Social content curation refers to collecting, displaying, and labeling online information using tools like Pinterest, Scoop.it, and Storify. It allows users to exhibit, comment on, categorize, and share web content on a "pinboard." This reduces the effort of creating new resources and focuses on assembling information in a logical way. Examples of its use include arts courses encouraging visual thinking, collaborative course development boards, and showcasing student projects. While it facilitates access and sharing, issues include potential copyright infringement from quick content grabbing and separating content from context.

1. Social Content Curation

2. The abundance of content and connection is as
fundamental shift in education as any we are
likely to encounter, and there has, to date,
been little attempt to really place this at the
centre of a model of teaching.” Martin Weller

3. What is it?
• Refers to the collection, display and labelling of online
information
• Less about creating new resources and more
about amassing information and then maintaining it in a
logical fashion
• Uses tools such as Pinterest, Scoop.it, Learnist, Tumblr,
Storify and EduClipper
• Users have a “pinboard” where can exhibit, comment on,
catergorise, share content found on web
• Similar to social bookmarking but with a focus on visual
content and building collections of resources
• Can be used to create resource boards, combine ideas and
locate content

4. Accessing and sharing have become part of our
“new normal… we now graze on information.”
– Pew Internet Research

5. How it works
• Provide tools to quickly grab and post webbased content
• Functions as a visual scrapbook – reduces
stress of narrative involved in a wiki
• Allows users to share to socially

7. Examples of how being used
• Arts-based courses: encourages visual thinking.
Capture images and then explain choices made
• Penn State College: – collaborative board to help
with course developments. Pin images and tag
content by lesson and topic. Content offered
under CC licences to enable reuse which in turn
reduces development time
• Creating pin boards to show current student
projects

8. Further examples
• Collect and share reading materials with
students, stoke conversation about current
events, develop group activities, and critique
web-based material.
• Replace a textbook with materials available for
free online. Collects video tutorials, handouts,
lessons, and other materials on a “board” that
students access using their own computers or
mobile devices.

9. Other ideas
• Brainstorming – encourages visual format
• Useful for quickly gathering a portfolio and
presenting it publicly
• Use to show work in progress
• Create a journal or log over time – a visual
record to reflect on
• To support collaborative planning

10. Issues to be resolved
• Argument often made that this encourages
copying leading to infringement of copyright
as so quick to capture info
• May separate content from context as pull
images, figures, headlines etc
• Few privacy controls in some sites

11. Where is this going?
• Enthusiastic reception
• Need to develop beyond simple collection and
tagging of content
• Need to develop ways of sorting and
organising content

13. References
• 7 Things You Should Know about Social
Content Curation
• http://classroom-aid.com/2013/06/19/socialcontent-curation-for-learning-communities/
• http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/12/18/te
aching-with-content-curation.aspx