taming information overload through curation 2012 presentation
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Advancing Learning, May 2012Karen HamiltonTaming Information Overload through Curation
Are you suffering from I.0.S ?I.o.s by Xerox
Hold that thought!We'll get back to an answer a bit later, but first....
Drowning in data?Double-click to enter text
Where is all the data coming from?Double-click to enter text
Whats the matter with Google and large social networking sites?
A Google search for curation returns over 10 million results
How do you know which of the 10 million links is most relevant?
How do we avoid this?
Will your search return the same results as my search on any subject?
Probably Not!
Internet firms increasingly show us less of the wide world, locating us in the neighborhood of the familiar. The risk, as Eli Pariser shows, is that each of us may unwittingly come to inhabit a ghetto of one.Clay Shirky, author Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus
The Filter Bubble
It's a Classic Battle - Humans vs Machine!
Who said...
"A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa"Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
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How do we tame the Beast?
Overload!Bias!
INTERNET
MachineDriven
Listen up...the Internet needs People!
Collaboration and Curation!
A Curator is a person who :
plans and oversees the arrangement of things,catalogues, and exhibits collections. describes and analyzes valuable objects for the benefit of the public and researchersWhat is a Curator?
Have teachers always been Curators?
Howard Rheingold asks Robin Good about the importance of Curation
Become a Curation Hero!
Step 1. Collect your sourcesWhat are you passionate about?
Harness the Power of Collective Intelligence
NETWORKS
Become a Curation Hero!
Step 2. Find relevant content(Aggregate)
Step 3. Filter (relevance & quality)
Step 4. Customize for your audience
Step 5. Share, package, distribute
How to curate: A day in the life.
Look familiar?
Twitter Its all about connections. Who do you follow? How do you know who to follow?
Like stuff! Facebook feeds
Blog and Follow!
"In the act of writing, we are written". Daniel ChandlerWhy Blog?
Why follow Blogs?
Who should you follow?
"Any teacher now can be a global communicator." Steve Wheeler
RSS Feeds
RSS= Really Simple Syndication
A method to distribute headlines and/or short overviews of information posted on websites/blogsRSS Feed Reader is an aggregator that brings your subscriptions to one place
Social Bookmarking Tools Delicious
Tap into the Collective http://delicious.com/kehamilt
Delicious has become more of a Curation tool because of their Stacks
You can share your stack and invite contributors
Mobile
Flipboard adds summary and images to tweets
Comment?Retweet?Favourite?Save to read?Email it?
Retweet
Mobile
ZiteChoose yourinterests
BrowseArticles
Select andRead
Zite
Decide what to Share Decide how toShare
Twitter?Facebook?Email?
Zite
MobileNEWS.ME
Another News Curation App
MobilePULSE
Another News Curation App
Personalized Newspapers
Paper.li Personal Newspaper
Attach to twitter, facebook. Select a set of those you follow and a daily paper is made.
Paper.li
Personal Newspapercan be easily made from your twitter feedEmail Digest delivered to your inbox
Tweeted Times
Based on twitter feed
http://tweetedtimes.comNEWS.MEAnother News Curation AppNEWS.MEAnother News Curation AppNEWS.MEAnother News Curation App
It's Addictivehttp://scoop.it
Choose your topic and start curatingScoop.it
Scoop.it Dashboard
Browse stories posted by those you follow
A Daily Email Digest is sent to your inbox
Other Curation Tools
Curated.byPearltreesStorifyPinterestBundlrLynk.lyRedux ( video)See Robin Good's List of Curation Tools
Great Reading:
Curation Nation: Why the Future of Content is Context by Steven Rosenbaum (McGraw Hill 2011)Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project by Corrine Weisgerber What Makes a Great Curator Great? Robin Good Students Becoming Curators of Information? Langwitches BlogThe Fallacy of Information Overload by Brian Solis
Great Viewing: What is Curation? (Top curators talk about curation) http://vimeo.com/38524181Howard Rheingold interviews Robert Scoble on Online Curation http://youtu.be/WMn-cJHzF8AHow and Why to Become a Content Curator -Interview with Shel HoltzTedxGrandRapids Steve Rosenbaum Innovate: Curation! http://youtu.be/iASluLoKQboRobin Good on Curation (full interview -Howard Rheingold interviews R GoodJP Rangaswami: Information is foodEli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" Video on TED.com
CollectionsContent Curation World on scoop.it by Robin GoodSocial Media Content Curation on scoop.it by Giuseppe MaurielloKaren's delicious curation links
Karen E HamiltonProfessor/Online CoordinatorSchool of Liberal Arts & SciencesGeorge Brown [email protected]
Website: http://k3hamilton.comTwitter: http://twitter.com/k3hamilton
Delicious: http://delicious.com/kehamilt
Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/u/k3hamilton
Curated sites:http://www.scoop.it/t/innovations-in-e-learning/http://www.scoop.it/t/a-cultural-history-of-advertisinghttp://www.scoop.it/t/psychology-of-consumer-behaviourhttp://www.scoop.it/t/blackboard-nine
See video for thisat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-VZEmWIJII