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Digital curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets[1][2].

For readers interested in learning more about gamification from the pros, check out these links, too: Avant Game: gaming for a better world with Jane McGonigal. Bruce on Games: Bruce Everiss’s industry-analysis blog, useful for thinking about how games are distributed all around, but seldom through, school. coding conduct: research and presentations on “persuasive design” and gamification from Sebastian Deterding. Design for Learning: Dean Groom’s blog on games, virtual environments, and learning. Epic Win and Mindbloom: two examples of gamified life-management apps. Foursquare and Gowalla: two examples of location-based gamification apps. Game Dev Story: a fun little app that captures a very rough sketch of the gaming industry, it’s decision-making, costs, and career paths. “Gamification Needs to Level Up — Here’s How”: an article about next steps in gamification (and maybe learning design). “Happy 2011: Celebrating frontiers in Game Design”: a great post from the awesome Lost Garden blog about where we are in gaming. Gamepocalypse Now: quick posts about gamification examples and resources from Jesse Schell. iCivics: an example of blended, game-based learning mixing civics games and traditional curriculum; Do I Have a Right? is a student favorite. Progress Wars: a satire of gaming – and role-playing games in particular – that sums up arguments against gaming. Tom Barrett’s games-based learning posts on his edte.ch blog. Wikipedia entries on Flow and Gamificiation