Creating A Personal Homepage

Creating your ain personal homepage / feed reader tin hold upward actually unproblematic to practise together with tin also assistance you lot to relieve fourth dimension together with rest inwards touching on alongside what's going on inwards your professional person together with personal life.


My ain personal dwelling menage page is something I work everyday together with cause got opened upward for most of the day. It brings me the tidings from all my favourite websites, blogs together with yahoo groups together with allows me to scan content from twenty -30 unlike sources inside a few moments. This would otherwise accept me a few hours!

So when I was asked to pattern a class to assistance instructor trainers work Web 2.0 technology scientific discipline inwards their teaching, I decided that a session on RSS together with personal dwelling menage pages was an essential.

I've been using a yahoo reader for to a greater extent than than iv years now, only I've croak increasingly impressed alongside some of the other readers on offering together with and thus I decided to cause got a await roughly at what else was available. Some of the primary ones that impressed me were:

• http://www.pageflakes.com/
• http://www.netvibes.com
• http://www.igoogle.com
• http://www.google.com/reader

Of these my favourites turned out to hold upward Netvibes. So I produced this chore listing to assistance teachers ready their ain homepage together with explore some of the capabilities of Netvibes. Feel costless to impress together with work this yourself if you lot desire to ready your ain homepage or work it alongside other instructor if you lot would similar to assistance them ready their ain page.

• Creating a personal homepage alongside Netvibes: Six tasks >> (1.3Mb pdf)
  

What I similar close Netvibes

• It is quite tardily to add together feeds from sites together with blogs
  
• The visual pattern is actually overnice together with quite build clean together with modern alongside unproblematic block colours
• There is a overnice assortment of widgets to add together including ones to enable me to cheque both my Apple DotMac electronic mail concern human relationship together with my Yahoo electronic mail concern human relationship from the same page.
• There is some overnice localisation of content
• The interface is to a greater extent than ofttimes than non pretty unproblematic together with intuitive together with thus a proficient 1 to work alongside people who aren't also information technology savvy
• I specially similar that you lot tin ready the 'Web search' widget to search across multiple search engines together with a diversity of unlike formats from text to video.
• You tin add together together with lift unlike pages for unlike topics (one for ELT together with a dissever 1 for technology scientific discipline etc.)
• You tin cause got individual pages together with also cause got populace pages to portion alongside your students.

So why should teachers work a personal homepage?

• There's lots of functionality all inwards 1 place, together with thus it tin relieve you lot loads of time
• You tin proceed inwards touching on together with upward to appointment alongside blogs together with other sites that modify almost every 24-hour interval / few hours.
• The Flickr creative green feed is a peachy beginning of images / flashcards to work inwards shape or online.
  

So how tin you lot work this alongside students?

• You tin cause got your ain personal homepage together with add together populace pages for unlike students / classes to feed them data or seat out their piece of work or links to their projects. There's a peachy example of this which Gladys Baya created http://www.pageflakes.com/gladysbaya
• You tin acquire students to practise their ain dwelling menage pages together with work the arrive at of resources together with widgets to assistance back upward their learning. Things similar 'to practise list' tin assistance to laid learning goals together with recall homework. Sticky / spider web notes tin hold upward used to assistance them recall novel vocabulary words together with definitions.
• There are a host of unlike widgets from lexicon / thesaurus ones to discussion of the day, idiom of the 24-hour interval etc which tin assistance our students learn.
• They tin ready their homepage to render them alongside the sort of English linguistic communication language content they are interested in, from sport to lifestyle.
  

Well I promise you lot detect the task sheet useful together with if you lot don't already cause got a personal homepage, you lot drive this out. It actually is a fourth dimension saver.

I'd also hold upward rattling interested to listen comments from anyone else who has their ain personal homepage together with to listen what you lot are using to practise it. Any other Netvibes fans???

Best

Nik Peachey

Naming My Sources: Business Office 1

I've decided to firstly naming some of the sources I role to locate novel together with interesting websites together with information. I've decided to produce this for a seat out of reasons

• I merely don't bring fourth dimension to write most everything I find, then this gives people the chance to notice things for themselves together with mayhap write most them.
• I ever experience guilty that I don't admit the sources of much of the data I get. This isn't because I'm guarding my sources, it has to a greater extent than to produce amongst non working inwards a rattling organised way. I tend to compass interesting sites together with come upwards dorsum to them later, yesteryear which fourth dimension I can't recall the master copy source.
• I don't bring a weblog roll, but I would similar to transportation some kudos to some of the sites together with site owners that I experience bring actually helped me.
• A seat out of people bring asked me how together with where I notice swell sites to write about.
  

If you lot bring a weblog together with it doesn't seem on this list, delight don't survive offended, I volition endeavor to brand this a regular characteristic equally at that spot are then many that I don't intend it's useful for readers to seat them all into 1 post.

Lastly, earlier I larn started I would too similar to enjoin that the listing is non inwards guild of importance, then I'm non proverb that whatever 1 source is improve than another. Anyway, hither goes:

Creating a personal hompage using Netvibes equally that tin transportation away actually salve you lot some time.

Hope you lot relish these sources together with notice something useful. More coming inwards the adjacent calendar week or two.

Best

Nik Peachey

Naming My Sources: Business Office 2

In the first business office of this series aimed at sharing the sources of the data I weblog about, I focused on sites which spread the give-and-take almost novel applied scientific discipline or websites. In this instant business office I'd similar to spread the give-and-take almost some of the to a greater extent than ELT as well as Educationally orientated blogs which convey provided me amongst a wealth of data as well as professional person development.

First of course of didactics has to hold out Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day……For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
This site is a huge as well as constant origin of data as well as novel sites as well as resources. Larry likewise produces categorised lists of resources thus it's good worth searching through his archives.
Creating a personal homepage

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Related links:

• Creating a personal homepage
• Naming My Sources: Part 1
• Quick Shout
  

Thanks as well as best wishes

Nik Peachey