Presentation for Advancing Learning Conference 2012 Description: Mitchell Kapor, founder of the Electronic Frontier, wisely said that “getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. Our instant-on, hyper-connected world provides us with millions upon millions of pieces of data anytime and anyplace in a simple click. But how do we sort through all that data to reach the relevant information we seek? Can we trust the “Googlebot” to give us or our students the best of what’s there? How do we tame that massive overload of data? The most valuable resource we have is community and shared resources. This workshop will introduce you to the curation community and the tools you’ll need to become an effective curator. Some of the tools discussed will be twitter, delicious, facebook, pinterest, tweeted times, paper.li, curated.by, scoop.it, zite, and flipboard. Presenter: Karen Hamilton, Professor/Online Coordinator, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, George Brown College.

1. Advancing Learning, May 2012
Karen Hamilton
Taming Information
Overload through Curation

2. Are you suffering from I.0.S ?
I.o.s by Xerox

3. Hold that thought!
We'll get back to an answer a
bit later,
but first....

4. Drowning in data?
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5. Where is all the data coming from?
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12. What’s the matter with Google
and large social networking
sites?

13. A Google search for “curation”
returns over
10 million results

14. How do you know which of the 10
million links is most relevant?

15. How do we avoid this?

16. Will your search return
the same results as my search
on any subject?
Probably Not!

17. “Internet firms increasingly
show us less of the wide
world, locating us in the
neighborhood of the
familiar. The risk, as Eli
Pariser shows, is that
each of us may unwittingly
come to inhabit a ghetto of
one.”
Clay Shirky, author Here Comes
Everybody and Cognitive Surplus
The Filter Bubble

18. It's a Classic Battle - Humans vs Machine!

20. Who said...
"A squirrel dying in your front
yard may be more relevant to
your interests right now than
people dying in Africa"
Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook
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21. How do we tame the Beast?
Overload!
Bias!
INTERNET
Machine
Driven

22. Listen up...the Internet needs People!

23. Collaboration and Curation!

24. A Curator is a person who :
plans and oversees the arrangement of things,
catalogues, and exhibits collections.
describes and analyzes valuable objects for the
benefit of the public and researchers
What is a Curator?

25. Have teachers always been Curators?

26. Howard Rheingold asks Robin Good about the
importance of Curation

27. Become a Curation Hero!
Step 1. Collect your sources
What are you passionate about?

28. Harness the Power of Collective Intelligence
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29. Become a Curation Hero!
Step 2. Find relevant content
(Aggregate)
Step 3. Filter (relevance & quality)
Step 4. Customize for your audience
Step 5. Share, package, distribute

30. How to curate: A day in the life….

32. Look familiar?

33. Twitter – It’s all about connections.
Who do you follow? How do you know who to follow?

34. Like stuff! Facebook feeds

35. Blog and Follow!
"In the act of writing, we are written". Daniel Chandler
Why Blog?
Why follow Blogs?
Who should you follow?
"Any teacher now can be a global communicator." Steve
Wheeler

36. RSS Feeds
RSS= Really Simple
Syndication
A method to distribute headlines
and/or short overviews of
information posted on
websites/blogs
RSS Feed Reader is an
aggregator that brings your
subscriptions to one place

37. Social Bookmarking Tools – Delicious
Tap into the Collective http://delicious.com/kehamilt

38. Delicious has become more of a Curation tool
because of their “Stacks”

39. You can share your stack and invite contributors

40. Mobile

43. Flipboard
adds
summary
and images to
tweets

44. Comment?
Retweet?
Favourite?
Save to read?
Email it?

45. Retweet

46. Mobile

47. Zite
Choose
your
interests

48. Browse
Articles
Select and
Read
Zite

49. Decide what to
Share
Decide how to
Share
Twitter?
Facebook?
Email?
Zite

50. Mobile
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App

51. Mobile
PULSE
Another News
Curation App

52. Personalized Newspapers

53. Paper.li
Personal Newspaper
Attach to twitter, facebook. Select a set of those
you follow and a daily paper is made.

54. Paper.li
Personal
Newspaper
can be easily
made from your
twitter feed
Email Digest
delivered to your inbox

55. Tweeted Times
Based on
twitter feed
http://tweetedtimes.com
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App
NEWS.ME
Another News
Curation App

56. It's Addictive
http://scoop.it

57. Choose your topic and start curating
Scoop.it

58. Scoop.it Dashboard

59. Browse stories posted by those you follow

60. A Daily Email
Digest is sent
to your inbox

61. Other Curation Tools
Curated.by
Pearltrees
Storify
Pinterest
Bundlr
Lynk.ly
Redux ( video)
See Robin Good's List of Curation Tools

62. Great Reading:
Curation Nation: Why the Future of Content is Context by Steven Rosenbaum (McGraw Hill 2011)
Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project by Corrine Weisgerber
What Makes a Great Curator Great? Robin Good
Students Becoming Curators of Information? Langwitches Blog
The Fallacy of Information Overload by Brian Solis
Great Viewing:
What is Curation? (Top curators talk about curation) http://vimeo.com/38524181
Howard Rheingold interviews Robert Scoble on Online Curation http://youtu.be/WMn-cJHzF8A
How and Why to Become a Content Curator -Interview with Shel Holtz
TedxGrandRapids – Steve Rosenbaum – Innovate: Curation! http://youtu.be/iASluLoKQbo
Robin Good on Curation (full interview -Howard Rheingold interviews R Good
JP Rangaswami: Information is food
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" Video on TED.com
Collections
Content Curation World on scoop.it by Robin Good
Social Media Content Curation on scoop.it by Giuseppe Mauriello
Karen's delicious curation links

63. Karen E Hamilton
Professor/Online Coordinator
School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
George Brown College
kehamilt@georgebrown.ca
Website: http://k3hamilton.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/k3hamilton
Delicious: http://delicious.com/kehamilt
Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/u/k3hamilton
Curated sites:
http://www.scoop.it/t/innovations-in-e-learning/
http://www.scoop.it/t/a-cultural-history-of-advertising
http://www.scoop.it/t/psychology-of-consumer-behaviour
http://www.scoop.it/t/blackboard-nine
See video for this
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-
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