Learning with Pageflakes and Netvibes
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Sharon Scinicariello Enza Antenos-Conforti University of Richmond Montclair State University IALLT 2009
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Slides of presentation given at IALLT 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Transcript of Learning with Pageflakes and Netvibes
Sharon Scinicariello Enza Antenos-ConfortiUniversity of Richmond Montclair State University
IALLT 2009
What are Pageflakes and Netvibes? How can they be useful to educators?
Personal Learning Environment How can they be useful in the LRC?
Aggregate information for LRC How can they be useful in the
classroom? Aggregate information for students to use Alternative to LMS (Blackboard, etc.)
Services to create personal start pages iGoogle, My Yahoo! Protopage, My Webwag Netvibes, Pageflakes
Allow the sharing of pages Pageflakes allows group creation
Ready-made ‘widgets’ and ‘flakes’ available
Aggregate information in one place News (RSS feeds) Mail Calendar Bookmarks (Delicious, Diigo) Flickr Photos Twitter
Pages can be shared ‘Real World’ Software
Reliability Commercial sites go down, go bankrupt
FERPA issuesTime-consuming to find and
implement flakes/widgets and organize information
Often still teacher driven
Limited choice of interface language
Group editing of pages
Easier to use Very useful ‘flakes’
(especially the mini-blog)
Restricted layout (widgets are fixed in width and length)
Multilingual interface
No group editing of pages unless username/password shared
Harder to use Lots of widgets but
harder to find and implement
Pageflakes
Netvibes
PageflakesNetvibes
Collect resources on specific topics of interest
Organize one’s taskshttp://teacher.pageflakes.com
Sharon’s Personal Page
Multiple sources of information in one place LRC main page, blog, wiki, ning, bookmarks
Promotes instructional use of social technologies Models use of RSS
Allows targeting of specific groups with tabs
Constantly changing without much maintenance
Aggregate multiple sources of information Introduce students to resources they need
Resources persist after class has ended Encourage life-long learning
Student-created pages Reflect on which resources are most
valuable for their own learning
http://www.netvibes.com/francaisautravail
http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography
Benefits of using a variety of technologies•Complements learning styles•Present information in a variety of ways•Promotes social constructivism•Use teaching tools that are similar to what today’s learners are using in their everyday lives
Delivers content in a variety of formats all in one place using widgets
Lightweight and “web 2.0”
The 2009 Horizon Report coined “the personal web” to represent a collection of technologies that confer the ability to reorganize, configure and manage online content rather than just viewing it. People are creating
personal web-based environments to support their learning activities using whatever tools they prefer
Teacher and student integration of multimedia and web feeds into the course website, as a means to provide a richer, more personalized learning experience for Italian language learners Students to develop
customized pages to support learning styles and preferences
Slideshare (sharongs) ‘Quickstart’ guides posted on IALLT
Learning [email protected]@mail.montclair.edu
http://www.pageflakes.comhttp://www.netvibes.comA Pageflakes TutorialA Netvibes TutorialPageflakes: Teacher EditionPageflakes for Educators
(presentation)The 2009 Horizon Report
