Tech Task #2 - Curation

This is the snapshot of where I am at today with curation in the spirit of documenting growth. My main takeaway for Curation is that it allows for a level of confidence in teaching and sharing. I am able to keep track of the tools I use or the videos I would use for learning in the classroom - this makes it so easy to share resources with other teachers and to look something up easily to find the best options for the task at hand.

Resources that I started using last year, stopped and restarted:
Twitter
At first, I struggled with the Twitter platform because it did not seem like a place where I would learn things such as the world of learning that has opened up since I started looking at YouTube. I am giving it another chance though and am following people and organizations to help me keep in touch with the francophonie, teaching mentors, schools and local community organizations. In my last placement I found the twitter for the Notre Dame Cathedrale in Paris, because of a unit we were working on in class. Oh la la! - this past week, they posted a picture of the rainwater being wicked away from the foundations on a rainy day. Techonology from 800 years ago still working! Amazing virtual travelling!

Symbaloo
I liked the design of the platform right from the beginning, and I have also found it very easy to use. The videos are embedded and easy to find and categorize. I have curated a number of videos that I will re-watch or that can be used in the classroom.

Evernote
I had heard about it great uses before even starting the Education program but I had not made the effort to get comfortable with it as a method of curating. I am glad that I have persevered though, for one it will keep me from having to leave so many windows open on my laptop ... can anyone relate with that as a strategy?

Feedly
I have to admit, I had completely forgotten about it until blogging returned to my life. I enjoy staying connected with my classmates over the term. I am still trying to find worthy blogs that are outside of taking this course to add.

Google Docs
This has been very practical for sharing tasks with colleagues. In the classroom setting, I noticed that when students had a presentation to do, they were able to use google docs and google drive and save themselves from having to carry around a portable flashdrive.

Excel
After some deliberating I decided to use an old stand-by, Excel, which allows me to sort and alphabetize the colomns overall or by category. For example here are my Apps and sites for curation:

diigo	curation
evernote	curation
feedly	curation
pearltrees	curation
pocket	curation
scoop it	curation
Start.Me	curation
symbaloo	curation