101 Curating for Mobile
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Wednesday, June 10
Strategy
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Every minute, approximately 25 hours of video are added to YouTube, more than 1,500 blog posts are created, and 98,000 tweets are published to the web. As educational content continues to be created and developed, being able to track and filter the content on the web becomes increasingly difficult, and searching with keywords alone does not always render the best results.
In this session you will discuss strategies that museums use to curate their inventory and how these methods can be applied to curating for the mobile environment. Using readily available technology, you will discover how mobile users can gather, sift, and select content based on their preferences and needs. You will explore how users can put assets into the proper context so it can be located, inventoried, and accessed appropriately, on time, and on the go. You will leave this session with new knowledge about curating media for mobile and how it can benefit their organization
In this session, you will learn:
- The definition of curation
- Different curating methods used by museums
- How top apply curating methods to your learning course
- About resources to assist with curation
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, project managers, and managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Curating software (commercial and custom).
Phil Cowcill
Senior eLearning Specialist
PJ Rules
Phil Cowcill is senior eLearning specialist at PJ Rules. He started his career in 1983 when he was hired as a technologist at a local college. In 1985 he joined a team to develop Canada's first Interactive Videodisc. He started teaching part-time in 1989, moving to full-time in 1995. He led his class to build one of the first news websites that streamed video in 1996. In 2011 he launched the very first dedicated mobile application development program. Phil retired from full-time teaching in 2015 and moved to working as a contractor with the Department of National Defence as a senior eLearning specialist.
Renee Nesseth
Web Developer
Sofa Communications
Renee Nesseth is a web developer at Sofa Communications. Renee is also an artist and holds a degree in fine arts from Concordia University. She has worked in galleries and museums as a curator, an artist representative, and a gallery manager. Recently, she returned to school to learn how to develop mobile applications. It was during that training that she saw an opportunity to combine her curatorial experience with the chaotic world of mLearning development. Renee is also interested in developing engaging content and optimizing learning pathways that increase information retention.
