Social Bookmarking with Symbaloo.edu

Symbaloo is a unique bookmarking tool that makes it very easy for the user to organize bookmarks by creating what are known as webmixes. Teachers, or anyone, can create a webmix on any subject and create links to their favorite websites that are known as tiles. Tiles can then be dragged and dropped to organize them into convenient groups. There are hundreds of webmixes that a user can search for and either make the webmix their own, or copy its tiles into their own webmixes. It's easy to create a new webmix, organize webmixes, and share webmixes. With the ability to embed a webmix into a website, wiki, or blog, teachers can easily post webmixes into online assignments. With just the click of a tile on a webmix, a user can quickly get to a linked video or website. Check it out at edu.symbaloo.com 

It's another wonderful FREE classroom tool!

Resources:

Symbaloo User Guide - http://www.symbalooedu.com/wp-content/uploads/Symbaloo-user-guide.pdf

 

HAVE YOU TRIED EDMODO?

Edmodo is one of the best online educational tools for classrooms today. As posted in Wikipedia, "Edmodo (stylized edmodo) is a social learning platform for teachers, students, and parents. It is commonly thought of as the Facebook of schools, as called by pupils and teachers alike."

It has a look much like Facebook so students can begin using it immediately. It is really quite easy to maintain an Edmodo site as a teacher and to use it as a student. It's a great site for collaboration within the classroom. Teachers are able to ...

• post notes
• take a class poll
• create a quiz
• grade assignments happens automatically, or manually, depending on how it's posted
• award badges to students
• embed videos
• post documents
• maintain their own library of every sort of document, video, links
• have access to hundreds of free and paid for educational apps that can be shared with the class
• create multiple classes
• collaborate with other teachers in all types of subjects
• give parents have an Edmodo account
• and so much more!

Check it out at www.edmodo.com  And the best part - it's FREE!