This week we talked about the concept of Digital Curation which is not a concept I was familiar with beforehand, but something I’ve been thinking about throughout the course of my time here at UVIC. Due to the nature of Brightspace, everything that our professors have shared with us, or recourses we have submitted or shared with our peers cease to exist once the semester is over and that course is no longer running. I have a few courses that are still live on Brightspace, but for the majority of them that is not the case. The idea of digital curation and being able to create a file to save all of your resources is so smart and such a helpful tool for the future. I feel that I have had countless situations where I have been given a resource and thought it would be helpful for me to save it for down the road to come back to when I am a future teacher, but then realize I have no clue how to go about actually saving it and end up losing it. So far I have been using sites such as Google Docs to save links to different sites, as well as the Notes app on my phone/iPad. I also have a messy desktop on my laptop with a bunch of random, unorganized documents that I have saved with the intention for future use. I am thankful for the resources I have learned from this weeks class so that I can now hopefully take the time to organize.
In the process of creating this blog post, I was trying to find an image that I could use that depicted the data curation lifecycle model, but unfortunately I could not find a non-copyrighted image and I am still learning about what is and is not acceptable to do in the world of copyright.
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