Presentation at PLE Conference 2012 Aveiro

1. Content Curation for
Personal Learning
and Sharing
Maria João Spilker | Maria Paula Silva | José Mota
The PLE Conference
Aveiro & Melbourne
11-13 July 2012

2. Breaking the Ice
egLo People (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/305410323/lightbox/) / Peter Dutton

3. 1. Information management and content curation
2. Challenge: Curation
 Small teams perform a curation task on a given (or
chosen) topic using one tool/service
 Each team reflects upon the characteristics,
advantages and shortcomings of the tool/service
 Plenary - Each team presents the result of their
curation task and their reflection
3. Wrap-up: Curation for Personal Learning and Sharing

4. Curation Nation:
How to Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators
Information overload
Experts
Reputation
Relevance
Added value

5. Content curation
is the process of sifting information through the Web,
organizing, filtering, making sense of it and
sharing the very best content with your network.
Beth Kanter - http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/

6. Critique
Interpret Comment
Add Value
Expand Relate
Contextualize

7. by Harold Jarche |

8. Adapted from "Anatomy of a PLE", Steve Wheeler, 2010

9. Curation Task
Example topic: Interesting things to do in or to know about Aveiro
Tools/Services
Clipboard - Team A | Scoop.it - Team B | Storify - Team C | Pinterest - Team D
Team work
1. Choose a name for your awesome curator's team
2. Search information on the given/chosen topic, filter it, make sense of it,
organize it and share it using the tool/service available to your group
3. Reflect upon the characteristics, advantages and shortcomings of the
tool/service used
Plenary
Each team presents the result of their curation task and their reflection.

10. Thank You by headexplodie

11. José Mota
@josemota
josecmota@gmail.com Maria João Spilker
@etutoria
mjspilker@gmail.com
Maria Paula Silva
@paula_ary
mpaulasilva@gmail.com