Content Curation

During this week in class we discussed content curation. We were split into groups and then gave presentations on websites that help teachers incorporate the web into their teaching activities and the organization of their classroom and paperwork. My group presented on the website Symbaloo. Symbaloo is a website simple enough for elementary students to utilize, it uses a series of tiles that provide students with links to websties that teachers think are useful. The links can be organized according to color, subject manner, or all focus on one specific topic such as Black History Month. Out of all the websites we learned about during this class period I feel as though I could most likely see myself using Symbaloo in my future classroom. Because I would like to teach third grade I think this website is simple enough for my students to use, understand, and will help provide them with practice on using the internet. For example, I would be able to save any education games I think my students would enjoy and create a "web mix" on Symbaloo where my students could go online and play any of the games I have saved for them to practice whatever we learned in class. 

We also learned a little bit about the ins and outs of Google Plus. Google Plus allows you to share information, talk to, and connect with people you may know or are similar to you all across Google. You can create circles with your friends, family, or classmates and interact with them through this accessory. During class we added all of our classmates into an INTC2610 circle and will now be able to interact with one another through our circles. I think it is neat that Google has it's own little form of a social media site.