Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Symbaloo

Hello everyone!! I’m Míriam Porras and I am going to talk about SYMBALOO!

                           

Symbaloo is a personal startpage that allows you to navigate the web and compile your favorite sites all into one visual interface. You can save easily your bookmarks in the cloud and access them from anywhere with any device. It is a visual bookmarking tool that makes it simple and fun to organize the best of the web. Thus, you can create your personal startpage for the web and connect your social media and other widgets.

I think it is a good app for organize different content and collect different interesting links that you can use in your classroom. Then, you have in the same page all the links without searching again one by one. In addition, you don’t have to pay for using it! You only need to register on the webpage using your email, and you can create your own Symbaloo!!
Moreover, pupils could use the app too. For instance, if they are doing a project, they can save the interesting webpages to collect all the information in their startpage. In addition, they can show their own pages to their parents involving them in their learning process.

Apart from this, once their start page is created, they can share it with their peers, also they can save other Symbaloos and search for others you believe are useful for the task.

STRENGTHENS
WEAKNESSES
There is a tutorial in the same app and instructions that you can use if you don’t know how to use it.
It doesn’t have any variation with this app. You only can make your startpage.
You can add all the links you want.
You can’t create activities in relation to Symbaloo.
You can have all the links that you are interested in the same startpage.
You only can share links.
Symbaloo can be shared.
You need to have an account to create your startpage.


I am doing my Practicum in Servei de Llengües del Departament d’Ensenyament de Catalunya. I want to share the Symbaloo I have created for my Practicum:

In this Symbaloo, you will find a collection of different digital newspaper that contains Education news.
I want to share this, because I want to demonstrate that you can also use as a professional and not only in your classroom with pupils.


I hope you enjoy it!!!


Míriam Porras

2 comments:

  1. In my opinion symbaloo is very interesting. I will take a look to your own symbaloo, thank you for sharing it.

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  2. Thank you Laia! I think it is interesting but sometimes I don't know how to use it when the little ones to make the app motivating. Do you have any idea?? Do you use it in your classroom?

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