Presentation Wiki Please join me at: http://tinyurl.com/ccsa16cc Putting the Best Instructional Resources at Your Fingertips! Tericia Eller, NBCT Online Professional Development Facilitator Educator Effectiveness NC Dept. of Public Instruction Tericia.Eller@dpi.nc.gov Tericia Eller, Online PD Facilitator • 17+ years experience in education • National Board Certified Teacher • 11 years experience teaching writing online • 2+ years developing and facilitating online PD for NC Educators • Wife, mother and avid runner Session Goals: By the end of the session, participants will be able to… • Explain what content curation is • Compare several Web 2.0 tools for organizing, analyzing, annotating and sharing resources • Plan a lesson or activity that uses curated content • Organize professional learning resources using a Web 2.0 tool Who are you? • What is your current position? • What do you hope to learn from this session? • What do you do for fun? What exactly is content curation? The Internet is the world’s largest library. It’s just that all the books are on the floor. John Allen Paulos • gathering materials pertinent to a given topic • providing a frame of reference or context for the audience • making sense of a vast amount of content • targeting a specific audience How do you manage online instructional resources? • List the strategies, tools and resources you use to organize, annotate, and share online instructional resources. Post to the padlet Organizing Resources What are the benefits of curation? For professional learning? For instructional strategies? Web 2.0 Tools for Content Curation: Let’s examine just a few Content Curation Skills: • • • • • Analyze and evaluate content Sort and catalog information Know audience Prioritize information Design and present creatively • Organize information • Discriminate for relevancy, validity and reliability Now it’s your turn! Practice with a Web 2.0 Tools Follow-up Opportunity: Discussion, Feedback and Sharing Session Evaluation: Please Complete the Google Form