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DISD Content Curation
1. Content Curation
Prepared for
Denton Independent School District
School Librarians
August 22, 2012
Greg Hardin, M.L.S.
2. Content Curation: What is it?
"Curation is the act of individuals
with a passion for a content area to
find, contextualize, and organize
information. Curators provide a
consistent update regarding what’s
interesting, happening, and cool in
their focus. Curators tend to have a
unique and consistent point of view–
providing a reliable context for the
content that they discover and
organize."
- Steven Rosenbaum
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
3. Content Curation: What is it?
Content Curation is a term that describes the act of
finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most
relevant content on a specific issue.
1.Aggregation. The act of curating the most relevant
information about a particular topic into a single location;
2.Distillation. The act of curating information into a more
simplistic format where only the most important or relevant
ideas are shared;
3.Elevation. Refers to curation with a mission of
identifying a larger trend or insight from smaller daily
musings posted online;
4.Mashups. Unique curated juxtapositions where merging
existing content is used to create a new point of view;
5.Chronology. A form of curation that brings together
historical information organized based on time to show an
evolving understanding of a particular topic.
Rohit Bhargava - 5 Models Of Content Curation
19. Want to be a content curator?
If you want to be a content curator, you should also
follow a few rules offered by Rosenbaum:
o If you don’t add context, opinion, or voice, and
simply lift content, it’s stealing.
o If you don’t provide attribution and a link back to
the source, it’s stealing.
o If you take a large portion of the original content,
it’s stealing.
o If someone asks you not to curate their material,
and you don’t respect that request, it’s stealing.
o Respect published rights. If images don’t allow
Creative Commons use, reach out to the image creator
—don’t just grab it and ask questions later.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
21. Implications of Curation Tools
for 21st Century School Libraries
Curation tools are important in school
libraries because they lessen the possibility
of information overload while providing
concrete examples of synthesized information.
These tools can be referred to as information
sources, but also can be used to collect and
publish information. Additionally, since
information is linked and its origination is
stored, plagiarism and copyright theft is
extremely rare. Curation websites require
"sources to be acknowledged which means that
stories can be checked and verified by other
journalists" and evaluated in terms of
authority and credibility. Joyce Valenza
In Steven Bell's most recent "From the Bell Tower" post in Library Journal called, "Calling All Content Curators" he pointed out that after all these years writing his filter blog <The kept up librarian>, he never realized he was a content curator. As he points to the recent article in FastCompany, "content curators are the new superheros of the web" he states that this is something librarians have dealt with for ages -- trying to bring organization and context to a world overrun with information. Though Pinterest might be considered the content curator darling of the moment, I want to share a few tools today that are designed to easily facilitate the curation and sharing process. Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web BY STEVEN ROSENBAUM | 04-16-2012 | 6:17 AM http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. Rohit Bhargava - 5 Models Of Content Curation Aggregation Distillation Elevation Mashups Chronology
Trapit - Captures personalized content. Powered by advanced AI that backs apple's SIRI. Trapit helps you explore any topic and gets smarter as you use it. Discover high quality content, new sources, and never miss an article relevant to your unique passions—whatever they are. It will also send you a daily email update.
Arthur Monnet, the 18 year old founder of Faveous had the idea to centralize and aggregate his favorite content. THE PLACE FOR EVERYTHING YOU LIKE... Faveous collects your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader Youtube & Facebook "likes on links" in one single place. Then, you can search, organize and share with your friends this database in perpetual evolution. Easy to curate, easy to manage. Gathering your favorite content is now fast and painless.
Scoop.it - Leverage curation to easily build gorgeous magazines. Scoop.it is a terrific tool for discovering those super nichey, hidden gems relevant to specific topic. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.) and plug in relevant keywords and date parameters. Scoop.it does the rest and delivers you a constant feed of exactly the type of content you’re looking for.
Prismatic - Discover and share relevant news. Connect your social networks, discover topics, add interests, and news feed gets better
Tweeted Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account.
Springpad - beautifully simple notebooks to share and discover with those you trust, with the smarts to help you get things done. " The smart notebook arrives in SpringPad. Or, what if Pinterest and Evernote had a baby?" Robert Scoble
Paper.li - Paper.li is a content curation service . Turn Twitter and Facebook into online newspapers in just a few clicks. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. Easily takes your twitter stream and puts it into a readable newspaper like format.
Collected – Collect your interests. This a A collection by iBraryGu y All your news and interests in one place Collected is a service where you easily gather feeds and news sources in to collections where you (and others!) can get a good overview and follow them on a daily basis. You can even export your collection to a new feed that you can use in your favourite reader such as Google Reader , Net News Wire , etc. Collected gathers news websites, twitter feeds , flickr feeds , blogs, or just about anything that uses RSS, Atom or XML .
Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social medi a. Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers. Ways you might use Storify and other content curation tools: 1. Organize Social Media Responses to An Event 2. Creating a History Behind an Event 3. Curating a Post Based Upon a Topic 4. Creating How-to Storify Posts 5. Telling the Story Behind an Event 6. Use Storify to Make Lists 7. Ask For and Curate Feedback From Readers 8. Develop a Timeline 9. Publish Reader Shared Content Easily
BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a “bag” to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools’ capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic.
Readlists What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.
Flipboard is a personalized, social magazine allows you to browse content on your iPad in a fullscreen mode, 'flipping' from story to story, instead of clicking from link to link. Users can feed their Flipboard with content from Facebook and Twitter, in addition to other recommended sources like AllThingsD and HackerNews.
Streamified is a universal iOS app that brings all of your favorite streams in one beautiful journal. You can add a variety of different streams, including social networks and blog subscriptions, and keep up with all of your content in one place.
If this then that Recipes made up of triggers that produce actions.
Want to be a Content Curator? If you want to be a content curator, you should also follow a few rules offered by Rosenbaum: If you don’t add context, opinion, or voice, and simply lift content, it’s stealing. If you don’t provide attribution and a link back to the source, it’s stealing. If you take a large portion of the original content, it’s stealing. If someone asks you not to curate their material, and you don’t respect that request, it’s stealing. Respect published rights. If images don’t allow Creative Commons use, reach out to the image creator—don’t just grab it and ask questions later.
Joyce Valenza outlines several key implications of curation tools for 21st century school libraries. In addition, on her blog, the Unquiet Librarian, Buffy Hamilton also notes, that " Curation also honors Dr. Michael Wesch’s call to help students move from being “knowledgeable to knowledge-able”