As part of your project, you will be “curating” materials, such as videos, articles, and pictures. Curating is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their “community”. Think of a museum curator, who selects what to display and how to display it. A content curator is not about collecting links, it is about presenting them in an organized way with commentary.

 

Create a Curation – Scoop-it

You are now going to “create” a curation site. Scoop-it is an easy to use curation site. You will first step is to select a “theme”. Your theme should be focused on collecting materials for your project and/or the theme of your project. Remember, this is online, so make sure you remember internet safety. . (*If you do not have internet access at home you will need to complete the Research Log requirements using the document template found on your class Moodle site; Culminating _Project_ResearchLog Directions. Remember you must upload to the class Moodle site with your name if you are using the document format in order to receive credit.)

 

 

1.  Review the material and determine if you feel it is valuable to your work/theme

2.  Post it to your site in an organized manner so that it is easy for others to follow

There is not a set number of items you should be selecting, but it should be substantial and most importantly the items should have value to you. Also, remember you are communicating with an audience, so make sure you check your posts for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. You want your audience to want to continue to read, so write to your audience.

1.   To review how to create an account within Scoop.it click the link for the hand out below.

2.    To review how to add content to your Scoop.it account click the link for the hand out below.

3.   When you write each new blog post, be sure to consider the following…

a.  By managing the flow of information from a wide variety of sources, become informed and join in the broader conversation on topics of interest in a professional manner

i.  Curation respectfully engage audience

ii.  Is able to access & apply large amounts of quality information

iii.  Information is from a variety of sources

iv.  Communication is free of grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors

b.  Use technology to access, manage, integrate, and evaluate information around a theme to make decisions and/or conclusions to successfully to function in a knowledge economy

i.  Information is used to make decisions and/or conclusions

ii.  Effectively uses technology to research, organize, evaluate and communicate information, around a theme appropriately

 

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