Last updated on 3 February 2013
Content curation tools on the web enable teachers to organise and follow the most interesting content found on the internet.
They have a dual interest in a teacher or a researcher: they offer the possibility of classifying and keeping your own watch and then sharing it, they can also make it possible to find expert users who will enrich and complete your own watch.
Here are 3 curation tools for a teacher. Three of many others. I chose them because they are simple to implement and perfectly adapted to the specific needs of the world of education.
1- Scoop.it
This is indisputably my favorite on the list. I have been using it for some time now. My account on scoop.it here. It allows you to easily create watch tables by categories. It provides a dropplet to install on your browser that will allow you to keep an article or a web page with a single click. You will be able to add to each retained resource a comment and tags to find them better. You will also come across many pages created about class and teaching by other users. The tool is free and allows you to create up to five pages. Note that if you need more options, for example the possibility of multi-curation, Scoop.it offers a very reasonable education rate. Link: Scoop.it
2- BagTheWeb
Put the whole web in a pouch, this is what this service offers, which is also extremely simple to implement. You can create as many pouches or bags as you like. Each of them will contain links and content that you will glean from the web. BagThe Web like the other two tools presented in this article offers a dropplet for your browser to facilitate your collection. To start, just create a "bag" and give it a title and a small description of a few lines. You can link your folder to others created by other users. BagTheWeb also facilitates sharing with other colleagues or with …vos pupils. BagTheWeb is free. Link: BagTheWeb
3- EduClipper
EduClipper is still in the development phase and needs to request an invitation on the site itself in order to start using it. Despite this limitation, there is more and more talk about this tool that has fake Pinterest tunes for education. The information is actually organized in tables on which you will pin resources found on the Web. It can include an image, a video, a link, a … document The resource is displayed as a thumbnail. Entirely dedicated to the world of education, EduClipper is full of interesting resources even if they are almost exclusively in English. Like on Pinterest, you can ‘like’ the pins of others or share them on your own bulletin boards. Link: EduClipper.
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