Curation+in+the+Classroom

=__ Digital Curation in the Classroom __=

====Digital curation is more than just "gathering stuff" from the internet and putting it all in one place. The reorganization and thoughtful selection of information and ideas in the form of articles, blogs, photos, videos allows the curator to become an author and an artist. Digital curation reshapes meaning. Successful curation involves a deep understanding of the subject and promotes metacognition.====

====Storify is a really easy-to-use, ** free ** curation tool. Students (and teachers) create their own stories based on pieces they have selected through social networking sites, via news media and in other locales around the internet.====

This blog makes a few suggestions about strategies for using Storify with students.


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====If you want to have your students do some blogging, WordPress is a user-friendly, comprehensive, straightforward tool. It also offers more sophisticated platforms as your students become more advanced. Students may create a blog in order to document an inquiry-based learning project. Each entry could be another element of the research. Students can see the evolution of their research as they explain why they included each new article/source. Students can reflect on their learning in each successive entry. Similarly, a blog could work like an annotated bibliography for a research project.====