Best view in the county!

Best view in the county!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Thing 5: Curation

Thing 5: Curation
Category 1: Social Bookmarking
I’ve been an avid user of delicious for quite some  time; I use it to bookmark school and personal sites.  I do have the seniors set up their own delicious accounts during their major research project to save useful links on their topic.  I was introduced to delicious first, so I’ve just stuck with it.  I just recently started exploring the use of the stacks feature with my school delicious account to build a stack of American Literature resources for my eleventh graders.  Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to finish it! Yikes!  At any rate I think it has some real possibilities
Category 2: Curation
I love Pinterest!  My introduction to this tool was for personal use.  A friend’s daughter was finding the best craft ideas on it.  At first, I was a Pinterest stalker!  I was using it to find craft ideas and home decorating ideas.  Finally I got myself an “invite.”  I love the visual aspect of this tool!!  I can spend (or waste) a ton of time clicking around people’s pins!  To be honest I didn’t even visualize this tool as professional resource, but I love what librarians are doing with it. I think the visual layout of Pinterest will appeal to students to use as a resource tool.
Category 3: Content Aggregators
Flipboard: I put this on both my iPhone and iPad, so it allows me to read the blogs I subscribe to via Google Reader in a magazine format.  This makes it very easy on the eyes.  I follow all these professional blogs, but don’t always have the time to read them.  With flipboard on my iPhone, while waiting , I can quickly read the headlines of the blogs.  This is a timesaver, because then I can go back and read the blogs I’m interested in.