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Taming Information Overload through Curation 2012 Presentation
The document discusses strategies for managing information overload through curation, emphasizing the importance of filtering and sharing relevant content in the digital age. It outlines steps to become an effective curator including collecting sources, aggregating content, and utilizing various digital tools such as RSS feeds and social bookmarking platforms. Additionally, it highlights the role of collaboration and collective intelligence in enhancing the curation process and provides a list of resources and tools for further exploration.
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- 1. Advancing Learning, May2012 Karen Hamilton Taming Information Overload through Curation
- 2. Are you sufferingfrom I.0.S ? I.o.s by Xerox
- 3. Hold that thought! We'llget back to an answer a bit later, but first....
- 4. Drowning in data? Double-clickto enter text
- 5. Where is allthe data coming from? Double-click to enter text
- 12. What’s the matterwith Google and large social networking sites?
- 13. A Google searchfor “curation” returns over 10 million results
- 14. How do youknow which of the 10 million links is most relevant?
- 15. How do weavoid this?
- 16. Will your searchreturn the same results as my search on any subject? Probably Not!
- 17. “Internet firms increasingly showus 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 ClassicBattle - Humans vs Machine!
- 20. Who said... "A squirreldying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa" Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Z
- 21. How do wetame the Beast? Overload! Bias! INTERNET Machine Driven
- 22. Listen up...the Internetneeds People!
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- 24. A Curator isa 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 alwaysbeen Curators?
- 26. Howard Rheingold asksRobin Good about the importance of Curation
- 27. Become a CurationHero! Step 1. Collect your sources What are you passionate about?
- 28. Harness the Powerof Collective Intelligence N E T W O R K S
- 29. Become a CurationHero! 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….
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- 33. Twitter – It’sall about connections. Who do you follow? How do you know who to follow?
- 34. Like stuff! Facebookfeeds
- 35. Blog and Follow! "Inthe 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= ReallySimple 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 becomemore of a Curation tool because of their “Stacks”
- 39. You can shareyour stack and invite contributors
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- 49. Decide what to Share Decidehow to Share Twitter? Facebook? Email? Zite
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- 53. Paper.li Personal Newspaper Attach totwitter, facebook. Select a set of those you follow and a daily paper is made.
- 54. Paper.li Personal Newspaper can be easily madefrom your twitter feed Email Digest delivered to your inbox
- 55. Tweeted Times Based on twitterfeed http://tweetedtimes.com NEWS.ME Another News Curation App NEWS.ME Another News Curation App NEWS.ME Another News Curation App
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- 57. Choose your topicand start curating Scoop.it
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- 59. Browse stories postedby those you follow
- 60. A Daily Email Digestis 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/OnlineCoordinator 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- VZEmWIJII