1. Online Resources
to
Create, Curate,
and
Collaborate
Eileen Lawlor
Teacher, ICT Leader
Amsterdam International Community School

2. • What can I do with it in my classroom?
• Why should I use it in my classroom?
• Where can I find it?
• When is it best to use it in my teaching?
• Who is it designed for?
• How can I integrate it effectively and
authentically?

4. What skills do our students need?

5. What skills do our students need?
“…we've had new data which actually enables us to look at the underlying skills in the past
10 years, and the researchers who have looked at that say that there are two key skills that
underlay creative work.
The first are cognitive or analytical skills—our brain power,
our ability to process information to acquire knowledge.
But the other one is social skills, and not just the ability to be
popular, be a nice person, but the ability to manage teams or
manage other people or form a business or manage an
entrepreneurial enterprise.
And those two skill sets, the cognitive and social skills, are really the ones that distinguish the
creative class.” Richard Florida,
author The Rise of the Creative Class

6. What 21st century skills do our students need?
• Authentic learning - learning from real world problems and
questions
• Mental model building - using physical and virtual models to refine
understanding
• Internal motivation - identifying and employing positive emotional
connections in learning
• Multimodal learning - applying multiple learning methods for
diverse learning styles
• Social learning - using the power of social interaction to improve
learning impact
• International learning - using the world around you to improve
teaching and learning skills.
Bransford, J.D, et al., (Eds.) (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience and school
(expanded ed.). Washington, DC: National Academy Press

7. Creation
Creating is not only at the top of Bloom’s taxonomy, it is
a critical skill needed for the advancement of our
society.
We must teach students skills to engage in non-routine
cognitive work.

8. • “I define creativity as the process of
having original ideas that have value.”
Sir Ken Robinson

9. 1. The students create the content
(worksheets, words, sentences, topics, dialogues that will be
used for instructional purposes). It is a complete “Personal”
approach to language instruction.
2. It is REAL.
Not about anything artificial or from a textbook. It is about the
lives and times of the student and teacher. The classroom
situation is no longer treated as an artificial “studio” but rather
as a meeting place for real events, for real talk about real
things that interest the students.
3. The teacher is also a learner and does what the students do.
In this fashion, the teacher is not all knowing but a participant. In
this “low level” way, the power barrier that exists is diminished
and better learning occurs and better modeling of the
language.

10. 4. It is an inductive approach.
It is a wholistic approach. The students are first engaged and
prior knowledge elicited on the topic. Only then, are the
students asked to create the content and practice the
language first modeled and encountered holistically and in
context.
5. It is simple in design.
There is not a lot of planning for the teacher. The focus is on
instruction, the art of “how” and not “what”. Teachers using
an SCC approach don’t have to spend time planning,
making materials, preparing. Their energy and reflection goes
into developing their teaching skills as they happen, during
instruction. The students create the text and textbook.
Deubel, D. "Student Created Content about LEARNING Not Teachingg”at RSS. Teacher Talk, 27 Apr. 2010.
Web. 21 Mar. 2013.

11. Curation
Curating is a skill needed to sift through
the mountains of new content created every day.
Students need to know how to discover and discern
what is truly meaningful and relevant and discard the rest.

12. “Curation also brings the possibility to build
around a specific topic or subject of research an
interactive discussion between the teacher
and his or her students.
Suddenly the room is open, without being an
organic process without any structure.
Curation offers a context on the biggest
learning playground the world has ever known.”
Curation was once the purview of experts and
professionals who collected and preserved
resources. But Web 2.0 curation opens the door
for others, including for students.
Rosenbaum, Steve. "Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King." Business Insider. Business Insider, 15
June 2010. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. <http://www.businessinsider.com/content-is-no-longer-king-curation-is-
king-2010-6>.

13. Curation vs. Collecting

14. Collaboration
Collaboration involves working with others and
creating and curating within the groups.
Of course this means not only collaborating with the people
next to you but globally and even virtually.

15. Collaborative learning
gives students practice in working together when the
stakes are relatively low, so they can work effectively
together later when the stakes are high.
They learn to depend on one another rather than
depending exclusively on the authority of the teacher.
They learn to construct knowledge as it is constructed in
the academic disciplines and professions- the
knowledge communities that students aspire to join
when they attend colleges and universities.
And they learn the craft of interdependence.
KEN BRUFFEE (1993)

16. 25 Tools For Creation, Curation, and Collaboration in the Classroom
What can I do with it in my When is it best to use it in my Who is it most friendly for?
Online classroom? Why should I use it in my teaching? (ICT Skills)
Where can I find it? Free?
Resource classroom? Before - During-
After-
Create Curate Collaborate Planning/ Implemen Beginners Advanced
Sharing
Prep ting
to integrate your email,
1 Google Apps x x x documents, sites, images, http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/ x x x x x free
v ideos, blogs and more
to create and share free v ersion
2 Prezi x x http://prezi.com/ x x x
presentations av ailable
to author and find stories
3 Storybird x http://storybird.com/ x x x free
online
to create infographics free v ersion
4 Piktochart x http://piktochart.com/ x x x x
easily av ailable
to create w ord clouds in
5 Tagxedo x x http://www.tagxedo.com/ x x x free
shapes and large sizes
My Ebook to create or find an
6 x http://www.myebookmaker.com/ x x x free
Maker original ebook
to organize and share
7 Pinterest x http://pinterest.com/ x x x x free
items from the w eb
to organize and share
8 Symbaloo x http://www.symbalooedu.com/ x x x x free
items from the w eb
to create or find an online
9 Edcanv as x x http://www.edcanvas.com/lessons x x x x free
lesson, unit, and share it
to collect, organize and
10 Liv ebinders x x http://www.livebinders.com/ x x x x free
present resources
to post, find, curate,
free v ersion
11 Flickr x x collaborate photos and http://www.flickr.com/ x x x x
av ailable
images
to share ideas that matter
12 Scoop.it x x http://www.scoop.it/ x x x x free
on beautiful topic pages
25 Tools For Creation, Curation, and Collaboration in the Classroom
What can I do with it in my When is it best to use it in my Who is it most friendly for?
Online classroom? Why should I use it in my teaching? (ICT Skills)
Where can I find it? Free?
Resource classroom? Before - During-
After-
Create Curate Collaborate Planning/ Implemen Beginners Advanced
Sharing
Prep ting
to build a w all to share
13 Padlet x x x and collaborate on topics http://padlet.com/ x x x free
and more
to read, publish, and
14 Scribd x x share documents and http://www.scribd.com/doc/28867978/Scribd-101-What-is-Scribd x x x x free
w ritten w orks
to create and edit free v ersion
15 Mentor Mob x x x http://www.mentormob.com/mmu x x x x
learning playlists av ailable
to share learning and
16 WikiSpaces x x x http://www.wikispaces.com/ x x x free
collaborate
17 Slide Rocket x to create a presentation http://www.sliderocket.com/ x x x free
My Simple to create a shared
18 x x http://www.mysimplesurface.com/ x x free
Surface w hiteboard
to hav e w ebbased
19 Team View er x http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx x x free
meetings
to mine the w eb and
20 StumbleUpon x https://www.stumbleupon.com/login x x x free
share w hat you find
21 Mind Meister x x to create mind maps http://www.mindmeister.com/ x x x free
22 Lucid Chart x x to create flow charts https://www.lucidchart.com x x x x free
free v ersion
23 Univ erso x to create an original app http://universo.mobi/en x x x
av ailable
Be Funky to edit and process
24 x http://www.befunky.com/ x x free
Photo Editor images
25 AudioTool x to create original music http://www.audiotool.com/ x x x free
Apps Galore
x x x w hy not? http://pinterest.com/jufeileen/apps-galore/ x x x x x v aried
on Pinterest

17. This Presentation - Online
25 Tools for Creation, Curation and
Collaboration – Online
Eileen’s Pinterest - with links to all