Using Wakelet for Curation!

This is the last week of school, but the next few weeks are going to be super busy! I'm presenting four different sessions at the DV Tech Fest (our district tech conference) this summer, so I'll be doing some research and preparing my materials.

This summer I will be presenting the following sessions:

Unleash the Power of Google Slides
Cultivating Collaboration with Google
Getting started with Google Sites
Elevate Your Learning: Twitter for Educators

My session on Twitter for Educators is new this year, and I'm really excited about it! My experiences interacting with other educators on Twitter have really helped me grow professionally. I was able to learn from teachers who generously shared their ideas and resources, and I took those new ideas and tried them in my own classroom. Twitter also showed me the possibilities that exist when we stop assuming that we have to run schools the same way they were run when we were in school. It has been so inspiring to see the innovative teaching and learning practices going on in other schools. I would love to help other educators get started on Twitter and discover all the learning possibilities that it offers!

In preparing for this session, I decided to try using Wakelet to curate the resources that I wanted to share with my teachers. So far it has been really easy to use, and I really love that it allows you to share the collections you create! This means that I can share the link to the collection with the teachers that attend my session so they can revisit the resources at their own convenience. I also really like the Wakelet Chrome extension because it is super easy to add a new resource to a collection!

Click here for the link to the Twitter collection I have been working on!

How have you used Wakelet for curation? I would love to hear from you!

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