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Using Content Cura.on for Professional Learning: Seek, Sense, Share Beth Kanter, Trainer, Author, Blogger
APLIC Conference April 2014
Beth Kanter: Master Trainer, Author, and ChangeMaker
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My nonprofit tech work begins ….
Content CuraDon for Nonprofits circa 1994-‐1996
Are you a content curator?
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Just 2 Words
What is your burning quesDon about content curaDon?
What do you already know about content curaDon?
Share Pairs
Content cura.on is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” informa.on on the web and
sharing the very best with your network.
The Content Curator is a Sommelier . . .
• Transdisciplinarity • Sense-‐making • Social intelligence • Cogni.ve load
management • New media literacy
“Learning is the work, work is learning” –
Jane Hart and Harold Jarche
Tweets links related to organizaDon’s mission and work as a biparDsan advocacy organizaDon dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions.
SEEK SENSE SHARE IdenDfied key blogs and Twi<er users in each issue area Scans and reads every morning and picks out best
Summarizes arDcle in a tweet Writes for Huffington Post Helps him do his work Feeds a network with quality content
Engages with aligned partners Tweets best of best
Great Content Cura.on: Prac.ce, Skills, Tools
Framework: Harold Jarche Networked Learning Is Working Smarter
Seek
Sense
Share
Seek
• Define objecDve, audience, and topics
• Vets • Trusted Sources • Scouts • Filters – experts and
network • Use discovery tools
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Sense
• Product: Blog post, report, memo, presentaDon
• Selects • Annotate, Archive,
Apply • Add value • OpDmize headlines • Edits • Excerpts • Links • Classifies
Share
• Share at the right moment • A steady diet of good stuff • Comments • Credits • Recommend other curators • Crowdsources • Transparent
Small Group Exercise
Framework: Harold Jarche Networked Learning Is Working Smarter
Seek
Sense
Share
Share Pairs
• What have you thought about or already do as content cura.on in your prac.ce?
Cura.ng Efficiently: How To Avoid Geang Content Fried
1. When you start curaDng informaDon, does it make you feel anxious? 2. When you are seeking informaDon to curate, have you ever forgo<en what it was
in the first place you wanted to accomplish? 3. Do you add links to your Scoop.It or other collecDons without reading and thinking
and annotaDng the arDcle? 4. Do you experience frustraDon at the amount of informaDon you need to process
daily? 5. Do you sit at your computer for longer than 30 minutes at a Dme without gejng
up to take a break? 6. Do you constantly check (even in the bathroom on your mobile phone) your email,
Twi<er, Scoop.It or other online service? 7. Is the only Dme you're off line is when you are sleeping? 8. Do you feel that you open cannot concentrate? 9. Do you get anxious if you are offline for more than a few hours? 10. Do you find yourself easily distracted by online resources that allow you to avoid
other, pending work?
Self-‐Knowledge Is The First Step
A few quick assessment quesDons Add up your score: # of YES answers
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What’s Your A]en.on Focusing Score?
• Understand your goals and prioriDes and ask yourself at regular intervals whether your current acDvity serves your higher priority.
• NoDce when your a<enDon has
wandered, and then gently bringing it back to focus on your highest priority
• SomeDmes in order to learn or deepen
relaDonships -‐-‐ exploring from link to link is permissible – and important. Don’t make a<enDon training so rigid that it destroys flow.
Source: Howard Rheingold NetSmart
What does it mean to manage your a]en.on while your curate?
Manage Your A<enDon, Not Just Your Time Visualize on Paper Establish Rituals ReflecDon Manage Electronic DistracDons Manage Physical Space Just Say No
A Few Tips
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One Minute of Silence: What is one idea that you can put into prac.ce next week? Write down on an index card
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