
Courses: http://www.coursehero.com/courses/ ;
More info: http://www.coursehero.com/ ; Via Robin Good, Let's Learn IT, Heiko Idensen, Gust MEES
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The notion of content curation is one that has traditionally been associated with libraries, archivies, galleries, or organisations working with objects or data in some way. For example, in the DCC... Via Judy O'Connell, Kim Flintoff
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Very nice interview that covers many aspects of curation: why, what to expect, how, etc... Knowing how to use social media involves knowing how to uncover the best information and then customise the information flow. This can be personal, for an organisation, for research, for promotion. This facet of information curation is an issue that information professionals need to understand and become proficient in. Via Guillaume Decugis, Judy O'Connell, Kim Flintoff
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When Brian Solis called 2011 the "year of curation," he identified a growing trend in how people are addressing the issue of information overload. Today's common approach to curation is driven by individuals who pick out the information they find important, fun, and interesting to share with their friends. The problem with this approach is we naturally tend to associate with like-minded friends, so we're not exposed to a diverse set of information. The outcome is we get stuck in what Eli Pariser calls "Filter Bubbles." A new approach that we call "collective curation" represents a more effective and more efficient way to get the information we need. Via Judy O'Connell, Kim Flintoff
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Content curation is part of an overall strategy to tame information chaos. For me, it’s all about knowing, learning, sharing and teaching, all in one!
Here I am exploring the concept, theory and practice of social networking technologies within the context of libraries and the work of information professionals.
Via Judy O'Connell, Kim Flintoff
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Soon we'll need a curation site to curate the curation tools.
A new list of curation tools, Listly looks really interesting.
A new list, I'm working on getting to know Feedly!