Thing 1: Curation Tools

There are so many great ideas to apply here!  I am particularly interested in the usage of ScoopIt with students.  I have been using ScoopIt for about a year to gathering interesting content professionally and sharing with colleagues (http://www.scoop.it/t/inquiry-learning-in-the-library) but I would like to expand on this and inched students in the creation of collections.  I have been working with a 10th grade English teacher on developing an ongoing activity with her students where they each select a region of the world (Global Studies connection), and have a RSS feed with which they gather information, and then blog about their developing understanding of that place.  I think that ScoopIt may be the tool we use for gathering their sources.  I hadn't thought about their ability to add comments to the posts right on their ScoopIt page. This may allow them to interact with the information in a quick and easy way before going to write a more in depth Blog post.  This was something their teacher was looking for.  I created a new topic on Liberia to test out this use (http://www.scoop.it/t/english-10-liberia).  I look forwarding to learning more about this country that I love as I test out this project idea!

Here is another interesting article about ScoopIt to check out as well: http://www.teachthought.com/technology/why-scoopit-is-becoming-an-indispensable-learning-tool/.

Another great person to follow is Gwyneth Jones: http://www.scoop.it/u/gwynethjones.  She has great ideas.

Pinterest is a tool that I am already totally hooked on, but these articles have given me some fresh board ideas, including creating a board for book suggestions for my own children, which I am always trying to keep track of!  

My profile name on Pinterest is lglibrarylady, and I have a library board with some great ideas that I have collected.  I also recently started a board for Infographics, as I want to expand the creation of them in our school.  

EdCanvas reminds me a little bit of Symbaloo, which has been a great tool for our Classroom 21 students to gather all of their commonly used links.  EdCanvas expands on this idea, and has some great additional features, which I am going to look at with our Classroom 21 teachers, as we are always looking at tools to help students keep their resources organized.  (Classroom 21 is a group of teachers who have committed to teaching in an inquiry/ project based environment, using technology to engage and expand student learning).

There is so much to continue looking at here, I feel like I have only scratched the surface, but that is enough to have my creative juices flowing!