Out of all the curation tools we've learned about this week, I see myself using Diigo and Pinterest (which I already use) the most. I have been using Pinterest for about a year now, but until today I pinned all school stuff on the same board, labeled "school stuff." Today I took the time to create more specific boards, such as "number identification" and "geometry." I believe I will access what I pin more often now that I have organized my school pins.
I can also see Diigo being a very beneficial curation tool for me. In the past when I found resources I would print them, add them to my bookmarks toolbar, or just hope I would remember where I found the information. Now, I can bookmark the resources I find and organize them in a way that meets my needs. I am excited about the opportunity to highlight and add sticky notes to the resources. Diigo will also be useful for collaboration. Two other kindergarten teachers and I already have a group page on which we are all bookmarking pertinent information.
I have not yet found Twitter to be a useful curating tool for me, however I look forward to using it to create class Tweets about our day. I believe this will be a beneficial, efficient home-school communication tool. I will continue to post on my blog weekly, but the tweets will give parents a quick update about our day.
Katie, I had been doing the same thing as you. Finding lots of great ideas and pinning them into the category of "school stuff." I spent some time yesterday organizing all my pins into categories. I found it so helpful and it gave my a real sense of which topics I want to focus on more when I search Pintrest. Happy pinning!
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