Hello, Hope you all keeping well. Does anyone know a way of curating web content please?
I only know the agonisingly slow way of trawling through websites. I've been asked to produce enriched details about a list of free resources for online courses for secondary school level, e.g. Eton College are offering this and other schools have put up similar courses.
Also a variety of other headings such as art galleries, museums, libraries, well being and the list goes on. Any way if there is a simple way to pull this together I'd be grateful to hear about it.
Best wishes, Emma.
Librarian at Bryanston School
Hello Emma, you could use Padlet or Wakelet for this. Both have a nice visual presentation. https://wakelet.com/ https://padlet.com However there are limits to how many boards you can create with a free account. Pearltrees is another option https://www.pearltrees.com/
This blog post by Kay Oddone is the perfect answer for this question https://scis.edublogs.org/2020/04/03/digital-content-curation-how-to-do-it-right/
another site is Collins is giving free access to its online learning platform, Collins Connect, for the length of the school closures. The platform is for both primary and secondary schools and is home to learning and teaching resources for a range of subjects including English, maths and science at all levels, as well as international curricula. It includes more than 300 e-books from its Big Cat reading programme, activity sheets, a times tables practice tool, revision and PDF downloads of many of its titles. Collins is adding resources daily to the site.
http://collins.co.uk
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/collins-makes-hundreds-books-and-resources-available-free-1196451
Open University RfP ambassador's list of online literacy resources.
https://researchrichpedagogies.org/news-awards/details/social-media-support-during-school-closure
BBC to offer pupils missing school daily TV tuition aimed at different key stages, including GCSE and A level.
https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-bbc-works-schools-offer-tv-lessons
Families and children can now easily discover a wide range of entertaining and educational shows and films, with the launch of a new children’s experience on BBC iPlayer, including older shows returning to iplayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/iplayer-children
NewsGuard has temporarily removed the paywall from its browser extension in order to make its anti-misinformation tool free to help address the urgent COVID-19 ‘infodemic. https://www.newsguardtech.com/coronavirus-misinformation-tracking-center/
One thing you could try is setting up a pinterest account and pinning the sites to pinterest, which is easy and visual. Good luck with it and do let us know how you get on.
Thank you, Lesley. I've used some of those resources from SLA .
If you need suggestions for sites to include, SLA have a list here https://www.sla.org.uk/school-closure-resources
Have you tried using the free online bookmark tool Diigo? Simply save your bookmarks there and then curate them. See my curated bookmarks on EPQ resources here: https://www.diigo.com/o/bynopn/EPQ%20bookmarks