Sharing is Caring

My journey through professional development with technology is still continuing. Here I am once again to share with you what I think is the value of being a content curator as opposed to being a content consumer. After visiting some sites such as http://www.bethkanker.org/, http://debbiefuco.blogspot.co/, http://ezinearticles.com/, http://www.bogdanfiedur.info/c and looking at the pros and cons of bookmarking and content curation these are some of the values of being a content curator as opposed to content consumer

1. A content curator gets to be conversant with the most quality information on the web, gets the best out of it unlike a content consumer whose focus is not on quality.  

2.  A curator visits so many sites and sets up pages that others follow on certain topics. This makes him a master at these topics because of the experience he eventually is looked at as an authority on an issue or topic, which is not the case with a content consumer whose only task is to view, read and get informed.  

3. Whereas a content curator captures attention because of the quality of his work, the content consumer does not put emphasis on quality.

Curation requires a lot of time, attention and focus. The act of curation itself is not as frightening as the fact that I have to face an ocean of sites and be overwhelmed with the information on the web. Curation softens the frustration as it offers you chance to view sites at leisure without fearing that you may not access the site again if there is need to revisit it. To answer the question, I feel ready and confident about this role now than I was before.

To me, the value of sharing and organizing resources is that;

1. It helps me to capture attention in today's information cluttered world and be trusted by the learners for guidance.

2. It helps me get quality information to pass on to my learners,

3. It helps establish me as a go-to authority on certain issues or topic and I will therefore be useful to my learners,

4.  It helps me to tell stories using pictures and words to go with the pictures and become a  great teacher who inspires my learners to engage in various activities online.

5. It gives me a chance to collect, publish and share content from the web not only with my learners but with the entire populace on the web.

I would strongly recommend content curation to new users of technology because of the ease, the high value and quality content it offers.