| "Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus. Curators tend to have a unique and consistent point of view--providing a reliable context for the content that they discover and organize." Steven Rosenbaum |
Information curation is a great way to focus on your interests, find reliable sources, and share them with your fellow colleagues, friends and family. This act of sorting out information is not new, librarians have been curating information for years, but the information curation via social media sites is the trending idea now. The following sources are great ways to start your own information curation. As with any new techy source, it's up to you and how you want to use the sites to your advantage.
Scoop It
Scoop it is great for beginning curators (like myself) to start curating information they want to share. I chose topics from the education, science, and technology sections. Then my topics appear in the page I created. It was very user friendly and visually appealing to use. I can't wait to further explore this site.
Paper li
https://paper.li
Paper.li is another source available for use for information curation. The site is very visually appealing and provides an explanation for its purpose. I created a free account but found I was having trouble getting my information together. I plan to further explore this site and become more familiar with it.
Prismatic
http://getprismatic.com/home
Prismatic is a great information curation source to use to get started. I love the layout, very visually appealing and user friendly. You can get started by signing up for a free account, you can use your email, twitter or Facebook account. Then it prompts you to pick 10 topics. Topics to follow include many, so your free to choose your interests. Of course, I chose education, technology, science, etc. to follow. Then I was quickly given topics on my homepage to read about. I really enjoyed setting up my Prismatic account and look forward to utilizing it for education and personal growth.
Apps available for information curation
Apps available for download on the iPad for information curation include Flipboard, Zite and Google Currents. All are available for free.
I started with Flipboard first and I immediately loved it! I linked my twitter and Facebook accounts and set up topics to follow. I was hooked! I started sharing information and reading all about the different topics I chose. I will definitely continue to Flip.
Zite is somewhat familiar with Flipboard but not as visually appealing. I had a harder time navigating through the different options.
Google Currents was not very interesting to me. It was not very visually appealing and I couldn't navigate through the topics are well.
Overall, I'm very impressed with the sites available for information curation. My favorite is definitely Flipboard. I really enjoyed the user friendliness, visually appealing and informative set up. It was easy to share within my social media sites. Plus, I love the idea that's it's on my iPad mini.
No comments:
Post a Comment