Web Widgets: Helping to Shape Your PLE Asako Yoshida Introduction to the Emerging Technologies for Learning

What are Widgets? Widgets are small objects that can be integrated into web site, blog, social network, mobile device or your desktop. Widgets help you organize new information that is being published in various sources on the Web. Some common types of information you receive in widgets are weather, news, stock and blog information.

Widgets are small objects that can be integrated into web site, blog, social network, mobile device or your desktop.

Widgets help you organize new information that is being published in various sources on the Web.

Some common types of information you receive in widgets are weather, news, stock and blog information.

Web Widgets As monitoring tools. As marketing tools: “Marketers love widgets as the way to drive the traffic to their sites” (source: http://tinyurl.com/acpku3 )

As monitoring tools.

As marketing tools: “Marketers love widgets as the way to drive the traffic to their sites” (source: http://tinyurl.com/acpku3 )

Some Catchy Web Widgets for Promoting the Web Sites “ What a good widget looks like”: http://tinyurl.com/4ozznz

“ What a good widget looks like”:

http://tinyurl.com/4ozznz

Benefit Information is coming to you. With the RSS/mxl pulling-in mechanism, you can regularly and conveniently monitor the new updated information or data.

Information is coming to you.

With the RSS/mxl pulling-in mechanism, you can regularly and conveniently monitor the new updated information or data.

For Shaping One’s PLE You can monitor a cluster or collection of widgets on a regular basis. iGoogle or Netvibes can easily aggregate widgets and support your work/learning processes. Use them in conjunction with bookmarking & tagging tools like del.icio.us and diigo (for searching & locating the sources when you need them.)

You can monitor a cluster or collection of widgets on a regular basis.

iGoogle or Netvibes can easily aggregate widgets and support your work/learning processes.

Use them in conjunction with bookmarking & tagging tools like del.icio.us and diigo (for searching & locating the sources when you need them.)

Create Your Own Widgets A number of widget platforms: Widgetbox MuseStorm Sniperoo Clearspring Spring Widgets

A number of widget platforms:

Widgetbox

MuseStorm

Sniperoo

Clearspring

Spring Widgets

Or Look for RSS Logos

To Platforms of Your Choice

Some Applications/Examples

iGoogle Personal Page Click for Demo: http://tinyurl.com/bb22qg

Click for Demo:

http://tinyurl.com/bb22qg

Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc. Click for Demo: http://tinyurl.com/cv8zor

Click for Demo:

http://tinyurl.com/cv8zor

Facebook, Myspace, or Any Other Social Networking Platforms This is the widget that I created using Widgetbox. Now it’s part of my Facebook account as one of the applications.

Still some doubt? Many widgets to monitor. Still overwhelmed with information overload! Would they be of any use when you want to monitor a couple of hundreds of blogs, for example?

Many widgets to monitor.

Still overwhelmed with information overload!

Would they be of any use when you want to monitor a couple of hundreds of blogs, for example?

Consider A Shift in Perspective You are connecting to fluid, ad hoc, interactive, open networks for learning.* Your learning takes place as you participate in the networks of your connections. *“Everyone’s a network”: http://tinyurl.com/bfpo5k

You are connecting to fluid, ad hoc, interactive, open networks for learning.*

Your learning takes place as you participate in the networks of your connections.

*“Everyone’s a network”: http://tinyurl.com/bfpo5k

Yes You Can: Connect!

For further references: http://delicious.com/tag/widgets http://delicious.com/tag/widget

http://delicious.com/tag/widgets

http://delicious.com/tag/widget