Week Four Synthesis: Curating Through MCBS
By utilizing my Symbaloo Webmix and curating various resources, I was able to create professional content by organizing my media tools in one easy-to-access site. This tool allowed me to maintain better time management. Rather than saving page after page as bookmarks, I saved tiles to my Symbaloo. My blog, YouTube channel, content creation sites, stock images and resources provided in this course, were all stored to one page. I believe organization plays a major role in professionalism. The resources stored in my Webmix are worth keeping because not only did I refer back to articles and videos each time I was working on an assignment, but I will continue to use many of these resources for future assignments. Previously to this course, I stored all of my resources in various folders in my bookmarks. After curating an overwhelming amount of resources, I found myself wishing for a simpler and more organized approach. This resource enriched my experience by providing me with the solution I was looking for. The authors of “Curation Before Creation” and “Not All Digital Assets Are Equal” believe that curating is a better approach, simply because “quality over quantity.” As a photographer, I am very familiar with the process of taking over one hundred photos, only to use two or three. To this day, I still have somewhat of a bad habit of doing this. My iPhone currently has 16,000 pictures and videos. With my MacBook only being a 500GB hard drive, transferring my photos to my computer to free up space on my phone isn’t an option because with the added content stored on my computer for class projects and assignments, my storage is over half full and my computer is less than two months old. This causes me to need an external hard drive. This takes up more time. The old concept of “quality over quantity” always remain true. In the article “Not All Digital Assets Are Equal” the statement “The argument can be made that we don’t know what might be valuable later in time and ours is not to judge, but to preserve,” is a terribly bad habit that I used to live by. At the end of the day, it is clutter! I end up holding onto things for years that I never use, “just in case.”
