Welcome to the sixth and penultimate step in our free professional learning series on building your PLN.

In this activity you will explore:

  1. What content curation is and the benefits of content curation.
  2. A simple framework for getting started with content curation.
  3. A range of different tools that you can choose from to make content curation easier.

What Is Content Curation?

We are living in an era of information overload. There is so much content shared online that we actively seek out people who have good content curation skills to help us “sort the wheat from the chaff”.

A person with good curation skills saves us time by sifting through the vast abundance of content on the internet to select the best, most relevant resources on a specific topic or theme. The curator organizes, manages, and collates for their own use and shares with us.

If you look closely at most educators with a high following on social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram you’ll notice that most are great content curators and share excellent resources.

Their sharing and content curation skills helped them build their PLN.

information hydrant
Creative Commons License Photo Credit: Will Lion via Compfight

Video: What Is Content Creation?

This 90 second video provides a useful overview of content creation.

21st Century Content Curation

Of course, content curation is nothing new. It has been an important skill for hundreds of years — think of newspapers, art galleries, museums, or simple storytelling.

Teachers have always been curators too — bringing together the most worthwhile materials to help their students learn. In the past, this might have been limited to books, posters, concrete materials, guest speakers, etc. But of course, there are so many wonderful digital resources available now too.

Content curation has been happening since the beginning of time in some form or another; however, it’s becoming increasingly worthwhile and complex as the volume of information online continues to increase.

21st century content curation can involve finding, verifying, organizing, annotating, remixing, creating, collating, and sharing.

This might sound overwhelming but it doesn’t have to be. Luckily, there are some excellent free digital tools for content curation which we’ll explore in this post.

The Benefits Of Content Curation

The main reasons why educators curate content include:

  1. To find, organize, and manage information and resources on specific topics.
  2. To stay informed about the latest information on specific topics which leads to professional growth.
  3. To learn through the process. As you search for and curate the best resources, you reflect on their value and you may develop new ways of thinking.
  4. To help build their PLN. Networks actively seek and follow good content curators because they save us time.
  5. To learn how to curate themselves so they can teach students how to curate content for research, their interests, and passions. Curation is an important part of being digitally literate.

Learn more about students as content curators in this excellent short video by John Spencer.

The Curation Process

We made this diagram to simplify the process of content curation. Feel free to use it on your blog or share with others.

Read, Editorialize, Share -- The Basics Of Content Curation Edublogs PLN Teacher Challenge

1) Read — Visit your favorite blogs or social media accounts, use curation tools like Flipboard or Feedly, or perhaps subscribe to newsletters. This consumption might mostly include text-based materials but don’t forget podcasts and videos too.

FILTER — Before moving on to the next step, you need to filter. You do not just want to share anything and everything. Check out Are You a Curator or a Dumper? by Jennifer Gonzalez. You also need to verify and make sure you don’t share anything that might not be true.

2) Editorialize — Here is where you need to add your own touches to your findings to help others. This involves considering your audience and what they might be interested in. You might even put together a few similar resources that complement or contrast each other.

CREATE — Before sharing, you might consider if you could create something with the content. This could be putting your favorite quote on a graphic to make your findings more shareable. Or maybe you could make your own infographic to share based on your findings.

3) Share — As we’re discovering throughout this PLN series, you can share with your PLN in a wide range of ways. Commonly, teachers will share with their network via their blog or social media. Sometimes you might want to compile resources together into one location using a tool like Wakelet, Google Docs, or Padlet. Once you share, be willing to interact with your PLN. Invite them to comment by asking questions and don’t forget to reply to any comments. Needless to say, when you’re sharing other people’s work, you should make it clear where it’s from.

Note: we’ll be explaining the tools mentioned above further on in this post. 

Examples Of Shared Content On Twitter

Content curation is not just finding a link and putting it in a tweet. Your PLN is not going to get much value out of that.

As the curator, you can challenge yourself to do a little more from time to time.

Here are some examples of curated work from educators.

Tony Vincent is well known for his graphics he creates for social media. These are always shared extensively.

Shannon McClintock Miller put together this Padlet with ideas of books to celebrate International Dot Day.

Jake Miller regularly makes GIFs to enhance his tweets which are well received by his followers.

Quotes are always popular additions to tweets. Check out our post on quotes if you want to learn how to make your own.

Sketchnoting has taken the edtech world by storm over the last few years. Julie Woodard is well known for her excellent sketchnotes which are a great way to visualize and summarize content. Here’s an example:

BookSnaps are a popular choice for sharing snippets of professional reading. Tara Martin coined the term BookSnaps and you can read more about them on her website.

Here is an example of a simple BookSnap from Jennifer Tod.

Emojis can catch a reader’s eye and make a nice addition to a summary for the time poor.

Digital Curation Tools

There are a plethora of free digital tools you can use to help with content curation.

Tools generally fall into one of these three categories.

  • News discovery tools — Use your preferred news discovery tool to select and aggregate the content. News discovery tools save time by feeding you the most relevant content. Examples of news discovery tools include Feedly, Flipboard, Nuzzle, and following a hashtag on Twitter.
  • Curation tools — Use your preferred curation tools to display your content with context, organization, annotation, and presentation. Examples of curation tools include Scoop.IT, Flipboard, Diigo, Wakelet, LiveBinder, or a blog.
  • Sharing tools — Select which networks you share your curated content on. For example, you might share the content on Twitter and Facebook. Some people will choose to follow your curated content via your curation tools (such as follow you on Scoop.IT, Pinterest, Flipboard Magazine, or Diigo).

Overview Of Popular Curation Tools

Which tools you use, and how you curate, is very personal.

You might have a set workflow that you follow regularly, or you might dip in and out of using different tools depending on your mood and needs.

We’ll now provide a snapshot of how some of the more popular curation tools work. These include:

  • Blogs
  • Wakelet
  • Nuzzel
  • Pocket
  • Diigo
  • Evernote
  • Flipboard
  • LiveBinders
  • Pinterest
  • Scoop.it

Blogs

Blogs posts are a popular way of curating content because:

  • You can dive deeper and write a detailed elaboration. You may find that the act of writing helps to transform your vague ideas into well structured thoughts.
  • You can customize and organize vast amounts of information in meaningful ways.
  • You might write a post about a single article you’ve read, or create a round-up post. This is where you share links to great content from multiple sources about a specific topic. Ideally, you’d add your own short annotations too.

Refer to Silvia Tolisano’s post on blogging as a curation platform for more information.

Check out these examples of educators who curate content using blogs:

For those who are new to blogging, we recommend you work through our personal blogging series. This series takes you step-by-step through the process of setting up your own personal educator blog.

Wakelet

Wakelet allows you to save, organize and tell stories with content from around the web.

This is a relatively new tool that is becoming very popular with teachers.

You can sign up for free or create a quick collection without signing up. There’s also a browser extension to save links from the web.

Your collections can be public or private. You can also embed collections on any blog or website.

Here’s a simple example:

Find out more about Wakelet including how to get set up and how to use it in the classroom in this post. 

4 steps to getting started with Wakelet by Kathleen Morris

Nuzzel

Nuzzel logoNuzzel is a ‘news monitoring and research tool’.

If you’re on Twitter or Facebook you might have found that it can be serendipitous in nature. You sometimes just ‘see what you see’ and there are no guarantees that you won’t miss the most interesting or important stories.

When you sign up for a free Nuzzel account you can get a curated email sent to you daily with the top stories from the people you follow.

This is really handy to stay abreast of important stories. You can then explore those links and decide whether they’re worth sharing with your PLN.

With Nuzzel, you can curate your own newsletter for your followers too. You can include stories you find interesting and add a personal touch with a headline and comments.

Your PLN can subscribe to your newsletter and you can share it on social media like Troy Hicks has done here.

Pocket

Sometimes you’re browsing the web or social media and you come across an interesting article, video, or link. You’d like to read it but you might be short on time.

This is where Pocket comes in. You put that item ‘in your Pocket’ for later.

You can save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Feedly, or Flipboard. You can view it again when you’re ready — from your computer, phone, or tablet. You can even view the item when you’re offline.

When you’ve reviewed the items you’ve saved, you can then decided if there are any you’d like to share with your PLN.

The ad-supported version of Pocket is totally free.

Watch how this user reads his saved articles on the Pocket app.

Diigo

Diigo is a free social bookmarking tool that allows users to share online resources like websites, articles, and online tools in a private or public group format.

The benefit of using a social bookmarking tool is it allows you to organize and store your bookmarks online rather than in the browser of your computer.

This means you can log into your account, on any device, at any time, and easily find your bookmarks.

Watch the following video by Ms. Lamm to learn more about Diigo.

Check out these examples of how these educators use Diigo:

  1. Vicki Davis
  2. Vicky Sedgwick
  3. Anne Mirtschin

Evernote

Evernote enables you to collect information, curate resources, find your resources, and share with others all from the one workspace.

With Evernote, your notes, web clips, files, images, and voice memos can be sorted into folders, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and accessed whenever you need them on any of your devices.

Evernote also enables you to view, input, and edit data even when offline.

Watch this short overview by Lindsey Maczynski about curation using Evernote.

Note: While there are still many teachers who enjoy using Evernote, changes to the free plan in 2016 resulted in some educators switching to other options. 

Flipboard

Flipboard was originally designed as a social network aggregation, magazine-format app for iPad in 2010. It’s now the most popular of the magazine-like content aggregation apps.

Flipboard’s strength is you are able to bring your social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn into one location alongside your favorite news sources and anything else you like to read, or watch (like YouTube). On top of this, it’s easy to share your favorite content with your social networks and easy to curate your favorite content into Flipboard magazine(s).

Watch this video to learn more about Flipboard.

Flipboard is a powerful tool for curating your favorite content into magazine(s).

The benefits of using a Flipboard magazine include:

  1. Quickly curating and sharing articles you like directly to your own magazine from within Flipboard (or using the Flip It bookmarklet in your web browser), while also sharing the articles with your social networks at the same time!
  2. Other Flipboard users can subscribe to your Flipboard magazine(s) allowing them to easily read the articles you like to share.
  3. Anyone who clicks on a link can read your magazine using their web browser regardless of whether or not they have a Flipboard account.

Here are links to some example Flipboard Magazines:

Watch this video to see how Sue Waters uses Flipboard.

You’ll find detailed step-by-step instructions on how to set up and use Flipboard here.

LiveBinders

LiveBinders is your digital binder for all of your online content and learning.

With your LiveBinder, you can create a central hub full of resources on a topic that you choose. Almost everything that you can think of can be added to your LiveBinder – links to websites, YouTube videos, Flickr images, PDF/Microsoft Word documents, and QR codes are just some examples of rich content for your LiveBinder.

Check out Joy Kirr’s Genius Hour LiveBinder to see how Livebinder can be used for curating resources.

Click here to open this binder in a new window.

Refer to the Educator’s Guide to LiveBinders to get started.

Pinterest

Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board or pinboard that allows you to find and curate images, videos, or websites.

The visual aspect of Pinterest is a key reason why it’s captured the interest of so many.

You add items to your Pinterest accounts using pins. A pin is a visual bookmark which could be an image, video, slideshare, or a web clip of a site.

When you click on a pin it takes you to the site where the pin was sourced from so you can learn more.

Some people think of Pinterest as a social media platform but it’s really more like a search engine. Pinterest calls itself a visual discovery engine.

Watch this video tutorial to learn more about Pinterest.

You can check out how we use Pinterest here.

Examples of educators using Pinterest to curate and share:

  1. Eric Sheninger
  2. Larry Ferlazzo
  3. Vicky Davis
  4. Cult of Pedagogy

Scoop.it

Scoop.it allows you to create a web page to share what you find interesting with the world.

It does this combining clever curation tools that make it easy to gather content in one place with a wide range of sharing functionalities to let people know about your Scoop.it page.

Watch this video to learn more about Scoop.it.

Check out these examples of how Scoop.it can be used:

For more information on Scoop.it refer to how to keep your content fresh with Scoop.it.

Curation Pitfalls

Kay Oddone created this diagram based on a presentation by Joyce Seitzinger.

It summarizes some of the pitfalls you want to avoid as a content curator.

Content Curation Pitfalls
Image by Kay Oddone

The Hoarder: a curator who collects everything indiscriminately, who doesn’t organise their content, and doesn’t share – this is really closer to simple aggregation than curation.

The Scrooge: one who, similarly hoards their information – although they may organise their collection, they don’t share either; one of the key purposes of educational content curation!

The Tabloid (or National Enquirer): a collector who indiscriminately collates everything together, and generously shares this aggregation, whether others want/need it or not!

The Robot: a curator who uses tools to shares automatically, with no context related additions or value adding; in this case, the curation is really no better than providing a list of Google search results.

Avoiding these pitfalls is what differentiates the effective content curator from those simply ‘collecting’ content.

Visit Kay’s post to learn more about content curation.

Create Your Own Workflow

Remember, while there are tools that can help with the aggregation and organization of all the great resources you’re coming across, technology can’t do the curation. This is the job for a human who knows their audience (their PLN).

We encourage you to try out the following process if you’re ready to give content curation a go:

  1. Find the tool(s) that you prefer to use for news discovery, for curation, and for sharing.
  2. Curate the content that helps you, and is helpful for others.
  3. Make it part of your routine to curate and share content.

As you get going and try different tools, your wants and needs might evolve. You’ll figure out the pros and cons of different tools as you use them.

Stick with it and you’ll begin to develop your own workflow that works for you!

Want to see an example of a workflow?

Richard Byrne is a master curator, keeping hundreds of thousands of teachers in the loop on a daily basis. Watch how he uses Feedly and Google Keep together.

Watch David McGavock’s video to see how he use Netvibes, Scoop.IT, and Diigo as his curation and learning tools.

Your Task

It’s now time to take action!

We’d like you to add your voice and ideas to our ongoing conversation about PLNs by undertaking one or more of these challenges:

  1. Review our list of popular curation tools. Leave a comment on this post to share what tools you currently use (and why) for news discovery, curation, and sharing. Tell us which of the curation tools you plan to try and why. Do you have any other tools to add that you’ve tried or heard about?
  2. Set up an account. Choose one of the popular curation tools such as Flipboard, Nuzzel, Scoop.it, or Pinterest. Sign up and leave a link to your account so others can take a look and follow you.
  3. Interesting tweet. Find an example of a tweet where someone has curated and shared some information in an interesting way. Maybe they included a summary, visual, sketchnote, GIF, or quote. Share the link to the tweet so we can take a look!
  4. Write a post on your blog. Share your own thoughts about curation. Please include @edublogs if you tweet your post so we can share your post with our network. Leave a comment with a link to your post so we can read it! In your blog post, you might like to cover topics like:
    • What do you see as the advantages of curating content?
    • What tips do you have for newbies?
    • What did you learn about content curation that you didn’t know?
    • What are your future goals for content curation?
    • How could you teach your students something about content curation?

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629 thoughts on “Step 6: Using Curation Tools As A Connected Educator

  1. I love PhysEdGames on youtube. I actually love looking up activites on youtube. The people who post normally do a very good job at breaking down the activity so we know all the rules and how to play. I have tried pintrest before but I am able to understand more on youtube. I want to get more involved in the twitter world of physcial education. Many teachers do a very good job of sharing ideas through comments and or dm. This would work really well becasue I know if I had a issue or a question about a game, I could message them and get an answer back in a reasonable ammount of time.

  2. My favorite curation tool is Pinterest. I love being able to have everything I run across online organized into one place.

  3. I plan to start using Pinterest as a curator tool to find, organize, and share my academic inspirations. I enjoy Pinterest and believe it can be useful for PLNs because it is easy to curate topics within pins. This makes random posts more organized for targeted audiences. Not only is it useful for me to share my ideas, but it also makes it easy to locate specific ideas from other creators. Pinterest is esthetically pleasing and draws the attention of users. It also traffics pins to what it believes the user would enjoy which makes it more marketable.

  4. The curation tool I currently use is Pinterest. I use this tool for not only educational resources, but for my personal life as well. Pintrest is fun and easy to navigate. I am able to search different topics which allows me to get creative in my classroom. There are many educators on Pinterest that inspire me to find creative ways to help students stay engage in PE. I like to organize my Pinterest depending on what topics we are going over in PE. I plan to continue to use Pinterest and look into using teachers-paying-teachers.

  5. I found the unit on curation tools interesting. Having great content curation is helpful when you are dispersing the information to others. I currently use Pinterest and find it very easy to use. I have boards for nearly every aspect of my life as I can find content that applies to almost anything you need. I would like to use Wakelet in the future. It allows you to save, organize and tell stories with content from around the web. I like that it can be set to public or private. This would be a great forum for someone to go to and have all the information at their fingertips. It seems to be extremely user friendly, which I need.

  6. This is a great section of the course. From the previous step, I have learned more about blogs than I could have imagined. I want to be able to incorporate their use in my future lesson plans and classroom management strategies. I feel like they can be used as a learning tool not only for teachers, but for our students as well.

  7. A couple of curation tools that I am familiar with are Blogs and Wakelet. I interact with blogs daily. I would like to use Wakelet more comprehensively to hone in on the best resources for my professional growth as a history teacher. I have a relative who is a media specialist and they are always advocating for Wakelet.

  8. I found that I would be interested in starting to use Nuzzel the most. Nuzzel is a news monitoring and research tool that can be used by teachers. I like this because it would help me see the most interesting/important stories in my field. I use Facebook and Twitter a lot and this would help me see things that I might not see on those apps. You can also curate your own newsletter if you wanted to do so.

  9. Curation is an awesome tool! I think that using a flipboard as a curation tool could be very interesting. We use a lot of articles in science and turning them into magazine articles in a flip board could be very helpful. All of them would be in one place and easy to get to and navigate for the students.

  10. A curation tool I would like to use is live binders or something along the lines of this. Allowing my students to have their notes in front of them and interact with them online without losing them in their bags. We use a platform that keeps up with their assignments online but creating a binder where they interact with the lesson would be nice. A tool that our school wants us to try is Nearpod which allows our students to engage with their work. Nearpod allows them to learn, and they can do small quizzes as well. These tools can make students learn more through technology.

  11. While I use Pinterest for personal purposes, I had never thought about using it to help hone in on the best resources for my professional growth. Since I am familiar with this platform, it would be a good starting place to find ideas for my class. Ideas like best practices, activities, and so on. I also like the idea of Pocket. Since I do not have a lot of free time at the moment, it would be good to be able to save articles and information I find in Pocket so that I will be able to access and read them at a later date when I will have more free time.

  12. A curation tool I currently use is Pinterest and TIkTok. TikTOk was not mentioned as one of the tools, but it is an awesome resource that educators can use to seek out different ideas that teachers are doing. I am implementing a new classroom management strategy that I saw on TikTok this week. I enjoy using Pinterest because it allows me to find different anchor charts and ideas to use in the classroom. I have been using some of the writing and ELA anchor charts to make an online interactive notebook for the students to use as a studying resource.

  13. The curation tool that I use is Pinterest. I use it for personal and educational ideas. When I’m looking for a math anchor charts, ideas to design my classroom, or strategies to incorporate in my classroom with struggling students. You can utilize Pinterest for basically anything!

  14. The curation tool I prefer is Pinterest. My wife got me into Pinterest years ago for house and yard projects, and I have been building my own profile ever since. I enjoy scanning through content in all subjects, so it easy and fun for me to build content and lessons using the resources available on Pinterest.

  15. Pinterest is my favorite curation tool for collecting and organizing ideas and content for my classes. It is so fun to find and build lessons using the resources on Pinterest.

  16. Of the tools listed, Pinterest is the only one I’ve used so far. In terms of my teaching, my primary use has been to create boards of different types of videos to use in my Spanish classes: songs, parodies, commercials, and more. However, Pinterest is limited in that you can’t collect everything, so I am excited to try Wakelet to curate collections of PDF files, tweets, and more. It seems like a great way to combine Pinterest, Google Drive, and my bookmark folders.

  17. I currently use Pinterest. I have been using Pinterest since high school. I like how easy it is to save ideas. I like that they have the “board” option so that I can separate my ideas into sections.

  18. My preferred curation tool is Teachers pay teachers. TPT allows users to share their ideas and collaborate through comments. I find this extremely helpful for educators looking to expand their knowledge and share experiences. I intend to continue using TPT so that not only educators can see what I do in the classroom, but I can learn from them as well. I also like using YouTube, there is a guy that I follow named Mr. J and his phenomenal at my grade level.

  19. I often use Pinterest to find specific information, especially when I am searching for an activity specific to a season of the year or a team building skill. Pinterest has proven to be helpful in sorting information from the internet that may be interesting and helpful to me. I feel that Pinterest offers many new and fresh ideas that I can add to my lessons each year.

  20. Pinterest is a favorite of mine- I get so many anchor chart and resource ideas from it. It is one of my preferred search engine.

  21. Task 1: Review our list of popular curation tools. Leave a comment on this post to share what tools you currently use (and why) for news discovery, curation, and sharing. Tell us which of the curation tools you plan to try and why. Do you have any other tools to add that you’ve tried or heard about?

    I currently use Pinterest often! I have a variety of boards and love to use it because it makes keeping a large number of ideas in one organized place super easy and is visually appealing. I would like to try LiveBinder because I love physical binders for organizing information but often wish I could add digital materials like videos and websites. LiveBinder would give me the organization of a physical binder with the flexibility and options of access to digital resources.

  22. I prefer to use Pinterest a communication tool in my PLN. I find it very helpful to because it not only can provide affordable ideas, but also shares many other educators’ instructional strategies and ideas for the classroom.

  23. I decided to make a Flipboard and started curating a “magazine” for new middle grade books. The link to my Flipboard is: https://flipboard.com/@flbd218vkqeb8ri/books-ela-c6hc07ftz?from=share&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=share

    I think this tool could be very useful, however, I do think the interface on the computer is a little confusing. I like that I was able to find articles and resources on this app that I have not seen via google searches. I do think this is a useful tool.

  24. My preferred curation tool is Pinterest. Pinterest allows users to share their ideas and collaborate through comments, pins, etc. I find this extremely helpful for educators looking to expand their knowledge and share experiences. I intend to continue using Pinterest as I navigate a new school year and a group of students.

  25. The curation tool I use is Pinterest. I like Pinterest because there are so many ideas that you can get, whether it is religious, education, or personal ideas. Pinterest has a great interface, and your followers can see what you are pinning. It is also a great tool to share on other platforms as well. I have heard about Diigo, I have yet to try it. I heard it was a great tool.

  26. I have used blogs and Pinterest in the past. I feel that blogs are a great tool for accessing helpful information that is condensed down to the topic that you are looking for. I also enjoy Pinterest because it has many great templates and teaching resources. With Pinterest the options are endless and you can share ideas and discover new ideas all the time. I would like to try Wakelet. It allows you share, organize and tell stories from around the web. I feel that this site could helpful in setting up a blog and sharing it with others. Another site that I have used that is very helpful in teaching is called, teacherspayteachers.com. It allows you to search for lessons that are relevant to your teaching area and even has some free resources.

  27. Pinterest is my goto site for just about everything. I can find things for my professional life as well as my personal life. It is awesome that I can use this one tool for everything as long as I keep certain boards private.
    Having a visual board of topics and activities I want to use keeps me creating new activities to make sure my students are not bored in the classroom.

  28. Of all of the popular curation tools listed, I had heard of Wakelet and Pinterest! I have been using Pinterest for a few years now, but I had never thought to use it for educational purposes! I mainly use social media platforms for news discovery, curation, and sharing, but I had no idea that there were so many other options! The most interesting one that I hadn’t heard of, but want to try, is Nuzzel, as it seems like an incredibly user friendly way to create and compile important news articles that you have found over time!

  29. Pinterest is definitely the tool that I have used the most of out of the ones hear that were listed. I love how there seems to be infinite resources on Pinterest. I also get so much inspiration to create my own things for my classroom from what I see on Pinterest. I would like to try Evernote with my students. I have found that a lot of them struggle with organizational skills at their current age level and I think this could be very useful!

  30. I use a combination of Pinterest, TPT, and Tik Tok! There is so much information to learn from these platforms. I am not a fan of buying materials but the free resources on TPT can be awesome! And with Tik Tok now, there is endless inspiration.

  31. I currently use Pinterest very often. I find the interface to be very user-friendly and very easy to use. I am interested in trying Flipboard in the near future. It looked very different than any resource I have used in the past.

  32. I am interested in trying Pinterest. I have used Pinterest before in a couple of ways for education, however I would love to use it more in depth for education purposes. Flipboard also interests me. I have never seen anything like that before.

  33. I currently use Pinterest as my curation tool. I love using Pinterest because I can search for ideas I am interested in and then pin them to my board to save for later. I also love that with Pinterest, whenever you search for something, if there is something related to that search, it will pop up, which is nice because I have found many amazing things that I didn’t even know I was looking for. When going through the list of other curation tools, I will look at two others; Nuzzel and Diigo. With Nuzzel, I loved that I could mark on the app people I want to follow, and I will get a weekly email of top stories. This is very helpful because there are times during the week when I get busy and don’t have time to look up/curate information. Getting these emails would be amazing! I want to try Diigo also because I have a lot of bookmarks on my school computer. However, if I am trying to find one of my bookmarks but don’t have my school computer with me, I spend a lot of time searching and figuring out where I can get the information I have bookmarked on my laptop gets very frustrating.

  34. Curation tools I currently use are blogs and pinterest. I like to use these because there is constantly new ideas flowing in and an overflow of things you can choose from depending on what you’re looking for. A curation tool I plan to try out is Diigo. I want to try this out because it seems interesting based on the information given and it would be nice to be able to use a bookmarking tool that helps you connect with other educators and share resources easily.

  35. The main tool I currently use for many things is Pintrest. I think pintrest is very easy to navigate and it provides you with a variety of different topic and ideas. You are also able to organize your pintrest which makes it easier to access. I also have found that for the last few years, pintrest is where I go to the most for inspiration, whether that be clothes, hair, or nails. However, it has now translated into finding creative, new, and fresh ideas for the classroom as well as lessons and activities.

  36. I chose to create an account on one of the curation tools suggested. My account was created on pinterest. There are so many awesome crafts, lessons, worksheets, and so much more. The best thing is you can find things on every subject matter. The one thing you have to look out for on pinterest is copyright though, otherwise, it is a diverse and easy tool to use! My account is https://www.pinterest.com/alexkj99/?invite_code=540e2c6676004de98a0e15d63b9dcc99&sender=352688351976908392 .

  37. A tool that I use a lot that is not on the list is the platform tik tok! It is a great way to share short bursts of information and reach a wide audience. Teachers share all kinds of things from classroom management, to personal stories, to recordings of students reacting to them. It is a great platform to stay in the know with teaching.

  38. A tweet that I found when researching conversations on twitter was curated in an interesting way. It was a colorful infographic about different classroom discussion techniques that help to ensure that all students are engaging in the discussion. It talks about 8 different techniques: stepladder, gogomo, world cafe, tug of war, thinking hats, opinion poll, brainwriting, and quiz quiz trade.

  39. I currently use Pinterest and have been using it for about 10 years for personal and educational uses. I love Pinterest because it is such a great platform to find and share ideas for lesson plans, activities, and other helpful ideas. I have heard of Evernote, and I might have used it without realizing it at one point.

  40. The curation tool I currently use the most is Pinterest. Pinterest has everything you could possibly want! And most pinterest posts link you directly to the source that they got it from if you need to make a purchase or find more information on a topic. Through this page of the PLN training, I learned about LiveBinder. I plan to explore LiveBinder and begin creating one. I currently have an email account for education ideas I find on the web, I just write myself an email and send it. That doesn’t allow for grouping and organization though. I think LiveBinder would be a great way to organize the (overwhelming) amount of educational resources I find.

  41. I use TikTok and YouTube to get most of my information because I feel I can reach so many people and quickly. I like YouTube because if I am looking for ideas I can see visuals and get explanations as well.

  42. I saw that Pinterest was on the curation tools to stay up to date with current news, which caught me off guard since I usually use Pinterest to find styles of clothes or inspiration ideas. I can see this being used to help teachers find new ideas on whatever they need, since this is a more visual site.

  43. The only curation tool that I’ve tried from this list is Pinterest. While I’ve found a few useful ideas on this platform, I have never really thought if it as a place to really organize content for school (instead of just for party planning and recipes!). I am excited to try to use it more purposefully as a connected educator. I am also looking forward to trying out a couple of new services that I learned about here, including LiveBinder, Google Keep, and Wakelet. I think these platforms can help me save sites and videos in a more discriminatory way. Instead of simply keeping a Google doc with all the URLs for a particular unit housed there, I can organize and filter these resources in a more visual and appealing manner. I also think these can be useful tools for my juniors at school as they conduct research and plan projects in various classes.

  44. Review our list of popular curation tools: Of the tools from the list, I am already familiar with and have used Pinterest and Pocket. Pinterest is something that I use for both personal and professional resources. You are able to create different boards for different purposes and can create multiple accounts. This is great for finding new ideas without having conversations about them. You can comment on Pinterest posts and follow people, but interaction is not the primary focus of this site. Pocket is great for anyone and is also an app like Pinterest! Through Pocket, you can curate information for yourself and save articles and resources for later and group them together. This is also great for both personal and professional use. I would be interested in trying out LiveBinders because I like the organization style of it and I think it would be great for using in a PLN to provide lists of how-tos since things can be tabbed together.

  45. Pinterest is the curation tool I use the most for many aspects of my life. It is easy to use and the layout is simplistic. You can use this tool to find many great ideas and it’s very easy to post your own ideas on it. This tool can also be linked to cool, interactive websites and blogs.

  46. One curation tool I use currently is Pinterest. I use pinterest for a lot of my ideas. For example, I like tattoos and sometimes when I am not sure of what tattoo to get I get on pinterest to help me either draw up some ideas or to find a similar picture of what I want to get. I plan to try Flipboard because I’ve heard of it but never gave the tool a try.

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