Content Curation Tools
Content curation is nothing but collect and select the information to share for the specific audience. In other words Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific subject matter. Though it is still considered a "buzz word" by many in the content world.
Now a days, Curating content is an essential skill for the student community. Finding and practicing of content curation will help students to deal with the often-overwhelming of information available at their fingertips. It is a skill that can be used to develop their critical thinking abilities.
Now a days, Curating content is an essential skill for the student community. Finding and practicing of content curation will help students to deal with the often-overwhelming of information available at their fingertips. It is a skill that can be used to develop their critical thinking abilities.
Teachers and Students
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Turning information in to Knowledge: It is explaining why content curation is an essential tool for students. The sheer magnitude of available information leaves many unable to organize their own thoughts and ideas against the whole of the Internet. As a result, content curation can help students turn that information into knowledge.
Content curation process: Students need to follow the guidelines of teacher or instructor to do the content curation, they need to be vigilant or observe when the teacher is searching a topic, how they organize and evaluate the information before sending the content. Content Curation allows, searching and repinning, students can also see how filtered content differs from broadly available information and reflect on the influence individual viewpoints might have on how information is collected and organized. It also becomes a great place to organize information that may be beneficial for portions of the student population, Why the digital curation? It is an era of information with a huge amount of content on the Internet, this varies enormously in quality, there’s huge value in relying on experts to select the best content for a topic. And with that need, many new tools have been developed to make it easy for anyone to select, collect and share their own collections of digital resources. |
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In KiiT-IS Library
Know it, Share it: We need to create content of the best resources on the particular topic, share with others, then everyone will going to get benefit from the expertise. Its a great way to connect school with parents and other educators.
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Free Online Resources: In the present situation, curation takes on an even larger role because of information explosion.
Expertise: Curator is not a creator of the content but he knows himself what to share, whom to share. He will help the knowledge seekers with his expertise with curation. Student Use: Students can search and organize the materials for the research, collect bibliographic details, organize the research articles around a topic. Curating the collection of resources in the wake of successful completion of research project, they needs thinking skills to assess the value of information Skills for students: They learn information literacy skills while they curating content: ex. while they do searching the information and organizing it, then the evaluation and the dissemination of information and so on. |
Tools for the collaboration at our library
Symbaloo
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Symbaloo is a visual bookmarking tool that makes it simple and fun to organize the best of the web. You have all your favorite websites at your fingertips. With an account you can access your bookmarks from everywhere with any device and share your online resources with others.
I have Created my personal startpage for the web and connect my social media, read RSS feeds and use widgets like Search, Weather and more. |
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PINTEREST: An excuse to play with Pinterest! Visually appealing, Pinterest is tons of fun and is a great way to create a collection of resources to share with students and staff. Basically it’s like an old fashioned bulletin board where you pin photos of things you want to do, places you want to go, books to read, etc.
I have created boards on my choosen topics in the pinterest if you want you can explore my board. Click on the Pin-It button/extension on your browser toolbar to add it to your boards. Pinterest has good search features to find content from all users. |
Scoopit
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SCOOPIT: This service has been very popular, but unfortunately has discontinued their educational discounts and has limited their free version. Still, take a look, there are tons of great Scoopit collections curated by experts that are well worth following.
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From Day One, we’ve believed that great stories move the world forward and that truth matters.
Flipboard was founded as one place to find the stories for your day, bringing together your favorite news sources with social content, to give a deep view into everything from political issues to technology trends to travel inspiration. Over the years, in partnership with the world’s greatest publishers and with you, our community, we’ve built a curated experience with a plurality of voices, where people can find quality stories on any interest, investing in their lives and their passions. |
NUZZEL
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As a real-time news aggregation tool, it pulls in the latest, popular content from your twitter stream. Good way to monitor twitter without ever visiting your twitter account. As a curation tool, Nuzzel helps you create a daily newsletter with articles and posts that you select from any source you like. If you don’t have time everyday, Nuzzel will create a newsletter for you with content from your twitter friends. Or you can turn that option off. Send a weekly newsletter if you prefer. People can subscribe and get your updates in their email.
Every day, Nuzzel analyzes millions of links shared by over 100 million Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook accounts, and scans over 100,000 news sources. News content in Nuzzel Media Intelligence reports are ranked and presented to executives based on a proprietary algorithm that automatically combines relevance, authority, quality, and social signals. It’s like Google News Alerts on steroids. |
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PADLET
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As a Digital Board for the Library Directory
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PADLET* – Padlet can be used for many purposes and curation is one of them. Add the Padlet browser addon to quickly add content to your Padlet pages. With a free account you can create 3 Padlet pages. There are multiple ways to arrange the content on the page. Collaboration features include the ability to leave comments, vote and rate content, add contributors and let them add content. Pro (paid) accounts have features for managing student accounts.
Diigo
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ELINK – Another free tool that creates attractive collection pages that can be embedded on a website or linked to directly for sharing. The paid Pro version has an option to send out your collection as a newsletter. Free account has a variety of layouts and display options. Also has browser addons to quickly add resources to your collections. Free account has advertising on the collection pages.
Wakelet
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A newish curation tool that is currently free. Makes attractive pages to share your content. Collection feature to organize content and share it. Collections can be embedded on other webpages.
At Wakelet, we're working to change the way people find, organize and share information. In a world of algorithmically-driven content, Wakelet puts people first, helping them organize and find the most relevant, authoritative and compelling content from across the web. |
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IT'S FREE.... My library on Cloud
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Our library management service caters to both home and small organizational libraries. Our online software lets you create multiple libraries, catalog books, movies, music, and video games, lets you create tags, leave notes, import/export, and much more. We offer two different subscription options to best fit your needs. Libib is the best system for cataloging your media available online. Now which version is the best for you?
Whether you have 50 items or 5,000 items, your library is precious. With libib, managing your private library of books, movies, music & video games is a snap. Scan, search, enter an ISBN/UPC, or import items in bulk from a CSV file and libib automatically retrieves that item's cover art and all pertinent information. Post, discuss, and follow your friends and discover with libib! Create up to 100 different libraries! |
Librarika
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We know how difficult it is for medium and small libraries to maintain installation of library software or cope with existing free and open source LIS systems. Even with the installation of a library software, management of OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) for some libraries become a great nightmare due to complexity in software, lack of infrastructure or lack of highly skilled library personals. That's why our goal is to make this platform as simple as possible so that every body can leverage the power of this LIS
platform.Librarika is Free Librarika is free for all for up to 2,000 (10,000) titles or records, however we may increase this limit for non-profit or charity organisations based on actual needs. Please visit Librarika Plans for more details on our packages. |
Activities
- Read an article or two about curation – either from the sources in the page or search something new and share it with us.
- Options
- Pick at least one curation tool that is new to you and create a small collection on a favorite topic, your favorite apps, tools for your classroom, resources for a lesson, etc. You choose!
- Or dig deeper into a tool you already use and explore new aspects of it.
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