Discussions

Your Name and Title:

 Duma Cornel Lucian, father, teacher,researcher and social media curator

School or Organization Name:

 Special School Caransebes, Romania

Co-Presenter Name(s):

 -

Area of the World from Which You Will Present:

 Europe, Romania

Language in Which You Will Present:

 English

Target Audience(s): Teacher, researchers and social media curators

Short Session Description (one line):

 I launch this project  because Curation is  Next Big Thing still 2011 around the social web and social media curation tools  are the gateway through semantic web 3.0 in #education20

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

Social Media Curator and Curation is the next big thing around the social web still 2011 and for this reason I launch #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project gateway to knowledge in #education20 .Curators promote interaction, collaboration, as well as education around the topics that are important to them . The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, present them . The objective is to obtain information from the whole word, to qualify this information and to share it with other people because Curation can use aggregation tools to uncover/discover things and very important curator can obtain feedback from his audience .   Nowadays  Curator has become a trendy word on the internet, announcing for some a new revolution in web information management.More and more information is available on the net, social networks, blogs, websites.... Sourcing the web (identification of pertinent sources) is not easy. The Curator offers guidance in this.Till now, sorting information on the web has been done mainly by search engines through algorythms. But only the first pages of search results are read. With the appearance of Curators, data is not automatically assembled, but selected by humans who understand what they do and are able to qualify the information.
Brian Solis write also in his website about curation and curators who play an important role in the evolution of new media, the reach of material information, and the social nicheworks that unite as a result. Curators promote interaction, collaboration, as well as education around the topics that are important to them. As such, services that empower curators will fill the void between creation and consumption. Forrester’s estimation of consumers of social content will erode from 70% to much lower numbers as many ease into social networking through curation – sharing with others the content that captivates their attention.  The ease of doing so forever converts the static consumer into a productive curator or perhaps one day, a full fledged creator. 
With creation and curation increasing the exchange of information commerce, we are moving new media toward the mainstream creating bridges between social and traditional media and the people who connect around related information. As such, what you discover and equally what you share creates an information economy rich with contextual and topical relevance linked through shared experiences. Nowadays I use more than 30 social media curation tools but my top ten are next : scoopit, pearltrees, bo.lt, postano , livebinders, redux, storify, chirpstory,quora . 

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:

http://www.justabout.co/edtech20socialmediacurationproject? ;

 http://twitter.com/#!/web20education 

http://bit.ly/Lucian20

http://unhub.com/web20education/

Teachers, researchers and social media curators join free our project herehttp://tiny.cc/edtech20

My #edtech20 project is continuation of the project ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using web 2.0, social media used in an e-Safe way in education 2.0 " who was finalist project in ELEARNING Awards 2010 , runner up in the cathegory Enisa Silver Award for teaching online Safety organized by European Schoolnet .

http://web20socialmediasafetyineducation.blogspot.com/2010/10/elearning-awards-2010-edtech20.html

Also last year I launch related to this project a eTwinning project for students and now we Special School Caransebes Romania and our parteners from Portugal obtained European Quality Label . eSafety4eTwinners  project  http://e-safety4etwinners.wikispaces.com/ was selected from 80 projects in Ten Best Practices in teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts , finalist project in Elearning Europa http://elearningeuropa.info/en/book/full-description-practice-2 

In conclusion many tools and apps used in #edtech20 project for teachers my students and I we will use this year in eSafety4eTwinners project http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/SEKct53X9ORD/e-Safety4eTwinners#1

Please write here if my presentattion is accepted and how to send you my pdf . Thanks in addvance .