Week 2.3 Become a ‘curator’ with Scoop.it and create lovely online magazines

What is Scoop.it?

Scoop.it is a way of collecting all your favourite websites on a topic of your choice and displaying them in the form of a lovely online magazine. You have probably heard the word ‘curator’ being bandied around? ‘Curating’ is one of the latest buzzwords and that is what Scoop.it does. So, what happens is you join Scoop.it (http://www.scoopit.com) and choose a topic you would like information about. 

 

 

Scoop.it then crawls the Internet searching for articles based on the keywords you have given to your search topic.  You then curate by choosing which articles you would like to use in your magazine, and Scoop.it forms it into an attractive easy-to-read online magazine. 

Following other Scoop.its

 

What I LOVE about Scoop.it is that you can also follow topics that interest you. I follow 100 topics that interest me and Scoop.it keeps me informed in much the same way – a magazine type format for me to page through at leisure. Marvelous! When reading a Scoop.it all you do is click on a block and  it takes you to the original artecle.

 

So for example… this is how Scoop.it keeps me informed about the latest on my topics of choice.

 

 

Getting started with Scoop.it

In case you would like to know all the steps on how to work with Scoop.it please view my Slideshare.

Come 'Scoop' with me - Fiona Beal

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This week's Scoop.it webinar

If you misssed this week's webinar on Scoop.it here is the link. (This was presented by me, Fiona). I have just taken a look at it and I apologise that somehow with the recording it is slightly out of sync)

Get curating with Scoop.it

Classroom uses for Scoop.it and other curating applications
Taken from Content Curation: Classroom application

• Book Report: Collect online content related to a specific book with the purpose of “selling” it to you audience.
• Current Events: Students create a collection to reflect the 5 most important events of the week.
• Introduce a New Topic: A collection to introduce a new topic of study and peak the student’s interest.
• Historical Event: Create an exhibit of a historical event with a variety of media including primary documents.
• Expert Tips: Students create a guide filled with expert tips on a topic related to the current unit.
• How-to: A collection that demonstrates how to do something such as help endangered species.
• Character Analysis: Choose character of literature, history, or current events to create a collection around. What would be in Alice’s collection?
• Statistics, Data, Graphs: A collection of data on a specific topic.
• Research: As a part of a larger project, students collect their research in a as Scoop.it topic for easy reference and documentation of sources.
• 'About Me' assignment: As a team builder, have students create collections that reflect themselves
• Students working in cooperative groups can create a Scoop.it! about a topic of interest or study.
• Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics they are teaching in the classroom.
• Students and teachers can look at existing Scoop.Its! to connect with others who share their interests and learn about interesting things.