Online curration and organization is a huge piece of working effectively online, and I am not afraid to admit that this is an area that I am very behind in. I have had very little experience with any type of online curration, most likely because I do not do a whole lot online. However, I have tried out and enjoy using feedly and Pinterest. I feel like I should be more involved with organizing myself online, and moving forward this is definitely something I will be looking at.
I feel like online curration is an important organizational skill to teach our students. As teachers we want to provide our students with lifeskills and relevant information, and online curration does both. Students can store all their sources for research papers/projects, find websites that show science experiments, or blogs from other schools. Currating online sources will help those sources that have a habit of losing "that piece of paper they wrote the website down on."
Online curration can also help make teaching easier, since students can access the teacher's online curration, find commonly used websites there. This would be very helpful with younger classes, since you only have to have the students type one web address and then just have them click on pictures.
I totally agree Liz, online curration can make our jobs easier! I also love the idea of using drop box with our students. This way we don't have to worry about our students forgetting or losing their flash drive they can access their information anywhere at anytime!
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