A copy of a presentation for the librarians strand at the #21CLHK conference 2011.

1. Using Netvibes
An easy repository for all your web resources
and Twurdy
to provide people with access to search results that suit their own
readability level
and a little bit of

2. Welcome
Leanne Sercombe
PYP Teacher Librarian
Discovery College
Hong Kong
leannesercombe@gmail.com
: 21stcenteducat

3. What is Netvibes?

4. What is Netvibes?

5. For librarians...
Manage and
customise your
online resources
for all your classes

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7. For teachers...

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25. For yourself...
Digital life management...

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Digital life management...
and don’t we need it!

27. For yourself...
Digital life management...
and don’t we need it!

28. Examples...
• Campus des Nations
• Discovery College
• Dixie Grammar School
• Librareanne
• More...

29. Twurdy
"
“Too Wordy?"
Helps us to differentiate the content of
reading material presented to children
when searching the web.

30. What is Twurdy’s goal?
To provide web searchers with
information that is the most appropriate

31. How does Twurdy calculate
the page readability level?
Uses...
• Custom designed readability software
• Number of words on a page
• Average number of syllables in each word
• The average sentence length and more
to determine a pages readability level

32. What’s the difference between the
different search types?
• Just Twurdy - searches with medium speed and
medium results.
• Simple Twurdy - searches with fast speed but less
accurate results
• Twurdy with Pop - searches by looking up the
popularity of words within the text - slower speed with
more accurate results.

33. Where does Twurdy get the
search results from?

34. What does Twurdy do that other
search engines do not?
• same search results as other search
engines
• tells you whether or not you will be
able to understand the content on the
page before you click on it

36. And what about Google?
Populate results from Twurdy into
Google Custom search and embed
into Netvibes page
Colour code examples to guide
students

37. + + = Get busy!
• Watch tutorials - www.netvibes.com/leannesercombe
• Explore sites
• Register with Netvibes
• Smash ‘n’ Grab! (OK - Copy the widget
links)
• Et voila! - your own page to use
& share immediately

38. + + = So what ?
What are other
possibilities?
Questions?

39. I hope you don’t feel like Fran!

40. but if you do, connect
Please feel free to
ask me questions
after the conference
leannesercombe@gmail.com
: 21stcenteducat

41. Credits
netvibes video - mynetvibes on YouTube
cc search by Creative Commons
Samantha Celera - flickr
Comic - off the mark.com Mark Perisi