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Good Vibrations for Learning and Information Literacy
with Netvibes
Buffy Hamilton, Instructor April 2012
Agenda
• Introductions
• Learning objectives
• Why Netvibes and Real World Applications
• How Tos
• Create and explore time
• Bonus : Symbaloo as an Alternative Information Dashboard
Using this software
• Microphone
• Raising your hand
• Green / Red X
• Laughing / Clapping
• Stepping out
• Text chat
• Feedback
• Audio
• Full Screen
• Exiting
Introductions
• Who you are
• Where you work
• Your role in programming at your workplace
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Learning Objectives for Today
• Create a public and private page in Netvibes
• Customize themes and layouts in Netvibes
• Utilize the RSS tool in Netvibes for adding RSS feeds from online information sources.
• Add custom HTML widgets and pre-made “essential” widgets to a Netvibes page.
Today’s Resource Page
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ple101
How do you currently manage your information streams?
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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
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
How I Got Started
• I needed a way to publish my personal dashboard
• I needed a dynamic way to create interesting subject guides (prior to our LibGuides purchase)
• I needed a tool for my students to create their own PLEs and to build their own research guides
Timeout for Exploration: Carousel Tour of Sample Netvibes Pages
Check out the home page of http://www.theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ple101 and explore the boxes with links to sample Netvibes
pages.
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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.
My Favorite “Essential” Widgets • Webnote
• To Do list
• Image widget
• Web page
• HTML editor (for more advanced editing plus any text you need to add to the widget)
• 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)
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
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
Thank You for Attending!
Questions?
• Professional Development
• 1.800.999.8558
• Web: lyrasis.org
Email: [email protected]