Content Curation World

An excellent showcase of best practices in curating content in education while using different tools and services.

Sue Waters pulls together a great number of very good examples, of how curated content can be effectively used in education.

The analysis includes relevant statistical data on the use of content curation tools, and several chapters providing examples of how different types of content curation tools have been effectively utilized within an educational context.

Tools covered: Storify, Slideshare, Scoop.it, Pinterest, Tweetdeck, Flipboard, Popplet, Mindmeister.

Content types covered: Blog posts, Visual notes, Infographics. 

Resourceful. 8/10

Full report: http://theedublogger.com/2014/06/12/curation/ 

Reading time: 6'

What are the key steps that a blogger should follow to effectively curate content online?

Silvya Rosenthal Tolisano shares her personal workflow to curate content as a blogger, by highlighting the seven key steps she suggests to go through when preparing content for a blog, 

1. Find & Acquire
2. Select & Filter
3. Group, Organize & Arrange
4. Editorialize, Contextualize & Annotate
5. Create, Present, Transform & Remix
6. Engage & Customize
7. Share 

and by reminding those already doing it

a) not to "copy - paste" entire long passages from articles "as they are", but to rather share short portions to which personal commentary, evaluation or extra value must be added,

b) not to confuse long list of links or resources, for which there is often very little verification and analysis, let alone commentary and added value, with curation.  

The key element of curation is adding value, not collecting large amount of items on a topic. That's what a collector does, not a curator. 

Useful. Informative. Great illustration. 8/10

Original article: http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/06/15/blogging-as-a-curation-platform/ 

Reading time: 4'