Sunday, June 12, 2011

A Favorite Tech Tool

I thought the first thing I would do on this new blog was share one of my favorite tech tools.  I started using Netvibes last fall to organize my favorites and internet "discoveries".  I tried other bookmarking sites like Diigo and Delicious but really like the graphical nature of Netvibes.  I believe it was Kelly Brannock (NC School Library Media Consultant) that introduced me to the tool.  It is similar to IGoogle and other "personalized" web pages.  In fact, I use Netvibes to follow professional blogs and I created a tab so I can follow all the DPS Tech Challenge blogs on a single webpage.   Netvibes also allows you to make some of your tabs public.  Here's a link to my shared pages:  http://www.netvibes.com/alison_lesueur#Tools.  It's really easy to just add links to Netvibes.  It's a little harder to create graphics to represent your links because you have to go out and get the images you want to use.  So you will notice that some inconsistency in my pages.  If you also have some shared Netvibes pages, send me your links!

2 comments:

Laura B. Fogle said...

I like the sound of NetVibes Alison. I will have to check it out. I had been using Bloglines to follow blogs and del.icio.us to store Web links, but I like the idea of having both in one place.

Alison LeSueur said...

I think it really is a great "central" place to store online activity. Plus, you can share tabs with students. Thanks for commenting Laura, your the first!