Image courtesy Anglicans ablaze.
Today I had my first Year 12 class sign in to our new collaborative curation space in Mightybell. We called it Year 12 Belonging and the intention is for students to select the best resources they can find for this area of study and share them here. It will also be a place for students to share their writing for this task. I showed students how to add and use the bookmarklet (Mightybell works best in Firefox or Chrome).
We established the following protocols for work in the site:
1. Authenticating and exercising judgement when selecting resources to post. this is an essential part of curation. I explained we didn't want everything they can find, but the BEST they can find. We want this to be the BEST website on Belonging. Here is Joyce Valenza's wiki about curation.
2. After posting a resource, students should go in to comment and justify why they selected it.
3. Attribution - I have modelled this in my examples on the site for a website and an image, hyperlinking the name of the creator/site back to the source and explained that this is not to be confused with referencing in the formal sense, it's about using the work of others ethically.
I also talked to the class about this being an opportunity for students to create a positive academic digital footprint for themselves (the site is closed, but we may open it up later), as opposed to their social footprint (Facebook etc), and the value of this.
I'm really excited about the opportunity this gave me for an authentic relevant context for some valuable learning and teaching. And that this arose as a result of my colleague's inspiration by Joyce Valenza's presentation at Hands on Literacy 2012 conference last Satuday. And that she is infecting others with her enthusiasm. Just me isn't enough!!
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