Hunt & Gather: Curation Tools for Organizing Research and Ideas Kate Caruso, Monica Fuglei, Sherry Jones,Christ ina McKell ips, L indsay Roberts
Session Schedule•Intro to content curation tools - Lindsay Roberts
•Curation tools for faculty- Monica Fuglei
•Storify - Kate Caruso
•Symbaloo – Chris McKellips
•Mind-mapping tools - Sherry Jones
•Panel Q&A or hands-on time
Why should we care?
“Mindful consumption of information is at the heart of content curation practice. The act of content curation can actually reduce our
information overload.”
--Beth Kanter
A definition
Content curation offers students and scholars the ability to
strategically filter and pull content from many sources, then
organize and arrange the content in meaningful ways.
Benefits•Reduce information overload
•Compare, sort, and arrange ideas and news sources
•Access from any device, anywhere
•Begin to analyze and think critically about different sources and perspectives
•Annotate and synthesize material
Best of Both WorldsAGGREGATION & FILTERING (MACHINE)
•Bookmarking sites(Diigo, Delicious, etc)
•Dashboards
•RSS Readers
CURATION (HUMAN)
•Storify
•Symbaloo
•Zotero or Mendeley
•Padlet
For more information:Herther, Nancy K. "Content Curation Tools." Searcher 20.8 (2012): 26-35. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Nov. 2014. https://arapahoecc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=80919161&site=ehost-live
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