Looking ahead

So I'm spending my week looking into content curating.  I do that already, of course, but this is about efficiently sifting through the glut of online articles in order to archive and share them with colleagues in a digestible way. The prospect of being fluent in that process of review, selection, and distribution seems crucial to the road ahead, even the road we're on right now.

Last night I got myself a Zite account and began selecting topics, reviewing and focusing the range of articles, and trial-posting them to Twitter and unique emails. I am skeptical about narrowing the returns too much, but I see the advantages if I'm on the trail for a colleague's unit of instruction.

I also will be trying to build some "stacks" within my Delicious social bookmarking site. Stacks provide a dressy format for archiving content (my content curatng stack)within a particular topic. I'll  need to invoke my Google Reader as a place to read content more fully before acting on it, too.

Getting on board with all of this will be integral to a further challenge; building eTextbooks with my colleagues. The idea of applying my library skills with my design skills to create custom books for our students, or any students, is an exciting prospect to me.