SymbalooEDU is a free visual web resource and organization tool used by over 1 million educators and students. It provides a customizable interface to curate educational resources from the web. The document discusses offering SymbalooEDU as a premium version for entire states, which would provide analytics, administrative controls, and a platform for teachers to connect. It outlines the benefits for states, as well as a training program and support, with no costs for the first three years and low annual costs thereafter. The goal is to build the best educational resource sharing system to advance technology in education.

1. The Easy Way to Manage Your Resources
SymbalooEDU Presentation
SymbalooEDU

2. helps educators and students
safely curate and organize the best of the web for
personalized learning.
Our visual interface is the reason students and educators
find it incredibly engaging and why over 1 million users
choose SymbalooEDU.
We look forward to sharing our vision for state-wide
partnerships, boosting student achievement and teacher
effectiveness, with innovative technology leaders.

3. “SymbalooEDU is currently free so why should
a state be excited to get it for free too?”
The state will get a premium version that allows you to be in
control of the resource management system.

4. Benefits of a Premium State SymbalooEDU
• You get you own URL for example http://ca.symbaloo.com for California
and your own state app.
• You get your own admin panel to organize what will be shown on default
webmixes. Along with the option to lock down webmixes to keep users
from making changes. Users have the option to edit unlocked webmixes
and create new webmixes.
• Geo data of usage from Google analytics. In the near future, there will be
more detailed statistics about the usage of tiles, webmixes or time spent
onSymbalooEDUbased on teacher, school or district levels.
• We provide a social platform to easily connect you with other teachers in
and outside of the state regarding best practices and important
resources.You stay connected with a webmix gallery willed with over
100,000 educational webmixes.
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5. Administrative Panel for Control and Reports
• Control what is shown on opening your portal
• Limit access to resources
• Facilitate the type of sharing you want to encourage
• Determine which resources and districts are most
effective
To see how easy it is to administer a SymbalooEDU
Premium Solution, watch our 5 minute
instructional video here: http://bit.ly/ThUx0E

6. How free is free?
Costs:
First three years:
Free use of SymbalooEDU Premium
Mutual Agreement on plan to train % of
teachers over three years through 4-6 hour
courses at $25 per teacher to ensure full
features of SymbalooEDU are understood
and state pilot is successful
After three years:
$2 per teacher, 4-6 hour courses available
for $35 per teacher
or revert back to SymbalooEDU Free with no
loss of resources, 4-6 hour courses available
for $45 per teacher

7. What Makes SymbalooEDU Special?
First of all SymbalooEDU is Touch screens are taking over the
visual, available on multiple world and Windows 8 is Metro-
devices and highly customizable style that is Tile/icon based too.

8. SymbalooEDU’s Clean Interface
SymbalooEDU appeals to all levels of tech savvy teachers because it
resembles the current smart phones, iPads and tablets, which are highly
intuitive. Students also like the app look of SymbalooEDU unlike
Pinterest, Diigo, Delicious or…

9. SymbalooEDU’s Ease of Use
We always test new features with the “two
finger generation” to see if they understand and
find it useful.
“Start Simple” is our tagline and that’s what we
attempt to stay true to!
All other resources are generally text heavy, not
completely EDU focused and don’t appeal to all
levels of users.

10. Best State Education Resource Platform
We have a state version with a management system that is in the lead of
Resource Management Systems for educators.
Our roadmap is fully focused on education and soon we will introduce
chat, and voice command, social statistics and awarding/gamification
system along with anything you tell us to develop that makes sense!

11. What are the advantages of SymbalooEDU for
the state?
• No investment in the system
• A proven PD program that is flexible to the knowledge levels of all
teachers.
• Management system to encourage and control resource sharing
between teachers.
• Analytics from management system to see what schools are
falling behind
• Natural communication platform through forum, social
interaction, special blue header link, etc.

12. What does it take to start a SymbalooEDU
state version?
• A logo and choice of
URL.
• An expert group of
teachers to implement
the default settings.
• A training program to
get teachers started
• Listen then improve
and keeping this up as
a continued process.

13. Why is SymbalooEDU doing this?
We simply want to build the ultimate educational
resource sharing system to move education
forward with technology.

14. Contact us for more information:
E: edu@ymbaloo.com
P: 949-478-3559
W: http://symbalooEDU.com
SymbalooEDU