Curation tools develop a range of skills for students including information literacy

1. Content Curation
for learning

2. • 250 million photos uploaded • 294 billion emails each day
to Facebook each day
• 3 million new blogs each
• 48 hours of video posted to month
Youtube every single minute

3. Growth of content
curation
Relevant
Trustworthy
Timely
Where I am
Next Generation Libraries
Image: Far Far too much choice by Miss Steel
ARK, Melbourne 2012 http://www.geograph.ie/photo/1268283 Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-SA 2.0

4. Top curation tools
• Pinterest
• Scoopit
• Live binders
• Pearl trees
• Libguides
• Delicious stacks
• Evernote
Image: Digital curation toolbox by Langwitches
http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/6714174613/ Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0

5. Extend learning
• Create personalised information websites/
guides
• Aggregate online tools/websites in one
place
• Extract pertinent information, synthesise in
a concise, visual format easily and quickly
• Keep up to date on a topic

6. Curation skills
• curiosity,
• media literacy,
• ability to make connections across disciplines,
• information literacy,
• the ability to evaluate and understand perspective,
synthesize and evaluate information, and a good
dose of self-direction.
Ref: http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/27/developing-future-workskills-through-content-curation/

7. Pearl trees
• Visual bookmarking
• Mind map interface
• Drag and Drop
• Connect with others

8. LiveBinders
Organise all your
websites, documents,
movies, and images
into tabs and subtabs

9. Scoop-it

10. Pinterest
• Visually showcase a
set of resources
• Create reading lists
• Collaborate and
connect

11. Evernote
• Capture relevant information
anytime on any device
• Digital Portfolios
• Make notes
• Organise
• Share

12. Content curation process
Know Identify
your relevant
users content
Social
Media
Organise
Engage &
Share
Add
context

13. Resources
• http://www.scoop.it/t/schools-digital-
curation-project-2012
• http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/
2012/07/27/developing-future-workskills-
through-content-curation/
Lisa Nash
@lisanash9