What is Curation?
What do we mean by “curating” your Learning Portfolio?
As you create projects, document them in posts and reflect on the process in your Learning Portfolio over the next several years you will, in effect, be telling your personal story and journey while at Parsons. In order to successfully do this it’s important to consider the way that you organize your information to tell your story. This activity is known as curation.
Oxford Languages and Google provides the following definition:
cu·ra·tion
kyo͝oˈrāSHən
noun
the action or process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition. “the curation of the exhibition was informed by my experience as an artist”
Wikipedia says this about “content curation”:
Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest, usually with the intention of adding value through the process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition.
In this video tutorial you will see two examples of different Learning Portfolio posts and how each student organized and documented a project differently to tell their story.
Categories and tags are two ways to help you organize your Creative Content on the Learning Portfolio.