Recent Updates and Features Added to SideVibe

• Register Students Without Email Accounts
  If your district doesn't allow for student use of email accounts you can still register them for SideVibe. The only caveat is that re-setting their password, if forgotten, will require the assistance of one of their current SideVibe teachers. Basic Account holders will be notified through their Account email address. Premium Account holders receive the request in their Message Center.
  
  
• Using YouTube Video
  When you include a link to a YouTube video, SideVibe will present the video in a 'quiet-space' for Students without YouTube's branding, commenting, viral videos, and distracting non-related search reuslts.
  
  
• Save Your Web Pages in iCyte!
  SideVibe has partnered with iCyte. We encourage teachers to join iCyte, it's free! Also this means that if you use iCyte to permanently save your Web pages you can also use your Teacher Companion to add them as Topic links. Simply login to your iCyte account, load the saved Web content, launch your Teacher Companion and click the "Add this Web Page My Library" button. Page annotation is the next step and planned for the near future.
  
  
• Discussion Moderating
  You can now Hide or Show Student posts. The Student posts will all still be viewable at their personal Topic Home Pages.
  
  
• Automatically Send Your Topic Link's Whitelist to IT
  Go to your Topics home page and select any Topic. Look to the Details Tab and you will see that there is a list of the Topics Links. Click the 'Email List Now' link and an auto-formatted email is created that you can address to your IT support resource so they can simply add these URLs to your school's Filtering White List.

Understanding the SideVibe 'lingo'

• Vibes
  These are the Web activities you create for students in SideVibe.
• Topics
  This is where Vibes are stored and a Topic can hold as many Vibes as you want to create.
• Courses
  This is where Topics are organized. You can have multiple Topics in a single Course.
• Companion
  The floating panel containing Vibes for Students and the Vibe making system for Teachers.
• Vibing
  The action of using your Companion to create and share your Vibes.

Turbo Charge Your Blog or Wiki!

Use the Topic Permalink

Locate your Topic Permalink by clicking the Topics menu item in the left margin. Select a Topic and look under the Details tab.

What We're Hearing:

Students and Teachers Prefer SideVibe

We’ve been running SideVibe style learning tools in our pilot schools for several years now and the feedback is consistent and overwhelming. Students and teachers prefer using SideVibe for their web content explorations stating improvements in student focus, classroom flow and more productive results. And it makes sense….

Putting learners in direct contact with web content creates a better learning experience.

You Already Know How to Do This

Your technology is teaching!

Come to the Web with SideVibe. You don’t have to change a thing.

Be yourself and do what teachers have done, and will always do: create interesting learning activities around content. And with SideVibe, Web content is more available to you than ever before. Come, explore, and release YOUR technology into the web.