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1. Take the Wheel: Crafting Your Your
PLE with Netvibes and Symbaloo
April 2012
Buffy Hamilton, Ed.S.
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ple101
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2. Today’s Resource Page
http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ple101

3. 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

4. Personal Learning Environments and
Information Dashboards

5. “Infotention for Crap Detection”

6. Netvibes

7. 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

8. Netvibes: Dashboard Everything
http://vimeo.com/28778534

16. Timeout for
Exploration: Carousel
Tour of Sample
Netvibes Pages
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17. Getting
Started

21. 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.

23. Netvibes: Let’s Register

24. Default Page is Private

25. Default Page is Private

26. Activating Your Public Page

27. Activating Your Public Page

28. Activating Your Public Page

29. Editing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout
or Adding a Tab

30. Sharing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout

31. Sharing Your Page Tabbed Page Layout

32. Arranging Your Tabbed Page Layout:
Deleting a Tab

33. Arranging Your Page Tabbed Page
Layout

34. Giving a Page a Title

35. Customize Your Dashboard

36. Customize Your Dashboard

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

38. Adding Content

39. Adding Content

40. Browse Categories

43. Editing or Deleting a Content Widget
Delete the
widget
Edit the settings
of the widget

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

46. Essential Widgets

52. My Favorite “Essential” Widgets
Image
Webnote To Do List
widget
Web HTML
HTML
page Editor
Link
Module

53. 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

54. 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)

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

56. Add a RSS feed

57. RSS Feeds
rss=real simple
syndication, a
web feed or
stream format
designed to
deliver content
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58. RSS Feeds
 Databases
 News sources
 Blogs
 Websites
 Online journals/magazine
publications
 Photo streams
 Forums, Social Networks

59. RSS Feeds

60. RSS Feeds: Add a Google News
Search

61. RSS Feeds

62. RSS Feeds

63. RSS Feeds

64. RSS Feeds

65. RSS Feeds

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

70. RSS Feeds: Add a Google News
Search

71. RSS Feeds: Add a Google News
Search

72. RSS Feeds: Add a Google News
Search

73. RSS Feeds: Add a Google News
Search

74. 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)

75. 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

76. Netvibes: Let’s add a RSS feed

77. Search for Content

80. Add This/Share This Social
Bookmarking

81. Bookmarking from a Database

82. Bookmarking from a Database

83. Explore and Play Time

84. Symbaloo

98. symbaloo

99. symbaloo

100. symbaloo

101. symbaloo

102. Bookmarking from a Database

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

104. Questions/Reflections/Ideas?