Digital Content Curation
Digital Content Curation
What is it?
Adding your personal touch to a handpicked set of shared information. The information is focused on specific set of information that you chose to share with your followers or fans.
What its not?
Digital Content Curaiton is often misunderstood. Now that we know what it is, I feel it is useful to define what it is not. Digital content curation is not something that is done through automation or just retweeting or reposting information from another site. A tweet, a pin, or blog post that is interesting you share is not truly content curation (Ayette, 2019)
Checklist for Curation
1. Reliability-How accurate is the information you are select to share? This has become a very important topic with the explosion of blogging and micro-blogging sites. Is the information you want to share can be trusted? The best for this to happen is for you the individual to perform basic tasks before you share. By looking at the author, key facts, and fact checking an individual can make sure they sharing the most accurate information.
2. Distribution-How do you want your information to disseminated? There are numerous ways to get your digital media to your followers, but should you use them all. In this case, using a few tools to get your information to your followers is the best choice, whether it is through a third party tool, blog, or website. Select the tool that you are most comfortable with and make sure it has a user friend interface for you followers.
3. Frequency-I often feel that this is on aspect that can turn individuals off from digital curation or subscribing to a tool to curate topics for them. An individuals inbox can become clutter with constant updates or notification of a new post. Make sure your sharing relevant information in a timely manner but do not overuse because others may stop following.
4. Audience-This has to be answer by the individual on who do you want to reach with your collection. Do you want to reach everyone or do you want to reach a specific group of people with your information. The item that needs to be discussed is what do you want the audience to do with this information?
5. Topic-Whether its technology integration or assessment, find out what topics not only interest you but what do you followers or collaborators want to read about. Once you get your topics you can begin to narrow that focus, in order to do this think about a couple things. First what are your strengths. Second what areas are you an expert in or fairly confident in discussing (Coan n.d.).
6. Media Organization-As the internet begins to expand, and individuals began to rely more heavily on the Internet as a way to research and locate information. Searching could very easily provide different results depending on the day or time your search. A way to curator information and share this information is to organize information and share the with others (Mihailidis & Cohen, 2013).
7. Telling a Story-Being a curator of media, allows the curator to tell a story with the media it collects and puts together. Curatoring media advances the core media literacy skills of analysis, evaluation, and creation (Mihailidais & Cohen, 2013).
8. Tools-There are muliple tools to help to gather and share digital media. The three listed below are some of the most widely used and simplest ways to gather and curator media (Timperley, 2018).
Citations
Ayette, E. (2014, December 09). Defining Digital Content Curation. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://blogs.constantcontact.com/content-curation/#
Coan, J. (2017, August 15). 5 Tips for Choosing a Content Curation Topic. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from http://www.curata.com/blog/5-tips-for-choosing-a-content-curation-topic/
Flintoff, K., Mellow, P., & Clark, K. (2014). Digital curation: Opportunities for learning, teaching, research and professional development. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://clt.curtin.edu.au/events/conferences/tlf/tlf2014/refereed/flintoff.html
Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. N. (2013). Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013(1), 2. doi:10.5334/2013-02
Quan-Haase, A., & Martin, K. (2013). Digital curation and the networked audience of urban events. International Communication Gazette, 75(5-6), 521-537. doi:10.1177/1748048513491910
Timperley, N. (2018, August 02). Naomi Timperley. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/08/why-is-digital-curation-so-important-for-educators/
What is it?
Adding your personal touch to a handpicked set of shared information. The information is focused on specific set of information that you chose to share with your followers or fans.
What its not?
Digital Content Curaiton is often misunderstood. Now that we know what it is, I feel it is useful to define what it is not. Digital content curation is not something that is done through automation or just retweeting or reposting information from another site. A tweet, a pin, or blog post that is interesting you share is not truly content curation (Ayette, 2019)
Checklist for Curation
1. Reliability-How accurate is the information you are select to share? This has become a very important topic with the explosion of blogging and micro-blogging sites. Is the information you want to share can be trusted? The best for this to happen is for you the individual to perform basic tasks before you share. By looking at the author, key facts, and fact checking an individual can make sure they sharing the most accurate information.
2. Distribution-How do you want your information to disseminated? There are numerous ways to get your digital media to your followers, but should you use them all. In this case, using a few tools to get your information to your followers is the best choice, whether it is through a third party tool, blog, or website. Select the tool that you are most comfortable with and make sure it has a user friend interface for you followers.
3. Frequency-I often feel that this is on aspect that can turn individuals off from digital curation or subscribing to a tool to curate topics for them. An individuals inbox can become clutter with constant updates or notification of a new post. Make sure your sharing relevant information in a timely manner but do not overuse because others may stop following.
4. Audience-This has to be answer by the individual on who do you want to reach with your collection. Do you want to reach everyone or do you want to reach a specific group of people with your information. The item that needs to be discussed is what do you want the audience to do with this information?
5. Topic-Whether its technology integration or assessment, find out what topics not only interest you but what do you followers or collaborators want to read about. Once you get your topics you can begin to narrow that focus, in order to do this think about a couple things. First what are your strengths. Second what areas are you an expert in or fairly confident in discussing (Coan n.d.).
6. Media Organization-As the internet begins to expand, and individuals began to rely more heavily on the Internet as a way to research and locate information. Searching could very easily provide different results depending on the day or time your search. A way to curator information and share this information is to organize information and share the with others (Mihailidis & Cohen, 2013).
7. Telling a Story-Being a curator of media, allows the curator to tell a story with the media it collects and puts together. Curatoring media advances the core media literacy skills of analysis, evaluation, and creation (Mihailidais & Cohen, 2013).
8. Tools-There are muliple tools to help to gather and share digital media. The three listed below are some of the most widely used and simplest ways to gather and curator media (Timperley, 2018).
- Flipboard-Online tool that allows you to select topics that interests you. Flipboard will then curator the stories for you to read based on these subjects.
- Pearltree-Pearltree is an online tool that allows you to save an object you find on a topic while searching the internet. You are then able to publish your collection so others can use.
- Diigo-Is an easy tool that allows you to create folders of bookmarks for a given topic. You are able to share these topics with others or allow others to join in the creating of topics.
9. Professional Development-Using digital curation faculty member or members of your PLN are able to create topics of interest for others to use or read to increase their professional knowledge (Flintoff et al, 2014).
10. Collaboration-Digital collections among peers or students are a great way to provide true collaboration as well as provide an authentic experience in collaboration. By allowing peers or students to have control over the information they collect and share allows the ability to collaborate in a 21st Century arena (Flintoff et al, 2014)
Citations
Ayette, E. (2014, December 09). Defining Digital Content Curation. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://blogs.constantcontact.com/content-curation/#
Coan, J. (2017, August 15). 5 Tips for Choosing a Content Curation Topic. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from http://www.curata.com/blog/5-tips-for-choosing-a-content-curation-topic/
Flintoff, K., Mellow, P., & Clark, K. (2014). Digital curation: Opportunities for learning, teaching, research and professional development. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://clt.curtin.edu.au/events/conferences/tlf/tlf2014/refereed/flintoff.html
Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. N. (2013). Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013(1), 2. doi:10.5334/2013-02
Quan-Haase, A., & Martin, K. (2013). Digital curation and the networked audience of urban events. International Communication Gazette, 75(5-6), 521-537. doi:10.1177/1748048513491910
Timperley, N. (2018, August 02). Naomi Timperley. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/08/why-is-digital-curation-so-important-for-educators/
Ayette, E. (2014, December 09). Defining Digital Content Curation. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://blogs.constantcontact.com/content-curation/#
Coan, J. (2017, August 15). 5 Tips for Choosing a Content Curation Topic. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from http://www.curata.com/blog/5-tips-for-choosing-a-content-curation-topic/
Flintoff, K., Mellow, P., & Clark, K. (2014). Digital curation: Opportunities for learning, teaching, research and professional development. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://clt.curtin.edu.au/events/conferences/tlf/tlf2014/refereed/flintoff.html
Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. N. (2013). Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Journal of Interactive Media in Education,2013(1), 2. doi:10.5334/2013-02
Quan-Haase, A., & Martin, K. (2013). Digital curation and the networked audience of urban events. International Communication Gazette,75(5-6), 521-537. doi:10.1177/1748048513491910
Timperley, N. (2018, August 02). Naomi Timperley. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/08/why-is-digital-curation-so-important-for-educators/
Ayette, E. (2014, December 09). Defining Digital Content Curation. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://blogs.constantcontact.com/content-curation/#
Coan, J. (2017, August 15). 5 Tips for Choosing a Content Curation Topic. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from http://www.curata.com/blog/5-tips-for-choosing-a-content-curation-topic/
Flintoff, K., Mellow, P., & Clark, K. (2014). Digital curation: Opportunities for learning, teaching, research and professional development. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://clt.curtin.edu.au/events/conferences/tlf/tlf2014/refereed/flintoff.html
Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. N. (2013). Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Journal of Interactive Media in Education,2013(1), 2. doi:10.5334/2013-02
Quan-Haase, A., & Martin, K. (2013). Digital curation and the networked audience of urban events. International Communication Gazette,75(5-6), 521-537. doi:10.1177/1748048513491910
Timperley, N. (2018, August 02). Naomi Timperley. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/08/why-is-digital-curation-so-important-for-educators/
Ayette, E. (2014, December 09). Defining Digital Content Curation. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://blogs.constantcontact.com/content-curation/#
Coan, J. (2017, August 15). 5 Tips for Choosing a Content Curation Topic. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from http://www.curata.com/blog/5-tips-for-choosing-a-content-curation-topic/
Flintoff, K., Mellow, P., & Clark, K. (2014). Digital curation: Opportunities for learning, teaching, research and professional development. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://clt.curtin.edu.au/events/conferences/tlf/tlf2014/refereed/flintoff.html
Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. N. (2013). Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education. Journal of Interactive Media in Education,2013(1), 2. doi:10.5334/2013-02
Quan-Haase, A., & Martin, K. (2013). Digital curation and the networked audience of urban events. International Communication Gazette,75(5-6), 521-537. doi:10.1177/1748048513491910
Timperley, N. (2018, August 02). Naomi Timperley. Retrieved March 3, 2019, from https://www.emergingedtech.com/2018/08/why-is-digital-curation-so-important-for-educators/
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