Netvibes

Netvibes is a webtool that gives you the opportunity to collect web-links, video/audio clips, widgets and so on, on a public or privat page.

I started to use it last year with one of our units in grade 3 & 4, to help out students that had a hard time with reading for information, and also finding the right places and pages to search. This year I intend to use it for my other subjects as well. As I teach 3 classes in Norwegian, I find this a better way of organising it, than using our AIS web-page where I have all grades on one page, or it`learning where they have to log in to find it. It was also a great way for me personaly to collect all pages, links, widgets (or what ever I found) in one place, so I could easily find them and use them later.

It is very easy to use, and it supports youtube clips, rss feeds, calendar, different widgets, audio files, personal images and so on, and I think it looks good. You can organise your pages and tabs in many ways, giving it the look that you want. You can very easily copy and past things you find on other netvibes pages to your own pages, which is very usefull!

It is not a tool for cooperation, as only the users themself are able to edit their pages. What I miss the most is the opportunity to upload documents from my computer to the page. A solution I just found was to add a widget Box.net where you can add files and folders directly:)! It`s a little like Dropbox!

Here is the link to my Netvibes page (still under construction..;)..) and another PYP Unit page I found. I`m sure there a lots and better examples, but I just tried to find another one for you and this was the first (they even had some of the same units as us, AND links:)! So it might turn out to be helpful in some ways for us in PYP;)