This document provides an overview of content curation for school librarians. It defines content curation as finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. Examples of curation models include aggregation, distillation, elevation, mashups, and chronology. The document discusses tools for content gathering, personalized newsfeeds, social media curation, and implications for school libraries, including lessening information overload and acknowledging sources to prevent plagiarism. It encourages following best practices like only curating with added context and attribution, and respecting copyright.
Go beyond searching for obscure facts: Build websites; sell on auction sites; and blog. Your child can learn nearly every subject under the sun by taking part in these activities. Susan K. Stewart has over 30 years of computer experience and used the Internet in her homeschool during most of the teaching years. She manages her own websites and blogs and shares ideas for using the Internet that go beyond Google.
Keeping Up with 23 People
Inspired by the popular â23 Thingsâ training on social media, this session introduces you to 23 influential people whom you can (and probably should) follow through social media to read their latest ideas.
Presentation for TxLA Annual Assembly Austin, Tx. July 16, 2012
Go beyond searching for obscure facts: Build websites; sell on auction sites; and blog. Your child can learn nearly every subject under the sun by taking part in these activities. Susan K. Stewart has over 30 years of computer experience and used the Internet in her homeschool during most of the teaching years. She manages her own websites and blogs and shares ideas for using the Internet that go beyond Google.
Keeping Up with 23 People
Inspired by the popular â23 Thingsâ training on social media, this session introduces you to 23 influential people whom you can (and probably should) follow through social media to read their latest ideas.
Presentation for TxLA Annual Assembly Austin, Tx. July 16, 2012
Content Curation and Online Portfolios: Tools and TipsGreg Hardin
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Continuing Education for TxLA15 Annual Assembly
Content Curation and Online Portfolios: Tools & Tips
Evaluate curation tools like Scoop.it, Storify and more which can help you locate and organize information to highlight your unique point of view. Learn how to organize and present professional materials in online portfolios like wordpress, pbworks, about.me, and more.
(Continuing Education Credit: 1 hr TSLAC, 1 hr SBEC)
Professor Woody Powell, Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (with Carrie Oelberger, Achim Oberg, Karina Kloos, Valeska Korff). Academy of Management Presentation, Boston MA. August 7, 2012.
With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information, it can be difficult to help people slice through the âdata smogâ and become fluent with information while critically assessing its value and purpose. This webinar introduces a variety of technical resources and research tools, and provides tips to help make learning more meaningful, engaging, and relevant, with the ultimate goal of providing learners with opportunities to create something new and exciting. The end goal is to help learners enrich their lives by constructing a personal learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning.
Knowledge Sommelier 101 - The Art of Curation in EducationAtul Pant
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The growing abundance of quality learning resources available on the internet, in multiple formats to suit needs of different learners, implies that teachers need to become curators of content that they can use to enrich their teaching. This presentation, which I made at Allahabad University in India in Oct 2012, gives an overview of Art of Curation for teaching.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
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Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
LRMI Smithsonian Workshop Presentation 140914-16Michael Jay
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Presentation to curators, education personnel, and tech people about the LRMI and how that can be leveraged to make resources more discoverable and their collections more educationally relevant.
Content Curation and Online Portfolios: Tools and TipsGreg Hardin
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Continuing Education for TxLA15 Annual Assembly
Content Curation and Online Portfolios: Tools & Tips
Evaluate curation tools like Scoop.it, Storify and more which can help you locate and organize information to highlight your unique point of view. Learn how to organize and present professional materials in online portfolios like wordpress, pbworks, about.me, and more.
(Continuing Education Credit: 1 hr TSLAC, 1 hr SBEC)
Professor Woody Powell, Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (with Carrie Oelberger, Achim Oberg, Karina Kloos, Valeska Korff). Academy of Management Presentation, Boston MA. August 7, 2012.
With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information, it can be difficult to help people slice through the âdata smogâ and become fluent with information while critically assessing its value and purpose. This webinar introduces a variety of technical resources and research tools, and provides tips to help make learning more meaningful, engaging, and relevant, with the ultimate goal of providing learners with opportunities to create something new and exciting. The end goal is to help learners enrich their lives by constructing a personal learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning.
Knowledge Sommelier 101 - The Art of Curation in EducationAtul Pant
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The growing abundance of quality learning resources available on the internet, in multiple formats to suit needs of different learners, implies that teachers need to become curators of content that they can use to enrich their teaching. This presentation, which I made at Allahabad University in India in Oct 2012, gives an overview of Art of Curation for teaching.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
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Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
LRMI Smithsonian Workshop Presentation 140914-16Michael Jay
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Presentation to curators, education personnel, and tech people about the LRMI and how that can be leveraged to make resources more discoverable and their collections more educationally relevant.
Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Mapping the CoreGreg Hardin
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This presentation will cover the current curriculum mapping project at the University of North Texas Libraries. As part of our greater Information Literacy Initiative, this project seeks to improve the capacity of UNT students for critical thinking and the ability to use information effectively with a key aim of the project being to help strengthen core library services to enhance high-impact practices. Through curriculum mapping we are seeking to establish a baseline understanding of the current information literacy practices and needs on campus. We have mapped student learning outcomes on course syllabi to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric. With information gleaned from this project, we will know which core courses address which standards and frames, identify gaps in library instruction, and begin to address these gaps through the work of our subject librarians and strategically targeted library instruction.
Incorporating Propaganda Analysis in the Use of the Framework for Information...Greg Hardin
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This paper highlights principles of propaganda analysis as supplements to the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, helping librarians redesign instruction sessions and teaching students to navigate an ocean of information in a Post-Truth era using propaganda examples as pedagogical tools.
The Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA), established in 1937, taught the American public to recognize and analyze propaganda materials created by domestic and foreign sources. Violet Edwards, educational director of IPA, believed that librarians were in unique positions to teach propaganda analysis to the public. Edwards noted that librarians âmust be encouraged to take a position of leadership and of responsibility in todayâs most vital educational taskâthe development on the part of all of us of the ability to think critically and creatively.â
The ACRLâs Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education educates information users about âthe reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.â Eighty years before the adoption of the Framework, the IPA developed the ABCâs of Propaganda Analysis as a seven-point guide for the general public to analyze propaganda materials.
The IPA disbanded in 1942, but its ABCâs of Propaganda Analysis are relevant and valuable in a Post-Truth era where âfake newsâ and âalternative factsâ pervade the information ecosystem. This paper explores where the ABCâs overlap with the Framework. This paper also highlights principles of propaganda analysis as supplements to the Framework, helping librarians redesign instruction sessions and teaching students to navigate an ocean of information in a Post-Truth era using propaganda examples as pedagogical tools.
Free Resources for Better Student RetentionGreg Hardin
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My portion from panel:
Learn how to champion open access and open textbooks that make education more affordable. Educators can build their own tools, make them available to others and ultimately save money for everyone involved.
Emily Billings (moderator), Yunfei Du, and Greg G. Hardin, University of North Texas; Nicole Finkbeiner, Rice University's OpenStax; and Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M University.
Everywhere you Look... Embedded Librarians! Greg Hardin
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Part of panel discussion
CPE#257: SBEC 1.5; TSLAC 1.5
Everywhere You Look...
Embedded Librarians!
12:00 - 1:20 pm
Everyone benefits when reference staff reach
out to customers beyond the library. This
program explores innovative ways to make
contact with library audiences in unexpected
places and showcases the collateral rewards of
those efforts.
Jenniffer Hudson Connors, Stark Foundation Library
& Archive; Greg Hardin, University of North Texas;
MyâTesha Tates, Houston Public Library; Melanie
Wachsmann, Cy-Fair Library, Harris County Public
Library- Lone Star College; Susan Whitmer, Texas
Womanâs University; and Lisa Youngblood, Harker
Heights Public Library.
RISRT, CULD, & PLD
Building Your Professional Career with NetworkingGreg Hardin
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Part of a TxLA13 panel discussion with:
Terri L Gibbs â Denton Public Library Emily Fowler Central Library
Greg G Hardin â Texas Woman's University
Janelle Hedstrom â University of Texas-Austin
Valerie J Hill â Lewisville ISD Ethridge Elementary School
LibGuides / Subject Guides
Offer research support, subject guides, and more through these tried-and-true online tools.
Presentation for TxLA Annual Assembly
Austin, Tx.
July 16, 2012
Creating Alliances with the Overlapping Fields of IT and Librarianship Greg Hardin
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Joel Battle, School of Library and Information Studies,
Texas Womanâs University; Sian Brannon, Libraries,
University of North Texas; Kelly Brouillard, Lewisville
Public Library; Greg Hardin, Libraries, Texas Womanâs
University; Kris Helge, School of Law Libraries,
Texas Wesleyan University; and Valerie Hill, Ethridge
Elementary School, Lewisville ISD.
Library Snapshot Day provides a way for libraries of all types across Texas to show what happens in a single day in their libraries. It is a âsnapshotâ of a day in the life of your library. To participate, pick a single day during this two-week period (April 26 â May 7, 2010) to gather and submit information about your library.
Texas Library Snapshot Day is presented in partnership between the Texas Library Association and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Operation âBlue Starâ is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Hanâs Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insiderâs LMA Course, this piece examines the courseâs effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
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Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
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Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. Content Curation
Prepared for
Denton Independent School District
School Librarians
August 22, 2012
Greg Hardin, M.L.S.
2. Content Curation: What is it?
"Curation is the act of individuals
with a passion for a content area to
find, contextualize, and organize
information. Curators provide a
consistent update regarding whatâs
interesting, happening, and cool in
their focus. Curators tend to have a
unique and consistent point of viewâ
providing a reliable context for the
content that they discover and
organize."
- Steven Rosenbaum
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
3. Content Curation: What is it?
Content Curation is a term that describes the act of
finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most
relevant content on a specific issue.
1.Aggregation. The act of curating the most relevant
information about a particular topic into a single location;
2.Distillation. The act of curating information into a more
simplistic format where only the most important or relevant
ideas are shared;
3.Elevation. Refers to curation with a mission of
identifying a larger trend or insight from smaller daily
musings posted online;
4.Mashups. Unique curated juxtapositions where merging
existing content is used to create a new point of view;
5.Chronology. A form of curation that brings together
historical information organized based on time to show an
evolving understanding of a particular topic.
Rohit Bhargava - 5 Models Of Content Curation
19. Want to be a content curator?
If you want to be a content curator, you should also
follow a few rules offered by Rosenbaum:
o If you donât add context, opinion, or voice, and
simply lift content, itâs stealing.
o If you donât provide attribution and a link back to
the source, itâs stealing.
o If you take a large portion of the original content,
itâs stealing.
o If someone asks you not to curate their material,
and you donât respect that request, itâs stealing.
o Respect published rights. If images donât allow
Creative Commons use, reach out to the image creator
âdonât just grab it and ask questions later.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
21. Implications of Curation Tools
for 21st Century School Libraries
Curation tools are important in school
libraries because they lessen the possibility
of information overload while providing
concrete examples of synthesized information.
These tools can be referred to as information
sources, but also can be used to collect and
publish information. Additionally, since
information is linked and its origination is
stored, plagiarism and copyright theft is
extremely rare. Curation websites require
"sources to be acknowledged which means that
stories can be checked and verified by other
journalists" and evaluated in terms of
authority and credibility. Joyce Valenza
In Steven Bell's most recent "From the Bell Tower" post in Library Journal called, "Calling All Content Curators" he pointed out that after all these years writing his filter blog <The kept up librarian>, he never realized he was a content curator. As he points to the recent article in FastCompany, "content curators are the new superheros of the web" he states that this is something librarians have dealt with for ages -- trying to bring organization and context to a world overrun with information. Though Pinterest might be considered the content curator darling of the moment, I want to share a few tools today that are designed to easily facilitate the curation and sharing process. Content Curators Are The New Superheros Of The Web BY STEVEN ROSENBAUM | 04-16-2012 | 6:17 AM http://www.fastcompany.com/1834177/content-curators-are-the-new-superheros-of-the-web
Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. Rohit Bhargava - 5 Models Of Content Curation Aggregation Distillation Elevation Mashups Chronology
Trapit - Captures personalized content. Powered by advanced AI that backs apple's SIRI. Trapit helps you explore any topic and gets smarter as you use it. Discover high quality content, new sources, and never miss an article relevant to your unique passionsâwhatever they are. It will also send you a daily email update.
Arthur Monnet, the 18 year old founder of Faveous had the idea to centralize and aggregate his favorite content. THE PLACE FOR EVERYTHING YOU LIKE... Faveous collects your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader Youtube & Facebook "likes on links" in one single place. Then, you can search, organize and share with your friends this database in perpetual evolution. Easy to curate, easy to manage. Gathering your favorite content is now fast and painless.
Scoop.it - Leverage curation to easily build gorgeous magazines. Scoop.it is a terrific tool for discovering those super nichey, hidden gems relevant to specific topic. Use the dashboard to manage an unlimited amount of sources (websites, RSS feeds, specific social media accounts, etc.) and plug in relevant keywords and date parameters. Scoop.it does the rest and delivers you a constant feed of exactly the type of content youâre looking for.
Prismatic - Discover and share relevant news. Connect your social networks, discover topics, add interests, and news feed gets better
Tweeted Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account.
Springpad - beautifully simple notebooks to share and discover with those you trust, with the smarts to help you get things done. " The smart notebook arrives in SpringPad. Or, what if Pinterest and Evernote had a baby?" Robert Scoble
Paper.li - Paper.li is a content curation service . Turn Twitter and Facebook into online newspapers in just a few clicks. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. Easily takes your twitter stream and puts it into a readable newspaper like format.
Collected â Collect your interests. This a A collection by iBraryGu y All your news and interests in one place Collected is a service where you easily gather feeds and news sources in to collections where you (and others!) can get a good overview and follow them on a daily basis. You can even export your collection to a new feed that you can use in your favourite reader such as Google Reader , Net News Wire , etc. Collected gathers news websites, twitter feeds , flickr feeds , blogs, or just about anything that uses RSS, Atom or XML .
Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social medi a. Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. You search multiple social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into your story. You can re-order the elements and also add text to give context to your readers. Ways you might use Storify and other content curation tools: 1. Organize Social Media Responses to An Event 2. Creating a History Behind an Event 3. Curating a Post Based Upon a Topic 4. Creating How-to Storify Posts 5. Telling the Story Behind an Event 6. Use Storify to Make Lists 7. Ask For and Curate Feedback From Readers 8. Develop a Timeline 9. Publish Reader Shared Content Easily
BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a âbagâ to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation toolsâ capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic.
Readlists Whatâs a Readlist? A group of web pagesâarticles, recipes, course materials, anythingâbundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.
Flipboard is a personalized, social magazine allows you to browse content on your iPad in a fullscreen mode, 'flipping' from story to story, instead of clicking from link to link. Users can feed their Flipboard with content from Facebook and Twitter, in addition to other recommended sources like AllThingsD and HackerNews.
Streamified is a universal iOS app that brings all of your favorite streams in one beautiful journal. You can add a variety of different streams, including social networks and blog subscriptions, and keep up with all of your content in one place.
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Want to be a Content Curator? If you want to be a content curator, you should also follow a few rules offered by Rosenbaum: If you donât add context, opinion, or voice, and simply lift content, itâs stealing. If you donât provide attribution and a link back to the source, itâs stealing. If you take a large portion of the original content, itâs stealing. If someone asks you not to curate their material, and you donât respect that request, itâs stealing. Respect published rights. If images donât allow Creative Commons use, reach out to the image creatorâdonât just grab it and ask questions later.
A project by Maria Popova / Brain Pickings The system is based on two basic types of attribution, each shorthanded by a special unicode character, much like ⢠for âtrademarkâ and for Š âcopyright.â And while the symbols are a cleaner way to do it, you may still choose to credit the âold-fashionedâ way, using âviaâ and âHTâ â the message here is not about how to credit but simply to credit. ἠstands for âviaâ and signifies a direct link of discovery, to be used when you simply repost a piece of content you found elsewhere, with little or no modification or addition. ⏠stands for the common âHTâ or âhat tip,â signifying an indirect link of discovery, to be used for content you significantly modify or expand upon compared to your source, for story leads, or for indirect inspiration encountered elsewhere that led you to create your own original content. In both cases, just like the words âviaâ and âHT,â the respective unicode character would be followed by the actual hotlink to your source.
Joyce Valenza outlines several key implications of curation tools for 21st century school libraries. In addition, on her blog, the Unquiet Librarian, Buffy Hamilton also notes, that " Curation also honors Dr. Michael Weschâs call to help students move from being âknowledgeable to knowledge-ableâ