It's easy to get completely overwhelmed and overloaded with resources as a teacher. There are just so many options available, but it's difficult to narrow it down and determine what really fits the bill. Looking online to find a resource, then finding yourself down the rabbit hole with dozens of tabs open and at least a few items in your Teachers Pay Teachers cart is not an unusual event. In my current role as a teacher in a blended learning program for students in grades 4 to 7, I find that not only am I spending large amounts of time searching for resources for myself to use in my face to face classes as well as when building and updating my online courses, I am also spending a lot of time curating resources for parents who are working as the home facilitators of learning. This week the topic of our OLTD 503 seminar is Too Much Information! I am sure that this is the exact response that many home facilitators want to give me when they are first starting up in our program. Hopefully I can apply some of what I have been learning this week to ease my own cognitive overload as well as that of the parents I work with. The seminar team this week shared a great blog post/podcast from The Cult of Pedagogy, Are You a Curator or a Dumper? (Gonzalez, 2018). While I don't think I am a dumper, I have not exactly been a good curator either. In this blog, Jennifer Gonzalaz shared 6 curation guidelines: keep the best, lose the rest; chunk it; add your own introductions; use images as anchors; polish your hyperlinks; and always build in white space. While I may have been on track with keeping the best and losing the rest, I sure have not been as attentive towards the remaining five more design orientated considerations. The recommended elink curation tool makes attending to to these principles so easy that it would actually take me longer to present the recommended resources in a less visually pleasing way like I had been before. Being able to create something that looks good makes me want to share it even more too. I am happy to be able to add one more resource to my expanding, yet carefully curated, tool box.
Below is an example of a curated list of web links made using elink.
Reference:
Gonzalez, J. (2018, February 4). Are you a curator or a dumper? [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/curator-or-dumper/
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