This document discusses content curation and its relevance for teacher-librarians in schools. It defines content curation as finding, organizing, and sharing the best content on a specific topic. Content curators play an important role in schools by collecting and filtering information for students. The document outlines the steps to create an effective content strategy, including defining the target audience, purpose, and tools. It also addresses ethical concerns around curation and names several experts in the field.

1. Content Curation
and the teacher- librarian

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
What is content curation?
Why should it be relevant in a school?
What does a content curator do?
How do we create a content strategy?
How do we find relevant content?
How do we filter content?
Ethical concerns?
Gurus?
Tools?

3. Welcome!
http://www.bethkanter.org/

4. What is content curation ?
Content Curation is a term that describes
the act of finding, grouping, organising or
sharing the best and most relevant content
on a specific issue
Rohit Bhargava: trend curator

5. Why should it be relevant in a school?

6. and in a South African school?
• 26500 schools
• 12279 connected; nearly 50%
• Goal for 2019/2020 100%
• e-Skills Task Team constituted
• Digital Citizenship: Digital Wellness
Programme

7. Sommelier
Sommelier or wine
steward, is a trained
and knowledgeable
wine professional,
normally working in fine
restaurants, who
specialises in all
aspects of wine service
as well as wine and
food pairing.
Sommelier F.I.S.A.R." by OneArmedMan

8. or teacher- librarian
Librarian or content
curator is a trained
and knowledgeable
information
practitioner who
specialises in the
process of collecting,
organising and
displaying information
relevant to a particular
topic or area of

9. What does a content curator do?
• we ask
• we listen
• we find
• we select
• we group
• we organise
• we create
• we share
•

10. How do we create a content strategy ?
Who: your target?
Why: do they need it?
What: have you asked them?
Where: only digital?
When: time frame?
How: tools to use?

11. How do we find relevant content?
adding, aligning, analysing, applying, asking,
building, comparing, conceptualising,
constructing, creating, deciding, designing,
detecting, developing, distributing, evaluating,
filtering, finding, grouping, implementing,
inspiring, integrating, interpreting, introducing,
inventing, judging, listening, matching,
organising, planning, producing,
remembering, researching, retrieving,
selecting, sharing, testing, understanding

12. How do we filter content
Tagging: key words/tags dictate the quality of
content e.g. tag clouds
Recommendations: based on content
consumption patterns e.g. Amazon
Filtering: filtered navigation e.g. Google
advanced search
Topic pages: single page search e.g.
Pinterest
Topic maps: visually grouped/related e.g.
PearlTrees

13. What is digital literacy ?
Digital Literacy
the ability to find,
discern, select and
use online information
appropriately.

14. Ethical concerns
Over curation?
Informed consent?
Quantity over quality?
Combination of curated content with original?
Attribution?

15. Who are some gurus ?
• Joyce Valenza
• Naomi Harm
• Phil Bradley
• Robin Good
• Jane Hart
• Grainne Cole
• Will Richardson
• Maggie Verster

16. What tools can I use?
e-Mail groups Pinterest
Delicious Scoopit
Diigo Shelfari
Facebook Slideshare
Linkedin Twitter
Pearltrees Website/portal
Picasa YouTube

17. e-Mail groups

18. Diego

19. Delicious

20. Facebook

21. Linkedin

22. Pearltrees

23. Picasa

24. Pinterest

25. Scoop It

26. Scoop It

27. Scoop it: Slothful Cybrarian

28. Scoop it

29. Shelfari

30. Slideshare

31. Twitter

32. Website/Portal

33. YouTube

34. THINK
T = is it true ?
H= is it helpful ?
I = is it inspiring ?
N = is it necessary ?
K = is it kind ?

35. RefMe

36. Website: www.education.gov.za
Call Centre: 0800 202 933 | callcentre@dbe.gov.za
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