Good Vibrations for Learning and Information Literacy with Netvibes

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 • Text chat• Raising your hand • Feedback• Green / Red X • Audio• Laughing / Clapping • Full Screen• Stepping out • Exiting

Show Us Where You Are! On thetoolbar, clickon the yellow star, thenclick on your location!

Introductions • Who you are • Where you work • Your role in programming at your workplaceCC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/4464205726/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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 Pagehttp://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ple101

How do you currently manage your information streams?CC image viahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3638834128/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Personal Learning Environments and Information DashboardsPLEs refer to student-designed learning approaches thatencompass different types of content — videos, apps, games,social media tools, and more — chosen by a student to match hisor her personal learning style and pace. Despite the use of theword “environment” in the name, the notion of a collection or aphysical or online space is somewhat irrelevant to a PLE. The goalis for students to have more control over how they learn, and forteachers to set expectations that their students will be moreengaged 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 Everythinghttp://vimeo.com/28778534

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

Applying it for Use with Students http://bit.ly/99Nibd

Additional Examples from Other Libraries

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.CC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniekac/3550747547/

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

Activating Your Public Page

Editing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout or Adding a Tab

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

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

Adding Content

Browse Categories

Editing or Deleting a Content Widget Delete the widgetEdit the settingsof the widget

Netvibes: Let’s add a Widget fromBrowsing the Categories

Essential Widgets

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)

Netvibes: Let’s add an Essential Widgetof Your Choosing

Add a RSS feed

RSS Feeds rss=real simple syndication, a web feed or stream format designed to deliver contentCC image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/3541653049/sizes/o/

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 Most websites and online publications now provide a menu of specific RSS feeds for free

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 SocialBookmarking

Bookmarking from a Database

Explore and Play Time

Symbaloo

symbaloo

Bookmarking from a Database

Comparing Netvibes and Symbaloo for a PLE http://bit.ly/dYNc9i

Questions/Reflections/Ideas?

Thank You for Attending! Questions? • Professional Development • 1.800.999.8558 • Web: lyrasis.orgEmail: buffy.hamilton@gmail.com

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