If you are looking for a deeper look into curating, it can be found. I want to build a curation tool, so I am working my way though my backlog of pinboard links about curation. Here I have a list of all the tools I can find that would be considered curation tools. Curating, blogging and critiquing can be excellent forms of student projects.
Curating Tools (My personal favorites):
Storify : http://storify.com/
Scoop It : http://www.scoop.it/
Blogging Tools (My personal favorites):
Blogger: http://www.blogger.com
Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com
Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com
Posterous: http://www.posterous.com
Additional Curating Tools:
Stellar : http://stellar.io/
Bundlr : http://gobundlr.com/
Curated By : http://www.curated.by/
Thoora : http://thoora.com/
Postpost : http://postpo.st/
Snipi : http://www.snipi.com/
trap!t : http://trap.it/
scrible : http://www.scrible.com/
faveous : http://www.faveous.com/
memonic : http://www.memonic.com/home
Bag The Web : http://bagtheweb.com/
And more at Rumproarious : http://goo.gl/TxQSn
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Glad that it is helpful for You and your students. So students can also use different tools and later compare...