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Building Thought Leadership through Content Curation | Slideshare
This slideshare presentation is a good overview of the content curation making the distinction between curation and aggregation. Curation is not simply the gathering and distribution of sources, it’s the adding of context, value and opinion, creating meaning, interpreting.
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How Memory Works – Online Colleges [Infographic]
Infographic oh How Memory Works illustrating memory and factors influencing it.
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Empowering Young Learners; Stephen Heppell – eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time
In this film, Stephen Heppell describes his vision for schools, meeting with kids at the ‘Be Very Afraid’ conference, and exploring ideas for classroom design in a technology pilot school.
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Content Curation for Influence | Profitable Popularity Blog
The key hallmark that separates content curation from simple sharing is that content curation usually involves an addition of comments or more information from the one who is curating, where a simple share is just a repeat of what the original poster originally shared.
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Creating the Library of Tomorrow from the Ground Up | MindShift
Librarianship “used to be about building your collection, cataloging it, and making it accessible to people,” says Bruijnzeels. “Today those three things are completely different from when most library schools were designed. In our school we want to look for a new process, which is about imagination, technology, and participation. These days the public library might start with the books on the shelves and the e-books, but it’s really about content and context and meaning and sharing information, which are completely different processes from what we learned 25 to 30 years ago.”
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Good support materials for integrating Evernote for students
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While the primary motivation for putting a project in the Zooniverse is to collect data on a well-defined research question, the very fact that hundreds of thousands of people world-wide view the projects generates an amazing potential for education. The projects within the Zooniverse provide an excellent resource for inquiry-based learning within the classroom or for home-school groups.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.