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Panel for New Media Consortium. Arjana holds a Master of Education from the Univesity of Zagreb and a Course Designer Diploma from the CARNet e-Learning Academy. She is a recipient of the 2014-2015 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Award at Penn State University, where she successfully completed a ten-month Teaching and Learning with Technology programme. Arjana is founder of award-winning projects and author of online and onsite professional development training courses. She has written articles about teaching and learning with technology and an ICT book for children. Arjana speaks at conferences, hosts Teachmeets and Twitter chats, and leads workshops, seminars and webinars.
Bart Verswijvel is a Belgian educator who was a teacher of Dutch in a secondary school for about 30 years. Since 2011 Bart has had a part-time job at the Flemish National Support Service for eTwinning in Brussels. In March 2012 he joined European Schoolnet. As a Pedagogical Adviser he is involved in several EUN projects like the Future Classroom Lab, eTwinning, iTEC, Living Schools Lab and Enable. He moderates several communities for teachers and he leads the network of Future Classroom ambassadors and the network of Future Classrooms. Bart Verswijvel holds a master’ s degree in Germanic Philology and a post graduate in E-learning and Digital Didactics. He is a co-author of several textbooks for Dutch as a mother tongue. He is an international speaker and a leader of workshops. He leads Teachmeets and Twitterchats. Bart Verswijvel was a prize winner in several competitions like eTwinning Awards and Microsoft Innovative Teachers. In 2010 he was awarded the Queen Paola Prize for Education.
Do You Feel Infowhelmed? by Arjana Blazic
Connecting with teachers on eTwinning involves not only collaboration, student projects and professional development but also a great deal of sharing. eTwinners strongly believe that sharing is caring so they continually share their ideas and experiences, projects and best practice examples as well as new educational tools and resources. Without a doubt, it is wonderful to have useful and valuable information at our fingertips, however, we may sometimes feel“ infowhelmed”- overwhelmed with information overload – and we may find it difficult to keep track of all the amazing content that eTwinners share.
As it often happens, when we come across a tool, we most likely do not need it at that particular moment. However, if we do not save it, bookmark it or add it to our reading list, we will probably forget where and by whom it was shared and as a result we simply will not be able to find it among so many eTwinning, Facebook or Google + statuses, posts and tweets. That is why we need a filtering tool that will enable us to sift through the content we find online and help us avoid information overload.
Content filtering is also known as content curation. There is a huge number of content curation tools which we can use to collect, organize, share information and collaborate with other users. Pinterest, Scoop. It, Diigo, Educlipper, Symbaloo, Pearltrees and List. ly are among the most popular content curation tools. My most favourite is Pinterest https:// www. pinterest. com / abfromz / but I also use List. ly http:// list. ly / abfromz / lists and in my latest eTwinning project, we used Pearltrees: http:// www. pearltrees. com / truecoloursetwinning To choose your curation tool( s), browse through collections of digital content curated by other educators to see which tool suits you best.
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