Symbaloo - a great classroom tool for all ages

This Slideshare shows the uses of Symbaloo in a classroom.

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

2. What is Symbaloo?

3. How does it work?

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

5. Fill in your details

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

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

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

9. Click on the first tile Click on the first tile

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

11. Fill in the details

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

13. These can be moved around

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

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

16. You can share other people’s webmixes

17. e.g. National Geographic e-books

18. Just Dance videos

19. Copying the actions…

20. Lovely selection from Kinderchat Click on one

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

22. Classroom uses of Symbaloo

23. 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

24. 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.)

25. Thank you