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The volume of information being created is growing faster than your software is able to sort it out. As a result, you're often unable to determine the difference between a fake LinkedIn friend request, and a picture from your best friend in college of his new baby. Even with good metadata, it's still all "data"--whether raw unfiltered, or tagged and sourced, it's all treated like another input to your digital inbox. Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus.

You can add tasks to your nodes, use them for things such as personal organization, or project management. Use the Tasks widget in the sidebar to assign tasks to your ideas. Priority and Completion are set using icons. Due Date denotes the deadline by which the task is to be completed. Assigned To should contain the name of the person responsible for completing the task. Click on the Remove button to remove a task.

" Today's "Hot Topics Wednesdays" episode is devoted to Pinterest. We have already talked about this social network (see below) that allows you to visually organize anything by pinning images on various boards. Now, how can you use this popular tool in your classroom?"

Great ideas! I see a lot of possibilities...with others courses, not mine :(

This is the site I mentioned last Friday. It is an interesting organizational tool. David Allen is listed several times in the site--check under Community.