This document discusses how teachers can use online content curation tools in the classroom. It provides examples of tools like Storify, Pinterest, Educlipper, Scoop.it, and Learnist that allow teachers to organize resources and materials, share them with students, encourage student curation and discussion, and more. Key benefits highlighted include creating collaborative activities, disseminating digital handouts, connecting with outside experts, and helping students gain access to online information and knowledge.

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2.  How do your students research and share
information that they find with the rest of
class?
 How do you maintain your internet resources
that inform your own teaching and learning?
 What tools do you use to manage or facilitate
presentation of resources?
 Is it public?
 Can students access it at other times? In
groups?

3. Think about doing all this
and more using

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5. What can you do with content
creation tools?
Teachers can use online content curation tools in the classroom to:
 create group activities.
 organize and disseminate new content as a sort of digital handout to
students in online and flipped classrooms.
 collect and share professional reading materials with students. foster
discussion about current events.
 encourage students to become both content creators and curators.
connect to experts outside class and to the world knowledge base.
 critique information available on the web.
 teach students to curate social media. help students gain credibility and
exposure.
 keep track of online research efforts. create reading lists.
 help students gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the Internet. -

6. is a way to tell ‘stories’ using social media such
as tweets,Facebook posts, photos, URLs and
videos. Users search multiple social networks
from one place, and then drag individual
elements into stories.
Users can re-order the elements and also add
text to help give context to the readers.

8. is a pinboard-styled social photo
sharing website.The service allows users to
create and manage theme-based image
collections linked out to sites of origin.
Easy to collaborate – pinboards can be added to
by group members
There are some great pin collections for
Librarians, classroom educators and specialist
teachers.

10.  A bit like Pinterest for Education, Educlipper
was created by Adam Bellow (of Edutecher
fame)
 Accounts can be set up forTeachers and
students.
 Aggregate websites, videos, images,
 Also add pdfs, ppts, google drives files – add
‘clips’ to your educational boards.

12. Allows users to create and share their own
themed magazines designed around a given
topic. Suggestions are made daily reflecting
your own Scoop it! topics.

14. Learnist allows you to create” Learnboards”
that are dedicated to a particular topic of
choice.
Learnboards are like file folders – add resources
and websites.
Follow other educators with similar interests
Share your boards with students

16.  Check the service – some off Bookmarkletsto help you
grab items of interest to add to your curation boards.
 A Bookmarklet allows you to quickly grab any content
you find on the web and put it into your chosen
collecting/sharing service.
 Emails of trending boards or boards of interest to you
can be pushed to your email.

17.  http://storify.com/tour
 http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/08/h
ow-to-introduce-educlipper-to-
teachers.html#.Uikj47_udlI
 http://learni.st/users/Learnist.Help/boards/15
9-how-to-use-learnist-on-the-web
 http://about.pinterest.com/basics/
 http://scoopit.pegcorwin.com