Finding & organizing great internet content for your
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The document discusses the evolution of teaching resources, highlighting the transition from reliance on traditional textbooks to a focus on curating relevant primary sources and online content. It emphasizes the importance of filtering and organizing vast amounts of information using tagging, bookmarking, and various online tools for effective curation. Additionally, it presents several platforms like Scoop.it, Pinterest, and Mentormob that aid in the organization and sharing of educational resources and ideas.
Finding & organizing great internet content for your
- 1. Patty Ball Northeast SABES March 2012
- 2. Is your textbook the one and only source of expertise you use in the classroom For as long as I can remember, teachers have been searching for and developing resources to use in a course Use articles, movies, experiences, websites to supplement the textbook No textbook has every been perfect- supplementing used to be the focus, now we spend more time on primary sources and commentaries beyond the text, that the text is merely a basic reference point for us
- 3. How do you first search and then filter through the massive amounts of information now available? Quality & relevance Wouldn’t it be great to have someone do this for you and deliver it right to you?
- 4. Finding – timely, relevant content Selecting - specific to our unique interests and perspectives Storing Access/Retrieving *Sharing
- 5. *”In the beginning there were file cabinets; about 14 in all, full of articles, brochures, pamphlets, cassettes and videotapes. In two closets, at opposite ends of the office, a mishmash of books, journals and reports completed the collection.” Browser Bookmarks Excel spreadsheet RSS feeds Screenshots Print outs
- 6. Instead of searching for information, you plug in to knowledge of somebody who is an acknowledged specialist in the field Curation online also has to demonstrate: mastery, passion, knowledge and expertise Without such additional layers, a curated collection of links is just a collection of links 50 best ways to curate and share info
- 7. the key to curation is not the identification of content This can be done with search engines It is the collection, commenting and rating/placing of content that matters
- 8. As the amount of information accumulates- increasingly important to use tools to help find & organize information that’s relevant and useful What are Tags/Keywords What is a Bookmarklet Cloud Storage – store and access your information anywhere
- 9. Tags are keywords used to classify content Helps you and others find content You select as many tags as necessary Tags allow readers to quickly locate topics of interest Hash Tag - #prefix (twitter) #edtech Allows you to create communities of people interested in the same topic by making it easier for them to find and share info related to it
- 10. Simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities With a single simple mouse click, you can share a video on FaceBook, add an item to Amazon wishlist, add a bookmark to Delicious, and perform various activities You don't actually "install" a bookmarklet -You simply add it to your bookmarks - It just sits there patiently until you want to use it Very safe – ignore if you get warning message I use it to save and store useful websites I find
- 11. What are the best Sites Social bookmarking may be the most well-known, with services like Delicious and Diigo, -people to tag and save interesting blog posts and websites http://vimeo.com/12687333 - Diigo video By following others who use these sites, you can not only handle your own curation efforts, but subscribe to the things that other people have deemed important
- 12. Bookmarking may not adequate Content changes/disappears Even when it does not change, it can be difficult to remember why you stored that link Visual – like a list of links
- 13. Scoop.it’s first mission is to help people publish gorgeous magazines by means of curation Visual, appealing magazine format What is Scoop.It - video
- 15. Been named over and over as the hottest new website for 2012 Virtual pinboard - allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web Browse pinboards created by others to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests Courtney Lowery Cowgill’s article - it’s part social networking (kind of), part bookmarking, part curating, part blogging What is a pin? - Image added to Pinterest - can be added from a website using the Pin It button, or upload images from your computer Links back to the site it came from
- 16. Pinterest in Education (good article) Teachers use it to display ideas regarding classroom organization and management, lesson plan ideas and assessment tools, etc. Could have great potential, as does scoop.it, for students to organize their research/sources on particular areas or topics they are exploring I think it could also be a great portfolio device to post progress of their work and thinking, adding visuals, audio and video etc.
- 18. Shelfster - allows you to capture information from everywhere and create online documents with all the gathered information at your fingertips. MentorMob - getting quite a bit of press on Twitter lately, it's one of the best around for curating the web into "playlists." These playlists can contain different types of media such as video, articles, pictures, etc. Once these playlists are created, they can be rated and shared with others. Pearltrees Bundlr Paper.Li - very popular site among bloggers and educators for creating an online newspaper out of their web content - once a "newspaper" is created, Paper.li automatically updates the paper by monitoring news content If that’s not enough – 50 more
- 19. The teacher remains the igniting source and helps students find the resources in a process where they learn how to find the answers to their own questions In this process they appropriate the learning and exploration process thus engaging themselves in the adventure of gaining knowledge
- 21. http://vimeo.com/28110981 LiveBinders Tips and Tricks
- 24. Email: pball@necc.mass.edu to subscribe to the Northeast SABES practitioner listserv, go to: http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/nesabes https://www.facebook.com/NortheastSabes http://www.scoop.it/t/edtech-tools http://pinterest.com/poochiesan24/ http://twitter.com/poochiesan24
Editor's Notes
- #3: If you even have a textbookHow current is the materialHow useful