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CURATION MODULE 1 Curation in Education Webinar

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Monica Surrency

Vanessa Dennen

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Review of Webinar Tools

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Webinar Rules of the Road Interacting During the Webinar •  Feel free to use the chat •  Feel free to tweet using #SMOOC2014 If You Need Help •  TA Meichelle will help in the chat During the Q&A • Raise your (virtual) hand if you want to speak. We’ll call

on you and enable your audio. •  Type questions for the speakers into the chat. Start with a

Q: to indicate it’s a question for the speakers.

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About the MOOC • Co-designed by graduate students in the Instructional

Systems Program at Florida State University •  This week’s module design team is:

•  Wenting (Kayla) Jiang •  Joshua Malcolm •  Monica Surrency

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Topics Covered in Webinar • Brief Overview of Curation • Quick Glance at Curation Tools • Best Practices for Curation • Curation Ideas for Classes

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POLL – Who are you? What best describes your role? A.  Student B.  Educator C.  Instructional Designer D.  Other (share in the chat)

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Vote here!

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Look, Ma, I’m Curating!

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What is curation? And who is a curator?

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What is curation? And who is a curator?

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What is curation? And who is a curator?

Professional Amateur

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Curation Overview

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Photo by Monica Surrency

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POLL – Bookmarking Approaches How do you bookmark? A.  I don’t bookmark B.  I bookmark only a few important things C.  I bookmark a lot, and struggle to find things later D.  I bookmark a lot, and I’m highly organized. I can find

everything in a few clicks!

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Vote here!

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Beyond Bookmarking

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Image Source: Stock.xchng

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Bookmarking vs Curating

Bookmarking

• Usually personal •  Item-focused

Curating

• Often public • Collection-focused • Requires annotation • Order is important

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Springpad

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Pinterest

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Pinterest

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Diigo

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Diigo

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• Annotation via sticky notes right on Web pages • Can restrict viewing

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Annotations & Tags • An important part of the curation process • Many tools automatically grab text – but you can edit it

and add to it • What should you include?

•  It depends on your audience •  Attribution •  Description •  Classification •  Interpretation •  Reason for sharing

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Links & Attribution •  Link back to the original source • Consider providing further attribution in the annotation

•  Title •  Author •  Source (link)

• Check out: Creative Commons on Attribution •  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Best_practices_for_attribution

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Order & Flow •  The order in which items appear in a collection is

important • Guide your user through the collection • Consider inserting your own material if it will improve the

flow

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Updating • Content can quickly get out of date •  Links break • Collection maintenance is important • Historically important but now outdated items might be

noted as such

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Collaborating & Sharing •  Invite collaborators

•  Discuss your curation strategies

• Develop and use your social media networks

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Using Curation Tools in the Classroom •  Teacher-led or student-led • Group or individual • Process or product

• What are your ideas for curation projects? • What types of projects have you done?

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Wrap Up • Bookmarking /= curating •  To be a good digital curator, you need to:

•  Annotate •  Organize •  Update •  Network

• Keep sharing on this topic … in the discussion forum, on Twitter

• We can’t wait to see your projects!

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THANKS FOR JOINING US! Time for Questions

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