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.
Archive of posts tagged Web 2.0
More from Dr. Wesch on “Participatory Media”
Dr. Wesch just posted some thoughts about Participatory Media, a.k.a. Social Media, a subset of Web 2.0. Most interesting is his point about barriers to participatory media in the classroom by faculty and students, yes students. The surprising-to-most-people-fact is that students would prefer less technology in the classroom (especially *participatory* technologies that force them to [...]
Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy
Dr. Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. If you haven’t heard of him, you should have, he and his students have created some powerful YouTube videos, The Machine is Us/ing Us, A Vision of Students Today, and Information R/evolution. These short videos shine a light on how we use [...]
Podcasts & Podcasting
PodCasts (aka NetCasts) are audio recordings that are posted on the Interent as mp3s for users to download. Part of the popularity of PodCasting is related to the availability of portable mp3 players. The iPod is chief among these players right now, hence the “Pod” in PodCasting. PodCasting has been around for about a year [...]
Blogs & Blogging
Blog is a combination of the words “Web” and “Log”. Blogs are aided in publication by technologies that make posting new content to the blog very easy to do after the initial setup. Blogging is very popular now and has done a lot to further the democratization of the Internet in general. Articles Student gets [...]
Web 2.0 Resources – a start
In preparation for the training that Carole and will be doing in a few weeks, I wanted to set aside a couple of resources that I just ran across in the last couple of days. This first one is wiki from WetPaint. Actually, I have been getting email updates about this wiki for a few [...]
