Drinking from the Digital Firehose: Aggregating and Curating

Talk about META...

Read Lanham HERE.

Students in Digital Literacies will be developing tactics to handle the constant deluge that is our modern digital reality. They will read: an Interview with Richard Lanham, and "Untangling the Web Through Digital Aggregation and Curation."

In order to TAKE BACK CONTROL, (i.e. exercise their agency,) they will apply their knowledge into developing a strategy for handling the daily flood of digital information. They will set up Flipboard to aggregate research from contemporary sources, choosing the topics and sources they want to read about - and making the internet serve their intentional information demands, rather than letting the internet control their reading habits.

Tutorials for Flipboard

They will use the aggregated articles in Flipboard to CREATE A MAGAZINE in Flipboard on the topic of SOCIAL MEDIA, and will post a widget to their magazine on their blogs.  You can get tips on using Flipboard here: https://about.flipboard.com/tutorials/

Here are directions on how to create a widget to your magazine.
I've attached a sample of a widget to my magazine on AR/VR below:

View my Flipboard Magazine.