Presentation for Advancing Learning Conference 2012
Description: Mitchell Kapor, founder of the Electronic Frontier, wisely said that “getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. Our instant-on, hyper-connected world provides us with millions upon millions of pieces of data anytime and anyplace in a simple click. But how do we sort through all that data to reach the relevant information we seek? Can we trust the “Googlebot” to give us or our students the best of what’s there? How do we tame that massive overload of data?
The most valuable resource we have is community and shared resources. This workshop will introduce you to the curation community and the tools you’ll need to become an effective curator. Some of the tools discussed will be twitter, delicious, facebook, pinterest, tweeted times, paper.li, curated.by, scoop.it, zite, and flipboard.
Presenter: Karen Hamilton, Professor/Online Coordinator, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, George Brown College.
16. Will your search return
the same results as my search
on any subject?
Probably Not!
17. “Internet firms increasingly
show us less of the wide
world, locating us in the
neighborhood of the
familiar. The risk, as Eli
Pariser shows, is that
each of us may unwittingly
come to inhabit a ghetto of
one.”
Clay Shirky, author Here Comes
Everybody and Cognitive Surplus
The Filter Bubble
20. Who said...
"A squirrel dying in your front
yard may be more relevant to
your interests right now than
people dying in Africa"
Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook
Z
21. How do we tame the Beast?
Overload!
Bias!
INTERNET
Machine
Driven
24. A Curator is a person who :
plans and oversees the arrangement of things,
catalogues, and exhibits collections.
describes and analyzes valuable objects for the
benefit of the public and researchers
What is a Curator?
35. Blog and Follow!
"In the act of writing, we are written". Daniel Chandler
Why Blog?
Why follow Blogs?
Who should you follow?
"Any teacher now can be a global communicator." Steve
Wheeler
36. RSS Feeds
RSS= Really Simple
Syndication
A method to distribute headlines
and/or short overviews of
information posted on
websites/blogs
RSS Feed Reader is an
aggregator that brings your
subscriptions to one place
55. Tweeted Times
Based on
twitter feed
http://tweetedtimes.com
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App
62. Great Reading:
Curation Nation: Why the Future of Content is Context by Steven Rosenbaum (McGraw Hill 2011)
Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project by Corrine Weisgerber
What Makes a Great Curator Great? Robin Good
Students Becoming Curators of Information? Langwitches Blog
The Fallacy of Information Overload by Brian Solis
Great Viewing:
What is Curation? (Top curators talk about curation) http://vimeo.com/38524181
Howard Rheingold interviews Robert Scoble on Online Curation http://youtu.be/WMn-cJHzF8A
How and Why to Become a Content Curator -Interview with Shel Holtz
TedxGrandRapids – Steve Rosenbaum – Innovate: Curation! http://youtu.be/iASluLoKQbo
Robin Good on Curation (full interview -Howard Rheingold interviews R Good
JP Rangaswami: Information is food
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" Video on TED.com
Collections
Content Curation World on scoop.it by Robin Good
Social Media Content Curation on scoop.it by Giuseppe Mauriello
Karen's delicious curation links
63. Karen E Hamilton
Professor/Online Coordinator
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
George Brown College
kehamilt@georgebrown.ca
Website: http://k3hamilton.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/k3hamilton
Delicious: http://delicious.com/kehamilt
Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/u/k3hamilton
Curated sites:
http://www.scoop.it/t/innovations-in-e-learning/
http://www.scoop.it/t/a-cultural-history-of-advertising
http://www.scoop.it/t/psychology-of-consumer-behaviour
http://www.scoop.it/t/blackboard-nine
See video for this
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-
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