What+is+curating?


 * What is curating? How does it benefit teachers?**

Curating seems best described as a virtual corkboard where I can organize ideas for lessons or prepare a one-stop for my students to participate in several activities related to a specific topic.

I can see myself making pages for each of my lessons to organize my ideas, websites, games, videos and so on. This is the part that appeals to me the most. I could create a wiki for each subject that I teach, with breakdowns within each one for different lessons and use it to keep my documents for worksheets, lesson plans, etc. I can have materials listed so that when I plan to teach that lesson it is all right there for me to access from any computer.

I can also see myself creating a wiki page for my students to access to learn about something.

The more I use it, I also think that this could be a great way to collaborate with other educators on lesson ideas and topics. I am not sure, but I think it could be used in a social sort of way, where I can review other teachers' wikis and they can review mine and we can communicate ideas with each other.