The number of resources on the internet is increasing in most areas and search engines can are helpful but it is not the same as someone telling you this is a good resource. Digital curation takes this further allowing people to produce lists of internet resources that can be dynamically updated but filtered resources - if you like a dynamic reading list of web resources.
A slideshare overview.
Two free example tools are shown below Scoop.it and paper.li
1. Scoopit(http://www.scoop.it)
Two examples sites used in my teaching are shown here:
Robot resource
The good feature of scoop.its is you have control over what content you present, you are the filter. Content suggestions are also made, but it is up to you if you select them. The aim is to increase the amount of student suggested content.
2. Paper.li (www.paper.li)
Allows you to set up a newspaper-like resource that takes feeds from blogs, rss feeds and if you want Twitter. Unlike scoop.it you have control over the feeds you choose but less control over the content displayed; so careful selection of the feeds is needed
Twitter
This is a quite a good system of curation by using a hashtag (e.g. #csy3025 the name of a module) you can mark-up content. It is easy and anyone contribute - that has advantages and disadvantages. Finding the curated material doesn't involving have a twitter account just a google search will find it (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23csy3025). But, you have no control over others using the hashtag anyone can use it and add their own content.
Google Docs.
This provide a good tool for an in-class activity. As an example students can create a single wiki-style resource on a topic by giving them all access to the resource for editing and then only allowing viewing access after the class. Nice, easy task that as the tutor you can contribute to as well. Now for the but; there is a danger that one or two people can investigate what happens if they delete it all - in three years this only happened once- it is relatively easy for you recover from but upsets the other students when it happens.
Pintrest (https://www.pinterest.com/)
I am recent convert to using this tool. Adding resources into subjects by pins as below. Nice tool, very graphical showing a lot on one page.
Summary
A lot of the choice of the tool comes down to personal opinion and the role it is to play. It is worth remembering though; the use a tool is not mutually exclusive though. These often can be linked through tools such as twitter. There are many tools missing from this list; a notable one is Facebook, this can be used as well with it's pages, but I have not used in this way so I haven't included here.
An example of what other universities are doing in this area can be found at Curtin University.
