A general look at and practice of being a curator.

1. Part II: Overview-What is Curation?
Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF, D. Min.

2. Your Technology Comfort Level
VERY
COMFORTABLE
NOT
COMFORTABLE

3. What is Digital Curation?
 The Catholic University of America Course
 LSC 522: Digital Content Creation and Management
3 Credits
 The course covers how individuals and organizations create, communicate,
use, and manage digital information content for learning, work, and play.
Examples of individual and organizational practices will be drawn from various
subject domains (politics, economics, art, history, science, etc.) and from for-
profit and non-profit sectors. Students will learn the roles of information
technology in digital content creation and management and develop
strategies to use information technology effectively and responsibly to benefit
individuals, organizations, and society. The roles of social media will be
examined in depth. Web applications and mobile technology will be studied
for their impact on content creation and management behavior. By examining
the interaction between people, information, and technology, the course
prepares students to be effective learners, good citizens, and efficient workers
in the 21st century. It also introduces them to career opportunities for
information professionals in the 21st century.

4. Who is a digital curator?
Curators are people or organizations that do the hard work of sifting through the
content within a particular topic area or “meme” and pulling out the things that
seem to make most sense. This effort involves significantly more than finding and
regurgitating links, though. A good curator must be skilled at:
 locating and evaluating valuable content
 organizing and connecting content so that it is as accessible as possible
 creating and re-purposing content when it adds to the underlying value
 capitalizing on the Social Web to build connections and context
 building trusted relationships with learners and other curators
 design learning experiences (in a much broader sense than traditional
approaches)
http://www.missiontolearn.com/2010/03/content-curator/

5. Fishing for. . .
CONTENT ON THE NET!

6. You are a Curator!
 Determine your standards (Example – 25 C’s)
 Find content your students need?
 Use a social bookmarking tool.
 Determine how to use with your audience.

7. Determine Your Standards

8. Find Content
What topics do you need?
 Sacraments – e.g., Confirmation
 Scripture
 Publisher Materials
 Other
(Work in groups of 2 or 3 persons)

9. Social Bookmarking Tool

10. Social Bookmarking Tool

11. How To Use Delicious 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vVTNWR_77U

12. How could you use these links?
@ccerveny #Confirmation
@ccerveny #Digital Storytelling
@ccerveny #Ecards
Other ?

13. Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-
TOSF, D. Min.
c.cerveny@verizon.net
https://www.facebook.com/c.cerveny
https://twitter.com/ccerveny
@ccerveny
http://acyberpilgrim.org
http://catechesis20.org
http://digitalcatechesis.ning.com
http://ddbcformation.org