Take the Wheel: Crafting Your Your PLE with Netvibes and Symbaloo by Buffy Hamilton April 2012

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Take the Wheel: Crafting Your Your PLE with Netvibes and Symbaloo

April 2012

Buffy Hamilton, Ed.S.

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Today’s Resource Page

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Personal Learning Environments and Information Dashboards

PLEs refer to student-designed learning approaches that encompass different types of content — videos, apps, games, social media tools, and more — chosen by a student to match his or her personal learning style and pace. Despite the use of the word “environment” in the name, the notion of a collection or a physical or online space is somewhat irrelevant to a PLE. The goal is for students to have more control over how they learn, and for teachers to set expectations that their students will be more engaged in understanding and applying their learning strategies. From the Horizon Report 2011 K12

Personal Learning Environments and Information Dashboards

“Infotention for Crap Detection”

Netvibes

Why Netvibes? Free version offers flexibility and customization

Gentle learning curve

Public page can be shared with anyone

Private pages perfect for a personal home page

Netvibes: Dashboard Everything

http://vimeo.com/28778534

Timeout for Exploration: Carousel

Tour of Sample Netvibes Pages

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Getting Started

To Register…

• You need a valid email that you can access

• You will need to click on the verification link sent to your email in order to activate your account. You should do this as soon as you complete registration.

• You may need to enable images from Netvibes in your email in order for the activation link to work.

Netvibes: Let’s Register

Default Page is Private

Default Page is Private

Activating Your Public Page

Activating Your Public Page

Activating Your Public Page

Editing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout or Adding a Tab

Sharing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout

Sharing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout

Arranging Your Tabbed Page Layout: Deleting a Tab

Arranging Your Page Tabbed Page Layout

Giving a Page a Title

Customize Your Dashboard

Customize Your Dashboard

Netvibes: Let’s Create a Private Page, Give it a Title, and Customize the Look and Layout

Adding Content

Adding Content

Browse Categories

Editing or Deleting a Content Widget

Edit the settings of the widget

Delete the widget

Netvibes: Let’s add a Widget from Browsing the Categories

Essential Widgets

My Favorite “Essential” Widgets

Webnote To Do List Image widget

Web page

HTML Editor

HTML

Link Module

What You Might Embed with HMTL Widgets

• Database widgets (students will need the code ahead of time)

• Copyright friendly images from Flickr (Flickr provides embed code if you click on “share” over the photo)

• Videos

What You Might Embed with HMTL Widgets

• Social bookmarking widget (Diigo, Scoop.it)

• Badge for a Wikispaces wiki

• Book widget

• Original content (VoiceThread, Animoto video, Glogster, products uploaded to SlideShare)

Netvibes: Let’s add an Essential Widget of Your Choosing

Add a RSS feed

RSS Feeds

rss=real simple syndication, a

web feed or stream format

designed to deliver content

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RSS Feeds

Databases News sources Blogs Websites Online journals/magazine

publications Photo streams Forums, Social Networks

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds: Add a Google News Search

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

Most websites and online publications now

provide a menu of specific RSS feeds for

free

RSS Feeds: Add a Google News Search

RSS Feeds: Add a Google News Search

RSS Feeds: Add a Google News Search

RSS Feeds: Add a Google News Search

Ideas for RSS Feeds

• Blogs from experts on the topic

• Saved search in Academic Search Complete (database)

• SIRS Researcher

• Authoritative websites (example: Veterans History Project at Library of Congress)

Ideas for RSS Feeds

• Learning Blogs of Classmates

• Class Agenda Blog

• RSS feed of a library LibGuides page

• YouTube Channel RSS feed (an authoritative channel on a topic)

• A Google News search

Netvibes: Let’s add a RSS feed

Search for Content

Add This/Share This Social Bookmarking

Bookmarking from a Database

Bookmarking from a Database

Explore and Play Time

Symbaloo

symbaloo

symbaloo

symbaloo

symbaloo

Bookmarking from a Database

Comparing Netvibes and Symbaloo for a PLE

http://bit.ly/dYNc9i

Questions/Reflections/Ideas?