Scoop.it!

At a first glance or a straight answer to what is Scoop.It you will get the following ...

Scoop.it: You are the content you publish.

www.scoop.it/

Discover, curate and publish great content to get visibility online.

Logging in can't be easier as it picks up either your Facebook account or Twitter account. The system explicitly ask a simple tick your interests popup and automatically populates your front interface without experiencing the traditional 'cold start' problem.

As a curation engine this fantastic service allows you to excel in what interests you most and probably you are the best person to curate material about that particular topic. As shown in the image below you can access material online, aggregate it efficiently as you're the expert in that area and eventually create now content. Together with the software the individual user can assist the crowd even more by sharing, synthesising, filtering, researching and discovering new material.

Finally, the applicable areas that can benefit from Scoop.It are limitless especially in Education. Just to give one example, as shown below, it can be optimally employed with young students to recreate an old skill ... story-telling. Scoop.it allows users to build an entire story line by reusing related online content that has been carefully and meticulously selected, picked, tailored and tweaked to fit the purpose.