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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways
Curation is a funny word. When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project. […]
Participate: curating with communities
I’ve added a new platform to my list of curation favorites. The Participate Learning search engine offers access to thousands of educator-vetted K12 learning resources–apps, videos, and websites. Apps, for both iOS and Android, as well as other learning resources, are browsable and searchable by keyword, category, or standard. Searches may be filtered by whether […]
appoLearning Collections: a new tool for curating apps and resources
I had breakfast with a colleague from the Graduate School of Education yesterday and our conversation kept returning to how can classroom teachers possibly keep up with what looks like an educational app explosion? How can they carve out the time it takes to effectively integrate apps and other new resources into instruction? How can […]
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Think about it: What (else) can you share?
Make sure they don’t cut her hair! That advice came this morning during a session on sharing non-traditional library items and collections here at NJLA. Megan England of Atlantic City Free Public Library and Alia Shields of Cherry Hill Public shared their journeys, and all their resources, related to sharing creatively with communities. They now […]
The database “thing” state-by-state
In my job teaching new librarians, mostly online, I get to meet new professionals from around the country, some from around the world, some who are utterly unsure where their first professional job will take them. Though I am very familiar with the state resources of PA, and I am getting to know those of […]
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