[EDTECH-2] Content curation

Source: https://elearningindustry.com/top-10-free-content-curation-tools-for-teachers

Web is full of information, which needs to be stored and curated. In this lesson I learnt how to categorize and store interesting content found from the net. 

1. What is content curation?

According to Beginners Guide to Curation,  the process of content curation is the act of sorting through large amounts of content on the web and presenting the best posts in a meaningful and organized way. The process can include sifting, sorting, arranging, and placing found content into specific themes, and then publishing that information.

Christoforos Pappas from elearningindustry explains in his blog post "Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools For Teachers" that  "finding educational content in the web is no big deal - but managing it, is. Educational content curation is the art – rather than the act – of sorting out the vast amounts of educational content on the web and organizing them around a specific educational topic in a coherent way".

2. Curation in the scientific literature

• Ovadia, Steven. "Digital content curation and why it matters to librarians." Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 32.1 (2013): 58-62.
• Ungerer, L. (2016). Digital curation as a core competency in current learning and literacy: A higher education perspective. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning: IRRODL, 17(5), 1-27.

3. My assignments:

In this lesson, my task is to organize personal collection of the tutorials, ideas, theoretical outlooks, videos etc. which are related to workshops, topics, tasks, personal interests etc. One essential phase for content curation is the moment where I am exploring the daily task - for example today I could curate about Wordpress and blogging :) My curated collections are also one means to show me progress in the context of the course.

Curation task 1: Create youtube playlists and create a frontpage for my youtube channel

My Youtube Channel with new frontpage images: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz8VDsPHUwy-PZ6lEh9mlIw

My playlist which is related to my studies:

- Gender-based Education: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP7Ca89VwiaLo6ZPvPhaAHOkMg6-XZosJ

Other personal playlists:

- Working with Alice (I recorded myself when working): 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP7Ca89VwiaLb0VyDRHoqlnuvz8VBJDPa

- Watercolour Tutoring (videos that help me to improve my watercolour painting skills): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP7Ca89VwiaJzbmC8si_FNOSoGkzhT-P6

- Bullet Journal Tutoring (videos that I love to watch again about Bullet Journal - my favourite journaling method): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP7Ca89VwiaIcnYXmernsP11WQGJM1tn7

Curation task 2: Curate web-based content by using specific curation tool

For personal interests, I choose Pinterest. Please check my Pinterest account with 24 boards here: 

https://www.pinterest.com/aliceinfinland/

For studies, I choose Pearltrees. I try creating a collection which is Teaching Interactions here:

https://www.pearltrees.com/hphamthi20/teaching-interaction/id38249168