Symbaloo

Ms. Buck's Symbaloo Link

http://eduiphone.symbaloo.com/mix/bucksenglishclass Click on the link above to access Ms. Buck's most recommended websites. So, what is Symbaloo, you ask? SymbalooEDU is a tool intended to help educators improve their offerings to students. It was created as a companion application to the original Symbaloo visual bookmarking and sharing tool. The application acts as a personal learning environment. Educators can create a library of relevant resources and organize them in a single location. SymbalooEDU also allows educators to encourage student to student interaction in an online setting. The system works by allowing the user to quickly add a resource in the form of a tile on the user’s web mix (their grid of tiles). The SymbalooEDU web mix can be shared with others, which makes it a capable tool for educators. Students and teachers can add URLs or even add a link to a completed project. SymbalooEDU also encourages students to practice communicating and browsing online. The system is very easy to learn and can be applied to almost any type of learning situation. Resource: http://symbalooedu.appappeal.com/ Getting Started 1. Go to http://edu.symbaloo.com It is recommended that you use CHROME or Firefox as your browser. 2. Click “create free account” (on the upper right) 3. Fill in your name, email address, choose a password and be sure to click “I agree to terms of service” The click the bottom orange button – Create Account  4. Now, you are ready to get started. You can either begin creating a WebMix on  your own or youcan create a quick start WebMix that has tiles of some of your favorite internet sites like email, shopping, news readers, banking etc. 5. When you first log in you will see some pre-created WebMixes. Click on the tabs and explore them. You can also search for already created WebMixes. Click on the magnifying glass, change the dropdown from TILES to WEBMIX, enter a search term – for example: elementary math. You will find over 4,000 already created WebMixes. 6. If you would like to save one of the WebMixes as one of your own, click on the SAVE THIS WEBMIX button. It will now appear as a tab on your home screen that lists all your WebMixes. If you decide you no longer want it simply click the X at the end of the WebMix tab and it will be deleted from your group. 7. Create a WebMix with some of your favorite sites. Click on the + sign to create a blank WebMix. Add a name to your WebMix and click on the ADD button. 8. To create a tile simply click on a tile box and choose create a tile or search for a tile. Let’s begin by searching for a tile. 9. Click the button Search for A Tile. Put in a search term like Discovery Education. You will see that there are already created tiles for Discovery Education in the search box. Choose the one that best fits and click on it. It will be added to your WebMix. You can click on the tile and move it anywhere on your WebMix board. If you decide you don’t want it or want to edit it right click on the tile and edit or delete it.