Teacher librarians, art & Museum curators all look after important res0urces

Why is curation such an important life skill?

Susana Noor CSU course ETL523 Student No-11428780

What does Curate mean ?

Curate in general terms, means a range of activities and processes done to create, manage, maintain and validate a component. A museum may take charge of an object, An art gallery may organise an art exhibit or curate a photography Show. Curate means to make sense of , to pull together, to sift through and select for presentation, as music, or website content.

The new curriculum and digital curation

Internet technology has provided a global classroom where students not only share information, tools and workspaces but create new works online (i.e. using mixed media, social networking, wikis, blogs, reflections).

In meeting the content and general capabilities of the new Australian curriculum, the teacher librarian will need considerable background material and to filter the prolific content available for students.
Digital Curation therefore helps provide carefully selected, relevant and quality resources through guided search for enquiry based research.

Teacher Librarian as Digital Curator

The teacher librarian acts like a human filter-providing quality resources for the needs of students and education programs. Curation tools help to organise types of information and help with professional publishing. There are many formats for Digital curation- data can show links and also provide annotations to highlight aspects of a topic or theme. Curation tools can help students to manage daily school programs and for personal creative pursuits.

The implications of Curation tools.

Curation tools make it easy to collect , post and group areas of content for school and other pursuits.
Pros Most tools are easy to join and install and allow users to play with content sharing . May suit non-academic/ESL students with formats such as photo and video sharing. Students can enjoy enrichment from curated professional sites and examples. Can brainstorm and then keep for a later research. Many types of tools to suit functions (photos, videos, blogs ,etc). Cons Tools could encourage violations of copyright/plagiarism Author or validated source is difficult to trace once curation tools are used. May miss links etc, and correct information Limited website controls so website is visible to all users.-safety issues. Some require signing in with personal information so could pose safety issue.

Collective Curation
With the overload of informationmaking effective and safe use of the internet is essential. Working in groups allows for collective curation- each contributor works on a small sub-area to help the group. A filter bubble is where users only learn from one group or source.

Collective curation therefore enables expansion of concepts & formats, varied knowledge from experts, wisdom on specific content to broaden and help the collective whole.

Why Curation ?
Curation, as an approach to bringing digital and media literacy competencies into the classroom, can help build meaningful teaching and learning approaches for todays participatory media landscape. Mihailidis (2013)

All learners can be sharers and collectors using their own curated sites. Story telling is one way of using online curation :photos, videos, written blogs, group projects ,portfolios ,comments about experiences. Core skills taught using curation are critical inquiry, analysis, organisation and evaluation.

Some features of useful curation tools

Be easy to use and allow users to save and publish at anytime.
Allow content to be gathered and shared with selected audience/ group or the wider community. Allow the curator to edit / comment/ upload/add in varied media and have audience comments (analytics). May track usage to the site for personal feedback.(business) Has a way of sharing to other sites through links.

Top Tools for Teacher Librarians Where do we begin ?

Curation platforms are tools which help you to personally select online content, to edit it and share it.(Social compare website)
Teachers need to learn to take risks, to tinker, to allow time for students to develop curation skills. L, Shearing has composed a helpful tools website http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Collaborative%2BTools

Lets start by examining 10 free tools and some of their useful features

10 free classroom curation sites

Storify allows users to create and edit content found on social media and tell a story. Photos, video, Youtube etc. Pinterest allows users to pin content and ideas that interest them found around the web onto themed notice boards with brief explanation notes.

Scoopit allows users to find the latest news to be delivered and re-shared with others in a style similar to magazines. It centres on niche topics and others can suggest news content to add to your site

Name Storify

Ease of use
Join through social media and sort through social media and drag content to one place to create stories

cost
free

Uses
Create stories and timelines. Can cover news stories and update

Can link
Can add comments and Url to embed features on their stories. Can link storify elsewhere

Pinterest

Request to join or through friends invitation, Easy to use. Collect and share visual story boards with limited information. Can group topic ideas and interests onto boards and pin from web

Free
Can upgrade for fee

Class projects on aspects of topic. Group Work on interests.

Can install Pin it button to add content from web or use existing boards for inspiration.

Can add source or reference for items pinned from the web.
Can follow boards from others and share through pins. Can comment and link to social media. Can link to social networking accounts. follow and dash board interests automatically.

Scoopit

Can join through social media. Scoop material through topic, url, bookmark, suggestion.

Free Can Upgrade for fee.

Create first topic then add ideas /content from the web.

10 Free Platform tools continued

Evernote allows users to manage information on multiple mobile devices and have it accessible and searchable ready for use. Diigo is a tool used to highlight pages or articles that interest the user .Groups can be created where users share content on topic areas to broaden knowledge outcomes. Dipity is a timeline curation tool for users, both individually or in groups to add text / content / video/ onto time lines and share them with others .( publicly or privately). Pealtrees allows users to brainstorm content; photos videos ideas interests )found on the internet and organise it like a mind-map or tree.

Name Evernote

Ease of Use
Join Evernote website. Installing web clipper enables one to add content from web Join Diigo website. Allows users to highlight text and take notes while browsing the internet.Diigo is cloudbased network. Join up using website and Make a timeline and add photos/videos/news reports . Join Pearltrees website.Use pearltrees to cultivate everything you like/your interests.Use url or personal photos

cost
Free

Uses
Your own private scrapbook of web content on topic.

Can link
Can email link, create index or tag notes to use later. Share notes on social media.

Diigo

Free

Group projects where users can share url or text and highlight important features.

Bookmarks can be saved, url or web page can be saved and highlighted text . Can share text or web page links with group.

Dipity

Free

Great for group use in class. Each student can contribute information to add to years. Make class timeline with events and images . Visual interface to show interests as branches on tree. Team pearltrees allows for group work. Trees can show hierachy in order of branches.

Can be private or public and can be embed into other sites as part of a wiki using the url created.Link to social networking sites. Can be embeded and link to social media such as facebook or twitter. Use url to add or follow others. Pick and comment on social content.

Pearltrees

Free

10 Free Platforms for classroom curation

List.ly create list of things you want to share, compare and do with people you care about. Discover the latest trends and group opinions.

Foxvox-helps you highlight speech via written word and it will speak it out-loud. Students can . books and turn blogs into podcasts. make audio
Voki- helps you create an on line avatar characters to speak your written text. Great for profile, blogs or wiki to add character to your text.

Name List.ly

Ease of Use Headings make it easy to collate. People places, things Collect, apps, media , resource, twitter. compare and share using social media and the web

Cost Free

Uses Create user lists for topics or debates in class. Use for surveys and other group activities

Can Link Social media and has privacy controls. Photos etc can be Embed into blog posts.

Foxvox

Install as an add on into Free firefox. Web browser.

Students can highlight and collect information and have it read back out loud to them. Group projects. Voki classroom and presenter can help in class groups. Bloggs for news can use Voki to pesent short snippedts of information.

Contains headings and can be used with audio books. Turn blogs into podcasts by highlighting using Foxvox. Linked to facebook and twitter. Can use different languages and characters. Shy students can use voki for presentations.

Voki

Free website that lets you use a Avatars to speak your text. Great for shy students .

Free

Summary on curation
New 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. Valenza,J (2011) All Students can learn to curate and create through story telling. They learn the skills of critical enquiry, analysis, organisation and evaluation, they can share their work in groups and receive feedback.

Teacher librarians need to explore technology, tinker and not be afraid to learn along side students. There are many curation tools for many types of curation projects so allowing time for participatory learning experiences is an important aspect for the teacher librarian in developing students curation skills for school and toward life-long learning.
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again. Eva Gregory

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