Curation is an important skill in our information rich society. The skill is useful for organizing and digesting information that ultimately makes your Personal Learning Network or PLN. More on that later. Curation in the digital age is about what tools you use to get information and who you choose to listen to. Just like a museum curator chooses what to exhibit and the best way to display the artifacts of that exhibit. For example, one of the tools I use in my PLN is Twitter. Choosing who to follow is the way to curate the stream of information in Twitter.
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Google view:timeline trick
The last session I attended at MiJEC on Wednesday was given by a teacher that says Google changed the way she teaches. The first thing she showed us was this timeline view for search results. The command is simple: view:timeline[space][search term] The results includes a neat timeline graphic that you can use to zero in [...]
Googling for Gold
Here is a neat little resource for learning searching with Google. This can be important since there is so much out here on the web, it can be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for when you search for something on Google. These tips should help you drill down closer to the information [...]
