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This article lists the top 10 content curation tools for teachers. It includes valuable resources for organizing and utilizing resources that supports this week's lessons. This article is valuable for exploring other curation tools.

Bag The Web is a great place to collect and organize resources into "bags." Students and teachers can collaborate and share resources. They can search and organize resources for assignments and have the option to embed them into a site.

This is a social bookmarking tool that is set up like Pinterest. Great way to organize and find new ideas.

This link provides readers with information regarding the benefits of curated content and all the information that is important when including curated content (for example: the source, link to resource, etc.).

curation helps us keep track of important ideas in one place, in addition having our students learn to curate can foster lifelong learning

Kids Curate is a program where kids learn about a topic and then create a "museum display" for other grades and parents to go through

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)

As instructors, we are all information curators. How do you collect and share currently relevant content with your students? How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class? What tools do you use to manage or facilitate presentation of resources? Is it public?

This helps students and teachers to develop information literacy skills so they can become competent finders, evaluators, and users if information mastering the art of curating.

This article contains various Apps to use as resources in the classroom. I thought this was another engaging way to integrate technology into a lesson or instruction. The link has links to the different apps and provides descriptions of them.

This site argues for the importance of Curation in terms of higher-order thinking associated with Bloom's Taxonomy. It also offers this information in podcast form.