How do you curate what you find on the web?
I also put this on Twitter tonight. I've been absorbed and excited with Twitter over the last few months - but have found so much material I'd like to refer to again, that I realise I need to curate it (term I've discovered now means sort and store your stuff from the web).
Thanks to @justadandak, @Allanahk and @edtechtoday, I'm going to look at Scoop It, Pinterest, Diigo, Delicious (I've got an account), Evernote and IFTTT.I've used Netvibes previously too.
What are your preferences? Has anyone compared tools? I need help!
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- Wendy Stafford (View all users posts) 22 Jul 2012 9:50pm ()
I love PINTEREST - it has an app for iPad also. Great for following other like-minded teachers and a fantastic visual reference (itemising specific things).
Only2Clicks is my number one bookmarking tool, again allowing me to categorise and again stores information VISUALLY. Only2Clicks also provides a private page option so you can keep some things to yourself (I use this when sharing my account with students). In a classroom setting I have created a classroom account and labelled the categories according to student groups (eg reading, writing, math groups) and put the online tools I want those children to be using on their own page... give it a go, it only takes two clicks.
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 22 Jul 2012 9:54pm ()
Thanks Wendy! haven't heard of that one - so much to look at!
- Wendy Stafford (View all users posts) 22 Jul 2012 10:01pm ()
take a look at these - see how others are using it:
http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/paulajamieson/408524
http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/chapmancollege
http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/malfroyjuniorschool
http://www.only2clicks.com/pages/malfroy03
HAVE FUN!!!!
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 22 Jul 2012 10:06pm ()
Excellent! I think you've solved another problem with my school intranet. Love that Malfroy are using it...good on them! I've been on the site and as always, you pick easily used tools.
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 22 Jul 2012 11:02pm ()
Have just been tweeted link to educlipper - so exploring that as well. Any more thoughts from others?
- anne robertson (View all users posts) 23 Jul 2012 3:19pm ()
I use Diigo. I used to use Delicious but got wind that it was being bought out and would fold so exported to Diigo only to find that Delicious is still active! For videos I use Vodpod; it has recently been bought out by another party but still operates the same. Diigo is great for creating groups and sharing tagged sites to specific people as well as having a public sharing option too. There is a Chrome and Firefox add-on which allows you to make quicklinks and also to annotate articles and websites with sticky notes and highlighters.
- Leigh Hynes (View all users posts) 23 Jul 2012 3:28pm ()
I am with you on this, I love Diigo, so easy to share stuff with other people and highlight interesting bits, tag and find stuffeasily.
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 23 Jul 2012 4:52pm ()
Thanks for this - tonight I'll explore Diigo.
2 Clicks was nice and easy...Evernote was annoying and educlipper didn't work...could be me! I'm looking at ease of use as well as versatility across online types of info - tweets, blogs.
- Karen Spencer (View all users posts) 01 Aug 2012 5:19pm ()
Enjoying the chat, everyone:-)
I use Delicious for my personal bookmarks (e.g. Virtual Learning - although I think they are about to change this...*sigh*), with public 'stacks' that I share. I funnel a lot of notes to Evernote, including my Tweets, and I like Netvibes for presenting differently categorised resources during professional learning (e.g. this one on virtual learning I used for a recent breakfast seminar...).
I switched from Delicious to Diigo and then back (hurray for export/import functionality), used Scoop.it for a week and then got bored of it..and now I am trying to capture the really good stuff in my blog and wrap some context round it.... so not only am I curating stuff for me, but someone else might get some benefit, too:-).
I do, quietly, also tend to agree with Tim Kong in this post he made in the 'tools to manage our lives' thread a while ago, when he said "You can always just google and download it again next week. :)"...lol...
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 01 Aug 2012 5:41pm ()
Yes, I remember reading that! However, it was good to know I had a quick link to an article on Twitter lists today when @TheHeadsOffice asked if anyone could remember the specific reference on Twitter.
I've used Delicious but let it fall by the wayside. Why did you swap back from Diigo?
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