Content Curation
eBook - ePub

Content Curation

How to Avoid Information Overload

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Content Curation

How to Avoid Information Overload

About this book

Savvy internet consumption starts right here!

Teachers and students are constantly inundated with information, yet lack the organizational skill necessary to effectively utilize it. From Twitter hashtags to online communities, this handy guide will help you to find, store, and share the best information and resources found on the web today—and teach your students to do the same. Real-world tips, tools, in-depth examples and lesson plans help you systematically:

  • Understand the curation process
  • Find, collect, and share reliable web-based information
  • Build students' information literacy skills
  • Help students research and organize problem-based learning projects
  • Use cutting-edge curation tools like Evernote, Diigo, and Pocket

The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it's a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning.

"Speaking from his own experience and perspectives as a learner, teacher, and educational leader, Steven Anderson brings clarity to a process that can be difficult and overwhelming. Steven offers tried and tested strategies and tools for evaluating, organizing, and sharing the vast amount of online content educators and students have at their fingertips. If you?re drowning in digital content, this book is your life jacket. "
—Jayme Linton, Assistant Professor of Education
Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, NC

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Information

Publisher
Corwin
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781483380261
eBook ISBN
9781483380278
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Publisher Note
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. About the Author
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction
  11. Chapter 2 What Is Curation?
  12. Chapter 3 Curation for Professional Learning
  13. Chapter 4 Tools for Curation Evernote
  14. Chapter 5 Tools for Curation Diigo
  15. Chapter 6 Tools for Curation Pocket
  16. Chapter 7 Other Tools for Curation
  17. Chapter 8 Curation in the Classroom
  18. Chapter 9 Wrapping It All Up
  19. Resources
  20. Publisher Note