This week our class talked about digital curation and then participated in an ‘EdCamp’.
Digital curation is extremely important for us as future teachers. We are given many helpful resources in our classes and by each other that will be helpful when we begin teaching. It is so important to make sure that we are saving them (and backing them up). During this class I thought about how I am doing with my own digital curation. I have downloaded a good amount of the resources to my computer (and I will be downloading more very soon). However, most of them are not backed up – meaning I could lose them if something happens to my computer. This was a good reminder to me to put everything in a google drive so that this does not happen.
After discussing digital curation, we moved into the EdCamp activity. For this, we all had a chance to write a topic that interested us on a piece of paper and then stick it on the wall. We then got to vote 3 times for our favourite discussion ideas. Once this was finished, 4 groups had the highest vote tallies and we were able to choose one of the 4 conversations to join (with the opportunity to switch if desired). I found this very enjoyable because it gave us so much freedom to just talk with each other about subjects we are passionate about. I would love to facilitate discussions like these with my own future students in the future.