Pearltrees - Collect & Share Save bookmarks, documents, files, ebooks, photos, videos, notes and more. Organize them into meaningful collections. Discover and share millions of contents on your favorite topics. With Pearltrees, organize all your interests anywhere, anytime! Dedicated versions of Pearltrees also exist for schools and enterprises. Media says:"The most elegant and visual way of collecting and sharing online content". Pearltrees can be useful in many situations: Personal life: Tech enthusiast? Work: On Pearltrees you can collaborate with your colleagues to manage knowledge efficiently, mutualize best practices, and share notes across your entire company. Education: Pearltrees is now one of the most used tools by teachers and students.
Content Curation Primer Photo by Stuck in Customs What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them? For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “content fried” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share Getting Started
- Amazing Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers... Part Two 0 Comments February 9, 2013 By: Michael Gorman Feb 9 Written by: 2/9/2013 2:25 PM ShareThis I hope you enjoyed the past post and welcome you to “Part Two” in a series of posts dedicated to those educators attempting to curate the Digital Curriculum. Part Two… Amazing Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers -– Mike Gorman ( As discussed last time, there are increasing demands to move textbooks and lecture from the center of instruction. LiveBinders LiveBinders describes itself as the knowledge sharing place. You can learn more about LiveBinders in this 90 second video, it could be the best minute and one half that you spend today. Take Control of Information View links like pages in a book instead of URLs on a pageCombine uploaded PDFs and Word docs with links in one binderGo paperless one LiveBinder at a time Save Time Make an Impression It does not take long to find out how to use LiveBinders in Education. My Big Campus
Content Curation: Beyond the Institutional Repository and Library Archives - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians If you are an academic librarian, you have been hearing about Data Curation, Content Curation, Information Curation or Digital Curation for years. And the terms can be applied in several different ways. There are the curation activities surrounding purchased library materials and the curation of faculty and student items (like theses and dissertations for example). Archivists have been intimately involved with all sorts of curation activities since archives existed, and were early adopters of digital curation and finding aids for the items they maintained. Most recently, Data Curation has been in the forefront of librarian discussions in response to government mandates to make research information widely available; first with the medical field, and more recently with the National Science Foundation requirements for data curation plans in all NSF grants. Clay Shirky (www.shirky.com) suggests that “[the problem] is not information overload. References: Good, Robin. Kanter, Beth.
Goal 10: Spread Your Knowledge (15+ Tools to Bookmark, Aggregate, Curate) Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, June 14th 2012 Goal 10 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! ““If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ” ~ Margaret Fuller Short-term- share resources you have collected about a topic with colleagues at school or online. Long-term- develop a community for sharing resources in your teaching environment. My Personal Thoughts About This Goal As educators, we are in the business of learning. Resources Related to This Goal I love learning. The tools that I use meet a few criteria: They have a free app! Tools Diigo- saves all your bookmarks in one location accessible anywhere with the Internet, allows you to highlight sections on websites and make notes, takes clippings, tag, search, and more! More resources: Important News Check out my Pinterests for other posts with this goal or ask me to add yours! Challenge:
Launches Connotate4 - Connotate Leading provider of intelligent web scraping makes it easier than ever to collect and transform Webdata for strategic business use New Brunswick, NJ – April 23, 2014 – Connotate, the enterprise-grade datapipe for Web-sourced information, or Webdata, today announced an update of its core technology that simplifies and streamlines the Webdata extraction process and assures complete coverage of today’s highly dynamic websites. At the center of Connotate4 is a custom browser that leverages the industry standard Webkit engine, which powers leading browsers like Safari and Chrome. “Combining Connotate’s best-in-class patented machine-learning algorithms with our browser cements our position as the industry-leading web extraction technology,” said Connotate CEO, Keith Cooper. Connotate has six (6) patents that support its Web data extraction technology. “Connotate4 allows us to scale in ways we could never do before.
Part One Digital Learning … Top 3 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Teachers and Students Happy Holidays and welcome to “Part One” of a series of posts dedicated to those attempting to curate the Digital Curriculum. Please enjoy and share this post via email or a retweet. While you are at it, I would appreciate that you take a moment to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email and follow me at (mjgormans). Also, feel free to contact me about any conference, in-service plans, or PD you might wish to include me in. (mjgormans@gmail.com). Part One… 12 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers -– Mike Gorman ( As education begins to embrace technology and digital resources, we as educators must also remember that these new tools allow teachers to move students at the center of their learning. Symbalooedu.com Symbaloo allows you to organize and share the best of the web with your students. Students can also become powerful curators and collaborators with their own Symbaloo account. Diigo.com Beyond the Bookmark
Bing for Schools exits beta and goes into use with thousands of schools Last summer Microsoft announced that it was beginning work on a new version of Bing that was aimed at schools called Bing for Schools. The idea for Bing for Schools was to provide a somewhat sanitized version of the Bing search engine that would help insulate kids using computers at school from content that they shouldn’t be able to see. Microsoft started with a small pilot program for Bing for Schools that had operated in five schools. Microsoft's search engine for schools is ad free and there will be no charge for schools to use the special version of Bing. The program is currently operating in 5,000 schools around the country with over 4.5 million kids participating. Once the school totals 30,000 credits, a Surface tablet with Type Cover will be sent directly to the school. SOURCE: PC World
Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons There is a growing number of key trends that are both rapidly revolutionizing the world of education as we know it and opening up opportunities to review and upgrade the role and scope of many of its existing institutions, (as the likeliness that they are going to soon become obsolete and unsustainable, is right in front of anyone's eyes). George Siemens, in his recent Open Letter to Canadian Universities, sums them up well: 1) An Overwhelming Abundance of Information Which Begs To Be OrganizedThe goal is not (and probably it never was) to learn or memorize all of the information available out there. It's just too much even if we focus only on the very essence of it. From the New York Times: "...Mr. Curation fits in as a more appropriate approach to learning and to prepare for real-world work challenges, by allowing learners to construct meaning by having to research and to understand and to create new relationships between different information-elements.
Copyright Clearance Center Announces Next Generation RightsLink® for Open Access Platform DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced its next generation RightsLink® for Open Access platform. “We designed this next generation global solution based on what we’ve learned in the market, and the information received from customers and partners who deal with Open Access every day.” The rapid growth of Open Access (OA) has introduced new complexities into scholarly and scientific publishing. CCC’s nimble and configurable platform addresses these needs by streamlining the entire author fee transaction, ensuring critical research gets published as quickly as possible. “For nearly ten years, many of the world’s largest publishers have used RightsLink to manage their author fees,” said Bill Neuman, CCC Vice President, Products. RightsLink for Open Access streamlines the entire author fee transaction for OA charges, Article Processing Charges (APCs), page charges, color charges, and more.
Aggregate, Curate and Create Your Own Textbook One of the latest buzz words in social media is curation. Some media analysts ponder whether the content curator might be the next big social media job of the future. The job of curator has spread across the digital media world and may already have replaced “editor” and “publisher” in the minds of marketers and social media mavens. What are the implications of curation in education?How will content curation impact the textbook market? We are seeing more and more publishers jumping into the digital textbook market but so far the digital editions are mere pdf versions of the hardcover versions. The Journal’s article: 5K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 includes going ‘Beyond the Digital Textbook’ as one of the trends, with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks. Several concerns about Apple’s new enterprise have been voiced in the blogosphere. Is there an option for a free, relevant course companion? Creating Your Own Digital Textbook Strategies Tools Tools
CRC Press Partners with Leading Discovery Services PRLog (Press Release) - May 21, 2014 - BOCA RATON, Fla. -- CRC Press announced today that it has partnered with key discovery services to connect researchers, students and professionals with content from its CRCnetBASE ( science, technology and medicine eBook platform. Partnerships with the Summon service (ProQuest), OCLC World Cat Local, Ex Libris Primo, and EBSCO Discovery Serviceincrease the discoverability and accessibility of CRCnetBASE ( content. “With more than 12,000 references in over 350 subject areas, CRCnetBASE ( content comprises highly relevant STM content for academics, scientists and professional researchers worldwide,” said John Lavender, Senior Vice President, Publishing and Online Products. About CRCnetBASE CRCnetBASE offers a comprehensive eBook collection that delivers 12,000 references in more than 350 subject areas and more than 40 collections . About CRC Press About Ex Libris About OCLC
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