Symbaloo a great classroom tool
for all age groupsBy Fiona Beal
What is Symbaloo?
How does it work?
Sign up at http://edu.symbaloo.com
Sign up here
Fill in your details
You’ll be sent an email to verify your email address
You’ll be taken to your home pageClick on Add a
webmix
Start your own webmix now – give it a name and press Add
Click on the first tileClick on the
first tile
A box appears. Click on Click here to create your own tile
Fill in the details
Start a new tileThe finished
productStart another
tile
These can be moved around
The end result
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/30daysofwebtools
Watch a YouTube video tutorialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZ6SWU7ceI&feature=youtu.be
You can share other people’s webmixes
e.g. National Geographic e-books
Just Dance videos
Copying the actions…
Lovely selection from Kinderchat
Click on one
My favourites…
• Kinderchat collection• Matt Gomez’s collection• Matt Gomez’ Favourite
Videos for Brain Breaks, Transitions and Indoor Recess
Classroom uses of Symbaloo
Sharing the sites others have created• You can find out what other Symbaloo users are doing and learn from them using the
easy Share and Gallery options.
As a teacher• You can create a starter page of Internet sites for your students to use on a project –
or your students can create their own.• 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. • As a teacher you can save your favourite tools so that they are always handy for you
to use.• You can use it like I did as an Index post for a number of blog posts you have created
around a topic. • This music teacher searches out YouTube videos and Discovery Education information
to supplement the classroom content and stores them on a Symbaloo mix• Matt Gomez shows how he manages his Symbaloo account• Use if for collecting typing sites for the students to practise their typing skills. • Sharing appropriate links for assignments, research, additional info related to a topic
of study, etc.• Teacher homepage providing students (and parents) with one stop access to a
classroom web site, info and/or resources
As a student• Observe this this Grade 7 student showing what she does with (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY#t=0) Symbaloo• Electronic portfolio for students to showcase knowledge
and/or digital projects (stories, movie trailers, presentations, etc.)
Thank you
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