As you might know, I’m fascinated by the work of Vincent van Gogh. He started his work in a village called Nuenen (pronounce: New-nan) and it happens to be that I live in that same village. It made me curious about how he managed to become such an extraordinary artist with hardly any type of formal training.
So, I started reading and researching his letters (he wrote over 800 letters!) with one question in mind: how did van Gogh create his own learning journey? I started going through his content, writing down my findings. I then filtered these findings and created a storyline with seven principles as answers to my question. It’s an example of content curation.
My next big content curation project is ongoing: my learning notes to support you to help people learn. This edition of the learning notes is dedicated to resources to help you curate content for learning. It includes the essentials of content curation, the difference between content dumping and content creation, curation tools, and other helpful content.
by Jennifer Gonzalez @cultofpedagogy
What’s it about?
Jennifer shows us how enthusiasm and good intentions can become a common pitfall of being a ‘Dumper’ instead of a ‘Curator’. She’ll take you by the hand to learn about good curation. You can choose: read the text or listen to the podcast.
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by Robin Good @RobinGood
What’s it about?
This is the ‘ZEEF’ page of the ‘master content curator’ Robin Good, showing a categorized overview of content curation tools. This is ‘practice what you preach’, applying ZEEF as one of the tools.
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Interview by Fiona Quigley @FionaQuigs
What’s it about?
Fiona Quigly interviews Stephen Walsh to clarify the essentials of content curation. See it as a ‘primer’ for the e-book Stephen wrote on this topic (link to free e-book included)
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Facebook Friday – Stephen Walsh on Content Curation for Learning.
By David Kelly @LnDDave
What’s it about?
The title says it all: Putting Curation into Practice. That is one part – and we all like practical tips, don’t we? But it also specifically has a focus on L&D, so its highly relevant – a second reason to read this post.
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