Content curation is the process of collecting, sorting, arranging, and presenting information in a way that is meaningful and focused on a specific topic or theme. Curators must carefully and intentionally sort through the plethora of available web resources and select the best and most relevant content. Those resources must then be put into an organized context with annotation to publish and share. This week I worked with my class PLN to create a checklist of criteria to assess the quality and value of a curated topic. There are four members of my class PLN and we decided to use a Google Doc to collaborate on our project. This is my preferred method of collaboration because of the ease of use and the commenting feature for discussion and communication. My group started off with a conversation on Facebook and then the rest of the project just fell into place. One member was going out of town, so got a head start and created an outline of criteria questions sorted by resource. I, too, will be leaving on vacation, so I took it from there and fleshed out some of the criteria by providing explanations and citing sources, then set up the reference list. The other two team members jumped in and finished the explanations for the remaining criteria, and worked on APA formatting. This was a pretty seamless example of collaboration. I feel like each of us contributed significantly to the project and the overall product is better for it. Using a Google Doc made it easy for each member to work when it's convenient for him/her and we all contributed to the final product. I feel like we've created a very thorough checklist that will be useful to anyone for evaluating a curated collection.
Here is the link to our collaborative checklist or you see the final product below.
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