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Webtools: No Registration Needed for Students Image courtesy of OZinOH Welcome to my list of webtools that don’t require student registration. This started off as a simple curation for myself and has ballooned into something that I never thought would get this big.
Netvibes is a free web site that lets you personalize your web experience. Take everything that matters to you while online — newspapers, blogs, weather, email, search, videos, photos, social networks, podcasts, widgets, games and funny applications — then bring them together in one single page, your personalized Dashboard. Make this Dashboard automatically update every time you open it. by sergeykucherov Feb 27
Netvibes is the feed reader that I use the most often when I'm creating a collection of feeds for my middle school students simply because it is more visually interesting than the text and list heavy readers that are commonly used by adults. by wferriter Apr 2