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What is digital curation and why is it important to you? Leading experts in the curation and preservation of digital objects (such as databases, photos, vide...Robin Good's insight:Here is a 5-minute video recorded at the DigCurV Final Conference which took place on the 6th and 7th of May 2013 in Florence, Italy, in which several academic and research professionals in the fields of curation and preservation of digital objects (such... Read more
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Highlight, focus or magnify objects in PowerPoint presentations, on the fly and with zero preperationRobin Good's insight:MagPointer is a downloadable Windows PC software which provides a set of highlighting tools to support the delivery of a PowerPoint presentation.MagPointer leverages in-depth PowerPoint traits and characteristics, enabling the user to highlight and manipulate easily objects inside any slide.The toolset includes:
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Robin Good's insight:Clipzine is a web app which makes it easy to collect images from any website page and to visually organize them into page-based collections.On each page it is possible to place as many as 24 pieces of content and to decide how large or small each element will be. The user can expand each imported element over two or more tiles and move it around to any position.It... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:Streamified is stream reader / aggregator / publishing platform which allows you to aggregate, filter and read news stories coming from all your selected social channels and RSS feeds. Not only. You can also easily edit and cross-post to any number of social accounts simultaneously or, at a later time.Similar in some ways to Hootsuite, Streamified offers
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Robin Good's insight:Matt Cutts has officially announced on his blog the release of Penguin 2.0 algo update.Barry Schwartz reports on Search Engine Land: "Webmasters and SEOs: expect major changes to the search results. Matt specifically said that 2.3% of English queries will be noticeably impacted by this update.Cutts later posted some more details about this roll out on his blog. He explained that the launch is now complete, including for... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:A great collection of key articles on curation prepared by David Kelly to support his ASTD 2013 session on Curation: Beyond the Buzzword.The curated list includes nearly 40 selected articles divied into four groups:a) Specific Session Resourcesb) Curation-Themed Writingc) Curation Examplesd) Additional ResourcesVery useful. Good selection. 8/10Full resource page: http://davidkelly.me/2013/05/curation-beyond-the-buzzword-resources-shared-at-astd2013/Presentation on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/DavidKelly3/curation-beyond-the-buzzword-astd2013-21430067See it on Scoop.it, via Content Curation World ... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:If you are looking for some oustanding examples of curation at work here's one that should not be missed. A collection of collections, the Typologist is a unique site curated by Diana Zlatanovski, Museologist at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Photographer at The Typology, and showcasing interesting objects and photo typologies that she has found around the world. Check also her print shop at: the-typology.myshopify.com/... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:A free online course from YouTube to help any video publisher maximize the use of the tools and features available in the new YouTube One Page channel experience. The course starts on June 3rd.This is the course program:Week 1
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Robin Good's insight:Here's an inspiring short article by Elia Morling on the role of curators in storytelling.Elia reports of a discussion he has had with netnographer Olga Kravets, in which she suggested that: "...curators serve their tribe like dumpster divers. They dive into containers to rummage through heaps of garbage to find useful stuff that can be re-purposed. When they are done they bring forth their scavenged gifts to their... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:Typeform is a new web app which allows you to easily edit, create and publish professionally-looking interactive forms and surveys on any website, while guaranteeing full compatibility with all desktop and mobile devices.If you want to "listen" to your fans, customers and readers, this is a great tool to make it all happen.As a matter of fact, Typeforms work across all computing devices: from desktop PCs, to tablets... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:Ditto is a FREE, automated weekly backup of Twitter, Facebook and Gmail with integrated search capabilities.To curate, means also ability to archive, preserve and safely store the data/information/content available in your newsradar/collection/lineup. As a matter of fact, if you decided to follow-up on an academic pursuit of your data-curation interests, you would be immediately confronted with the learning of the best methodologies, tools and workflows utilized to preserve... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:How much does it really cost to publish your own book? Miral Sattar, on PBS Mediashift, provides a very useful article outlining eight main expenditure areas and providing some indication of what the cost of doing these activities may be for an independent self-publisher.From formatting to getting reviews, the article properly identifies all of the work steps needed to professionally publish a book without going to partner with... Read more
Source: Kickstarter
Robin Good's insight:XiStera is a new Kickstarter crowdfunded project for a physical adapter for iPhone 5 units capable of working as
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Getty Images touches people in a new campaign created by AlmapBBDO. Robin Good's insight:A new promotional campaign for Getty Images, created by AlmapBBDO, showcases an excellent example of video curation at work.In this case, Getty Images and its partner agency have decided to gather, distill and juxtapose some of the most beautiful video clips available from the stock image giant, into a "short" (less than 2 mins) capable of telling a... Read more
Source: Creativeramblings
Robin Good's insight:Why do you curate content? Are you doing it because you didn't know anymore what to write about or are you doing it because it feels like you can save a lot of time by curating instead of writing?What drives your desire to republish, mention or introduce other people's content? The ever-growing need for fresh content? The desire to become more visible on seach engines thanks to more... Read more
Source: Independent.co.uk
I have rehearsed this scenario before, but try to imagine we live in a world where printed media had not been invented, and our only source of information and entertainment was the Internet.Robin Good's insight:"Give me the cheeses that matter, offer me a wine list that's manageable. And put all the information that's raining down on us from cyberspace in a convenient, easy-to-handle form."That's the essence and the relevance of... Read more
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Robin Good's insight:EdCanvas is a web service which allows you to search, find, clip and collect any kind of content, from text to video clips and to organize it into visual boards for educational and learning purposes.Differently than Pinterest, EdCanvas is specifically targeted at the education world and at schools and teachers, and it makes possible not just to collect "images" from web pages, but to collect and organize whichever... Read more
Content curation will play a major role both in the way we "teach" and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem.
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This article, builds up over my recent presentation on Content Curation for Education that I delivered at Emerge2012 virtual conference.
In that presentation I claimed that the adoption of "curation approaches" will directly affect the way competences are taught, how textbooks are put together, how students are going to learn about a subject, and more than anything, the value that can be generated for "others" through a personal learning path.
If we learn not by memorizing facts, but by collaborating with others in the creation of a meaningful collection-explanations of specific topics/issues/events then, for the first time in history, we can enrich planetary knowledge each time we take on a new learning task.
And it's already happening.
Yes, we are only at the very early stages, but, in my humble opinion, there are enough signs and indications that this is not going to be something marginal.
In this article I outline ten key factors, already at work, which, among others, will very likely pave the way for a much greater and rapid adoption of curation practices in the educational / academic world.
These factors are:
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