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Digital Curation in Education
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Using curation strategies to enhance teaching and learning in education contexts.
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Robin Good: StoryCrawler is an upcoming news and content curation platform which allows you to easily track an unlimited number of topics / keywords and to curate selected ones for publication, both on the web, via RSS feed or email.
Selected news stories can be, tagged, categorized and fully edited in each and every aspect before being published.
Inside the Storycrawler backend, a curator can configure and save an unlimited number of persistent searches monitoring online mentions of events, people, brands inside specific types of content sources (e.g.: social media, news, blogs, etc.).
Storycrawler makes your curated news stream available as a RSS feed, as an embeddable javaScript or iFrame code snippet, besides publishing your content directly on your account pages and providing direct sharing options for Facebook and Twitter.
From my own limited experience in testing an "unofficial" early Beta version of Storycrawler, it looks like the basics features are all in place while the UI, usability and final output formatting options still having some work to do.
P.S.: The platform seems to be targeted at medium to large size, enterprise companies and does not provide for now indications of its pricing plans. You can contact a StoryCrawler representative here: http://www.storycrawler.com/contact/
Promising.
Find out more: http://www.storycrawler.com/ ;
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Robin Good: If you want to question your well-established assumptions about how we may want to satisfy our insatiable craving for news in the age of filters, algorithms and personalization, this is an article I highly recommend you to read.
Jonathan Stray, on NiemanLab, looks into a tough question: assuming we really need to keep ourselves updated via the news, in this age of superabundance of information, "who should see, what, when?".
In his effort, he does an excellent job of clarifying two very critical points, that both journalists and media tend to easily overlook when they try to look at the future of news journalism and its business models:
1) There is more than one audience.
2) The news isn't just what's new. "...journalism came to believe that only new events deserved attention, and that consuming small, daily, incremental updates is the best way to stay informed about the world.
It’s not.
Piecemeal updates don’t work for complex stories.
Wikipedia rapidly filled the explanatory gap, and the journalism profession is now rediscovering the explainer and figuring out how to give people the context they need to understand the news."
Indeed the context and the level of personalization does determine the usefulness and value of any news service to its end users. Thus, as he rightly writes, "Journalism could be a reference guide to the present, not just a stream of real-time events." and it is hard not to agree with such a vision.
Mr Stray suggests then the use of three specific criteria to identify which news we should be exposed to. He writes: "Three key words should determine who gets served what: Interest, effects, and agency" and then provides a detailed explanation of the "why" behind these.
Finally, he goes on to suggest that: "...we’ll need a combination of human curators, social media, and sophisticated filtering algorithms to make personalized feeds possible for everyone. Yet the people working on news personalization systems have mostly been technologists who have viewed story selection as a sort of clickthrough-optimization problem. If we believe that news has a civic role — that it is something at least somewhat distinct from entertainment and has purposes other than making money — then we need more principled answers to the question of who should see what when."
I agree wholeheartedly.
Must read. 9/10
Full article: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/who-should-see-what-when-three-principles-for-personalized-news/
(Image credit: Shutterstock)
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Kim Flintoff's insight:
A great way to aggregate and present content to students. Or even better, flip that process and have students create their own content collections.
Brad Tollefson's curator insight,
March 28, 2013 3:51 AM
Seems this could be used as a transmedia element. 
Kim Flintoff's curator insight,
March 31, 2013 7:54 PM
A great way to aggregate and present content to students. Or even better, flip that process and have students create their own content collections.
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Robin Good: I have just received an invitation to test the new content curation platform Zeen, and here I am with some early impressions on what I have seen.
Zeen is a content curation tool designed to create good-looking magazines on a specific topic or theme. Setup and configuration is very easy and straightforward and it allows you to connect your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Once you are in, you can immediately set up a Zeen magazine, by selecting a title, a description and a cover image. From there on you are free to use the integrated search feature to find web articles, news, images, video clips or tweets relevant to your magazine. You just start a search after having selected what kind of content you are looking for and Zeen presents you with a set of relevant results. One-click on any of them and they are inserted instantly in your magazine.
You can also create as many "tags" (Zeen calls them "labels") as you like and assign each content item to a specific label.
The final magazine issue offers an automatic visual table of contents, in which you can organize by dragging and dropping the order of your selected contents.
A Zeen magazine can be made of multiple issues, instead of being like Scoop.it, a continuously growing content holder. You select the content items and you produce an issue (which can be still edited after publication).
N.B.: There is no way to edit or modify the content picked and added to your magazine, including the use of images.
You can't create new content but only pick and organize existing resources.
Here is an example of a Zeen magazine: http://zeen.com/read/ODgO94/toc and here is another one on barbeques: http://zeen.com/read/KuJoAW
More info: http://zeen.com/
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Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's comment,
August 16, 2012 8:58 AM
After receiving an invite yesterday and also gave it a try. They have a long way to go as far as a mobile user using the site to currate content.
In find when viewing a magazine the layout has to much going on around it that takes away from the content.
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Robin Good: Hard to believe but true: you can curate and publish while on the move by using one of the many mobile apps devoted specifically to news discovery and to publishing/distribution.
Francisco Rosales, the author behind SocialMouths, has prepared a valuable illustrated guide to finding 10 among the best mobile apps for news discovery and distribution.
Resourceful. 8/10
Full article: http://socialmouths.com/blog/2012/06/05/curate-content-from-your-smartphone/ ; Via Robin Good
Poovan Devasagayam's comment,
June 20, 2012 8:51 PM
Love this article. It's straight to the point. thanks for the app recommendations. It's really useful. - Poovan
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Appears to be quite a slick integratoon with Wordpress. However, the $3750 per month (min) will put a lot of people off - including me!
Storify great for content creators using WordPress.
A great plugin for your WordPress site called Storify.