Curation

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What is Curation?
As a teacher develops their learning network, it may get overwhelming to stay up to date with the latest ideas. That's where curation comes in. Curation is gathering content from online and putting it all together in one place (Rosenbaum, 2010). There are many tools that allow a user to take content and organize resources for easy access. Below are some tools that can be used for curation.

=Tools for curation=



paper.li
You can curate twitter or rss feed content with paper.li. The most popular links are posted in a newspaper format that allows one to not only see those links, but also to get a visual representation of them from the pictures within the article or a short summary of the article giving the reader an idea of what the page is about. The articles are also sorted by topic and you can find articles specific to the topic you are interested in.

 You can make papers based on different topics by selecting specific users to find information from or use hash tags to generate content. Paper.li automatically choose the content for you and or allows the user to post content they find. Finally, you can share your "paper" with your twitter or facebook network.

scoop.it
Scoop.it is different from paper.li in that it let's you use tags and searches many different sites for content. In addition, it let's you chose the content you want to post onto your topic page. The process is not automatic like paper.li. This allows the person to personally choose each topic that is posted. Paper.li is also limited to twitter, facebook, or rss feed. Scoop.it searches many other sites along with twitter like google sites, digg, and youtube. It expands the amount of information you get and you can also share the resources with your twitter or facebook network.

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google reader
Google reader is mainly for keeping up with blogs and articles on websites. If there are many blogs you read, you can put them all in one place with google reader versus visiting all of the blogs seperately. Most blogs and websites have a "button" on the page that allows to the user to subscribe to the feed. You simply click on it to link it to your reader. When you open your reader, all of the websites are there with the newest articles. You can also link the articles to your igoogle page or create a smiliar feed on my.yahoo.




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 * Introduction to Networking ||
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 * Building a Network within your school ||

__**References**__

Rosenbaum, S. (May, 2010) Why Content Curation is Here to Stay. Retrieved from []