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.

• I love the way this teacher uses Symbaloo in his kindergarden class. http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/

• This music teacher searches out YouTube videos and Discovery Education information to supplement the classroom content and stories 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 Grade 7 student showing what she does with

Symbaloo• Electronic portfolio for students to showcase knowledge

and/or digital projects (stories, movie trailers, presentations, etc.)

Thank you