1.16+Beginnings.Curation

=FIRST WEEK ACTIVITIES - GETTING STARTED=

SUBSCRIBE TO THE FAQ BOARD
I have set up an FAQ Forum in the DISCUSSIONS link on Blackboard. At any time that you have a question, post your question to this area. If I don't see the answer right off hand, someone else in the class may know the answer. **I encourage you to help each other.** In order to facilitate this forum, I want you to subscribe to the forum. When you do this, you will receive an e-mail indicating that there is a new posting on the FAQ Forum.

**Do this in order to prevent you from asking the same questions that have already been asked answered.**
Here's how to subscribe to any of the threads on the discussion board:
 * 1) **Go to the DISCUSSION BOARD link and click on the FAQ FORUM**.
 * 2) There will be two buttons on the top left
 * Create Thread
 * Subscribe -- **Click on this.**
 * After you have subscribed, the SUBSCRIBE button will turn to UNSUBSCRIBE. That is how you will know that you have subscribed. **


 * Here is a video tutorial **@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGLtjrhG3RA

**POST** **YOUR PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY AND COMMENT**

 * If you have created biographies for me before you can use the same one. Just post them to Blackboard. **

I would like to get to know each of you a little better. During the first week, I want you to give me (and the rest of the class) a brief biography of you. It can be personal or professional but I would like it to be a document with both pictures and narration. I suggest a minimum of six pictures with an audio narration but you can make the introduction as long as you wish. (“Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you…”). You can use any source for this project. Here are some suggestions:
 * VoiceThread – http://voicethread.com
 * Screencastify - @https://www.screencastify.com/ (a lightweight screen recorder for Google Chrome)
 * Richard Byrne posted about six different screencasts on Chromebooks if that is of interest to you.
 * ütellstory - http://www.utellstory.com
 * Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
 * Animoto - https://animoto.com
 * authorSTREAM - http://authorstream.com

**I want your project to include both audio and video**. We are, just as your students are, learners who need multiple simultaneous lines of information.

The biography will be due by 11:59 Monday, 1.16 on the Bb's DISCUSSION BOARD link. Be sure to comment on each other’s biography on Blackboard during the week.

**CREATE A PROFESSIONAL ABOUT.ME PAGE**
One of the things that is difficult in online learning classes is to keep in mind where everyone is from and what their professional activities might be. In the past students made their biography statement almost completely a personal one -- which is fine. But I would like to know more about you professionally as well. Even if you are not professionally involved or working at the present time, you have worked previously. I want you to create an About.me page. > Here is a great tutorial if you need one: @https://vimeo.com/62106473
 * Select 1 picture for your background
 * Give the title: Professional Biography
 * Create a minimum of three sections of your **professional** biography. My suggestions are places you have worked; courses/classes you have taught; and whatever else you would like to put in. You can have more sections if you want. Here is my About.me and as you can see I have included the areas of Awards and Recognition; Professional Offices; Professional Presentations. http://about.me/fpentlin.
 * Finally, fill in the information for Location, Work, Education, and interests and mark "Display my tags."

Post a link to your About.me page on Blackboard by 1.16 as well.

**SKYPE SESSIONS**
There will be two Skype sessions. I will record the sessions for anyone who cannot attend. Since the class is so large that conversation would be difficult, I have divided the class into two sessions -- a 7:00-8:00 Central Time and an 8:30-9:30 Central Time. Please indicate which session you would like to attend by answering this Doodle @https://doodle.com/poll/h6u2vzn9zaz82vrq. Please sign up in order to balance the two sessions. If the sessions are out of whack, I will assign people to sessions based on when you participated in the Doodle.

The first Skype session will be on TUESDAY, 16 JANUARY and will cover the readings on curation below. You expected to have read the articles and to be able to comment specifically on them. There is a Skype rubric in the RUBRICS section of this class's Blackboard.

Be sure to have logged on to Skype at least ten minutes before class. I will have the chat window open then. I will call everyone for the session at the same time. Be sure to review the “Skype Protocol."

If you are unable to participate in the live Skype discussion on the day it is scheduled you can summarize and reflect significantly on each of the articles in the DISCUSSION BOARD link in Blackboard. There is no penalty for writing the summaries of the articles rather than participating in Skype -- other than the fact that you will miss my (and everyone else's) shining face!

In preparation for our Skype session, **I need to know what your Skype name is.** **The easiest way for this to happen is for you to send me a request to add me as a contact in your Skype. (I'm fcpen2008)**. Given that there are so many people with the same first and last name on Skype, **I need to know what your Skype name is**. If I've had you in class before then I will already have you as a contact. See the Skype protocol for getting prepared for this session.

The topic of this course is “organizing information.” In the past, this meant specifically organizing information through the card catalog in order for patrons to find the book and audiovisual material they needed

Today information is a much bigger concept and the librarian needs to organize information from many different sources and present that information in many different ways.

There has been a great deal of discussion about librarians curating information for students and staff. This is an intriguing and exciting component of organizing information for our patrons. Before you begin several projects dealing with the organization of information, we will take an hour to discuss the various aspects of what has been an outgrowth of the pathfinder concept that librarians have done for a number of years.

READ
 * Hurd, Jeri. "Content Curation and the Research Theory." //Bib 2.0//, 5 July 2011. @http://bib20.blogspot.com/2011/07/content-curation-and-research-story.html. Accessed 3 Aug. 2017.
 * Little, Hannah Byrd. "Curation and Pathfinders." Knowledge Quest. http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/curation-and-pathfinders/. Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
 * Morris, Rebecca J. "In School Libraries, Differentiation through Curation." //Harvard Graduate School of Education.// 17 Sept. 2015. @http://hepg.org/blog/in-school-libraries,-differentiation-through-curat. Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
 * Robertson, Nikki D. "Content Curation and the School Librarian." //Knowledge Quest// (2012): E1-E5. American Library Association, 2012. @http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KQNovDec12_OE_TAGS.pdf, Accessed 3 Aug. 2017.
 * "Thing 6: Curation Tools." Cool Tools For School."@https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/curation-tools/. Accessed 3 Aug. 2017.
 * Valenza, Joyce. "Collections by Destiny." //Neverending Search//. 6 July 2017. @http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2017/07/06/collections-by-destiny/. Accessed 7 Jan. 2018.
 * Valenza, Joyce Kazman, et al. "Curation in School Libraries." //Library Technology Reports//, vol. 50, no. 7, Oct. 2014. //ALA TechSource//, @https://journals.ala.org/index.php/ltr/article/view/4791/5737. Accessed 3 Aug. 2017.

VIEW "Curation, Revisited: Aggregating Resources in 2016." //Using Emerging Tech to Improve Your School Library Program//, episode 65, edWeb.net,@https://www.edweb.net/newUserSignupAccessed 3 Aug. 2017.

@https://www.anymeeting.com/WebConference/RecordingDefault.aspx?c_psrid=E952DB8086483D. Click on the Webinar recording to see and hear the content. It lasts just over one hour.
 * BEFORE YOU CAN VIEW THE VIDEO** you must create a free edWeb account then you can log in and view the Webcast.

There is a Pearltrees compilation of the tools discussed created by Michelle Luhtala http://www.pearltrees.com/mluhtala/edwebet65/id15483934#l825

**ASSIGNMENT: SKYPE SESSION 16 JANUARY AND BLACKBOARD POSTING (35 points)**
1. Before the Skype session post on Bb 5 takeways that you got from watching the Webcast with Joyce Valenza, Michelle Luhtala, and Brenda Boyer. The comments don't have to be long and they can be new ideas, ideas reinforced, ideas you think are even wrong, but I want your reflection on the video. (10 points)

2. On Tuesday, 16 January, we will gather to talk about the articles you have been assigned to read. There is a rubric on Bb that details what I'm looking for in this discussion. If you are unable to make the session then summarize each of the articles assigned and post it to Bb. I'm looking for a significant discussion of each article. The summaries are in lieu of the discussion - you still will need to give me the five takeaways from the video. (25 points)