Scoop. it
What is it?
Scoop.it is website where you can create your own page about a certain topic and share information with others. It is a great way to blog about something you are passionate about and look at others pages to learn about something new.
It is a great resource to use in the classroom and/or for your own professional development.
It is a great resource to use in the classroom and/or for your own professional development.
How do I use it?
Signing Up:
Go to the link: http://www.scoop.it/ and click on Sign up for Free. You can sign up through Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin; however, if you don't have these you can sign in using your email. Similar to Pinterest, your information that you put on Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin will be transferred to your scoop.it account.
Creating a Page:
First thing you need to do is create a topic. This is a title for the page that you will be creating. In the top bar of information, click my topics. Then, you need to create a title, description and list some key words that are associated to your topic. Notice, under your title, your pages URL is shown. Copy this URL to give to others to easily find and look at your page.
Now you can Scoop.it!
Click on the topic you would like to add a scoop.it to. Then click New Scoop. You have three options to add a scoop.it. The first option, Scoop any web page (Bookmarlet) allows you to Scoop any webpage on the fly by adding scoop it to your tool bar. All you need to do is drag the Scoop it to your toolbar and then when you find a website you like you can Scoop it quickly using the bookmarklet in your toolbar. The second option, Scoop from Suggested Content, is just letting your know that you can scoop information that the website provides to you which may relate to your topic. The third option, Create Your Own Scoop, is how I add information I find from websites. All you do is add in the URL and all the information will pop up for you. A picture from the website will come up. If this isn't the picture you want, you can click the little arrow beside the picture and find a different picture from the website you choose. It will also add a title, which it creates from the title in your website. You can change the title to whatever you want if you like. When you are finished adding in the URL, picking the picture and creating the title go the bottom of the page and click PUBLISH!
Go to the link: http://www.scoop.it/ and click on Sign up for Free. You can sign up through Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin; however, if you don't have these you can sign in using your email. Similar to Pinterest, your information that you put on Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin will be transferred to your scoop.it account.
Creating a Page:
First thing you need to do is create a topic. This is a title for the page that you will be creating. In the top bar of information, click my topics. Then, you need to create a title, description and list some key words that are associated to your topic. Notice, under your title, your pages URL is shown. Copy this URL to give to others to easily find and look at your page.
Now you can Scoop.it!
Click on the topic you would like to add a scoop.it to. Then click New Scoop. You have three options to add a scoop.it. The first option, Scoop any web page (Bookmarlet) allows you to Scoop any webpage on the fly by adding scoop it to your tool bar. All you need to do is drag the Scoop it to your toolbar and then when you find a website you like you can Scoop it quickly using the bookmarklet in your toolbar. The second option, Scoop from Suggested Content, is just letting your know that you can scoop information that the website provides to you which may relate to your topic. The third option, Create Your Own Scoop, is how I add information I find from websites. All you do is add in the URL and all the information will pop up for you. A picture from the website will come up. If this isn't the picture you want, you can click the little arrow beside the picture and find a different picture from the website you choose. It will also add a title, which it creates from the title in your website. You can change the title to whatever you want if you like. When you are finished adding in the URL, picking the picture and creating the title go the bottom of the page and click PUBLISH!
What you should use this site for
For your Professional Development
- Scoop.it has tons of information about many different topics. Use it to search topics and look at other peoples pages for inspiration.
- Find websites to help you learn about a new topic
- there is lots of information about using technology in the classroom
Classroom Activities
- Have students create a board about a research article
- If students are writing a research paper, have them list their resources on a scoop.it page
- Have students look at other peer pages to use as study guides
- Create a class page about student interests. You could use this for the subject material or general interests to build a relationship with students.
- Scoop.it has tons of information about many different topics. Use it to search topics and look at other peoples pages for inspiration.
- Find websites to help you learn about a new topic
- there is lots of information about using technology in the classroom
Classroom Activities
- Have students create a board about a research article
- If students are writing a research paper, have them list their resources on a scoop.it page
- Have students look at other peer pages to use as study guides
- Create a class page about student interests. You could use this for the subject material or general interests to build a relationship with students.
Examples from my classroom
I use scoop.it all the time to look up new information. For instance, I found a great page that features sites on how to teach science with science fiction. (See the above picture). By looking at the scoops on this page it has given me some inspiration and good ideas for teaching a few topics in my class.
I have also created class sites, where I post interesting things about the class that I just don't have time to talk about in class. Sometimes, I put interesting science facts on the site so students can read about it if they like. For example, in November I put an article about the science of the moustache. See the top picture to the left. I will tell students to look at the class's scoop.it page for more information. Also, if students have something neat that they found, they can email me the information and I will scoop.it. I have also used my class scoop.it pages for student's projects. For example, in my Science 20 class, I had students research each period in Earth's history and email me the URL of the best website they found. I added all of these websites to the class scoop.it page and it became a guide to Earth's history. (See picture to the left)
I have also created class sites, where I post interesting things about the class that I just don't have time to talk about in class. Sometimes, I put interesting science facts on the site so students can read about it if they like. For example, in November I put an article about the science of the moustache. See the top picture to the left. I will tell students to look at the class's scoop.it page for more information. Also, if students have something neat that they found, they can email me the information and I will scoop.it. I have also used my class scoop.it pages for student's projects. For example, in my Science 20 class, I had students research each period in Earth's history and email me the URL of the best website they found. I added all of these websites to the class scoop.it page and it became a guide to Earth's history. (See picture to the left)
Resources
"Using Science Fiction to Teach Science | Scoop.it." Share Ideas that matter | Scoop.it. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2012.
<http://www.scoop.it/t/using-science-fiction-to-teach-science>.
<http://www.scoop.it/t/using-science-fiction-to-teach-science>.