Content/Creation/Curation

A board created for purposes of gathering ideas, questions, and inspiration for the NWP/P2PU Spring 2012 Course, "Writing and Inquiry in the Digital Age" (http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-and-inquiry-in-the-digital-age/)

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Troy Hicks

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Pinterest: When Curation Becomes Meaningful for Anyone

What are your thoughts on Laurent Francois's argument that Pinterest makes curation accessible, fun, and part of your daily life?

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Alexandra Samuel (@awsamuel) invites us to "Plug in Better," rather than shut out all digital distractions. How might we use curation tools as a part of our digital lives to eliminate some of the distractions she describes such as "fear of missing out" or "information overload?"

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Marketing, Lead Generation & Digital Promotion by Social Able

Lilach Bullock describes the pros and cons of curation -- what are the implications for educators?

the words digital curaton, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to a trust body of digital information for current and

Of course, there are organizations dedicated to the preservation of digital content. What then, as individual users, can we do in our own curation practices to "add value" to a "trusted body of digital information" when we use tools such as Pinterest? By the way, the tool I used to grab and pin this quote was http://pinaquote.com/

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Nailing Down The Appeal Of Pinterest

From the article... "'At first it was about how many friends do I have — how many can I get, how many groups can I join,' says Susan Etlinger, an analyst from the Altimeter Group. She says that's changing. Now people want to connect with others who share similar styles and interests, she says." To what extent can curation tools help us find like-minded people? Or, to use Eli Pariser's term, in what ways does this contribute to our own self-selected "filter bubbles?"

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Is Content Curation The New Community Builder?

Eric Brown suggests that "... content consumers, readers and viewers, also require contextual relevance and aesthetic sorting." As educators, what is our role/responsibility in providing contextual relevance and aesthetic sorting for our students?