aplic 2014 - beth kantor on content curation
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Using Content Curation for Professional Learning: Seek, Sense, ShareBeth Kanter, Trainer, Author, Blogger
APLIC ConferenceApril 2014
What is your burning question about content curation?
What do you already know about content curation?
Share Pairs
Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and
sharing the very best with your network.
• Transdisciplinarity• Sense-making• Social intelligence• Cognitive load
management• New media literacy
Tweets links related to organization’s mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions.
SEEK SENSE SHAREIdentified key blogs and Twitter users in each issue area
Scans and reads every morning and picks out best
Summarizes article in a tweet
Writes for Huffington Post
Helps him do his work
Feeds a network with quality content
Engages with aligned partners
Tweets best of best
Great Content Curation: Practice, Skills, Tools
Framework: Harold JarcheNetworked Learning Is Working Smarter
Seek
Sense
Share
Seek
• Define objective, audience, and topics
• Vets• Trusted Sources• Scouts• Filters – experts and
network• Use discovery tools
Sense
• Product: Blog post, report, memo, presentation
• Selects• Annotate, Archive,
Apply• Add value• Optimize headlines• Edits• Excerpts• Links• Classifies
Share
• Share at the right moment• A steady diet of good stuff• Comments• Credits• Recommend other curators• Crowdsources• Transparent
1. When you start curating information, does it make you feel anxious?2. When you are seeking information to curate, have you ever forgotten what it was in
the first place you wanted to accomplish?3. Do you add links to your Scoop.It or other collections without reading and thinking
and annotating the article?4. Do you experience frustration at the amount of information you need to process
daily?5. Do you sit at your computer for longer than 30 minutes at a time without getting
up to take a break?6. Do you constantly check (even in the bathroom on your mobile phone) your email,
Twitter, Scoop.It or other online service?7. Is the only time you're off line is when you are sleeping?8. Do you feel that you often cannot concentrate?9. Do you get anxious if you are offline for more than a few hours?10.Do you find yourself easily distracted by online resources that allow you to avoid
other, pending work?
Self-Knowledge Is The First Step
A few quick assessment questionsAdd up your score: # of YES answers
0…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10Source: Lulumonathletica
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What’s Your Attention Focusing Score?
• Understand your goals and priorities and ask yourself at regular intervals whether your current activity serves your higher priority.
• Notice when your attention has wandered, and then gently bringing it back to focus on your highest priority
• Sometimes in order to learn or deepen relationships -- exploring from link to link is permissible – and important. Don’t make attention training so rigid that it destroys flow.
Source: Howard RheingoldNetSmart
What does it mean to manage your attention while your curate?
Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your TimeVisualize on PaperEstablish RitualsReflectionManage Electronic DistractionsManage Physical SpaceJust Say No
A Few Tips
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One Minute of Silence: What is one idea that you can put into practice next week? Write down on an index card
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Thank You!
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