A Reflective Journey Through...
The "Is Google Knowledge?" video embedded within Monica Fuglei's "Content Curation: Tools and Strategies for Teachers" article was fascinating! I love the the Lego metaphor, as it demonstrates how single facts or ideas (a single Lego piece) mean nothing until joined together with other facts and ideas to create knowledge ("the 5,922-piece Lego Taj Mahal"). The need to sort and filter all of the information that bombards us and to take the time to see how the various pieces of information fit together in a way that's personally meaningful definitely makes the case for the importance of curation!
For my curation activity today, I tried to think of a problem I've had lately that could be solved by gathering and organizing ideas. As I'm working on book orders this weekend, I decided that it will be a time-saver throughout the future to organize the different sources I use to find new books into one quick, easy-to-consult format. Finding the right curation tool turned out to be the tricky part. This process started with a few sad minutes mourning the loss of Jog the Web, which used to be my favorite curation tool for organizing websites because instead of having to click on one site at a time all the way down a list or throughout a bookmarked folder, you would simply press an arrow to flip from one site to the next (much like we flip through Google Slides). After trying to make sense of how something as useful as Jog the Web could really be gone, I started delving into new curation tools and was delighted to discover that Diigo, one of the tools presented in this Cool Tools lesson, had a "Play as Webslides" feature! To investigate this feature, I signed up for the free version of Diigo. Unfortunately, I am not able to find the "Play as Webslides" option (as featured in some online tutorials) in my free account. I'm not sure if that's because it's only included in the paid accounts or if the feature is in the useful tools graveyard along with Jog the Web. While I continue my search for a free curation tool with this capability, here is the "Books- New Releases" list I created within Diigo to help me keep up with book orders throughout the future: https://www.diigo.com/outliner/f4jk29/Books--New-Releases?key=rzmz13n0if . It is nice to have the sites together in one place, but flipping easily from one to the next would make the process much more seamless, especially as I continue to add more sites throughout the future!
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Polly-Alida
3/30/2018 07:40:40 pm
That video is terrific! Love the lego analogy too. Diigo is great, but the features come and go, so I'm not too surpirsed the slides idea disappeared. I can't think of anything else that has that, but I bet there is something out there!
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