I don't consider what I do in this newsletter to be content curation, but other people do. Either way, I do consider it to be a form of online teaching and learning. hence the relevance of this article. "Content curation focuses on the accuracy, relevance, usefulness, value, and other aspects of knowledge assets," writes Marc Rosenberg. "Curators are less focused on finding more content than they are on making sure what they have is the right content." Fair enough. But you can see the difference between what I do and what a curator does by looking at the list of ten things a curator should rule out (according to Rosenberg). I will include, while a curator will exclude: things that are wrong, things that are contradictory, things that expire, things that are incomplete, things from disreputable sources, and more. Why? because I am not creating a collection. I am chasing down and wrestling a set of issues to the ground. It's as much an investigation as a curation, and it takes me places no curator will go.
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