Blog nan Gaidheal - Creating a personal homepage using Netvibes

During the course of the Blogging seminar at Gaelic Masterclass we looked at how teachers could create a personal homepage for themselves or for their classes. We used PageFlakes in the morning and Netvibes in the afternoon - both are much of a muchness, though my heart swayed towards Netvibes at the end of the day. These two free web tools allow you to have the web 'delivered to you', meaning you can set up information to come to your page from sites such as the BBC, from Flickr photo pages (like mine) and from blogs (like the Gaelic ones in the list on this page). It means that you don't have to travel to n different websites - they come to you!

Create a Netvibes page

• Go to netvibes.com
• Click "sign in"
• Click "new user"
• Enter your email address and make up a password. Click Sign Up.

Adding and removing useful/less useful bits to the page
To remove some of the less useful modules:

• Hover your mouse over the title of the module
• Click the little 'x'
• It will disappear

To add new modules:

• Choose your module from the list on the left (Bookmarks, To Do List, Flickr picture box...)
• Click "add to my page"

To add a feed (how do I find feeds?):

• Click "add feed" (top left)
• Paste your feed address into the white space
• Click "Add to my page"

Comments

[Alan Stange]

Very cool. Thank you for bringing this resource to my attention. I seriously needed a way to draw the threads of my growing web together (no pun intended...).

[Ab]

Ewan, we need to seriously start recording these instructions in Flash/Captivate!