Take the Wheel: Crafting Your Your PLE with Netvibes and Symbaloo by Buffy Hamilton, April 2012
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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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
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
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.
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)
57. RSS Feeds
rss=real simple
syndication, a
web feed or
stream format
designed to
deliver content
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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