This document provides an overview of Symbaloo, which is a web tool that allows users to create and share collections of web links and resources called "webmixes". It explains how to sign up for a Symbaloo account and create tiles to build a webmix. The document also outlines several classroom uses of Symbaloo, including how teachers can create starter pages of websites for student projects or have students create their own webmixes. It also suggests how students can use Symbaloo to create electronic portfolios.

1. Symbaloo
a great classroom tool for
all age groups
By Fiona Beal

2. What is Symbaloo?

4. How does it work?

5. Sign up at http://edu.symbaloo.com
Sign up here

6. Fill in your details

7. You’ll be sent an email to verify your
email address

8. You’ll be taken to your home page
Click on Add a
webmix

9. Start your own webmix now – give it a
name and press Add

10. Click on the
first tile
Click on the first tile

11. A box appears. Click on Click here to
create your own tile

12. Fill in the details

13. The finished
product
Start a new tile
Start another
tile

14. These can be moved
around

15. The end result
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/30daysofwebtools

16. Watch a YouTube video tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZ6SWU7ceI&feat
ure=youtu.be

17. You can share other
people’s webmixes

18. e.g. National Geographic e-books

19. Just Dance videos

20. Copying the actions…

21. Lovely selection from Kinderchat
Click on one

22. My favourites…
• Kinderchat collection
• Matt Gomez’s collection
• Matt Gomez’ Favourite Videos for Brain
Breaks, Transitions and Indoor Recess

23. Classroom uses of
Symbaloo

24. 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

25. 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.)

26. Thank you