Get to know Symbaloo as a bookmarking or curation tool

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDQOn_JAec6I0EJOJGjCkriMgc4XxStIlsscl2epBlpKzwtWHtWdvReyGl5_x5jlp2EMofrXPme11CVQMhHa4qwMi_K6enuB1s4vJg88W2sJzEFYRvL9Ip1dGL1gdkmjVdZeInIOHFlw/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR0wChnEnD8Livb0SSQULMaadNmhTcH0WGPnl3HuLtqlwIRUO_z8Zqs0MsmzJvi_y-nmT1n6EQqSEyNJtkXxOFhn2fEgs1IaTT7yjUOtYp9LqKdoi8C7gl4-U4uXfk0X8xGMbFNWA8JA4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="128" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What is Symbaloo?</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Symbaloo is a great free tool you can use to create multiple tables or tiles to organise web links of one sort or another. It thus becomes a visual curation tool or a visual bookmarking tool. Symbaloo can be found at <a href="http://www.symbalooedu.com/" title="http://www.symbalooedu.com/">http://www.symbalooedu.com/</a> if you are a teacher. by joining here you can enrol your students as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Symbaloo creates ‘webmixes’ which are basically a collection of your bookmarks. It also has already created tiles of popular websites so that if you want to use those to save time they are there for you. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>My webmix </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to create a Symbaloo to use as an index page for 30 posts I had created on our SchoolNet blog under the headings of “30 Days of Webtools #1…” etc. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a Slideshare of the process outlining the steps I used. </span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="356" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" scrolling="no" src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/15917146" style="border-bottom: #ccc 0px solid; border-left: #ccc 1px solid; border-right: #ccc 1px solid; border-top: #ccc 1px solid; margin-bottom: 5px;" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="427"> </iframe> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal/get-started-with-symbaloo" target="_blank" title="Get started with Symbaloo">Get started with Symbaloo</a> </strong>from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/fionabeal" target="_blank">Fiona Beal</a></strong> </div><br /><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Here is my completed Symbaloo</b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is my completed Symbaloo. Unfortunately a Symbaloo has to operate from the Symbaloo host page so to get there simply click on the image below.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/30daysofwebtools" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rvkR8Keqh7AmZC5l4758oBETz7pmWkiqjR7KdBFYjBRN4zej-M8MXFYIpxKJJ1n9NxgcetQtBKTv0s67M8wbu4yILnfIVDjVeGAnOYQuYDX-glLDBUGFz_BllamHrYv-wtkfLFWo0Bw/s400/symbaloo4.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Uses for Symbaloo in the classroom</b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) You can find out what other Symbaloo users are doing and learn from them using the easy Share and Gallery options.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />2) You can create a starter page of Intenet sites for your students to use on a project – or your students can create their own.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />3) Symbaloo opens its tiles in a new window so that the original always remains as a reference point. It can be used really well with webquests. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />4) As a teacher you can save your favourite tools so that they are always handy for you to use.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />5) You can use it like I did as an Index post for a number of blog posts you have created around a topic. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6) I love the way this teacher uses Symbaloo in his kindergarden class. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/" title="http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/">http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />7) Listen to this Grade 7 student from the post  <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/" title="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does with Symbaloo</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YEls3tq5wIY" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div>

Symbaloo Get to know Symbaloo as a bookmarking or curation tool

What is Symbaloo? Symbaloo is a great free tool you can use to create multiple tables or tiles to organise web links of one sort or another....

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