Webmaker/Curation

Curation

The Web Literacy Map outlines the key skills that help learners get better at reading, writing and participating on the web, and Webmaker's user-generated content provides a key illustration of these literacies in action.

We want Webmaker users to know that featured content evolves each quarter based on submissions and curation leadership from the community. Below are our plans to get this process started.

Wondering what all this 'community curation' stuff is about? Here is an article in Forbes explaining why community-driven curation is an increasingly important element of digital projects.

Proposed Curation Process

For each new competency page that goes live on Webmaker site,

1. New page is published with CTA to "Submit/Curate"
2. Community feature blog post created by Kat for that competency, surfacing key content and user stories
3. Kat/Chris/Matt share "Submit your own resource!" and "Curate with us!" CTAs widely on Discourse, Training, website and blog.
4. Quarterly community curation sprints (like the first Textbook sprint this spring in Toronto) are held to get the community involved in determining the next round of site content. First community curation sprint will be mid July, potentially at Vancouver Hive and online.