Quality Curation Starts Here

A. Star gazers view with off-the-shelf telescopes. A curator would use the
Hubble.
The goal is to learn how to learn, to know where to look for something and to be able to
identify which parts of all the information available are most relevant to learn or achieve
a certain goal or objective. (Good, 2012)
1) _____Does the information offer a clear view? Not too broad, not too tiny.
2) _____Upon examination, is the information what it purported?

B. Curators bring information relevance to the room.
It isnt unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the
theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how
they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public (Kanter,
2012).
3) _____Can those with whom you share discover more information about the
issue or focal point?
4) _____Is the information search-matched?


C. Be Selective-find the diamonds in the mine
Teacher Dan Meyer compares the modern educator's quest to mining: He argues that
only a small fraction of the country's three million teachers have come back from those
Internet hills with gold, looking haggard from the extra hours they put in beating these
disparate resources into some kind of instructional shape(Boss, 2014).
5) _____Does the material allow readers to make critical decisions?
6) _____Does the material raise questions, challenge assumptions, and provoke
responses?
7) _____Does the material encourage growth of the reader, enhance their life or
understanding in a new way?

D. Share Transparently
According to Rosenbaum, If you pick up someone's work and put it on your blog, or
mention a fact without crediting the source, you're not building shared credibility.
8) _____Ask yourself, did you properly credit?
9) _____How have your ideas been distinguished separately from the ideas
presented in your collected materials?

E. Clarify the Cloverleaf
According to Steve Rubel, EVP of Global Strategy and Insights for Edelman, there is a
media cloverleaf competing for control over the publics engagement with various forms
of media. Theres Traditional Media, our newspapers, news networks and TV outlets
who compete with the Tradigital Media, which are "digitally native media companies
that are largely blogs, sometimes niche-focused, sometimes horizontal. They both
compete with social and owned media. In order to distinguish whats important in the
Cloverleaf, Rubel suggests we use experts to connect to the subject matters, curate
the content to filter intake, find data that can quickly be consumed since many dont
fully read articles, publish on social media sites and engage by responding to readers
through the web (Swallow, 2011).
10) _____Determine the source of the media - social, owned, Traditional or
Tradigital?
11) _____Is the original author an expert on this topic?
12) _____Are you publishing to social media sites and engaging readers?
13) _____Are you supplying or simplifying the reading to statistics or short facts
for readers/viewers?

F. The who and how of it.
What will we use for our filters? What is our goal/brand? (Justine Hyde)
14)_____Have you defined the source? Is it a brand? Is it a news organization?
15) _____Are you able to engage others with your information on Social Media?

G. Nuts and Bolts
Adam Smith stresses that credibility suffers when links do not function or words are
misspelled (2014). Your readers trust that you have done your homework.
16) _____Do all the links function as intended?
17) _____Have you spell checked your post?


Resources
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2014, from http://www.edutopia.org/teachers-curating-student-learning
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http://www.masternewmedia.org/curation-for-education-and-learning/
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comment). Retrieved October 4, 2014, from
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Kanter, B.

(2011, Oct 4). Content curation primer. (Web log comment). Retrieved
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