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Pros:
- Easy and quick curation of sites and the ability to share the site easily.
- Content can be adapted for a variety of purposes such as, work, home, family, holidays etc.
- Categories and tags can be applied for ease of searching specific information.
- Anyone can curate information from the very young to the very old.
- Can be set to private or public access.
- Creative Common tagging can allow reuse by users.
- Collaborative nature can allow a combined product by a group.
- Text based and image based platforms cater for differing preferences and learning needs.
- Users can learn from the collections of experts or scholars in a particular field.
- Curation is a valuable 21 century learning skill for students. They learn how to locate, evaluate, filter and rank content.
- Educators have been able to create resource boards, share ideas and source a wide variety of content to enrich classroom use.
Cons:
- Copyright rules can be broken easily.
- Privacy tools may be inadequate.
Educause. (2012). 7 things you should know about social content curation. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7089.pdf
Robertson, N. (2011). Content curation and the school librarian. Personal networks. Online exclusive. Knowledge Quest. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KQNovDec12_OE_TAGS.pdf
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