Once you get used to the site, it becomes quite intuitive. It is very easy to add RSS feeds from URLs in order to create a one stop shop to read news about the topics you've added to your site. You can also rearrange these into tabs or folders that arrange your feeds into various topics.
An interesting read that I'm super excited to have is the Huffington Post Education feed. Huffington Post does a great job of incorporating both sides of the coin with news in education.
Dislikes:
You definitely need to have some understanding or a willingness to hunt and peck for what you are looking for. The ability to add gadgets is fairly simple, however many of the gadgets are broken or no longer work.
Overall - Netvibes is a great way to bring various news sites together to make it easy to read news about all the topics that interest you, but in the way of extras, it is very limited. The fact that you can bring all these different news sites into one place far outweighs the limited use of the extras or gadgets. In the classroom, I see Netvibes as a great tool in social studies where students need to keep up with current events. After setting up a public dashboard with reliable news sources, a teacher could give this to students as a one stop resource to finish assignments relating to current events. Further, in the math classroom, current event news in mathematics can be set up to connect what students are learning to the real world, along with real world applications that further their understanding of the need to learn mathematics at a high school level.
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