curating content with scoop.it
DESCRIPTION
Scoop.it! is a curation platform that enables users to collect news, articles, and other online sources, and share them on a custom-themed Scoop.it! site. This presentation is an overview of content curation and Scoop.it as a curation tool.TRANSCRIPT
Curating Content With Scoop.it
This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Office of Family Policy, Children and Youth, U.S. Department of Defense under Award No. 2010-48869-20685.
Network Literacy Community of Practice
Bob Bertsch (NDSU)
Curation
to select and "preserve" or share resources, often within a particular topic area - http://www.extension.org/pages/62295/curation
Content Commentary Research ConversationExperience
Colleagues FriendsExperts
Filter FilterFilter
Filter
YOU
FilterCreationCurationSharing
Adapted from “Creating a Personal Learning Network,” http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387
Curation
• Find• Filter• Contextualize
Curation Tools
How I find & share
ContentZiteFlipboardGoogle ReaderScoop.it Stream
Social
Google +
Curation
Diigo
Scoop.it
Scoop.it Features
Pros & Cons
Pros• It looks good• It's topic based - as the founder says "On Twitter you
follow people, on Scoop.it you follow topics"• Recommendations can make finding content easier
Cons• It is yet another channel for you to manage and for
people to find• It’s a free service – you don’t own the space and you
are the product• Many people can curate the same topic
Live Demo
Network Literacy CoP
• Content(http://www.extension.org/network_literacy)
• Blog (http://blogs.extension.org/militaryfamilies/)
• Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NetworkLiteracy)
• Twitter (#netlit and https://twitter.com/#!/AleXNetLit)
• eXtension community (http://www.extension.org/people/communities/325
)
Photos
• Scoop.it Intro Video, http://youtu.be/Bnr6QKKcsII• Binoculars Potrait, http://
www.flickr.com/photos/gerlos/3119891607• Polarization Filter,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pimvandenheuvel/5714057292/
• Pizza Crime Context,http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamelah/4992871301/
Used under Creative Commons license - (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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