curating content with scoop.it

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

Twitter

Facebook

Google +

Curation

Diigo

Pinterest

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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